must have taken the book, or one of the volumes, with him to Portugal.

PAGE 79, 1. 21. "but unluckily for me."-In the later version this continues: "besides a total ignorance of everything in the world but a ship, he had the misfortune of being so deaf, that to make him hear, I will not say understand, my words," etc.

PAGE 80, 1. 14. 66 what I thought.”—These words are not in the later version.

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PAGE 85, 1. 25. a great lady's name."-In

the later version follows: "the wife of the first lord commissioner of the admiralty." The First Lord in 1754 was George, Lord Anson, who had been married in 1748 to Lady Elizabeth Yorke, daughter of the Lord High Chancellor, Philip Yorke, Lord Hardwicke. To Lord Hardwicke Fielding had dedicated the “Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers," etc., 1752; and he pays him a splendid compliment in bk. iv., ch. 6, of "Tom Jones."

PAGE 87, 11. 5 and 8. "of opinion" and "hopes." -These in the later version are 66 " and

sure

PAGE 89, 1. 23. "Mr. Addison's observation." -At the close of No. 117 of "The Tatler," à propos of the lines in act iv., sc. 6, of “King Lear." Addison's annotator, the "word-picker" Bishop Hurd, is of opinion that Addison's observation is "a quibble, not much to the credit of the writer," a position which he proceeds to justify with all his most arid pedantry.

PAGE 90, 1. 28. "The captain."-The later version reads "swaggered," and instead of "being

unwilling to come to anchor;" and the lines after "island" (p. 91, 1. 7) to the end of the paragraph are omitted.

PAGE 91, 1. 21. "the utmost concern."-The later version adds, " and many bitter oaths." PAGE 92, 1. 27. "in which innocent amusement."-For "they passed their leisure hours," the later version substitutes "they had passed about two-thirds of their time."

PAGE 93, 1. 17. "Ryde."-Ryde, now a flourishing town of 10,000 inhabitants, was at this date no more than what Fielding styles it at p. 103, 1. 2, viz., "a village.” He adds further (p. 141, 1. 25), that the parish did "not seem to contain above thirty houses." It was not until the close of the century that the advantages of Ryde as a watering-place began to attract attention, and even then its growth was gradual.

PAGE 96, 1. 4. “Ryde was inaccessible."―This state of things continued practically until the erection in 1814 of the first part of the pier. In Marryat's "Poor Jack," one of the speakers says: "At that time there was no wooden pier at Ryde as there is now, and when the tide was out, there was such a long flat of mud that there was no landing; so the way it was managed was, the wherries came in as far as they could, and were met by a horse and cart, which took out the passengers, and carried them through the mud and water to the hard ground.”

PAGE 97, 1. 1. a bubble."—I.e., a dupe. "The players in general were disgusted with the obsolete style of the play [Ralph's 'Astrologer'], and the almost forgotten scheme of hunting for

the philosopher's stone in order to cheat bubbles of their money" (Davies' "Life of Garrick," 1780, i., 225)

PAGE 99, 1. 6. "Mrs. Humphrys."-In the later version: "Mrs. Francis (for that was the name of the good woman of the house);" and "Mrs. Francis" throughout that version she continues to be styled.

PAGE 103, 1. 20. White's."-This was the old chocolate-house of Addison and Steele. At this date it had been turned into a club, one of the earliest rules of which was that every member should pay a guinea per annum "towards having a good Cook." Walpole, writing to Sir Horace Mann in June, 1751, describes a "late extravagant dinner at White's" as dividing the talk of the town with the two Miss Gunnings. "The bill of fare (he says) is got into print, and with good people has produced the apprehension of another earthquake."

PAGE 107, 1. 12. “wind.”—In the eighteenth century the letter "e" was often written like a "d." Hogarth so wrote it, as may be seen by the facsimile of his well-known "Eta Beta PY" invitation to Dr. King. This justifies Fielding's somewhat laboured jesting upon this theme, which, nevertheless, was not his first offence. Already in the "Letter from a French Gentleman," etc., referred to in the note to p. 16, 1. 18, he had said, "There is a Liquor sold in this Country which they call Wine, (most of the Inhabitants indeed call it Wind.)"

PAGE III, 1. 20. "The famous Cornaro."-The "noble Venetian (or rather Paduan), Lewis

Cornaro, who wrote, at eighty-three, a volume on temperance, which was translated in 1742 by T. Smith under the title of "A Treatise of the Benefits of a Sober Life." Cornaro was commended by Addison in No. 195 of the “Spectator."

PAGE 112, 1. 2. "Cheney, Arbuthnot."-Dr. George Cheyne (d. 1742) wrote an "Essay on Health and Long Life," 1724; Dr. John Arbuthnot (the friend of Pope and Swift) published in 1731 "An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments," etc.

PAGE 112, 1. 5. "the learned Dr. James's dictionary."-This was Dr. Robert James of the "Fever Powder" in which Gray and Goldsmith and Walpole had so much faith. His "Medicinal Dictionary," here referred to, was published 1743-5 in 3 vols. folio. It was his best-known work. Johnson, whose schoolfellow he had been at Lichfield, wrote some of the articles, and supplied the Dedication to Dr. Mead, which (as Boswell says) "is conceived with great address, to conciliate the patronage of that very eminent man."

PAGE 112, 1. 8. “kingdom.”—After this, in the later version, follows: "and the college themselves were not long since very liberally entertained with it, by the present attorney and other eminent lawyers, in Lincoln's-inn hall, and were all made horribly sick by it."

PAGE 113, 1. 20. “none.”—The later version reads "one."

PAGE 115, 1. 1. 66

Quin the player.”—Quin said

this of Charles Macklin's "Shylock." There was

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no love lost between the pair, a circumstance which prompted the following epigram, ascribed to William Hogarth :

"Your servant, Sir, says surly Quin;

'Sir, I am yours, replies Macklin.'

Why, you're the very Jew you play,

"Your face performs the task well."
'And you are Sir John Brute, they say,

'And an accomplish'd Maskwell.'
Says Rich, who heard the sneering elves,
And knew their horrid hearts,
"Acting too much your very selves,

"You overdo your parts."

Biographical Anecdotes of William
Hogarth, etc., 1781, p. 47.

PAGE 115, 1. 21. "Mr. Derham observes."The Rev. William Derham, D.D., Prebendary of Windsor and Rector of Upminster in Essex. He was a philosopher and observer of the White of Selborne type (he is often mentioned in White's book); and he contributed, inter alia, a paper of "Observations about Wasps,” etc., to No. 382 of the 'Philosophical Transactions for March and April, 1724 (vol. xxxiii., p. 53). But Fielding was probably thinking of the long note on "the sting of a wasp, or bee," which occurs in bk. iv., ch. 14, of Derham's oncefamous "Physico-Theology," 1713.

PAGE 117, 1. 24. "with the censure."-The later version reads, "with the tacit censure."

PAGE 119, l. 19. “for the same thing."—In the later version follows: " as he doth to the government, for the light which enters through his own window into his own house, from his own estate;