on the sum paid for the Deserted Village,
239; his opinion of Mickle's ballads,
294; reason for Boswell's attacks on
Goldsmith, 422; his opinion of Reta-
liation, and its effects, 453.

Scott, Rev. Mr, doubles the circulation of
the Public Advertiser by his Anti-
Sejanus papers, ii. 91; visit to Gold-
smith in the Temple, 93; his disgust at
Goldsmith's folly and independence, ib;
Barré's exposure of him, 263; character
of, by Gray, ib; Goldsmith puts him
into the Haunch of Venison, 264.
Selby, Mr, account of Goldsmith's habits
when resident in Hyde-lane, ii. 314.
Selwyn, George, his Correspondence, its
specimen of a clergyman of Goldsmith's
time, i. 278; description of Parisian
Society, 428; passes his time as much at
Tyburn as at White's, ii. 7.

Seguin, Mr, Irish merchant, settled in
London, ii. 129; family intimacy with
Goldsmith, ib; social meetings in the
Temple, 130.

Seward, Miss Anna, her character of
Johnson, ii. 334.

Shakspeare, Goldsmith compared to Good-

man Dull, i. 16; Hume thinks Home:
less of a barbarian than, 107; Gray
places Voltaire's tragedies next to his,
119; self-described imitators of, 187;
a gentleman to whom "the immortal
Shakespeare is confessedly" obliged, 188;
his Tempest as opera, and Taming of
Shrew as farce, 234; Goldsmith's silly
depreciation of, 238; his relation to the
actors of him, 241; Johnson's edition of,
219, 421, 425, 429, 430; its services to
the poet, 432; Mrs. Lennox's silly book
about, ii. 170; Johnson disputes with
Garrick on his merits, 193; Garrick's
alteration of Hamlet, and other plays,
347; George Steeven's impertinence, 346;
Goldsmith's heresies, 352; his better
taste, ib.

Shebbeare, pilloried and pensioned, i. 305;
a model writer for the patronage of the
great, ii. 222.

Shelburne, Lord, Chatham's secretary of
state, ii. 36; his character for ability
and taste, ib; regarded by Goldsmith
as a friend to letters, ib; discontented
with his chief, 85; joins the Grafton
ministry, 88; quits it, 156; attack on
Grafton, 224; with Goldsmith at the
theatre, 434; Malagrida, ib.
Shenstone, the poet, indebted to him for
Percy's Reliques, i, 180.

Goldsmith's story about him, i. 151, ii.
210; pensioned by Lord Bute to John-
son's great disgust, i. 305; quarrel
between him and Johnson, 317.
Sheridan, R. B., satirises Cumberland,
ii. 292; Beau Tibbs anticipates his
remark to Tom, 341; an occasional
defect in his wit and humour, 363;
reception of his Rivals, 369; plays off
the Mrs. Hardcastle trick on Madame
de Genlis, 379.

Shore, Miss Sarah, shopkeeper at Bally-
mahon, her accounts with the Goldsmith
family, i. 38; "Master Noll's" name
honoured by an entry in the same for
"tea" and "cash," ib.

66

She Stoops to Conquer, comedy by Gold-
smith, ii. 360; its high provocations to
laughter, ib; objections not tenable,
361; the high comic intention always
visible, 362; sketch of the characters,
363; Colman's misgivings, 365; Foote
gives a helping hand, 368; the actors
dissatisfied, 369; gathering of cele-
brities at its rehearsals, 371; difficulty
of finding a name for the play, 373; Rey-
nolds's suggestion for a title, 374;
Goldsmith's afterwards chosen, ib; the
dinner before the play, 375; the per-
formance, 377; its success, 377; attacked
by Griffiths in the Monthly Review,
378; Colman's amende, 381; sundry
opinions of Walpole respecting it, 361,
362, 367, 374, 381; attacked by Kenrick
in the London Packet, 384; its allusion
to the Royal marriage act, 396.
Shoemaker's holiday, ii. 142; favourite
amusement of Goldsmith, ib.

Shuter, Mr, favourable opinion of the Good
Natured Man, ii. 119; enters with zest
into the character of Croaker, 121; de-
cides the success of the comedy in the
scene of the "incendiary letter," 122;
Goldsmith sends him ten guineas for his
benefit ticket, 127; friendly suggestions
for She Stoops to Conquer, 370; dif-
ference between his acting to a full house
and at rehearsals, 371.

Sleigh, Dr, fellow-student with Goldsmith
in Edinburgh, i. 50; first patron of
Barry the painter, ib; friend of Edmund
Burke, ib; victim of Foote's malice, ib;
kindness to Goldsmith in his early London
distress, 79; introduces Cooke to Gold-
smith, ii. 30.

