Part 54 (1/2)

[Footnote 374: Burton's Report and Besant's Life of Palmer, p 328]

[Footnote 375: See Chapter vi, 22]

[Footnote 376: Pals in Hafiz Till be found in that well-known Bibelot, Persian Love Songs]

[Footnote 377: There were two editions of Mr Payne's Villon Burton is referring to the first]

[Footnote 378: Augentleman's house]

[Footnote 379: We have altered this anecdote a little so as to prevent the possibility of the blanks being filled up]

[Footnote 380: That which is knowable]

[Footnote 381: Let it be ree) printed by private subscription and for private circulation only and was lih price Consequently the as never in the hands of the general public]

[Footnote 382: This was a favourite saying of Burton's We shall run against it elsewhere See Chapter xxxiv, 159 Curiously enough, there is a sihteen years previous, and still unpublished]

[Footnote 383: Practically there was only the wearisoarbled, incomplete and incorrect translation by Dr Weil]

[Footnote 384: The Love of Jubayr and the Lady Budur, Burton's A N iv, 234; Lib Ed, iii, 350; Payne's A N, iv, 82]

[Footnote 385: Three vols, 1884]

[Footnote 386: The public were to some extent justified in their attitude

They feared that these books would find their way into the hands of others than bona fide students Their fears, however, had no foundation

In all the libraries visited by enuine student should see these books; and, of course, they are not purchasable anywhere except at prices which none but a student, obliged to have the]

[Footnote 387: He married in 1879, Ellinor,of Jaie, Forfarshi+re, and daughter of Ad]

[Footnote 388: Early Ideas by an Aryan, 1881 Alluded to by Burton in A N, Lib Ed, ix, 209, note]

[Footnote 389: Persian Portraits, 1887 ”My friend Arbuthnot's pleasant booklet, Persian Portraits,” A N Lib Ed x, 190]

[Footnote 390: Arabic Authors, 1890]

[Footnote 391: In Kalidasa's Megha Duta he is referred to as riding on a peacock]

[Footnote 392: Sir William Jones The Gopia correspond with the Roman Muses]

[Footnote 393: The reader will recall Mr Andrew Lang's witty rehts]

[Footnote 394: Kalyana Mull]

[Footnote 395: The hand of Burton betrays itself every here and there Thus in Part 3 of the former we are referred to his Vikra the Gandharva-vivaha fore See Memorial Edition, p 21]

[Footnote 396: This Goddess is adored as the patroness of the fine arts See ”A Hymn to Sereswaty,” Poetical Works of Sir William Jones, Vol ii, p 123; also The Hindoo Pantheon, by Major Moor (Edward FitzGerald's friend)]