Part 59 (1/2)

[Footnote 612: Letter to Mr. Payne, 28th January 1890.]

[Footnote 613: As ingrained clingers to red tape and immobility.]

[Footnote 614: I give the anecdote as told to me by Dr. Baker.]

[Footnote 615: Letter of Mr. T. D. Murray to me 24th September 1904. But see Chapter x.x.xi. This paper must have been signed within three months of Sir Richard's death.]

[Footnote 616: On 28th June 1905, I saw it in the priest's house at Mortlake.

There is an inscription at the back.]

[Footnote 617: Alaeddin was prefaced by a poetical dedication to Payne's Alaeddin, ”Twelve years this day,--a day of winter dreary,” etc.]

[Footnote 618: See Chapter x.x.xiii., 156. Payne had declared that Cazotte's tales ”are for the most part rubbish.”

[Footnote 619: Mr. Payne's translation of The Novels of Matteo Bandello, six vols. Published in 1890.]

[Footnote 620: Now Professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge.]

[Footnote 621: 6th November 1889.]

[Footnote 622: Lib. Ed., vol. xii., p. 226.]

[Footnote 623: See Introduction by Mr. Smithers.]

[Footnote 624: 11th July 1905.]

[Footnote 625: We quote Lady Burton. Mr. Smithers, however, seems to have doubted whether Burton really did write this sentence. See his Preface to the Catullus.]

[Footnote 626: A Translation by Francis D. Bryne appeared in 1905.]

[Footnote 627: I am indebted to M. Carrington for these notes.]

[Footnote 628: Unpublished.]

[Footnote 629: Dr. Schliemann died 27th December, 1890.]

[Footnote 630: Not the last page of the Scented Garden, as she supposed (see Life, vol. ii., p. 410), for she tells us in the Life (vol. ii., p. 444) that the MS. consisted of only 20 chapters.]

[Footnote 631: Told me by Dr. Baker.]

[Footnote 632: Life, ii., 409.]

[Footnote 633: Communicated by Mr. P. P. Cautley, the Vice-Consul of Trieste.]

[Footnote 634: Asher's Collection of English Authors. It is now in the Public Library at Camberwell.]

[Footnote 635: She herself says almost as much in the letters written during this period. See Chapter x.x.xix., 177. Letters to Mrs. E. J. Burton.]

[Footnote 636: See Chapter x.x.xi.]

[Footnote 637: Letters of Major St. George Burton to me, March 1905.]