Smart, Christopher, son-in-law of Newbery,
i. 324; the profits of the Martial Review
appropriated to him, ib; his eccentri-

cities and imprudences, 367; confined in
a madhouse, ib; writes with a key on his
cell wall, the "Song to David," ib; Gray's
account of him when fellow of Pembroke
College, b; kindness of Johnson and
Goldsmith, 368; his religious mania,
ib; leaves the madhouse, ib; composes
the oratorio of Hannah, ib; astounding
agreement with Gardener the bookseller,
408.

Smith, Adam, Enquiry into the Wealth of
Nations, ii. 138; expands the questions
of trade and manufacture into a philo-
sophic system, ib.

Smollett, opinion on the status of a man of
letters, i. 92; editor of the Critical
Review, 97; feud with Griffiths and the
Monthly Review, 104, 105; attack upon
Griffiths's hacks, 105; writes History of
England, 113; its rapid production, ib;
object of its publication, 114; effects
upon Hume's history, ib; personal
resentments in consequence of its success,
ib; reviewed by Goldsmith, ib; review
interpolated by Griffiths, ib; feud with
Griffiths, 157; abuse of, A. N. xxix; as-
sailed by Warburton, ib; quotation from
Roderick Random, 166; reviews Gold-
smith's Polite Enquiry in the Critical
Review, 196; spirit of the review, ib;
his feelings toward Samuel Johnson, 218;
Goldsmith shuts fame's door on his His-
tory, and opens it to his Novels, 228;
his Reprisals, 237; establishes the Bri-
tish Magazine, 265; dedicates it to Mr.
Pitt, ib; excites the spleen of Horace
Walpole, ib; his imprisonment in the
Bench, 266; writes his Launcelot
Greaves, ib; engages services of Gold-
smith, ib; gets articles for his Magazine,
ib; loses his only daughter, 292; de-
nounced by Hawkins, 337; effect of
Grub-street upon his novels, ii. 10;
abused by Walpole, 42, 43; gives up
settled residence in London, 93; returns
from foreign travel, 94; Hume applies
to Lord Shelburne in his behalf, ib;
ministers' indifference to literature, 95;
bids Hume an exile's farewell, ib; pro-
claims the falsity of faction, ib; writes
Humphrey Clinker, ib; dies at Leghorn,
ib; false assertion respecting him, 222.
Some Enquiries concerning the first inhabit-
ants of Europe, by Francis Wise, i. 165;
reviewed by Goldsmith, ib.

Somers, Lord Chancellor, his patronage of
literature, i. 203; commemorated by
Young, ib.

Southey, dictum on benevolence and sensi-

bility, i. 30; depreciation of Tickell's
Colin and Lucy, 317; declaration
that the Vicar of Wakefield was a
puzzler for the critics, ii. 18; disbe-
lieves Walpole as to Chatterton, 280;
notice of a French fraud on Goldsmith's
reputation, 338; quoted as to umbrellas,
A. N. XXX; remarkable saying as to the
sons of Egalité, A.N. xxxviii.

Spenser, Edmund, his Fairy Queene re-
viewed by Goldsmith, i. 182; his poverty
and death, ib; Goldsmith's admiration of
him, ib; opinion of his influence on the
poetry of England, 183; Burke's compa-
rison of his and Goldsmith's pastoral
poetry, ii. 228.

Spleen, the, Dodsley's Collection, i. 316;
Gray's criticism on it, ib.

Stage, state of, at the time of the appear-
ance of Garrick, i. 246.

Steele, Sir Richard, i. 94; opinion of the
stage, 231; his friend at the Trumpet
Club, 284; his paper on Dick Eastcourt,
351; his superiority in talk, ii. 100;
the principles upon which he founded his
comedies, 116; his Conscious Lovers,
Fielding's opinion of it, ib; his paper on
the Indian in England, A. N. xxxi.
Steevens, George, the critic, i. 430; his
ingenious compliment to Garrick, ib;
authority for Goldsmith's labours in the
Critical Review, 190; not a very reli-
able one, ii. 190; letter to Garrick on
the Shakspeare alterations, 346; visit
with Goldsmith and Johnson to see
Macklin in Iago, 350; his sneer at
Goldsmith's waistcoat, 409; correspon-
dence with Percy on Goldsmith's relatives,
489, 491.

Sterne, Lawrence, his Tristram Shandy,
i. 282; its immediate popularity, ib;
Dodsley's munificent offer for a second
edition, ib; presented by Lord Falcon-
berg with a living, ib; the English
Rabelais, ib; his dinner engagements,
ib; attacked by Goldsmith in the
Citizen of the World, 283; Goldsmith
still unjust to him, 393; his melancholy
death, ii. 149; examples of his treat-
ment, 480.

