But the desire to comply with Fitzgerald's wish, that she would console his mother for the loss of an only child, and the dread of the anger of her relatives, determined her to persevere until they reached Lisbon, where she was resolved to separate for ever from the disagreeable and unknown guardian into whose keeping she had been thrown by chance.

HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR CHARLES FITZGERALD'S EXPEDITION TO THE GERALDINE LEAD MINE.

** HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR CHARLES FITZGERALD'S EXPEDITION TO THE GERALDINE LEAD MINE.

"I thought you wouldn't have much difficulty, for there are only two plantations on the island, this and Mr. Fitzgerald's.

He had several times seen a figure resembling Fitzgerald's lurking about the opera-house, wrapped in a cloak, and with a cap very much drawn over his face.

Early the next morning, Mr. Jacobs was sent out to ascertain the whereabouts of Mr. Fitzgerald's servants; and Mrs. Delano proposed that, during his absence, they should drive to The Pines, which she described as an extremely pleasant ride.

She beckoned him to come and open her carriage-door, and, speaking in a low voice, she said: "I want to ask you about a Spanish lady who used to live in a cottage, not far from Mr. Fitzgerald's plantation.

An agent arrived last night from Fitzgerald's plantation,he that married Bell's daughter, you know.

I had made arrangements to return to the North about that time; but Mrs. Fitzgerald's second son was seized with fever, and I stayed with her till he was dead and buried.

When I peeped at you in your bridal attire, I believed myself to be Mr. Fitzgerald's wife.

See also Fitzgerald's Charles Lamb, his Friends, his Haunts, and his Books.

Criticism: Gissing's Charles Dickens; Chesterton's Charles Dickens; Kitten's The Novels of Charles Dickens; Fitzgerald's The History of Pickwick.

[Footnote 200: See Fitzgerald's letter to Peel ("Peel's Memoirs," i., 114).]

Man's inability to solve these sovereign problems is nowhere more poetically expressed than in Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyam's Rubáiyát.

The Rubáiyát of Omay Khayyám, 48th quatrain, Edward Fitzgerald's translation.

APPENDIX Barton's "Spiritual Law" Barton's "Translation of Enoch" Talfourd's "Verses in Memory of a Child named after Charles Lamb" FitzGerald's "Meadows in Spring" Montgomery's "The Common Lot" Barry Cornwall's "Epistle to Charles Lamb" ALPHABETICAL LIST OF LETTERS INDEX FRONTISPIECE CHARLES LAMB (aged 51).

EDWARD FITZGERALD'S "THE MEADOWS IN SPRING" FROM HONE'S YEAR BOOK (See Letter 535, page 938) 'Tis a sad sight To see the year dying; When autumn's last wind Sets the yellow wood sighing; Sighing, oh sighing!

This volume has been most kindly placed at my disposal by Mr. W. Aldis Wright, FitzGerald's literary executor.

But in FitzGerald's copy there is a MS. note, not signed "G.C.," and therefore FitzGerald's own.

" FitzGerald's selections are made with the skill and judgment we should expect from a critic of so fine a taste, but it may be doubted whether any degree of skill could have quite atoned for one radical flaw in his method.

A work widely different from either of these, Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, shared and has probably exceeded their popularity for similar reasons.

On editing Scott Fitzgerald's papers.

Edward Fitzgerald's translation into English quatrains.

Stout was the steed that, bestridden by Godfrey O'Donnell at the battle of Credan-Kille, withstood the shock of Lord Maurice Fitzgerald's desperate onslaught, and by his steadiness enabled the Tyrconnell chieftain to strike senseless and unhorse his fierce Norman foe.

His letters show that this was not the seventh but the eighth; and Mr. Fitzgerald's conjecture, that the materials ultimately given to the world in the former volume were originally designed for another work, appears exceedingly probable.