Calvert built, but it would be near it; and it was probably the experience which the Wordsworths had of Windy Brow in 1794, that induced them to look favourably on the scheme of living with Calvert in 1801. They may have occupied rooms in the same "farm-house" in 1794, as Coleridge says they had already lived "on the same footing." Now, Mr Dowden's suggestion is that the two men referred to in the "stanzas"--both indolent, one a poet, the other a dabbler in science, and intimate with Wordsworth-are Coleridge and Calvert; Calvert being the "noticeable man," and Coleridge the poet of the earlier stanzas. Professor Dowden's suggestion is a very interesting one. The conditions to be fulfilled are, as he puts it, the following-"Two men, (1) One, and only one, a poet; (2) Both indolent or idle; (3) Both intimately known to Wordsworth; (4) One-the poet--in broken health; (5) The other, though indolent, ingenious, 'He had inventions rare;' (6) Interested, moreover, in natural science; and (7) Trying to engage the other man—the poet-in his pursuits." All these conditions seem to have been fulfilled in Coleridge and Calvert; while the date of their residence at Greta Hall and Windy Brow Cottage also agree. There are others who think that neither Coleridge nor Wordsworth is referred to in these stanzas; but the Fenwick note is explicit in its reference to Coleridge. A very plausible case might be made out-as is hinted at in the note which follows the poem-in favour of a simple transposition of the reference in the stanzas, Coleridge being supposed to be described in the first four, and Wordsworth in the latter verses; especially if we connect the clause in the Fenwick note, "Coleridge living with us much at this time," with the first line of the poem,

Within our happy Castle there dwelt One.

NOTE TO POEM ADDRESSED TO H. C., Six Years Old; pp. 309-10.

The following postscript to a letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Sir Humphrey Davy, dated Keswick, Friday evening, July 25, 1800, is an excellent illustration of this poem :-"Hartley is a spirit that dances on an aspen leaf; the air that yonder sallow-faced and yawning tourist is breathing, is to my babe a perpetual nitrous oxide. Never was more joyous creature born. Pain with him is so wholly transubstantiated by the joys that had rolled on before, and rushed on after, that oftentimes five minutes after his mother has whipt him he has gone up and asked her to whip him again." (See Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart., pp. 78, 79.)

NOTE TO The Brothers; pp. 106-125, AND TO Michael; pp. 126-144.

The following is an extract from a letter addressed by Wordsworth to. Charles James Fox in 1802, accompanying a copy of Lyrical Ballads :-"In the two poems, 'The Brothers' and 'Michael,' I have attempted to draw a picture of the domestic affections, as I know they exist amongst a class of men who are now almost confined to the north of England. They are small independent proprietors of land, here called 'statesmen,' men of respectable education, who daily labour on their own little properties. The domestic affections will always be strong amongst men who live in a country not crowded with population; if these men are placed above poverty. But, if they are proprietors of small estates which have descended to them from their ancestors, the power which these affections will acquire amongst such men, is inconceivable by those who have only had an opportunity of observing hired labourers, farmers, and the manufacturing poor. Their little tract of land serves as a kind of permanent rallying point for their domestic feelings, as a tablet on which they are written, which makes them objects of memory in a thousand instances, when they would otherwise be forgotten. It is a fountain fitted to the nature of social man, from which supplies of affection as pure as his heart was intended for, are daily drawn. This class of men is rapidly disappearing. . The two poems that I have mentioned were written with a view to show that men who do not wear fine clothes can feel deeply. 'Pectus enim est quod disertos facit, et vis mentis. Ideoque imperitis quoque, si modo sint aliquo affectu concitati, verba non desunt.' The poems are faithful copies from nature; and I hope whatever effect they may have upon you, you will at least be able to perceive that they may excite profitable sympathies in many kind and good hearts; and may in some small degree enlarge our feelings of reverence for our species, and our knowledge of human nature, by showing that our best qualities are possessed by men whom we are too apt to consider, not with reference to the points in which they resemble us, but to those in which they manifestly differ from us." (See Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer, by Sir Henry Burnbury, p. 436.)—ED.

TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS.