The Briton expired in February 1763, and again Smollett under took such tasks as a universal gazetteer and a translation of Vol taire in 38 volumes. In April, however, his only daughter died at the age of fifteen, and, over-wrought from sedentary strain, he fol lowed the advice of his wife and made two years' sojourn abroad, mainly upon the Riviera, which Smollett turned to such excellent purpose in his Travels (1766), remarkable alike for their acidity and for their insight. On his arrival from Italy, where he had provided material for Sterne's portrait of the distressful "Smel fungus," Smollett seemed to be getting over his pulmonic com plaint. But his health was thoroughly undermined, and a neglected ulcer helped to sap his strength. He resolved on a summer journey to Scotland, and when he proceeded to Bath in 1766 his complaint at last took a turn for the better.
In 1768 he was again in London, and with a return of his vital energy came a recrudescence of the old savagery. The His tory and Adventures of an Atom is a clever, but coarse Rabel aisian satire upon the conduct of public affairs in England from the Seven Years' War to the date of publication. He lashes out on all sides without fear or favour. In 1769 he settled at Pisa and then near Antignano, near Leghorn, where during the autumn of 1770, he wrote Humphrey Clinker, in the form of itinerant letters. The character drawing, though still caustic, seems riper
and more matured. He died at Leghorn on Sept. 17, 1771, and was buried there in the old English cemetery.
The chief collective editions are as follows : 6 vols., Edinburgh, a790; 6 vols., London, 1796, with R. Anderson's Memoir; Works, ed. J. Moore, 1797 (re-edited J. P. Browne, 8 vols., 5872) ; Works, ed. Henley and Seccombe (12 vols., 1899-1902). To which must be added a one-volume Miscellaneous Works, ed. Thomas Roscoe (1841) ; Se lected Works (with a life by David Herbert) (Edinburgh, 187o) ; Ballantyne's edition of the Novels with Scott's memoir (2 vols., 1821) ; and G. Saintsbury's edition of the Novels (12 vols., 1895). There are Lives by Robert Chambers (1867), David Hannay (1887) and 0. Smeaton (1897). Additional information of recent date will be found in the article on Smollett in the Dict. Nat. Biog., Masson's British Novelists, H. Graham's Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Cen tury, Blackwood's Mag. for May 19oo; and the introduction to Smol lett's Travels through France and Italy (World's Classics, 1907). See also H. S. Buck, A Study in Smollett, Chiefly Peregrine Pickle (New Haven, 1925) ; L. Melville, Life and Letters of Tobias Smollett, 1721 71 (5926) H. S. Buck, Smollett as Poet (1927).