Line 762. There's plenty of the sort. Here will Mr. Gifford allow me to introduce once more to his notice the sole survivor, the ultimus Romanorum,' the last of the Cruscanti! - Edwin' the profound,' by our Lady of Punishment! here he is, as lively as in the days of well said Baviad the Correct.' I thought Fitzgerald had been the tail of poesy; but, alas! he is only the penultimate.

A FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING

CHRONICLE.

WHAT reams of paper, floods of ink,'
Do some men spoil, who never think!
And so perhaps you 'll say of me,
In which your readers may agree.
Still I write on, and tell you why;
Nothing 's so bad, you can't deny,
But may instruct or entertain

Without the risk of giving pain, etc., etc.

ON SOME MODERN QUACKS AND REFORMISTS. IN tracing of the human mind

Through all its various courses, Though strange, 't is true, we often find It knows not its resources:

And men through life assume a part
For which no talents they possess,
Yet wonder that, with all their art,

They meet no better with success, etc., etc.

Page 268, line 822. Budgell's story. [Eustace Budgell (1686-1737), the friend of Addison, drowned himself in the Thames.] On his table were found these words: What Cato did, and Addison approved, cannot be wrong.'

Page 268, line 22. Their murder'd sage's latest day. Socrates drank the hemlock a short time before sunset.

Page 269, line 44. The gay kiosk. The kiosk is a Turkish summer-house; the palm is without the present walls of Athens, not far from the temple of Theseus, between which and the tree the wall intervenes.

Page 270, line 122. When Venus half avenged Minerva's shame.' His lordship's name, and that of one who no longer bears it, are carved conspicuously on the Parthenon; above, in a part not far distant, are the torn remnants of the basso-relievos, destroyed in a vain attempt to remove them. [Lord Elgin was divorced from his first wife.]

Line 178. And own himself an infant of fourscore. Mr. West, on seeing the Elgin Collection' (I suppose we shall hear of the Abershaw' and Jack Shephard' collection), declared himself a mere tyro' in art.

Page 271, line 182. His lordship's 'stone shop. Poor Cribb was sadly puzzled when the marbles were first exhibited at Elgin House: he asked if it was not a stone shop?' He was right; it is a shop.

Line 203. Eratostratus. [For notoriety he set fire to the temple of Artemis of the Ephesians.] Line 213. Look to the Baltic. [Copenhagen was bombarded by the English in September, 1807.]

Line 221. Look to the East.' [Rebellions occurred in India, in 1809 and 1810.]

Line 231. Barossa. [At the battle of Barossa, March 5, 1811, the Spaniards gave no assistance to their English allies. The contingent of Portuguese, however, took part in the engagement.] Line 245. 'Blest paper credit.'

'Blest paper credit! last and best supply, That lends Corruption lighter wings to fly !' - POPE. Page 272, line 264. And pirates barter all that's left behind. The Deal and Dover Traffickers in specie.

Page 273, line 1. Muse of the many-twinkling feet!

'Glance their many-twinkling feet.'- GRAY. Line 21. On Hounslow's heath to rival Wellesley's fame. In August, 1811, a duel was fought on Hounslow's heath between Lord Kilworth and Lord Mornington, a nephew of the Duke of Wellington. Rumor connected the quarrel with Lord Mornington's skill in dancing.]

Page 274, line 25. The flow of Busby or of Fitz. [Among the addresses sent in to the Drury Lane Committee was one by Dr. Busby, which began by asking

When energising objects men pursue,

What are the prodigies they cannot do?' Thomas Busby (1755-1838), author of The Age of Genius, A Satire, etc. - Fitz, see English Bards, v. 1, and note.]

Line 60. From Hamburg's port. [After the fall of Hamburg, in 1810, the northern mails came from Gothenberg or Heligoland. Byron was never tired of satirizing the military gazettes.]

Line 75. Meiner's four volumes upon womankind. History of the Female Sex, by Christopher Meiners.]

Lines 77, 78. Brunck Heyne. [Well-known classical scholars and editors.]

Page 275, line 127. Egypt's Almas. Dancing girls who do for hire what Waltz doth gratis.

Line 142. Goats in their visage. It cannot be complained now, as in the Lady Baussière's time, of the Sieur de la Croix,' that there be 'no whiskers;' but how far these are indications of valour in the field, or elsewhere, may still be questionable.

