Footnotes:
[1] Two well-known alehouses in Oxford, about 1700.
[2] From the “Carols of Cockayne.”
[3] “‘What do you mean by the reference to Greeley?’
“‘I thought everybody had heard that Greeley’s only autograph of Poe was a signature to a promissory note for fifty dollars. He offers to sell it for half the money.’”—Diversions of the Echo Club.
[4] Macmillan & Co., London.
[5] See “Alice in Wonderland.”
[6] Reference may also be made here to a recent work, “The Heptalogia; or the Seven against Sense,” a book wholly devoted to parody, the merits of which could not be shown by extracts, but requires to be read at length to be properly estimated.
[7] “Ladles”—i.e., very spooney.
[8] Maginn died at Walton-on-Thames, 21st August 1842. He was one of the gayest, brightest, and wittiest of those reckless litterateurs who half a century ago worshipped with equal devotion at the shrines of Apollo and Bacchus.