(22) The fifth volume of " The “Diary” concludes with Fanny’s marriage to M. d’Arblay.  The seven volumes of the original edition were published at intervals, from 1842 to 1846. -Ed.

(23) The rumour was probably not far from correct.  “Camilla” was published by subscription, at one guinea the set, and the subscribers numbered over eleven hundred.  Four thousand copies were printed, and three thousand five hundred were sold in three months.  Within six weeks of its pEublication, Dr. Burney told Lord Orford that about two thousand pounds had already been realized.-Ed.

(24) Fanny’s tragedy of “Edwy and Elgiva”, written during the period of her slavery at court, was produced by Sheridan at Drury-lane in March, 1795.  It proved a failure, although the leading parts were plaved by Kemble and Mrs. Siddons.  This tragedy, which was never published, is occasionally referred to in her letters of that year.  See also an article by Mr. E. S. Shuckburgh, in “Macmillan’s Magazine” for February, 1896. -Ed.

(25) We find it difficult to understand Macaulay’s estimate of “The Wanderer.”  Later critics appear, in general, to have echoed Macaulay without being at the pains of reading the book.  If it has not the naive freshness of “Evelina,” nor the sustained excellence of style of “Cecilia,” “The Wanderer” is inferior to neither in the “exhibition of human passions and whims.”  The story is interesting and full of variety; the characters live, as none but the greatest novelists have known how to make them.  In Juliet, Fanny has given us one of her most fascinating heroines, while her pictures of the fashionable society of Brighthelmstone are distinguished by a force and vivacity of satire which she has rarely surpassed. it is true that in both “The Wanderer” and “Camilla” we meet with occasional touches of that peculiar extravagance of style which disfigure, the “Memoirs of Dr. Burney,” but these passages, in the novels, are so comparatively inoffensive, and so nearly forgotten in the general power and charm of the story that we scarcely care to instance them as serious blemishes-ed.

(26) This criticism of Madame D’Arblay appears to us somewhat too sweeping.  It must be remembered that the persons of “one propensity,” instanced by Macaulay, are all to be found among the minor characters in her novels.  The circumstances, moreover, under which they are introduced, are frequently such as to render the display of their particular humours not only excusable, but natural.  But surely in others of her creations, in her heroines especially, she is justly entitled to the praise of having portrayed “characters in which no single feature is extravagantly overcharged."-Ed.

(27) this conjecture may be considered as finally disposed of by Dr. Johnson’s explicit declaration that he never saw one word of"Cecilia” before it was printed.-Ed.