Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Two Dialogues in Imitation of Johnson's Style of

Conversation— Dialogue I . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Dialogue II . . . . . . . . . . . 237 \ Recollections of Dr. Johnson by Miss Reynolds . . . . . 2 5o Anecdotes by William Seward . . . . . . . . 301 Anecdotes by George Steevens . . . . . . . . 312 Anecdotes from the Rev. Percival Stockdale’s Memoirs . . . 330 K“ A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson by Thomas Tyers . . 335 Narrative of the Last Week of Dr. Johnson’s Life by the Right Hon. William Windham . . . . . . . . . . 382

MINOR ANECDOTES—

By Robert Barclay . . . . . . . . . . 389 By H. D. Best . . . . . . . . . . . 390 By Sir Brooke Boothby . . . . . . . . . 391 By the Rev. W. Cole . . . . . . . . . 392 By William Cooke . . . . . . . . . . 393 From the European Magazine . . . . . . . 394 By Richard Green . . . . . . . . . . 397 By T. Green . . . . . . . . . . . 399 By Ozias Humphry . . . . . . . . . . 400 By Dr. Lettsom . . . . . . . . . . 402 From Croker’s Edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson . . . 403 By Dr. John Moore . . . . . . . . . . 408 By John Nichols . . . . . . . . . . 409 By the Rev. Mr. Parker . . . . . . . . . 413 By William Weller Pepys . . . . . . . . 416 By the Rev. Hastings Robinson . . . . . . . 417 By Mrs. Rose . . . . . . . . . . . 419 From Shaw’s History of Staffordshire . . . . . . 422 Adam Smith on Dr. Johnson . . . . . . . . 423 Dugald Stewart on Boswell’s Anecdotes . . . . . 42 5 From Gilbert Stuart’s History of the Rise of the Arts of Design in

the United States . . . . . . . . . 425 By the Rev. Richard Warner . . . . . . . . 426 By Mr. Wickins . . . . . . . . . . 427 Styan Thirlby, by Dr. Johnson . . . . . . . 43o