{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 maltraité
Fut, 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 in _Tom Jones_.
{194} N.B. There is only one veracious statement in this ballade, which
must not be accepted as autobiographical.
{196} These lines do _not_ apply 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, see _Bragi’s Telling_ in 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.