Letter VII. From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam, VIII. To the same LI. To the same III. To the same LV. To the same p. 99 p. 100 . p. 101 p. 135 XXVIII. To the same p. 136 P. 142 P. 143 . P. 144 XXXVIII. From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam, chant in Amsterdam XLI. To the same XLII. From Fum Hoam to Lien Chi Altangi, XLIII. From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam, XLVI. To the same XLVII. From Lien Chi Altangi to L. From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam, demy at Pekin in China p. 96 P. 97 p. 98 p. 113 P. 115 • P. 116 p. 119 A 121 p. 122 p. 125 P. 126 p. 103 p. 105 p. 107 P. 108 p. 109 P. 111 . p. 129 P. 131 P. 132 . p. 167 . p. 168 . p. 170 Letter LVI. From Fum Hoam to Altangi, the Dis- · · P. 177 LVII. From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam, · . p. 178 LX. From the same LXIII. p. 182 LXIV. To the same . p. 191 LXV. To the same . p. 192 LXVI. From Lien Chi Altangi to Hingpo, by LXVIII. p. 193 . p. 195 From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam, p. 196 . p. 200 LXXI. From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam, 1.XXV. To the same . . p. 207 . p. 211 LXXVI. From Hingpo to Lien Chi Altangi, by . p. 212 . p. 215 . P. 216 LXXVIII. To the same . p. 217 · p. 219 . P. 221 LXXXIV. From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam, p. 234 . p. 235 XCIV. From Hingpo, in Moscow, to Lien Chi p. 237 XCV. From Lien Chi Altangi to Hingpo, at p. 228 . p. 230 . p. 232 C. From Lien Chi Altangi to Hingpo, by CI. From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam, First President of the Ceremonial Aca- CIII. From Lien Chi Altangi to CIV. From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam, First President of the Ceremonial Aca- CXVIII. From Fum Hoam to Lien Chi Altangi, the Discontented Wanderer, by the way CXIX. From Lien Chi Altangi to Fum Hoam, III. Asem, an Eastern Tale; or a Vindication of the Wisdom of Providence in the Moral IV. On the English Clergy and popular v. A Reverie at the Boar's Head Tavern, FI. Adventures of a strolling Player. P. 302 VIL Rules enjoined to be observed at a VIII. Biographical Memoir, supposed to be On beautiful Youth struck blind The Story of Alcander and Septimius. Some Particulars relative to Charles XII. Happiness in a great measure dependent III. Saturday, October 20, 1759-- IV. Saturday, October 27, 1759. The Characteristics of Greatness. Of the Pride and Luxury of the The Sentiments of a Frenchman on the VIII. Saturday, November 24, 1759.- 1. The Causes which contribute to the 11. A View of the Obscure Ages III. Of the present State of Polite Learning IV. Of Polite Learning in Germany v. Of Polite Learning in Holland some other Countries of Europe vi. Of Polite Learning in France. VII. Of Learning in Great Britain. VIII. Of rewarding Genius in England. p. 433 Long had I sought in vain to find Where the Red Lion, flaring o'er the Good people all, of every sort When lovely Woman stoops to folly Conquer." To be spoken by Mrs. Bulk- From the Oratorio of "The Captivity" An Elegy on that Glory of her Sex, Mrs. Mary Song: intended to have been sung by Miss Hard- castle in the Comedy of "She Stoops to Con- Prologue to "Zobeide," a Tragedy. Spoken by Mr. Quick in the character of a Sailor. P 688 Epilogue. Spoken by Mr. Lee Lewes, in the character of Harlequin, at his Benefit The Logicians refuted. In imitation of Dean Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec, and,Death of Epigram on a beautiful Youth struck blind by What? five long acts-and all to make Mrs. BUL Hold, Ma'am, your pardon. Prologue. Written and spoken by the Poet Laberius, a Roman Knight whom Cæsar The Double Transformation. A Tale. A New Simile. In the manner of Swift Description of an Author's Bedchamber What! no way left to shun th' inglorious | O Memory, thou fond deceiver p. 679 John Trot was desired by two witty peers p. 687 p. 679 Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery way p. 681 Good people all, with one accord . p. 682 In these bold times, when Learning's sons Logicians have but ill defined Amidst the clamour of exulting joys Sure 'twas by Providence designed. MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH. THE Life of Oliver Goldsmith by Mr. (now Sir James) Prior, published in 1837, in two volumes 8vo, was the first really careful biography of a writer who had already for seventy years been among the most popular and fascinating of our English classics. To the results of Mr. Prior's researches it can hardly be said that there has been any material addition. Mr. John Forster's well known Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith, published