Line 151. Though gentle Genlis, in her strife with Staël. [Madame Genlis, commenting on the waltz, writes, as a foreigner, I shall not take the liberty to censure this kind of dance; but this I can say, that it appears intolerable to German writers of superior merits who are not accused of severity of manners.'- Quoted by E. H. Coleridge.]

Page 276, line 162. The court, the Regent, like herself were new. An anachronism - Waltz and the battle of Austerlitz are before said to have opened the ball together: the bard means, (if he means any thing,) Waltz was not so much in vogue till the Regent attained the acme of his popularity. Waltz, the comet, whiskers, and the new government illuminated heaven and earth, in all their glory, much about the

same time; of these the comet only has disappeared; the other three continue to astonish us still.-Printer's Devil.

Line 166. New coins. Amongst others a new ninepence a creditable coin now forthcoming, worth a pound, in paper, at the fairest calculation.

Line 168. Jenky. [Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool, Secretary at War and for the Colonies from 1809 to 1812.]

Line 177. My what say you? The gentle, or ferocious, reader may fill up the blank as he pleases there are several dissyllabic names at his service, (being already in the Regent's): it would not be fair to back any peculiar initial against the alphabet, as every month will add to the list now entered for the sweepstakes: distinguished consonant is said to be the favorite, much against the wishes of the knowing ones.

-a

Line 211. If nothing follows all this palming work? In Turkey a pertinent, here an impertinent and superfluous, question-literally put, as in the text, by a Persian to Morier, on seeing a waltz in Pera- Vide Morier's Travels.

Page 277, line 11. The Row.' [Paternosterrow, celebrated for its booksellers.]

Line 25. Refreshing.' [This cant phrase was first used in the Edinburgh Review-probably by Mr. Jeffrey, says the early editor. a perfectly legitimate use of the word.]

It is

Page 278, line 68. If you and she marry you'll certainly wrangle. [Lady Byron was a student of mathematics. Compare Don Juan, I. xvi. ff.]

Page 279, line 123. Renegade's epics, and Botherby's plays. [Southey and Sotheby. William Sotheby (1757-1835), author of Poems (1790), besides numerous tragedies and translations, was a prominent social figure and member of the Dilettante Society. Byron wrote of him that he has imitated everybody, and occasionally surpassed his models."]

Line 125. The Old Girl's Review. ['My Grandmother's Review, the British.']

Page 280, line 156. Sic me servavit Apollo.' [The closing words of Horace's Satire I. ix.

Sotheby is a good man- - rhymes well (if not wisely); but is a bore. He seizes you by the button. One night of a rout at Mrs. Hope's, he had fastened upon me- (something about Agamemnon, or Orestes, or some of his plays) notwithstanding my symptoms of manifest distress (for I was in love, and just nicked a minute when neither mothers, nor husbands, nor rivals, nor gossips were near my then idol, who was beautiful as the statues of the gallery where we stood at the time.) - Sotheby, I say, had seized upon me by the button and the heart-strings, and spared neither. William Spencer, who likes fun, and don't dislike mischief, saw my case, and coming up to us both, took me by the hand, and pathetically bade me farewell; for," said he," I see it is all over with you." Sotheby then went his way: "sic me servavit Apollo." BYRON Diary, 1821.]

Page 281, line 59. 'Tis one in the Stamps.' [Wordsworth was collector of stamps for Cumberland and Westmoreland.]

Line 63. I can have them at Grange's. Grange is or was a famous pastry-cook in Piccadilly.

Line 77. That the taste of the actors at best is so so. [When I belonged to the Drury Lane Committee, the number of plays upon the shelves were about five hundred. Mr. Sotheby obligingly offered us ALL his tragedies, and I pledged myself, and notwithstanding many squabbles with my committee brethren-did get Ivan accepted, read, and the parts distributed. But lo! in the very heart of the matter, upon some tepid-ness on the part of Kean, or warmth on that of the author, Sotheby withdrew his play.'-BYRON Diary, 1821.]

Page 282, line 80. And fear,' as the Greek says: for purging the mind.' [Aristotle's famous canon in the Poetics.]

Line 116. Sir George. [Sir George Beaumont, a constant friend of Mr. Wordsworth.]

