[19]. British Artists from Hogarth to Turner, ii, 59.

[20]. Vol. ii, 321–322.

[21]. Dict. Nat. Biog., i, 198.

[22]. Autobiography, iv, 390–393.

[23]. As a matter of curiosity, I examined the twenty-one novels composing the “Revised Edition” of 1844–1849 to ascertain just how many introduced the horseman or horsemen in the first chapter. Seven disclose them; in eight they are absent; in four, the horsemen are “a party”; in two, they appear in the second chapter, the first being merely introductory.

[24]. Brander Matthews: Aspects of Fiction, 153.

[25]. They are said to have caused the death of Oliver Goldsmith, and pamphlets were published on the subject. Foster’s Oliver Goldsmith, II. 461–463.

[26]. Boswell (Geo. Birkbeck Hill’s Edition), I. 183.

[27]. Id., III. 442.

[28]. Memories: by M. B. Field p. 188—Harper’s, 1874.