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• man," as he called him, drank his bottle of Bur-

' gundy, and was exceedingly gay and entertaining.' And as a footnote Boswell adds :

• Let me here express my grateful remembrance of

'Lord Somerville's kindness to me, at a very early

• period. He was the first person of high rank that
• took particular notice of me in the way most flatter-

' ing to a young man, fondly ambitious of being dis- ' tinguished for his literary talents ; and by the ' honour of his encouragement made me think well of '.myself, and aspire to deserve it better. He had a

• happy art of communicating his varied knowledge of
• the world, in short remarks and anecdotes, with a

' quiet pleasant gravity, that was exceedingly engag-

• ing. Never shall I forget the hours which I enjoyed
• with him at his apartments in the Royal Palace of
• Holyrood House, and at his seat near Edinburgh,
• which he himself had formed with an elegant

'taste.'* The vague guess is that this James, thirteenth Baron Somerville, had somewhere fallen in with an

• Boswell's Life of Johnson, Fitzgerald's edit. (London, 1874),

ii. p. 434.