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1894, 8vo. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, with Introduction and Notes by K. Deighton, London and Bombay.

1896, 8vo. THE COMEDIES OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH, with Introduction by Joseph Jacobs, and illustrations by Chris. Hammond, Masterpieces of English Fiction Series.

[1898], 8vo. THE LATER ENGLISH Drama, edited by Calvin S. Brown, New York.

1900, 8vo. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, edited with preface and notes by J. M. Dent, Temple Dramatists.

II. WORKS BIOGRAPHICAL AND
CRITICAL.

Besides monographs and articles devoted specially to The Good Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer this list includes such general works on the dramas and on the author and his works as are likely to prove useful to the general reader or student. Specific references are furnished where necessary. See also the memoirs and critical matter prefixed to the Works in the list of texts above.

1780. MEMOIRS OF DAVID GARRICK, T. Davies, 2 vols., II. 142-164.

1786. ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON, H. L. Piozzi.

1787. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D., Sir John Hawkins, 416–21.

1791. THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D., J. Boswell, 2 vols. Many editions.

1793. DR. GOLDSMITH, W. Cooke, European Magazine, XXIV. 91, 170, 258.

1806. MEMOIRS OF RICHARD CUMBERLAND, 2 vols. 1806. CLASSIC TALES, Leigh Hunt, 1. 41-80.

1837. LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Sir James Prior, 2 vols. 1844. LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Washington Irving. Revised from Forster in 1849.

1848. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH, John Forster. Ed. 2 vols., 1854; final ed. 1877.

1848. FORSTER'S LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Lord Lytton, Edinburgh Review, LXXXVIII. 193-225.

1853-60. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, T. De Quincey, Works, vi. 194-233.

1853. ENGLISH HUMOURISTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ; Sterne and Goldsmith, W. M. Thackeray, pp. 269–322.

1854. FORSTER'S LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Quarterly Review, xcv. 394-448.

1856. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, T. B. Macaulay, Encyclopædia Britannica, Eighth Edition, Ix. Reprinted in Macaulay's Miscel

laneous Writings, 1865, 298-306.

1863-64. HISTOIRE DE LA LITTÉRATURE ANGLAISE, H. Taine, 4 vols., IV. 330–336. Paris. Also in Van Laun's translation, 4 vols., 1873-4, III. 311-316. Edinburgh.

1873. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Johannes Karsten, Strassburg. 1874. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Dr. Lautenhammer. Munich. 1876. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Adolf Laun. Berlin.

1878. GOLDSMITH, William Black, English Men of Letters. 1882. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Mme. A. M. Blanchecotte. Paris. 1885. A BOOKSELLER OF THE LAST CENTURY (John Newbery), C. Welsh.

1888. LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Austin Dobson, Great Writers Series. Rev. edn., New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1899.

1890. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Sir Leslie Stephen, Dictionary of National Biography, xx11. 86-95.

1902. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, Austin Dobson, Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, 11. 478–494.

1903. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, E. Gosse, English Literature, an Illustrated Record, 11. 342-346. Nine illustrations and facsimiles.

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hoikes, hikes, hastes or hurries (Halliwell).

coquets, entertains with com- jag-hire, an assignment of

pliments (Johnson).

crack, a lie.

cup, sweetened and flavoured

wine.

land in India to an individual for life. It is a Hindostanee word. jorum, large jug.

ensigns, insignia, badges, or kept, frequented.

decorations.

errant, arrant.

escape, v., be overlooked.

feeder, cock-feeder.

marcasites, a mineral often

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tern, a word in Hudibras.

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quietus, acquittance or ac- varment, corruption of verknowledgment. It may here mean "make yourself easy. Quincey (John), author of the Complete English Dispensatory, fourteenth edition, 1772.

shycock, an evasive creditor. smoke, v., to take notice of, observe.

spadille, the ace of spades, first trump in ombre.

ex

waundily, excessively,
tremely (vulgar).
wauns, corruption of swounds,
God's wounds.
Whistlejacket, a famous
racer, whose life-size picture,
painted by George Stubbs, A.
R. A., is at Earl Fitzwilliam's
of Wentworth-Wood-
house, Rotherham, York-
shire.

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