Part 13 (1/2)

{83} See Wharton's note to Johnson and Steevens' Shakspeare

{102} This ood service to the public, is now in the possession of my sister, Miss Austen

{107} At this time, February 1813, 'Mansfield Park' was nearly finished

{110} The present Lady Pollen, of Redenham, near Andover, then at a school in London

{117} See Mrs Gaskell's 'Life of Miss Bronte,' vol ii p 215

{122} It was her pleasure to boast of greater ignorance than she had any just claiood deal of French and a little of Italian

{126} Mrs Gaskell's 'Life of Miss Bronte,' vol ii p 53

{130} This must have been 'Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk'

{136a} A greater genius than_co of the low estimation in which Scott's conversational poere held in the literary and scientific society of Edinburgh, says: 'I think the epithetit was ”commonplace”' He adds, however, that one of the most eminent of that society was of a different opinion, hen so the consolatory tenet of local mediocrity, answered quietly, ”I have the misfortune to think differently from you--in my humble opinion Walter Scott's sense is a still enius”--Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, vol iv chap v

{136b} The late Mr R H Cheney

{140} Lockhart had supposed that this article had been written by Scott, because it exactly accorded with the opinions which Scott had often been heard to express, but he learned afterwards that it had been written by Whately; and Lockhart, who became the Editor of the Quarterly,the truth (See Lockhart's _Life of Sir Walter Scott_, vol v p 158) I remember that, at the time when the review came out, it was reported in Oxford that Whately had written the article at the request of the lady who this passage I have taken the liberty so far to correct it as to spell her name properly with an 'e'

{145} Incidentally she had received high praise in Lord Macaulay's Review of Madah'