Line 117. My Lord Seventy-four. [James, the first Earl of Lonsdale, offered to build, and completely furnish and man, a ship of seventyfour guns, towards the close of the American war.]

Line 119. The poet, who, singing of pedlers and asses. [Compare Don Juan,III. c.]

Page 283, lines 144, 145. Sir Humphry — Duke Humphry. [Sir Humphry Davy.]

Line 155. Miss Diddle. [Miss Lydia White, whose hospitable functions were open to the circle of London artists and literati. The name in the text must have been suggested by the jingling resemblance it bears to Lydia.]

Page 285, line 57. In the first year of freedom's second dawn. [George III. died the 29th of January, 1820, -a year in which the revolutionary spirit broke out all over the south of Europe.]

Page 286, line 92. Unless he left a German will. [Byron alludes to an idle story about George III., that he had secreted and destroyed the testament of George II.]

Page 287, line 157. St. Bartholomew. [Tradition states that he was flayed alive and then crucified head downwards.]

Page 288, line 216. By Captain Parry's crew, in Melville's Sound.' [See Captain Edward Parry's Voyage, in 1819-20, for the Discovery of a northwest passage. -'I believe it is almost impossible for words to give an idea of the beauty and variety which this magnificent phenomenon displayed. The luminous arch had broken into irregular masses, streaming with much rapidity in different directions, varying continually in shape and interest, and extending themselves from north, by the east, to north, etc.']

Line 224. Johanna Southcote. [The aged lunatic, who fancied herself, and was believed by many followers, to be with child of a new Messiah, died in 1815.]

Page 290, line 364. Apicius' board. [A noted epicure of the time of Augustus and Tiberius, and author of a cook book. Though very rich, he poisoned himself from fear of starving to death.]

Page 291, line 426. It being a sort of knighthood, or gilt key. [A gold or gilt key, peeping

from below the skirts of the coat, marks a lord chamberlain.]

Line 440. If that the summer is not too severe. [An allusion to Horace Walpole's expression in a letter the summer has set in with its usual severity."]

Page 294, line 609. Another, that he was a duke, or knight. [Among the various persons to whom the Letters of Junius have been attributed, we find the Duke of Portland, Lord George Sackville, Sir Philip Francis, Mr. Burke, Mr. Dunning, the Rev. John Horne Tooke, Mr. Hugh Boyd, Dr. Wilmot, etc.]

Page 295, line 667. Nominis Umbra.' [The motto of Junius is, Stat nominis umbra.]

Line 685. Skiddaw. [Southey's residence was on the shore of Derwentwater, near the mountain Skiddaw.]

Page 296, line 728. Non Di, non homines. [Non homines, non di, HORACE, Ars Poet., 372, thus translated by Martin:

But gods, and men, and booksellers refuse
To countenance a mediocre Muse.']

Line 736. Pye come again. [Henry James Pye, the predecessor of Southey in the poetlaureateship, died in 1813.]

Page 297, line 773. Pantisocracy. [The equal rule of all: the well-known utopian government which Coleridge, Southey, and others planned to establish in America.]

Line 779. Reviewing the ungentle craft,' See Life of Henry Kirke White.

Line 807. Like King Alfonso. [Alfonso X., 'The Wise' (1252-1284).] Alfonso, speaking of the Ptolomean system, said, that had he been consulted at the creation of the world, he would have spared the Maker some absurdities.'

Line 816. Off from his melodious twang.' See Aubrey's account of the apparition which disappeared with a curious perfume and a most melodious twang.' [In 1696 John Aubrey published Miscellanies, a collection of ghost stories.]

Page 298, lines 19, 20. A few feet Of sullen earth divide. [The grave of Fox, in Westminster Abbey, is within eighteen inches of that of Pitt.]

Line 31. Though Alexander's urn a show be grown. [A sarcophagus, of breccia, supposed to have contained the dust of Alexander, which came into the possession of the English army, in consequence of the capitulation of Alexandria, in February, 1802, was presented by George III. to the British Museum.]

Page 299, line 64. A surgeon's statement and an earl's harangues! [Mr. Barry O'Meara was surgeon to Napoleon at St. Helena. - The Earl of Bathurst defended the government in their treatment of Napoleon, which was assailed by Lord Holland in the House of Lords, in 1817.]

Line 65. A bust delay'd. [The bust of his son.] Line 69. The paltry gaoler. [Sir Hudson Lowe.]