Travels, Goldsmith's, i. 59; incidents and
vicissitudes connected with, A. N. xxviii.
Traveller, the, first sketch of, sent home
to his brother Henry from Switzerland,
i. 71; speculated on by the elder New-
bery, 387; the dream of eight years
realised at last, ib; Johnson corrects
the proof-sheets, ib; writes notice for
the Critical Review, ib; dedicated to his
brother Henry, 388; declared by John-
son to be without equal since the death
of Pope, 391; Goldsmith and Pope con-
trasted, ib; predominant impressions of
the poem, ib; character of its verse,
392; discussion as to how originated;
ib; opinions of the club, 393; Boswell's
amazement, ib; lines for which it stands
indebted to Johnson, 395; "Luke's iron
crown," ib; Charles Fox's opinion of its
merits, 398; reviewed in the St. James's
Chronicle, ib; number of editions in the
poet's lifetime, 399; emendations and
corrections, ib; payment for it, ib;
what Charles Fox thought of it when a
boy, ii. 39; Johnson thought the
Deserted Village inferior to it, 229.
Tucker, Dean, his judgment on the question
of the American colonies, i. 412.
Turton, Dr, attendant on Goldsmith in his
last illness, ii. 464, 465.

U.

Universal Visitor, the, for which Smart
was engaged to write for ninety-nine
years, i. 408.

Universality, the distinguishing character
of the genius of Garrick, 377.
Universities, purposes of their original
foundations, i. 200; recent disclosures
respecting them, ib; Goldsmith's opinion
as to, 201.
Umbrellas, introduced by Jonas Hanway,

i. 116; commemorated by Gay in Trivia,
as used by the poor, ib; by Swift in
City Shower, ib; Mr. Bolton Corney,
quotes Drayton for their earlier use, ib;

A. N. XXX.

V.

VAILS, to servants, opposed by Jonas Han-
way, i. 115; discountenanced by Hogarth,
ib; Reynolds's door worth a 1007.
a-year, 116.
Van Egmont's Travels in Asia, i. 186, 341;
reviewed by Goldsmith, ib; a.n. xxxi.

Vauxhall, Goldsmith's allusions to, in the
Citizen of the World, i. 282; changes
Islington tea-gardens into supper at,
400; frequented by Reynolds and Gold-
smith, ii. 286; what the company at the
gardens then included, 441.

Verona, visited by Goldsmith, i. 74.
Vers de société, the French its most prac-
tised cultivators, ii. 171; few English
poets have succeeded in its composition,
ib; Goldsmith's excellence in it, ib.
Vesey, Mrs, her parties, ii. 356; modelled
on the French coteries, ib; their cha-
racter, ib.

Vicar of Wakefield, quoted for George
Primrose's experinces, i. 62, 91; first
begun, 315; sold to save Goldsmith
from arrest, 384; purchased by New-
bery, the nephew, 386; Johnson's
doubtful opinion of its merit, ib; kept
in MS. till after publication of the Tra-
veller, 387; George Primrose a type of
himself, 401; causes of its late ap-
pearance after the Traveller, 438;
printed at Salisbury, 439; criticism of
Rogers, the poet, respecting it, ii. 3; of
Walter Scott, 4, 10; the supply of subjects
it has given to our artists, 4; its great
merit, the absence of book-making, ib ;
traits of the time of its appearance, 6,
7; social subjects of the present day
discussed and anticipated in it, ib; re-
semblance supposed between Parson
Adams and Dr. Primrose, 8, 15; valua-
ble hints on penal jurisprudence, 8;
Goldsmith's father the original of the
vicar, 9; the separate identity of the
characters, 11; moral of the superiority
of credulousness to cunning, 13; pas-
sages expunged from it, 15; Herder
reads a German translation to Goethe,
16; nature of its reviews and notices,
18; a puzzler for Griffiths, ib.; Gar-
rick's opinion of it, 19; steady growth
of its popularity, ib; Burke's admiration
for the prison scenes, 20; foreign trans-
lations of, A. N. XXXV; reaches 6th edi-
tion before his death, 20; translated into
several continental languages, ib; sole
literary gratification of Charles X. in his
exile, ib; alterations in second edition, ib.
Vida, the Italian poet, favourite of Leo the
Magnificent, ii. 266; bishop of Alba,
ib; author of the Game of Chess, ib
supplies Pope's Rape of the Lock with
the game at ombre, ib; elevates the sub-
ject to the character of an epic, 267;
translated by Goldsmith, 268. See
JEFFRIES and MURPHY.

