[30] See portrait of Boruwlaski, page 259.
[31] Joseph is in error here; Bébé was two years his junior, but precocity of development made him appear to be thirty, though really only about seventeen.
[32] Sir Lucas Pepys was physician in ordinary to the King, and seven years President of the College of Physicians. He had a seat at Mickleham, in Surrey. One day, at Dorking, he inquired at a druggist's what all his varieties of drugs were for. "To prepare prescriptions," was the reply. "Why," said Sir Lucas, "I never used but three or four articles in all my practice."
[33] From The Times Review of his Life, 1865.
[34] The popular work of Mr. James Grant.
[35] Fuseli had one day sharply criticised the work of a brother R.A., whom he sought to alleviate by remarking that the conceited scene-painter, Mr. Capon, to whom Sheridan had given the nickname of "Pompous Billy," had piled up his lumps of rock as regularly on the side scene, as a baker would his quartern-loaves upon the shelves behind his counter to cool.
[36] See an able paper in Fraser's Magazine, No. 133.
[37] These characteristics have been selected and abridged from Mr. J. T. Smith's Nollekens and his Times, one of the best books of anecdote ever published.
[38] Note to Rejected Addresses. Edition 1861.