ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES. PAGE 4, 1. 17. "from the hands of the author." -This would appear to be scarcely accurate. See Editor's "Introduction,” pp. vii-xii. PAGE 4, 1. 28. "those innocents he hath left behind."-Besides Charlotte Cradock's daughter, the Eleanor Harriot referred to at p. 44, l. 12, Fielding left three children by his second wife, the youngest of whom, Allen, was born in April, 1754, not long before he removed to the "little house" at Ealing mentioned at p. 35, l. 20. The others were William, born in 1748, and Sophia, born in 1750. PAGE 5, 1. 7. "in answer to Lord Bolingbroke."-The five 4to volumes of Bolingbroke's works, which provoked many assailants and apologists, were published by David Mallet in March, 1754 (see note to p. 34, 1. 20). Fielding's "Comment" must have been begun in the last months of his life. He had made many notes for it from the Fathers, etc., which were preserved by his brother John. PAGE 9, 1. 7. " doctor Zachary Grey."-Grey's "Hudibras" appeared in 1744, in two vols. 8vo, with "a new Set of Cuts" by J. Mynde, based on Hogarth's plates to the edition of 1726. The re dundancy of the notes is unquestioned; but the erudition is extraordinary. The book was in Fielding's library, though his name does not appear among the original subscribers. PAGE 9, 1. 12. "the late doctor Mead."-Dr. Richard Mead died on the 16th of February, 1754. "Of his books," says the "Gentleman's Magazine" for November in that year (xxiv., p. 514), "there were ten thousand volumes, and among them whatever was curious, excellent, or scarce, besides a great number of Greek, Latin, and oriental manuscripts." They were sold in November and December, 1754, and in April and May, 1755. The catalogue was issued in August, 1754. PAGE II, 1. 27. "Burnet and Addison.”—The books referred to are Gilbert Burnet's "Travels through Switzerland, Italy, etc.," 1687, and Addison's "Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, etc., in the years 1701-2-3," 1705. Both were in Fielding's library. PAGE 16, l. 18. “ things and facts of so common a kind."-The famous "Five Days' Peregrination" of Hogarth and his friends in May, 1732, was described by its authors" as a burlesque on historical writers recording a series of insignificant events entirely uninteresting to the reader." Goldsmith's "Journey to Kentish Town," in the "Citizen of the World" (Letter CXVIII. [CXXII.]), has a like motive; and Fielding's own "Letter from a French Gentleman to his Friend at Paris," contributed to his sister's "Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple," is also intended as a |