Part 19

{65} This man was well known to Sir Walter Scott, who speaks of his curious habits in an unpublished manuscript.

{125} Mr. Forth, we are sure, is quite wrong, and none of the scholars he quotes has said anything of the kind.

{129} “He” clearly means, not Addison, but Professor Forth, the lady’s husband.

{130} It was not Asiatics, but Aztecs; not Pittites, but Hittites! Woman cares little for these studies!—A.L.

{133} The editor has no doubt that some one was—Miss Watson. Cf. ‘Belinda.’

{139} Owing to the sudden decease of the Dean in well-known and melancholy circumstances, this letter was not delivered.

{140} Alas, not wisely! But any careful reader of “The Silence of Dean Maitland” will see that the Baby was an anachronism.—ED.

{146} This appears to have been a favourite remark of Mr. Skimpole’s. It will be noticed that, quite without intending it, Mr. Skimpole was the founder of our New Cyrenaic School.

{147} Mr. Skimpole’s recollections of classical ritual are a little mixed hereabouts. He refers to Mr. Honeyman’s projected union with the widow of Mr. Bromley, the famous hatter.

{151} Colonel Newcome, indeed.

{154} Non, Monsieur, je ne cite ni “Woodsworth” ni “le vieux Williams.”

{165} Mr. Potts ought to have consulted the edition of 1833, where he would have found the verse as quoted by Mr. Gandish.

{166} And a nice mixture it must have been!—A. L.

{184} The wooden bed fastened in an ox-waggon.

{185} Mr. Quatermain has just said that the donga was filled by a roaring torrent. Is there not some inconsistency here?

{190} At the High Hole, indeed.—A. L.