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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.