Line 70. The staring stranger with his note-book nigh. [Captain Basil Hall's interesting account of his interview with the ex-emperor occurs in his Voyage to Loo-choo.]

Line 79. And the stiff surgeon, who maintain'd his cause. [O'Meara made charges that Sir Hudson Lowe had prompted him to poison Napoleon. Byron seems to have credited the accusation.]

Line 88. And higher worlds than this are his again. [Buonaparte died the 5th of May, 1821.]

Page 300, line 128. Like Guesclin's dust. [Guesclin, constable of France, died in the midst of his triumphs, before Châteauneuf de Randon, in 1380. The English garrison, which had conditioned to surrender at a certain time, marched out the day after his death; and the commander respectfully laid the keys of the fortress on the bier, so that it might appear to have surrendered to his ashes.]

Line 130. Like Ziska's drum. [John Ziska (1360-1424), a distinguished leader of the Hussites. It is recorded of him, that, in dying, he ordered his skin to be made the covering of a drum.]

Line 145. While the dark shades of forty ages stood. [At the battle of the pyramids, in July, 1798, Buonaparte said, 'Soldiers! from the summit of yonder pyramids forty ages behold you.']

Line 169. Moscow's minarets. [Referring to the attempt of Charles XII., in 1709, to reach Moscow.]

Page 301, line 203. Lutzen, where fell the Swede of victory. [Gustavus Adolphus fell at the battle of Lutzen, in 1632.]

Line 217. And thou Isle. [The Isle of Elba.] Line 227. Hear! hear Prometheus. I refer the reader to the first address of Prometheus in Eschylus.

Line 248. Freedom and peace to that which boasts his birth. [The celebrated motto on a French medal of Franklin was, Eripuit cælo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis.']

Page 303, line 359. Iago! and close Spain!' ['Santiago y serra España!' the old Spanish warcry.]

Line 369. Waving her more than Amazonian blade. [See note on the Maid of Saragossa, page 12, line 558.]

Line 378. But lo! a Congress! [The Congress of the Sovereigns of Russia, Austria, Prussia, etc., which assembled at Verona, in the autumn of 1822.]

Line 384. Henry. [Patrick Henry, of Virginia.]

Line 419. Whose old laurels yield to new. [Ippolito Pindemonte.]

Line 422. Thy good old man. [Claudian's famous old man of Verona, 'qui suburbium nunquam egressus est.']

Page 304, line 449. Pulks. [Lapland traveling sledges.]

Line 461. Many an old woman, but no Catherine. [The dexterity of Catherine extricated Peter (called the Great by courtesy), when surrounded by the Mussulmans on the banks of the river Pruth.]

Line 464. Fatal to Goths are Xeres' sunny fields. [At Xeres, in 711, Roderic, the last Gothic sovereign of Spain, was defeated by the Saracens.]

Naso suspendit adunco. HORACE, Satires. The Roman applies it to one who merely was imperious to his acquaintance.

Line 540. Pilots who have weather'd every storm.' [The Pilot that weather'd the storm' is the burthen of a song, in honor of Pitt, by Canning.]

Page 307, line 715. And subtle Greeks. [Count Capo d'Istrias, afterwards President of Greece.]

Page 308, line 730. The young Astyanax of modern Troy. [Napoleon François Charles Joseph, Duke of Reichstadt, died at the palace of Schönbrunn, July 22, 1832, having just attained his twenty-first year.]

Line 741. The martial Argus. [Count Neipperg, chamberlain and second husband to Maria Louisa, had but one eye.]

Line 768. She caught Sir William Curtis in a kilt![George the Fourth is said to have been somewhat annoyed, on entering the levee room at Holyrood (August, 1822) in full Stuart tartan, to see only one figure similarly attired (and of similar bulk) that of Sir William Curtis.]

Page 310, line 3. That tomb which, gleaming o'er the cliff. A tomb above the rocks on the promontory, by some supposed the sepulchre of Themistocles.

Line 22. Sultana of the nightingale. The attachment of the nightingale to the rose is a well-known Persian fable. If I mistake not, the Bulbul of a thousand tales' is one of his appellations.

Page 311, line 151. Slaves-nay, the bondsmen of a slave. Athens is the property of the Kislar Aga (the slave of the seraglio and guardian of the women), who appoints the Waywode. A pander and eunuch these are not polite, yet true appellations- - now governs the Governor of Athens!

