but willing to find something to censure in the absent. My uncle Harrison did not much like us, nor did we like him. He was a very mean and vulgar man, drunk every night, but drunk with little drink, very peevish, very proud, very ostentatious, but, luckily, not rich. At my aunt Ford's I eat so much of a boiled leg of mutton,' that she used to talk of it. My mother, who had lived in a narrow sphere, and was then affected by little things, told me seriously that it would hardly ever be forgotten. Her mind, I think, was afterwards much enlarged, or greater evils wore out the care of less. I stayed after the vacation was over some days; and remember, when I wrote home, that I desired the horses to come on Thursday of the first school week; and then, and not till then, they should be welcome to go. I was much pleased with a rattle to my whip, and wrote of it to my mother. When my father came to fetch us home, he told the ostler, that he had twelve miles home, and two boys under his care. This offended me. He had then a watch, which he returned when he was to pay for it. In making, I think, the first exercise under Holbrook, I perceived the power of continuity of attention, of application not suffered to wander or to pause. I was writing at the kitchen windows, as I thought, alone, and turning my head saw Sally dancing. I went on without notice, and had finished almost without perceiving that any time had elapsed. This close attention I have seldom in my whole life obtained. In the upper-school, I first began to point my exercises, which we made noon's business. Of the method I have not so distinct a remembrance as of the foregoing system. On Thursday morning we had a lesson, as on other mornings. On Thursday afternoon, and on Saturday morning, we commonly made examples to the Syntax. We were soon raised from Æsop to Phædrus, and then said our repetition on Friday afternoon to Hunter. I remember the fable of the wolf and lamb, to my draught—that I may drink. At what time we began Phædrus, I know not. It was the only book which we learned to the end. In the latter part thirty lines were expected for a lesson. What reconciles masters to long lessons is the pleasure of tasking. Helvicus was very difficult: the dialogue Vestitus, Hawkins directed us to omit, as being one of the hardest in the book. As I remember, there was another upon food, and another upon fruits, which we began, and were ordered not to pursue. In the dialogue of Fruits, we perceived that Holbrook did not know the meaning of Uva Crispa. That lesson gave us great trouble. I ob 1 All these trifles-since Dr, Johnson in the height of his fame (for the Account must have been written subsequent to 1768) thought them worth recording-appear worth quoting. His voracious love of a leg of mutton adhered to him through life; and the prophecy of his mother, that it never would be forgotten, is realised in a way that good woman could not have anticipated -CROKER. 2 The convenience of a watch, now so general, Dr. Johnson himself, as Sir J. Hawkins reports (p. 460), did not possess till 1768.-CROKER. served that we learned Helvictus a long time with very little progress. We learned it in the afternoon on Monday and Wednesday. Gladiolus Scriptorius.-A little lapse, we quitted it. I got an English Erasmus. In Phædrus we tried to use the interpretation, but never attempted the notes. Nor do I remember that the interpretation helped us. In Phædrus we were sent up twice to the upper master to be punished. The second time we complained that we could not get the passage. Being told that we should ask, we informed him that we had asked, and that the assistant would not tell us. NO. III. THE CLUB. THE following complete list of the CLUB, (referred to in p. 381), with the dates of the elections of all the members, and of the deaths of those deceased, from its foundation to the present time, and the observations prefixed and annexed, have been obligingly furnished by Mr. Hatchett, the present treasurer. "THE CLUB was founded in 1764, by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr. Samuel Johnson, and for some years met on Monday evenings. In 1772, the day of meeting was changed to Friday; and about that time, instead of supping, they agreed to dine together once in every fortnight, during the sitting of par liament. "In 1773, the Club, which, soon after its foundation, consisted of twelve members, was enlarged to twenty; March 11, 1777, to twenty-six; November 27, 1778, to thirty; May 9, 1780, to thirty-five; and it was then resolved that it never should exceed forty. "It met originally at the Turk's Head, in Gerrard Street, and continued to meet there till 1783, when their landlord died, and the house was soon afterwards shut up. They then removed to Prince's, in Sackville Street; and on his house being soon afterwards shut up, they removed to Baxter's, which afterwards became Thomas's, in Dover Street. In January, 1792, they removed to Parsloe's, in St. James's Street; and, on February 26, 1799, to the Thatched House in the same street. "From the original foundation to this time, the total number of members is one hundred and eleven. Esto perpetua, "Belle Vue House, Chelsea, March 10, 1885. C. H. 466 Elected. 51.-1795, Jan. 22 Members. Rev. Dr. Richard Farmer The Marquess of Bath Frederick North, Earl of Guildford William Marsden, Esq. Rt. Hon. John Hookham Frere 58.- Mar. 4 Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville Dr. Vincent, Dean of Westminster William Lock, jun. Esq. George Ellis, Esq. Gilbert Lord Minto June 24, 1814. 63.- Dec. 21 Dr. French Lawrence : Feb. 27, 1809. Rt. Hon. Sir William Grant May 25, 1832. Sir George Staunton, Bart. Dr. S. Horsley, Bishop of St. Asaph May 13 Rt. Hon. Sir William Drummond Sir Henry Halford, Bart. Sir H. C. Englefield, Bart. 71.- 72.--- May 3 The Lord Holland The Earl of Aberdeen Charles Hatchett, Esq. Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Vaughan Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. The Rev. Dr. Charles Burney Dec. 28, 1817. Mar. 2 Rt. Hon. William Elliot Richard Heber, Esq. Thomas Phillips, Esq. R.A. Rt. Hon. Sir James Mackintosh The Lord Lyttelton Dr. William Howley, Bishop of London* Roger Wilbraham, Esq. The Lord Glenbervie May 2, 1823. Dr. William Hyde Wollaston Dec. 22, 1828. Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 1832. Dec. 4, 1828. June 2, 1832 Dr. C. J. Blomfield, Bishop of London Rt. Hon. W. C. Plunket, Lord Plunket, Francis Chantrey, Esq. R.A. 96.-1826, Dec. 12 May 20 Lieutenant-Colonel W. M. Leake, Rev. William Buckland, D.D. . J. N. Fazakerley, Esq. 100.-1829, Apr. 7. *Dr. William Howley withdrew from the Club on becoming Archbishop of Canterbury, |