[607] Notes on Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (1619), Shakespeare Soc., 1842, pp. 21, 47.
[608] Autobiography, ed. Sir Sidney Lee (2nd ed., 1906), p. 56.
[609] Memoirs of Sir John Reresby, ed. J. J. Cartwright, 1875, p. 26.
[610] Dict. Nat. Biog., ad nom.
[611] Addison was well acquainted with French literature and criticism. He frequently quotes Boileau, Racine, Corneille, and also Bouhours and Lebossu. His Tragedy of Cato is closely modelled on the French pattern. See A. Beljame, Le Public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au 18e siècle, 1897, p. 316.
[612] Memoirs of the Verney Family, 1892, iii. p. 36.
[613] The Correspondence of Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet, ed. W. A. Bradly (Boston, 1912), p. 26.
[614] Savile Correspondence, Camden Soc., 1858, pp. 133, 138. O. Walker, in his Of Education, differs from other writers in proposing that young gentlemen should travel without a governor.
[615] In the same category may be placed the Traveiles of Jerome Turler, a native of Saxony, whose work was translated into English in the year of its appearance (1575). It was specially intended for the use of students.
[616] T. Palmer, Essay on the Means of making our Travels into Forran Countries more Profitable and Honourable, 1606; T. Overbury, Observations in his Travels, 1609 (France and the Low Countries). William Bourne's Treasure for Travellers (London, 1578) has no bearing on travel from the language point of view. Of special interest are Dallington's Method for Travell, shewed by taking the View of France as it stoode in the Yeare of our Lorde 1598, London (1606?), and his View of France, London, 1604. Other works are A Direction for English Travellers, licensed for printing in 1635 (Arber, Stationers' Register, iv. 343); Neal's Direction to Travel, 1643; Bacon's Essay on Travel, 1625; Howell's Instructions for Forreine Travel, 1624.