NOTES. THESE notes are not intended to supply the student with information which he can procure for himself from ordinary books of reference. Below appears a list of such books as, it is taken for granted, the pupil will find in the library of his school or town. Even more than those given, the references not given in the notes imply the constant use of the books in the list. DICTIONARIES: Century or Webster's International. • BIOGRAPHY: Life and Letters of Washington Irving, by Pierre M. Irving (his nephew), published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. ALLUSIONS, etc: Brewer's Reader's Handbook, and Dictionary of Phrase and Fable; Hare's Walks in London, and Walks in Rome; Allibone's Dictionary of Authors; Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Britannica, ninth edition. The best is not too good. Chambers's and the American will often be found very useful. P. 2. The author is aware. What "writings of his country- For extracts from British criticisms on Irving's own work, in especial the present, cf. Allibone. men ?". -- P. 9. In the first and other early editions of the Sketch-Book, there appeared under the heading of this first page, "The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.,"-- - the following extract from Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy: "I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene." Other accounts of the author may be found in Charles Dudley Warner's Washington Irving, one of the American Men of Letters series; in D. J. Hill's Washington Irving, of the American Authors series; and in the article by Donald G. Mitchell ("Ik Marvel") in Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography. No reader of Irving should fail to read "Nil Nisi Bonum" in Thackeray's Roundabout Papers. For portraits of Irving, see the Century Magazine, May, 1887; Harper's, April, 1883; and The Maclise Portrait Gallery, published by Chatto and Windus. my native city. Read pp. 23-25 of Warner's Washington Irving, for a brief description of the New York City of Irving's boyhood. If possible, consult also chap. xii. of Roosevelt's New York (in Historic Towns Series), and chap. xxii. of The Story of the City of New York, by Charles B. Todd, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. town-crier. "One who makes public proclamation of sales, strays, lost goods, etc." - Century Dictionary. Read Hawthorne's Main Street, and O. W. Holmes's The Last Leaf, and consult any friend who is acquainted with the customs of Nantucket. P. 10. I had, besides all this. Compare with this paragraph and the "sketch," English Writers on America, Lowell's essay On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners. P. 12. Besides consulting Hare's Walks in Rome and other books of reference, the student of literature should read Childe Harold, canto iv., stanzas 138-145, and chapters 17, 38, 39, of The Marble Faun, descriptions of the Coliseum and St. Peter's. The Cascade of Terni may be looked up in Hare's Days near Rome, but better in st. 69-72 of canto iv., Childe Harold. Read T. B. Read's poem, Drifting, which may be found in the Library of American Literature, vol. viii., p. 34. P. 13. Whence does Irving quote "a lengthening chain"? P. 14. I said that at sea. Compare the melody and rhythm of this paragraph and the next two or three, with the sounds of paragraph "I confess," on p. 17. P. 17. Deep called unto deep. Do you know and feel the reason for using this sentence? P. 20. Besides consulting an encyclopædia and Allibone's Dictionary of Authors, consult The Maclise Portrait Gallery (London, Chatto and Windus), if possible. P. 21. the elegant historian of the Medici. The work alluded to is one of the books of the Bohn Library, published by Bell and Daldy, London. P. 23. and I was told of his having been unfortunate, etc. To understand this paragraph you must consult the Life and Letters, vol. i., p. 394, or Warner's Biography, p. 115, and compare dates. P. 26. Pompey's column. See Chambers's Encyclopædia, under "Pompey's Pillar." In Thackeray's From Cornhill to Cairo, chap. xiv., Pompey's Pillar appears as less dignified. 1 P. 37. Diedrich Knickerbocker. Consult Warner's Biography, pp. 72 et seq., and Putnam's edition of Knickerbocker's History of New York. its... accuracy which . . . was a little questioned. This and the next succeeding paragraph glance at the reproof administered to Irving in the address mentioned in the foot-note. Consult the biographies. P. 38. a Queen Anne's farthing. But very few coins of this value were struck off during Queen Anne's reign, and these few only as samples. As a consequence, they were eagerly sought for by collectors, who preserved them with great care. good Peter Stuyvesant. Compare the account of this man, in the Cyclopædia of American Biography, with book v. of Knickerbocker's History of New York. P. 39. siege of Fort Christina. See Knickerbocker's History of New York, book vi., chap. viii. P. 42. His adherents. . . understood him. Compare the description of Gov. Van Twiller in the History, book iii., chap. i. P. 50. Compare the change in the inn sign described in Spectator, No. 122, the De Coverley Papers, "Sir Roger on the Bench." P. 51. Antony's Nose. See Knickerbocker's History, book vi., chap. iv. Pictures of this promontory and other of the more striking features of Hudson River scenery appear in the "folders" published by the Albany Day Line of H. R. steamboats, G. T. Van Santvoord, General Manager, New York City. P. 56. Note. Consult Brewer's Reader's Handbook under "Barbarossa." P. 58. Milton on the Liberty of the Press. The treatise here quoted from is that which Milton named Areopagitica, on which word consult Webster's International under "Areopagus, or the note to p. 1 of the edition of the essay in Cassell's National Library, No. 123. On the allusion to the (fabled) habit of the eagle, cf. