Frontispiece should read "Charles Lamb (in his thirtieth year)". --གསཔབཅ mot cupita is extracts into Note Books (now preserved at the British Museum), and afterwards formed 74782 original text of the articles sent to Hone for weekly publication, and have found there some interesting material now printed for the first time. Finally, Mr. Swinburne, who has written more nobly of Lamb than has any one, and who stands by his side in devotion and service to the old dramatists, has kindly permitted me to print his sonnet "On Lamb's Specimens of the Dramatic Poets" very fittingly on the threshold of this book, and his sequence of twentyone sonnets on the old dramatists, from Tristram of Lyonesse, by way of epilogue. The frontispiece is Hazlitt's portrait of Lamb in the costume of a Venetian Senator, painted in the autumn of 1804, when Lamb was twenty-nine, a little before he began seriously to work on this book. The portrait, now in the National Portrait Gallery, was once Coleridge's and afterwards Gillman's. E. V. L. October, 1903 |