[32] Brander Matthews, The Philosophy of the Short-Story, page 65.
[33] Colomba has one hundred and fifty pages.
[34] See an essay on The Literary Influence of Sterne in France, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, volume xvii, pages 221–236.
[35] It would be interesting, for instance, to determine whether Mérimée learned anything in form from Poushkin.
[36] Vide the excellent discourse of G. C. Verplanck, Esq., before the New York Historical Society.
[37] Not in the first edition.
[38] In New Hampshire.
[39] In the original publication the name is Patience.
[40] [“In place of this clause the first edition has: “Her figure, her air, her features,—all, in their very minutest development were those—were identically (I can use no other sufficient term) were identically those of the Roderick Usher who sat beside me. A feeling of stupor,” etc.]
[41] Watson, Dr. Percival, Spallanzani, and especially the Bishop of Llandaff. See Chemical Essays, vol. v.