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JOSEPH WOODFALL EBSWORTH.

His godfather Woodfall—His father becomes a bookseller in Edinburgh—Young Ebsworth's recollections of Scott, O'Connell, and Queen Victoria's first visit to Edinburgh—Exhibits his views of Edinburgh at the Scottish Academy—Death of Hugh Miller—Ebsworth contributes to Hogg's Instructor and Bradshaw's Magazine—Goes to Glasgow School of Design—Goes to Cambridge—Friendships with Ellicott, Kingsley, and others—His ordination—Buries an unbaptized child—Wins the hearts of the gipsies—His marriage—Becomes Vicar of Molash—His friend John Muir Wood—Retires from Molash and devotes himself to Ballad history—Death of his wife—His 'Cavalier Lyrics'—His death—His love for his father and mother—His connexion with the Hill family—Ebsworth on Rossetti, Byron, F. W. Robinson, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Hazlitt, 'Astarte,' Mrs. Oliphant, George Gilfillan, Omar Khayyam, and the Brontës—Letters from the Brontës' father—Ebsworth on Macaulay—Contributions to the 'Dictionary of National Biography' Star and Garter dinner—Dedicates 'Roxburghe Ballads' to Queen —Halliwell-Phillipps—J. P. Collier—Bibliography—His MSS.—Last words