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Page 312, line 225. Tophaike. Musket. The Bairam is announced by the cannon at sunset; the illumination of the Mosques, and the firing of all kinds of small arms, loaded with ball, proclaim it during the night.

Line 228. Rhamazani. [A month of fasting, followed by the Bairam.]

Line 251. Jerreed. Jerreed, or Djerrid, a blunted Turkish javelin, which is darted from horseback with great force and precision.

Page 313, line 355. Ataghan. The ataghan, a long dagger worn with pistols in the belt, in a metal scabbard, generally of silver; and, among the wealthier, gilt, or of gold.

Line 357. An Emir by his garb of green. Green is the privileged colour of the Prophet's numerous pretended descendants; with them, as here, faith (the family inheritance) is supposed to supersede the necessity of good works: they are the worst of a very indifferent brood.

Page 314, line 389. The insect-queen of eastern spring. The blue-winged butterfly of Kashmeer, the most rare and beautiful of the species. Line 423. Is like the Scorpion girt by fire. Alluding to the dubious suicide of the scorpion, so placed for experiment by gentle philosophers. Some maintain that the position of the sting, when turned towards the head, is merely a convulsive movement; but others have actually brought in the verdict Felo de se.'

Page 315, line 468. Phingari. The moon.

Line 479. Bright as the jewel of Giamschid. The celebrated fabulous ruby of Sultan Giamschid, the embellisher of Istakhar; from its splendour, named Schebgerag, the torch of night;' also 'the cup of the sun,' etc. [Compare the line in FitzGerald's Rubáiyát: And Jamshyd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows.']

Line 483. Though on Al-Sirat's arch I stood. Al-Sirat, the bridge of breadth, narrower than the thread of a famished spider, and sharper than the edge of a sword, over which the Mussulmans must skate into Paradise to which it is the only entrance; but this is not the worst, the river beneath being hell itself, into which, as may be expected, the unskilful and tender of foot contrive to tumble with a facilis descensus Averni' not very pleasing in prospect to the next passenger. There is a shorter cut downwards for the Jews and Christians.

Line 506. Franguestan! Circassia.
Page 316, line 568. Bismillah!

In the name of God; the commencement of all the chapters of the Koran but one, and of prayer and thanksgiving.

Line 571. Chiaus. [A Turkish messenger or interpreter.]

Line 593. Then curl'd his very beard with ire. A phenomenon not uncommon with an angry Mussulman. In 1809, the Capitan Pacha's whiskers at a diplomatic audience were no less lively with indignation than a tiger cat's, to the horror of all the dragomans.

Line 603. The craven cry, Amaun! Quarter, pardon.

Line 666. Palampore. The flowered shawls generally worn by persons of rank.

Page 317, line 717. Calpac. The solid cap or centre part of the head-dress; the shawl is wound round it, and forms the turban.

Line 734. Alla Hu!' The concluding words of the Muezzin's call to prayer from the highest gallery on the exterior of the Minaret.

Line 743. Their kerchiefs green they wave. The following is part of a battle-song of the Turks: 'I see I see a dark-eyed girl of Paradise, and she waves a handkerchief, a kerchief of green; and cries aloud, "Come, kiss me, for I love thee," etc.

Line 748. Monkir's scythe. Monkir and Nekir

are the inquisitors of the dead, before whom the corpse undergoes a slight novitiate and preparatory training for damnation. If the answers are none of the clearest, he is hauled up with a scythe and thumped down with a red-hot mace till properly seasoned, with a variety of subsidiary probations. The office of these angels is no sinecure; there are but two, and the number of orthodox deceased being in a small proportion to the remainder, their hands are always full. Page 318, line 787. Caloyer. [A monk, from the new Greek kaλóyepos, a good old man.]

Line 832. Dark and unearthly is the scowl. [The remaining lines, about five hundred in number, were, with the exception of the last sixteen, all added to the poem, either during its first progress through the press, or in subsequent editions.]

Page 322, line 1273. Symar. A shroud.

Page 323, line 1. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle. [These opening lines are supposed to have been suggested by Goethe's song in Wilhelm Meister: Kennst du das Land wo die citronen blühn.]

Line 8. Gul. The rose.

