2 See Birrell's essay, "Walter Bagehot," found in Selected Essays (London: Nelson, 1908) at p. 225.

3 See, Selected Modern English Essays (Oxford University Press, 1927, at p. 20-1).

4 Nicoll, op. cit.

5 Austin Dobson, A Bookman's Budget (Oxford University Press, 1917, pp. 141-2).

6 See Bowen's biography, The Temper of the Man.

7 Chas. F. Richardson, (1775-1865) lawyer, The Choice of Books (New York: Alden, 1883, pp. 118-19.

8 Sydney Smith.

9 Oliver Wendell Holmes.

10 See Richard O'Connor's Ambrose Bierce: A Biography (Boston: Little, Brown; 1967) at p. 190.

11 Nicoll, op. cit.