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[35]Cf. “Suggestions for Academic Reorganization.”

[46]The last three stanzas are by an eminent Anthropologist.

[48]Thomas of Ercildoune.

[66]A knavish publisher.

[88]Vous y verrez, belle Julie,Que ce chapeau tout maltraitéFut, dans un instant de folie,Par les Grâces même inventé.‘À Julie.’Essais en Prose et en Vers, par Joseph Lisle; Paris.  An. V. de la République.

[88]Vous y verrez, belle Julie,Que ce chapeau tout maltraitéFut, dans un instant de folie,Par les Grâces même inventé.

‘À Julie.’Essais en Prose et en Vers, par Joseph Lisle; Paris.  An. V. de la République.

[108]“I have broken many a pane of glass marked Cruel Parthenissa,” says the aunt of Sophia Western inTom Jones.

[194]N.B.  There is only one veracious statement in this ballade, which must not be accepted as autobiographical.

[196]These lines donotapply to Miss Annie P. (or Daisy) Miller, and her delightful sisters,Gades adituræ mecum, in the pocket edition of Mr. James’s novels, if ever I go to Gades.

[207]Tonatiu, the Thunder Bird; well known to the Dacotahs and Zulus.

[208a]The Hawk, in the myth of the Galinameros of Central California, lit up the Sun.

[208b]Pundjel, the Eagle Hawk, is the demiurge and “culture-hero” of several Australian tribes.

[208c]The Creation of Man is thus described by the Australians.

[209a]In Andaman, Thlinkeet, Melanesian, and other myths, a Bird is the Prometheus Purphoros; in Normandy this part is played by the Wren.

[209b]Yehl: the Raven God of the Thlinkeets.

[210a]Indra stole Soma as a Hawk and as a Quail.  For Odin’s feat as a Bird, seeBragi’s Tellingin the Younger Edda.

[210b]Pundjel, the Eagle Hawk, gave Australians their marriage laws.

[210c]Lubra, a woman; kobong, “totem;” or, to please Mr. Max Müller, “otem.”

[210d]The Crow was the Hawk’s rival.

[232]Lycaon, the first werewolf.


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