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, under "Eagle." the London press has teemed with volumes of travels through the Republic. It would be interesting, in connection with this essay, to read some of the early accounts, written by Englishmen, of travels in the United States; to determine what particular books the author may have had in mind; and to consider when the character of the travellers and of the "travels" ceased to be that described in the text. Lowell's essay On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners should be read while the pupil is studying this "sketch." P. 61. How warily they compare the measurements of a pyramid. Is any inference to be drawn from this passage and one in the De Coverley Papers, Spectator, No. 1? P. 65. we have no purpose of the kind to serve. As a study in history, compare Patrick Henry's speech On the return of the Refugees, to be found in his collected speeches and in the Library of American Literature, vol. iii., p. 216, with the editorials of many of the newspapers during July and August, 1892. P. 68. wakes. Consult the dictionary and compare Love's Labor's Lost, act 5, sc. ii.; Winter's Tale, act 4, sc. ii.; and King Lear, act 3, sc. vi. P. 73. The Flower and the Leaf of Chaucer. Is this poem now reckoned among the works of Chaucer? Consult Lounsbury's Studies in Chaucer, or p. xxxii. of Skeat's Chaucer: Minor Poems, published at the Clarendon Press. a daisy unfold its crimson tints. Compare Burns's To a Mountain Daisy, Keats's Endymion, book i., 1. 50, and Tennyson's Maud, xii., and decide if you know, by having seen an American daisy, how the English flower looks. P. 74. hoary usage and reverend custom. Compare Tennyson's characterization of England as the land "Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent." P. 76. In connection with this paragraph read chap. v. of Warner's Biography. P. 78. young E Robert Emmet. Consult Pierre Irving's book, vol. i., p. 420. The "late celebrated Irish barrister" mentioned below was John Philpot Curran. P. 83. The British Museum. See Walks in London, Baedeker's London and its Environs, and Encyclopædia Britannica, xiv., p. 515 (ix. edition). P. 88. The Paradise of Daintie Devices. Consult a dictionary for the etymological meaning of "paradise." The full title of this work is as follows: "The Paradyce of Daynty deuises, aptly furnished with sundrie pithie and learned inuentions; deuised and written for the most part by M. Edwardes, sometimes of her Maiesties Chappel: . . . Imprinted at London, by Henry Disle, in Paules Churchyard, at the Southwest doore of Saint Paules Church, and are there to be sold. 1576."— Hazlitt's Bibliog. of Old English Literature. P. 90. this learned Theban. See King Lear, act 3, sc. iv., and cf. Century Dictionary, under "Theban," I., a., 1. P. 91. On the Royal Poet, consult Craik's English Literature and Language; or Morley's English Writers, vol. vi., besides Ward's English Poets and Allibone or Chambers. P. 92. when enamored. See the poem Prisoned in Windsor Castle, etc., in Surrey's works (p. 19, of the Aldine edition). storied tapestry. Cf. Il Penseroso, line 159. P. 94. These lines of Roger L'Estrange, supposed to have been written while he was in prison on account of his fidelity to Charles I., may be read in Percy's Reliques, under the title "Loyalty Confined.” P. 97. deep-toned lamentations. Read Milton's sonnets On His Blindness, and To Cyriack Skinner on His Blindness, his Samson Agonistes, 1. 65, and Wordsworth's sonnet on Milton. Now was there made, etc. The poem, in part, may be found in Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, vol. i., p. 39. P. 102. who, like morning stars, sang, etc. Cf. Tennyson's A Dream of Fair Women. P. 103. it has of late been woven, etc. To whom and to what does Irving allude? His passion for the Lady Jane. Note the construction of the sentence, now antiquated, but not infrequent in Addison's English. P. 106. I have visited Vaucluse. See Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. xviii., p. 707, and consult Warner's Biography, p. 33. P. 107. Beggar's Bush. "The Joviall Crew, of Begger's Bush, In which a mad Maunder doth To the tune of, From Hunger and Cold. London. Printed for William Gilbertson, dwelling at the Bible in Giltspur Street. - A sheet with five cuts." Hazlitt's Bibliog. of Old English Literature. 66 P. 110. Lord Mayor's Day, the day for the inauguration of the Lord Mayor elect of the city of London, was formerly marked by much festivity and display, the latter often of a tawdry sort. Always a popular holiday, it has brought down from remote centuries a characteristic procession" of which mention is made in a later "sketch." The student is advised to secure a copy of the Illustrated London News, Nov. 11 and 18, 1893, or to send to S. Marks and Sons, 72 Houndsditch, Bishopsgate Street, London, for their Panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show, price about sixpence. Consult the New York Evening Post for Nov. 9, 1893. P. 113. Between the first and the last edition, Irving made decided changes in the introductory paragraphs of this piece. Below is the |