L.'s governor (page 42). The allusion is to Samuel Salt, well known to readers of Elia ("The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple"), to whom John Lamb, the father of Charles, was clerk and confidential servant for nearly forty years. Strictly speaking, Lamb was presented by one Timothy Yeats ; but he was a friend of Salt's, and the latter made himself responsible for the boy's discharge. See Form of Admission. There was one H (page 43). Hodges (Lamb's Key). To feed our mind with idle portraiture (page 45). Apparently an extemporised translation of the passage in Virgil, animum picturâ pascit inani. -'twas said He ate strange flesh (page 45). "It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, Which some did die to look on." -Antony and Cleopatra, I. 4. The dungeons (page 48). These cells were over the ancient Girls' Ward and the old Hall, not, as tradition supposed, underground. Rev. Matthew Field (page 52). Master from 1776 to 1796, when, “having obtained preferment in the Church of St. Paul's," he retired. He died in the August of that year. Lancelot Pepys Stevens (page 59). See L. Hunt's notice of him as a master. Dr. Te (page 59). Dr. Trollope, afterwards head-master, and father of the author of the History of Christ's Hospital. Th- (page 60). Thornton (Lamb's Key). Afterwards Right Honourable Sir Edward Thornton, C.B., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the court of Portugal and the Brazils. Next to M. (if not senior to him) was Richards (page 61). Richards was three years senior to Middleton. His "Aboriginal Britons" is alluded to in Byron's "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." Poor S-(page 61). "Scott, died in Bedlam" (Lamb's Key). Ill-fated M- -! (page 61). 'Maunde, dismiss'd school" (Lamb's Key). Finding some of Edward's race Unhappy, pass their annals by (page 61). For "Edward's" read "Stuart's." Prior's Carmen Seculare for 1700, stanza vii. Come back into memory (page 61). The personation of Coleridge is suddenly dropped. C. V. Le G (page 62). Charles Valentine Le Grice, for many years an intimate friend of Lamb's. He and Allen were one year junior to Coleridge. The catalogue of Grecians in my time (page 64). Lamb has omitted one name, that of William Wales, son of the mathematical master, whose standing was between Thornton and Middleton. N.B.-Many of the names reappear in Hunt's "Recollections." The official record may be studied in A. W. Lockhart's careful List of the Exhibitioners of Christ's Hospital, 1566-1885. "Lamb's Key" is a list of the initials employed in the first series of "Elia," filled in with the real names by Lamb himself. It was formerly in the possession of the late Mr. Alexander Ireland, and is quoted in Canon Ainger's notes. FROST AT MIDNIGHT (page 70). In far other scenes (page 72). When this poem was written, Coleridge had no prospect of living in the Lake Country, and he is therefore here speaking prophetically. And saw naught lovely but the sky and stars (page 72). Wordsworth refers in The Prelude, book vi., to Coleridge's habit of haunting the roof of Christ's Hospital : "Of rivers, fields, And groves I speak to thee, my Friend! to thee, Who, yet a liveried schoolboy, in the depths Of the huge city, on the leaded roof Of that wide edifice, thy school and home, FROM "BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA" (page 74). Ne falleretur rotundo sono et versuum cursu, &c. (page 81). "I presume this Latin to be Mr. Coleridge's own," says H. N. Coleridge "not being able to find the passage in any other author, and believing that incalescentia is a good word not countenanced by any classical writer of Rome." The Sonnets of Mr. Bowles (page 81). Probably the second edition, published in 1789, containing twenty-one sonnets. The first, which appeared six months earlier, contained fourteen. Dr. Middleton (page 82). "The The future bishop left Christ's Hospital for Pembroke College, Cambridge, on September 26th, 1788. He published Country Spectator," and several theological works. R Qui laudibus amplis, &c. (page 83). Petrarc. Epist. i. I. Barbato Subnonensi. Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate (page 85). "Paradise Lost," ii. 559. TO MR. POOLE (page 87). This is one of a series of five letters written by Coleridge to Thomas Poole, of Nether Stowey, during 1797, in which he proposed to give an account of his life up to that time. They were printed in the late H. N. Coleridge's "Biographical Supplement" to the second edition of Biographia Literaria, 1847. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIC NOTE OF 1832 (page 93). In Anima Poeta from unpublished note-books of S. T. Coleridge, 1895, the editor, Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, states that "one of the latest note-books, an unfinished folio, contains the autobiographic note of 1832, portions of which were printed in Gillman's 'Life of Coleridge,' pp. 9-33, and a mass of unpublished matter, consisting mainly of religious exercises and Biblical Criticism." "I had often pressed him to write some account of his early life, and of the various circumstances connected with it. But the aversion he had to read or write anything about himself was so great that I never succeeded, except in obtaining a few notes, rather than a detailed account."-Gillman's "Life of Coleridge," p. 9. A singular incident (page 93). "The incident," says Gillman, "indeed, was singular. Going down the Strand, in one of his day-dreams, fancying himself swimming across the Hellespont, thrusting his hands before |