[17] Forster's Life of Goldsmith, p. 253.

[18] The house in Ivy-lane, which bore the name of Johnson, and where the Literary Club is said to have been held, was burnt down a few years since: it had long been a chop-house.

[19] See Forster's Life of Goldsmith, pp. 422-424.

[20] Edinburgh Review, No. 214, p. 500.

[21] London Clubs, 1853.

[22] New Quarterly Review.

[23] Times journal.

[24] New Quarterly Review.

[25] The Builder.

[26] London Clubs, 1853, p. 75.