Ode to Sir Elijah Impey (p. 503.):

"Anonymous--I believe L'd. J.T."--_L._

Ministerial undoubted Facts (p. 511.):

"Lord J. Townsend--I believe."--_L._

W.C. TREVELYAN.


_Croker's Boswell_ (Edit. 1847, p. 721.).--Mr. Croker cannot discover
when a good deal of intercourse could have taken place between Dr.
Johnson and the Earl of Shelburne, because "in 1765, when Johnson
engaged in politics with Hamilton, {374} Lord Shelburne was but twenty."
In 1765 Lord Shelburne was twenty-eight. He was born in 1737; was in
Parliament in 1761; and a Privy Councillor in 1763.

L.G.P.


_Misquotation--"He who runs may read_."--No such passage exists in the
Scriptures, though it is constantly quoted as from them. It is usually
the accompaniment of expressions relative to the clearness of meaning or
direction, the supposititious allusion being to an inscription written
in very large characters. The text in the prophet Habakkuk is the
following: "Write the vision and make it plain upon tables, that he may
run that readeth it." (Ch. ii. 2.) Here, plainly, the meaning is, that
every one reading the vision should be alarmed by it, and should fly