1 Trevelyan, Life and Letters, I, 41.

2 Trevelyan, I, 47.

3 The entire letter is interesting. See Trevelyan, I, 56. The letters of this period are particularly attractive.

4 Ibid. I, 91.

5 Trevelyan, I, 102. The letters from college are well worth reading.

6 Trevelyan, I, 136.

7 Ibid., 179.

8 Trevelyan, I, 249–253.

9 Trevelyan, I, 368.

10 Ibid., II, 68.

11 Trevelyan, II, 89.

12 Carlyle's Essay on Burns, p. 5, Ginn's edition.

13 Trevelyan, II. 96.

14 For Trevelyan's evidence, see II, 191.

15 Trevelyan, II, 244.

16 Ibid., 321.

17 Trevelyan, II, 15.

18 The Quarterly Review, July, 1876.

19 It is proper to observe that this passage bears a very close resemblance to a passage in the Rambler (No. 20). The resemblance may possibly be the effect of unconscious plagiarism.—Macaulay.