[Page 223,] line 15. Holcroft's last Comedy. "The Vindictive Man" (see note "On the Custom of Hissing," [page 450]).
[Page 223,] line 19. Mrs. Harlow. Sarah Harlowe (1765-1852), a low-comedy actress, who played many of Mrs. Jordan's parts. She left the stage in 1826.
[Page 224,] line 5. Wilkinson ... in a "Walk for a Wager." In "Walk for a Wager; or, A Bailiff's Bet," a musical farce, the hero, Hookey Walker, was impersonated by John Penbury Wilkinson, and Miss Kelly played Emma.
[Page 224,] line 12. "Amateurs and Actors" ... Mr. Peak. A musical farce, by Richard Brinsley Peake (1792-1847), produced in 1818.
[Page 224,] last paragraph. Last week's article. That on "The Hypocrite," preceding this (see notes above). "A New Way to Pay Old Debts," published 1632, is a comedy by Massinger, in which Sir Giles Overreach is the leading character.
[Page 225.] Four Reviews.
These four reviews, together with that of Wordsworth's Excursion, written five years earlier ([see page 187]), and that of Hood and Reynolds' Odes and Addresses ([see page 335]), make up the total number of reviews that Lamb is known positively to have written. We know from his Letters that in 1803 he was trying to review Godwin's Chaucer, and again in 1821 he writes to Taylor that he is busy on a review for a friend; but neither of these articles has come to light. The fact is that Lamb always reviewed with difficulty, and after his bitter experience with Gifford ([see note on page 470]) he was more than ever disinclined to attempt that form of writing.
[Page 225.] I.—"Falstaff's Letters."
Examiner, September 5 and 6, 1819. Signed ****. Reprinted in The Indicator, January 24, 1821. Not reprinted by Lamb.