[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.