[916]. This book, which often occurs in catalogues at a very moderate price, may be strongly recommended to intelligent book-buyers. It is pretty to look at, agreeable to handle, and delightful to read. Janus, another waif, in which he and Wilson collaborated, is less interesting. (For a fuller treatment of Lockhart, as of others, I may once more refer to my Essays in Criticism.)
[917]. Works, 7 vols. (London, 1851-52), ed. Derwent Coleridge; Poems and Memoir, 2 vols.; Essays, 2; Northern Worthies, 3. An eighth, of Fragments, was promised; but if it ever appeared, I have not seen it.
[918]. “The Professor,” it is hardly necessary to say, was an early and lifelong friend and neighbour of Hartley, whom he seems to have regarded with particular affection.
[919]. It is, perhaps, not officious to subjoin a reminder that we have the curious pleasure of S. T. C.'s notes on Hartley in the Biographia Borealis. One of these—an objection to the phrase “prose Shakespeare” for Heywood—is very odd, as apparently showing forgetfulness of the fact that the phrase is not his eldest son’s, but his oldest friend’s.
[920]. Miscellanies, Prose and Verse, by William Maginn, ed. R. W. Montagu. 2 vols., London, 1885.
[921]. They are scattered all over the Memoirs of Morgan O’Doherty, and often form independent items of the Miscellanies.
[922]. It would have been interesting to hear Maginn on the Revised Version “after” the Authorised.
[923]. Ed. cit., ii. 1-116. Let me guard carefully against being supposed myself to speak disrespectfully of Farmer, whose Essay will be found recently reprinted in Mr Nichol Smith’s collection. Farmer is at least as right against his adversaries as Maginn against him.
[924]. Ibid., pp. 117-144.
[925]. In prose from The Story without a Tail, and in verse from The Pewter Quart onward.