The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers . ered him, Well, Sir, you are now in good — Yes, Sir. I was going to leave him, and had gotas far as the staircase. He stopped me and, smiling, said, Get you gone in: a curious mode of inviting me to stay,which I accordingly did for some time longer. This little incidental quarrel and reconciliation, which,perhaps, I may be thought to have detailed too minutely, mustbe esteemed


The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers . ered him, Well, Sir, you are now in good — Yes, Sir. I was going to leave him, and had gotas far as the staircase. He stopped me and, smiling, said, Get you gone in: a curious mode of inviting me to stay,which I accordingly did for some time longer. This little incidental quarrel and reconciliation, which,perhaps, I may be thought to have detailed too minutely, mustbe esteemed as one of many proofs which his friends had thatthough he might be charged with had humor at times, he wasalways a good-natured man; and I have heard Sir JoshuaReynolds, a nice and delicate observer of manners, particularlyremark that when upon any occasion Johnson had been roughto any person in company, he took the first opportunity ofreconciliation by drinking to him, or addressing his discourseto him ; but if he found his dignified indirect overtures sul-lenly neglected, he Vv^as quite indifferent, and considered him-self as having done all that he ought to do, and the other asnow in the DR. JOIIXSON. 4251 DR. JOHNSON.* By AUGUSTINE BIERELL. [AuotrsTiNR BinRELL, English essayist, was born at Wavcrtree, nearLiverpool, .Tanuary 19, 1850, the son of a Baptist minister, and graduated withdistinction at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was called to the bar (1875), andwas returned to Parliament for West Fife in 1889, and again in 1892. ObiterDicta (1884 and 1887), consisting of literary and biographical essays, is hischief work. He has also published Res Judicata, essays; a life of CharlotteBronte; and Men, Women, and Books (1895).] If we should ever take occasion to say of Dr. JohnsonsPreface to Shakspeare what he himself said of a similar produc-tion of the poet Rowe, that it does not discover much pro-fundity or penetration, we ought in common fairness alwaysto add that


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