{1} Macmillan & Co.
{7} To the present writer, as to others, _The Lover’s Tale_ appeared to
be imitative of Shelley, but if Tennyson had never read Shelley, _cadit
quæstio_.
{16} F. W. H. Myers, _Science and a Future Life_, p. 133.
{39} The writer knew this edition before he knew Tennyson’s poems.
{50} The author of the spiteful letters was an unpublished anonymous
person.
{58} The Lennox MSS.
{62} Spencer and Gillen, _Natives of Central Australia_, pp. 388, 389.
{65} _Tennyson_, _Ruskin_, _and Mill_, pp. 11, 12.
{66} _Life_, p. 37, 1899.
{72} Poem omitted from _In Memoriam_. _Life_, p. 257, 1899.
{74} Mr Harrison, _Tennyson_, _Ruskin_, _and Mill_, p. 5.
{112} The English reader may consult Mr Rhys’s _The Arthurian Legend_,
Oxford, 1891, and Mr Nutt’s _Studies of the Legend of the Holy Grail_,
which will direct him to other authorities and sources.
{113} I have summarised, with omissions, Miss Jessie L. Watson’s sketch
in _King Arthur and his Knights_. Nutt, 1899. The learning of the
subject is enormous; Dr Sommer’s _Le Mort d’Arthur_, the second volume
may be consulted. Nutt, 1899.
{129a} Βέλενος and Βήληνος. He is referred to in inscriptions, _e.g._
Berlin, _Corpus_, iii. 4774, V. 732, 733, 1829, 2143–46; xii. 405. See
also Ausonius (Leipsic, 1886, pp. 52, 59), cited by Rhys, _The Arthurian
Legend_ p. 159, note 4.
{129b} Brebeuf; _Relations des Jésuites_, 1636, pp. 100–102.
{139} Malory, xviii. 8 _et seq._
{196} Notices et Extraits des MSS. de la Bibliothèque Impériale, I. xix.
pp. 643–645.
{218} See the _Life_, 1899, p. 521.