[15] Given to Dallas.
[16] Published by James Power, music seller.
[17] Written at Geneva, and published by John Hunt, London.
[18] This sketch was written before the publication of Mr. W. Chambers’s life of his brother, but has been revised in accordance with that interesting memoir.
[19] Mr. Long has deposited in the Public Library at Brighton his private copy of the “Encyclopædia,” interleaved with the names of the contributors, and other interesting information as to the progress of the work.
[20] Mr. G. W. M. Reynolds, of the “Mysteries of London” notoriety, commenced life also as a temperance lecturer, and was at one time editor of the Teetotaller Newspaper.
[21] Lockhart, in his article in the Quarterly, says that Hook’s diary shows a clear profit of £2000 on the first series. This must be incorrect.
[22] The term Conger is ingeniously said to be derived from the eel, meaning that the association, collectively, would swallow all smaller fry.
[23] Aldine Magazine, p. 50.
[24] It was from the intricacy of thought of some few of the poems of the “Christian Year,” that Sydney Smith christened it by the name of “The Sunday Puzzle.”