NN

Virginia, a tragedy, by Mr. Crisp, i. 108.
Voltaire, erroneous statement that Gold-
smith visited him in Paris, i. 67; re-
ceives Goldsmith at Les Délices, 68;
company and conversation, ib; opinion
of the English, 68, 69; survives Gold-
smith, 70; his Universal History re-
viewed by Goldsmith, 119; his tragedies
and his humanity, ib; Gray's admira-
tion of his tragedies, ib; Bulwer Lytton's,
ib; Goldsmith contracts to write his Life,
173; its publication, 179; repeats a
saying of Goldsmith's, which Talleyrand
appropriated, 225; Goldsmith defends
him on report of his death, 281; John-
son's dislike of him, 427; Walpole's
depreciation of, 429; appreciation of,
ii. 43; Mrs. Yates plays in his Orestes,
64; Goldsmith rebukes Reynolds for as-
sailing him, 432.

W.

WALL, Captain John, master of the ship in
which Goldsmith sailed to Bordeaux, i.
56.

Walpole, Sir Robert, ministry of, treat-
ment of literature, i. 93, 95; Goldsmith's
attacks upon, 203, 204; his idea of
what men of letters should be, ii. 41;
Goldsmith again sneers at him, 302.
Walpole, Horace, character of Goldsmith,
i. 4; contrasts with, 119; fondness for
Gray, 120; reasons for his liking,
ib; quarrels with Gray, ib; prints an
edition of his Odes at Strawberry-hill,
ib; style and spirit of his criticism,
121; despisal of popular sympathies,
122; his detestation of authors by pro-
fession, 198; his dislike to Goldsmith,
203; causes of it, 204; his account
of a dinner-party at Garrick's, 262;
political squib, Letter from Xo Ho, 273;
opinion on the character of Burke,
341; specimen of his inconsistencies,
377; his affection for his cousin
Marshal Conway, 416; a love affair,
417; his society in Paris, 428; satirises
the Voltaires and the Rousseaus,
ib; his anticipation as to the con-
nection between Hume and Rousseau,
428; character of Boswell, 428; cha-
racter of Rousseau and Voltaire, 429;
Memoirs, his account of Pitt's de-
cline and Burke's rise, 436; opinion
of Addison, Lady Temple and "other
great poets," ii. 23; description of
the character of Charles Townshend,

37, 38; account of the literature of the
day, 42; his perverse estimate of authors,
ib; assailed by Rousseau, 45; description
of Lord North, 88, 89; calls Goldsmith
an "inspired idiot," 146; Mrs. Piozzi's
MS. comment thereon, A. N. xxxvi;
reads the tragedy of the Mysterious Mo-
ther to his lady-friends, 149; his alarm
at the advancing democratic spirit, 185;
meets the Duc de Rochefoucalt and Mrs.
Macauley at the same dinner table, ib;
sees nothing wrong in Madame Dubarry's
exaltation in France, b; his ideas
of freedom, 186; his abomination of Gar-
rick's jubilee, ib; opinion of Hume as a
conversationist, 218; of Gray, ib; a
dull dinner with Hogarth and Gray,
219; his opinion of the Constitution and
of letting it alone, 224; opinion of Gold-
smith and Johnson, 275; literary
imposition of the Castle of Otranto,
279; discussion with Goldsmith, as to
Rowley's poems, 278, 280; his remorse
at his treatment of Chatterton, ib; a
bigot to James's powders, 350, 461;
criticisms on She Stoops to Conquer, 361,
362, 367, 374, 378, 381; his exaltation
of Mr. Jephson, 374; anger at Gold-
smith for attacking the Ladies' Club,
382; remarks on Goldsmith's death, 458,
464; comment on his epitaphs, ib.
War-office, writer of Junius evidently em-
ployed in, ii. 92.

Warburton, Bishop, author of the Divine
Legation, i. 114; heaviness of its sale,
ib; wrath at the success of Smollett's
History, ib; A. N. xxix; a frequenter of
Davies's in Russell-street, 307; taken in
by Burke's imitation of Bolingbroke,
340; delight at Rousseau's falling foul
of Horace Walpole, ii. 45; criticism
ou Garrick's Shakspeare Ode, 186;
praises Garrick for altering Shakspeare,
346; thought the Winter's Tale a
"monstrous composition," ib; distinc-
tion between Swift's and Pope's philoso-
phy, 412.

Ward, Ned, author of the London Spy,

description of Green Arbour-court, i. 163.
Warton, Joseph, head-master of Winchester-
school, i. 426; his knowledge of the
society of the club, ib; dines with
Johnson, 429; accusation of Goldsmith's
imitation of Johnson, ib; refuted, ib;
questions to him about the king,
ii. 50; courteous, yet severe retort, 51;
passes two evenings with Fielding and
his sister, 395.

Warton, Thomas, Gray's criticism upon,