in 1848, superseded, however, for most purposes, the work of Mr. Prior, and from its greater vivacity and its abundant deliciousness of literary anecdote, will probably remain the standard biography of Goldsmith to all time coming. Washington Irving's Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography, published in 1849, was avowedly a compilation from Prior and Forster, but has an independent interest, as the work of one who delighted, all his life, in acknowledging Goldsmith as his literary master, and has been named, in consequence, "The American Goldsmith." Of smaller memoirs of Goldsmith the number is past counting. Perhaps, therefore, no better reason can be given for here adding one more than that it will be convenient for possessors of this edition of Goldsmith's Works to have some account of the Author bound up with it. Oliver Goldsmith was born, on the 10th of November, 1728, at the obscure, and then almost inaccessible, village of Pallas, or Pallasmore, in the county of Longford, in the very midmost solitude of Ireland. His father, the Rev. Charles Goldsmith, was the poor Protestant clergyman of that Irish parish. He was one of a family of Goldsmiths, noted for worth and goodness of heart rather than worldly prudence, who were originally from the South of England, and in whom, since their first coming to Ireland, the clerical profession, in its Protestant form, had been almost hereditary. Goldsmith's mother, Ann Jones, was also of a clerical and Protestant family that had been naturalized in Ireland. She was one of the daughters of the Rev. Oliver Jones, master of the diocesan school of Elphin in Roscommon. From this maternal grandfather young Oliver derived his Christian name. He used afterwards to maintain, however, that it had come into the line of his maternal ancestry through some connexion with Oliver Cromwell. Four children, three of them daughters, and one a son, named Henry, had been born to the clergyman of Pallasmore and his wife before the appearance of the "Oliver" that was to make them famous; and the family was ultimately completed by the birth of three sons younger than Oliver, named Maurice, Charles, and John. The eldest of this family of eight (a daughter), and this last-named John, died in childhood. Effectively, therefore, Oliver grew up as one of a family of six, three of whom were older, and two younger, than himself. A native of the rural heart of Ireland, Goldsmith, till his seventeenth year, received his entire education, whether of scenery and circumstance, or of more formal schooling, within the limits of that little-visited region. Not, however, without some changes of spot and society within those limits. In 1730, while he was yet but an infant, his father, after having been about twelve years minister of Pallas, removed to the better living of Kilkenny West, a parish some miles south of Pallas, and situated not in the county of Longford, but in the adjacent county of West Meath. Thenceforward, accordingly, the head-quarters of the family were no longer at Pallas, but at Lissoy, a quaint Irish village within the bounds of the new parish. Here, in a pretty and rather commodious parsonage-house, on the verge of the village, and on the road between Athlone and Ballymahon, the good clergyman set himself to bring up his children on his paltry clerical income, eked out by the farming of some seventy acres of land. He was himself a mild eccentric of the Dr. Primrose type, kindly to all about him, and of pious, confused ways. But the immortal oddity of Lissoy, and the incarnation of all that had been peculiar for some generations in the race of the Goldsmiths, was the parson's young son, Oliver. In book-learning, for one thing, he was, from the first, a little blockhead. "Never was so dull a boy" was the report of a kinswoman, who, having lived in the Lissoy household, had been the first to try to teach him his letters, and who afterwards, under her married name of Elizabeth Delap, kept a small school at Lissoy, and survived to be proud of her pupil, and to talk of him in her extreme old age, after he was dead. Hardly different seems to have been the report of the Lissoy schoolmaster, Thomas Byrne, more familiarly known as "Paddy Byrne,"- -a veteran who had returned to his original vocation of teaching after having served in the wars under Marlborough and risen to the rank of quartermaster to a regiment in Spain. And yet of this "Paddy Byrne" Goldsmith seems to have retained to the last an affectionate recollection: A man severe he was, and stern to view; The love he bore to learning was in fault : |
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