Part 50

"Memorials of Angus and the Mearns," by Andrew Jervise (1861), p. 175.

"History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke," by Thomas Macknight, vol. i. p. 160.

"Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds," &c., by James Northcote, Esq., R.A. (2d edition), vol. ii. p. 80.

"Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds," by C. R. Leslie and Tom Taylor, M.A., vol. ii. p. 219.

"Lives of Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, and of Bernard Gilpin," by William Gilpin, M.A. (3d edition), 1780, p. 275.

Loc. cit., p. 284.

Mark Lemon, "Jest Book," p. 39.

"The Lives of Robert Haldane of Airthrey, and of his Brother, James Alexander Haldane," by Alex. Haldane, Esq., of the Inner Temple (1852), p. 223.

Mark Lemon, "Jest Book," p. 318.

"Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft" (ed. 1852), pp. 40, 41.

"Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft," written by himself (ed. London, 1852), p. 112.

"Lives of the Chief-Justices of England" (Lord Ellenborough), vol. iii. p. 100.

Vol i. pp. 94-115.

"Physic and Physicians: a Medical Sketch-Book," vol. i. p. 59.

"Memoirs of Frederick Perthes," vol. i. p. 309.

"Lives of the Engineers," vol. ii. p. 185.

"Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith," by his daughter, Lady Holland, vol. i. pp. 172-174.

A horse which he called so.

"Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith," by his daughter, Lady Holland, vol. i. p. 117.

Mrs Marcet, in Lady Holland's Memoirs of her Father, the Rev. Sydney Smith, vol. i. p. 364.

"Life and Letters of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University," edited by his son, Wm. W. Story, vol. ii. p. 611.

"The Intellectuality of Domestic Animals: a Lecture Delivered before the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland," p. 25. Dublin, 1847.

Mark Lemon, "Jest Book," p. 263.

ASS AND ZEBRA.

It is strange that one of the most sagacious of animals should have supplied us with a by-word for "a fool." Coleridge was conscious of this when, in writing his address to a young ass's foal, he exclaimed--

"I hail thee, brother, spite of the fool's scorn."

How well has he expressed his love for "the languid patience" of its face.

In warmer climes the ass attains a size and condition not seen here, though when cared for in this rougher climate, the donkey assumes somewhat of the size and elegance he has in the East. But who can bear his voice? Surely Coleridge was very fanciful when, in any condition of asshood, he could write--