"PHILALETHES."
[Footnote 1: This letter appears under the heading: "From my own Apartment, September 19." [T.S.]
[Footnote 2: See "The Tatler," No. 66, ante. [T. S,]
[Footnote 3: An Athenian rhetorician who died in Rome about 100 B.C. [T. S.]
[Footnote 4: The quotation is not quite correctly given. It is taken from Cicero, De Oratore, i. 19 (87). [T.S.]
[Footnote 5: "But those who teach, and do not live in accordance with their own instructions, take away all the weight from their teaching; for who will comply with their precepts, when the teachers themselves teach us not to obey them?" [T.S.]
[Footnote 6: James Ford proposed to cure stammerers and even restore speech to mutes. In the second volume of "The British Apollo" he is referred to as having "not only recovered several who stammered to a regular speech, but also brought the deaf and dumb to speak." [T.S.]