[Page 390,] line 11. Half a million. Probably nearer £100,000. Dawe, however, lost much of this by money-lending, and died worth only £25,000.
[Page 391.] The Latin Poems of Vincent Bourne.
The Englishman's Magazine, September, 1831.
This article was unsigned, but it is known to be by Lamb from internal evidence and from the following letter to Moxon, the publisher of the magazine:—
"Dear M.,—I have ingeniously contrived to review myself.
"Tell me if this will do. Mind, for such things as these—half quotations—I do not charge Elia price. Let me hear of, if not see you.
"Peter."
Lamb's Album Verses, the book reviewed, had been published by Moxon a year earlier. It contained nine translations from Vincent Bourne.