Page 324, line 72. With Mejnoun's tale. Mejnoun and Leila, the Romeo and Juliet of the East.

Line 73. Tambour. Turkish drum, which sounds at sunrise, noon, and twilight.

Page 325, line 144. He is an Arab to my sight. The Turks abhor the Arabs (who return the compliment a hundred-fold) even more than they hate the Christians.

Page 326, line 201. The line of Carasman. Carasman Oglou, or Kara Osman Oglou, is the principal landowner in Turkey; he governs Magnesia: those who, by a kind of feudal tenure, possess land on condition of service, are called Timariots: they serve as Spahis, according to the extent of territory, and bring a certain number into the field, generally cavalry.

Line 213. And teach the messenger what fate. When a Pacha is sufficiently strong to resist, the single messenger, who is always the first bearer of the order for his death, is strangled instead, and sometimes five or six, one after the other, on the same errand, by command of the refractory patient; if, on the contrary, he is weak or loyal, he bows, kisses the Sultan's respectable signature, and is bow-strung with great complacency.

Line 233. Chibouque. The Turkish pipe, of which the amber month-piece, and sometimes the ball which contains the leaf, is adorned with precious stones, if in possession of the wealthier orders

Line 235. Maugrabee. Moorish mercenaries. Line 236. Delis. Bravos who form the forlorn hope of the cavalry, and always begin the action.

Line 251. Ollahs. Ollahs,' Alla il Allah, the Leilies,' as the Spanish poets call them; the sound is Ollah; a cry of which the Turks, for a silent people, are somewhat profuse, particularly during the jerreed, or in the chase, but mostly in battle.

Page 327, line 358. Within the caves of Istakar. The treasures of the Pre-Adamite Sultans. Dee D'Herbelot, article Istakar.

Line 374. A Musselim's control. A governor, the next in rank after a Pacha; a Waywode is the third; and then come the Agas.

Line 375. Egripo. The Negropont. According to the proverb the Turks of Egripo, the Jews of Salonica, and the Greeks of Athens, are the worst of their respective races.

Page 328, line 449. Tchocadar. One of the attendants who precedes a man of authority.

Page 329, line 47. Which Ammon's son ran proudly round. [Before the invasion of Persia, Alexander, deeming himself a descendant of Achilles, placed garlands on the tomb of the latter, and ran naked around it.]

Line 65. The fragrant beads of amber. When rubbed, the amber is susceptible of a perfume, which is slight but not disagreeable.

Line 72. Comboloio. A Turkish rosary. Page 330, line 150. Galiongée. Galiongée" or Galiongi, a sailor, that is, a Turkish sailor; the Greeks navigate, the Turks work the guns.

Page 331, line 220. Paswan's rebel hordes. Paswan Oglou, the rebel of Widin, who, for the last years of his life, set the whole power of the Porte at defiance.

Line 232. They gave their horse-tails to the wind. Horse-tail, the standard of a Pacha.

Page 333, line 380. Lambro's patriots. Lambro Canzani, a Greek, famous for his efforts in 1789-90 for the independence of his country; abandoned by the Russians, he became a pirate, and the Archipelago was the scene of his enterprises. He and Riga are the two most celebrated of the Greek revolutionists.

Line 384. Rayahs. All who pay the capitation tax, called the 'Haratch.'

Line 388. Let me like the ocean-Patriarch roam. [Noah.]

Line 409. Aden. Jannat al Aden,' the perpetual abode, the Mussulman paradise.

Line 431. He makes a solitude, and calls it peace! [Translated from the famous words in Tacitus' Agricola.]

Page 335, line 618. And mourn'd above his turban stone. A turban is carved in stone above the graves of men only.

Line 627. The loud Wul-wulleh. The deathsong of the Turkish women. The silent slaves' are the men, whose notions of decorum forbid complaint in public.

Page 336, line 712. Into Zuleika's name. And airy tongues that syllable men's names.' - MILTON [Comus]. For a belief that the souls of the dead inhabit the form of birds, we need not travel to the East. Lord Lyttleton's ghost story, the belief of the Duchess of Kendal, that George I. flew into her window in the shape of a raven (see Orford's Reminiscence), and many other instances, bring this superstition nearer home.

Page 344, line 440. Of fair Olympia loved and left of old. Orlando Furioso, Canto x.

Page 347, line 33. The sober berry's juice. Coffee.