Shafei, Maimonides, Akbar, Ronsard and Baif, Ascham,

Tycho Brahe, Melanchthon, Richelieu, Archbp. Williams,

Salmasius, Selden, Varignon, Dr. Hooke, Voltaire, Mdme. du

Châtelet, Bichat, Watt, Mirabeau, Bessel, Winckelmann, the

Herschels, Marat, Napoleon I., Rivarol, Cuvier, Schleier-

macher, A. von Humboldt, Dr. T. Brown, W. Irving,

Channing, Polevoy, J. D. Hume, J. C. Loudon, Sir W.

Hamilton, Coleridge, De Quincey, Hood, Byron, Scott,

Tegner, Ampère, Campbell, A. Bell, G. Sand, Barham, Mrs.

Gore, Julian Fane.

XI. MIDNIGHT MEMORANDA:

159-183

Getting up at night to jot down a sudden inspiration.—“The
Nocturnal Remembrancer.-Eureka!-Composed in sleep-
absorbing ideas by night-fixing a flitting fancy-scrawling a
strophe in the dark-window-pane inscription by moonlight

184-195

XII. CONSOLATIONS OF LITERATURE:

Testimony of Chateaubriand, Chesterfield, Hood, Cicero, Mon-

taigne, Feltham, Mendoza, Machiavelli, Garcilasso de la

Vega, Montesquieu, Gibbon, Lady Mary, Baxter, Daru, R.

Jephson, Aug. Thierry, De Sacy, Mountstuart Elphinstone, F.

Horner, Cowper, A. Murphy, Washington Irving .196-211

XIII. SOUTHEY'S 'DAYS AMONG THE DEAD’:

Living with the great Dead.-Dead to all but books-Hazlitt
on Salisbury Plain.-The old friends who are never seen with
new faces.—'Our best acquaintance are the dead.'-Time-tried
friends (on the shelf)-'C'est avec les morts qu'il faut vivre'

212-225

XIV. TAKING UP A NEW STUDY IN OLD AGE:

ever too old to learn.-Old boys beginning the Greek alpha-
bet.—To school in one's grand climacteric.—Graduating B.A.
at fourscore.—A medley of elderly scholars: Cato, Petrarch,