12 October 1874 – 18 October 1874

C. : 'Dizzy the most ambitious of living men — was dreadfully unhappy in his time of obscurity ; believes in nothing whatever but success. Has undoubted toughness, the Jew quality — as Goethe noted. His novels worth little or nothing. His address to the young men of Glasgow almost as empty as if '* the people's William " had made it. Dizzy no humour, no love in his jesting. Even Swift had real humour, could really banter and enjoy a joke, the grimmest real humourist I know of. Gulliver merry reading.'