[41] Letters, ii. 52.
[42] Letters, ii. 35.
[43] Letters, ii. 38.
[44] See Letters, ii. 64-67. Also the Cambridge edition of Lowell’s poems, p. 479.
[45] On Goodwin’s Plutarch’s Morals.
[46] Yesterdays with Authors, published first in the Atlantic, where Lowell also read it, as “Our Whispering Gallery.”
[47] The first volume of Forster’s Dickens was published in advance of the others.
[48] Letters, ii. pp. 81-128.
[49] Mr. Norton with his family was at St. Germain, near Paris.
[50] The difficulty has since been obviated by the system of sabbatical years at Harvard, with half salary.