the Dover Cliffs, looked upon France. We could see the shores about as plain as if it were an English lake. Mounted the coach at half-past four, arrived in London at six.'-(Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal.)

XXXIV-XL

Poems (1807). The first and second were composed in September 1802, the third in 1803, and the fourth in 1806. The fifth is from the third stanza of the Thanksgiving Ode (1816). The sixth and seventh were 'composed or suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833,' and were published in Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems (1835).

XLI

From the Introduction to the first canto of Marmion (1808).

XLII-XLIII

The Snug Little Island, or The March of Invasion was first sung by 'Jew' Davis in The British Raft at Sadler's Wells on Easter Monday, 1797. Tune The Rogue's March.' The author's title for the next number (Last Lays, 1833) is A Soldier's Life.

XLIV

Poetical Works, vol. iii. (Longmans, 1838). This is number xxxiii. of the 'Inscriptions.'

XLV-XLVII

The first two were published with Gertrude of Wyoming (1809). The first (written at Altona during the winter of 1800-1) is based on a seventeenth-century song which Campbell used to sing. As to the second (written in 1805), I omit stanzas 5, 6, and 8, an improvement suggested by Mr. Henley. The third appeared in Theodoric and Other Poems (Longmans, 1824).

XLVIII

Songs and Poems (edited by Peter Cunningham, 1847).

XLIX-LI

The first is from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto iii. stanza 2, and canto iv. stanzas 8, 9, 10). The third canto was published in 1816, and the fourth in 1818. Byron left England-never to return -on April 24, 1816.

1. 22. The poet's body was sent home to England, and was buried in the family vault at Hucknall Torkard, near Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire.

32. The answer of the mother of Brasidas, the Spartan General, to the strangers who praised the memory of her son.

The second is from the third canto of Don Juan (1821).

The third is from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto iii. stanzas 21-28). The Duchess of Richmond's famous ball took place on June 15, 1815, the eve of Quatre Bras, at the Duke's house in the Rue de la Blanchisserie, Brussels.

20. Brunswick's fated chieftain. The Duke of Brunswick (17711815) was killed at Quatre Bras. His father, author of the famous manifesto against the French Republic (July 15, 1792), had fallen at Jena (1806).

54. Evan's-Donald's. Sir Evan Cameron (1629-1719) and his grandson Donald Cameron of Lochiel (1695-1748). The former fought at Killiecrankie (1689), and the latter, celebrated by Campbell in Lochiel's Warning, was wounded at Culloden (1746).

55. Ardennes. The general term is applied to the forest of Soignies, which at this time occupied the whole country between Brussels and Waterloo.

LII

First published (without the author's permission) in the Newry Telegraph (April 19, 1817), and reprinted in many other journals. Highly praised by Byron (1822)—' Such an ode as only Campbell could have written'-this poem was attributed to Byron himself, and claimed by many impostors. The question of authorship was settled in 1841 by the discovery of an autograph copy in a letter from Wolfe to a college friend.

LIII-LIV

Works, with a Memoir (7 vols., William Blackwood & Sons, 1839). Most of Mrs. Hemans' poems were first published in periodicals, such as The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and The

New Monthly Magazine. The latter was, for a time, edited by Thomas Campbell, not very successfully. The 'Author's Note' on the first number is as follows:-'It is supposed that war was anciently proclaimed in Britain by sending messengers in different directions through the land, each bearing a bended bow; and that peace was in like manner announced by a bow unstrung, and, therefore, straight.'

LV-LVI

The first (reprinted from Knight's Quarterly Magazine) was included in the 1848 edition of the Lays of Ancient Rome. It is dated 1832.

LVII-LVIII

Alma and other Poems (1855), and Poems (New Edition, 2 vols., Macmillan & Co., 1885). By permission of Mr. A. Chenevix Trench.

LIX

Last Poems (Smith, Elder & Co., 1862). This volume was published after the author's death. By permission of the publishers.

LX-LXVI

The first two appeared in Poems (2 vols., Edward Moxon, 1842). The third is from The Princess: a Medley (Edward Moxon, 1847). The fourth is from the lines entitled, To the Queen, forming the Dedication of the Seventh Edition of Poems (London: 1851). The fifth and sixth first appeared in The Examiner, in 1852; the former on January 31, and the latter on February 7. The seventh is from the Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, published separately in November 1852 (Edward Moxon), and reprinted with Maud (1855).

LXVII-LXVIII

The first appeared in The Examiner, December 9, 1854, and was reprinted with Maud (1855). Written on December 2nd, in a few minutes, after reading the description in The Times, in which occurred the phrase 'someone had blundered.' (Memoir, i. p. 381.) The second is from Maud.

LXIX

The Return of the Guards and Other Poems (Macmillan & Co., 1866). By permission of the publishers. The poem deals with an incident of the war with China (1860):-'Some Seiks (Sikhs) and a private of the Buffs (or East Kent Regiment) having remained behind with the grog-carts, fell into the hands of the Chinese. On the next morning they were brought before the authorities, and commanded to perform the Ko tou. The Seiks obeyed; but Moyse, the English soldier, declaring that he would not prostrate himself before any Chinaman alive, was immediately knocked upon the head, and his body thrown upon a dunghill.' Quoted by the author from The Times.

LXX-LXXI

Bells and Pomegranates (vii. 1845). The first was written in Italy. The second was written in pencil on the cover of an Italian book during Browning's first journey to Italy. He sailed in a merchant vessel from London to Trieste, and was the only passenger (1838). A letter from the poet to Miss Haworth gives an account of the voyage. (Life and Letters, edited by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, 2nd edition, p. 97.)

LXXII

Songs for Music (Routledge, 1856), a reprint of a series of songs from The Illustrated London News (1852-1855).

LXXIII-LXXIV

The first is from Songs in Absence (1852), and was probably composed during the author's voyage across the Atlantic. The second appears in Poems with Memoir by F. T. Palgrave (Macmillan & Co., 1862). By permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.

LXXV

Andromeda and Other Poems (1858). Written in 1854.

LXXVI

Edinburgh Courant, 1852.

1. 3. The Vengeur's crew. The Vengeur was sunk in Lord Howe's action against the French fleet on 'the glorious first of

June' (1794), off the coast of Brittany. For the final account of her sinking see Carlyle (Miscellanies—' Sinking of the Vengeur').

LXXVII

Ionica (George Allen, 1891). By permission of Mrs. Cory. The poem was written in 1861, and was privately printed in 1877. The 'School Fencibles' are the members of the Volunteer Corps of Eton College, whose grey uniform, with light-blue facings, is the 'meek attire of blue and grey' referred to in l. 10.

LXXVIII

Verses 1, 2, 4, and 9 of Hymn No. 143 in Hymns Ancient and Modern. By permission of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

LXXIX

Sonnets and Other Poems (A. & C. Black, 1900). By permission of author and publishers.

LXXX

Points of War (Bell & Daldy, 1855), and Wagers of Battle (Macmillan & Co., 1900). By permission of the author and Messrs. Macmillan.

LXXXI-LXXXII

Both from Visions of England (Macmillan & Co., 1881). By permission of the publishers.

1. 1. Isle of Roses. Within the temple of Athena at Lindus, in the island of Rhodes, Pindar's seventh Olympian Ode was engraved in golden letters.

40. Changing at the font. Alfred was god-father to Guthrun, the Danish leader, when baptized after his defeat at Ethandún (872).

LXXXIII

Balder (Smith & Elder, 1854).