{1} This was written during the lifetime of Mr. Arnold and Mr. Browning.
{2} Since this was written, Mr. Bridges has made his lyrics accessible
in "Shorter Poems." (G. Bell and Sons: 1890)
{3} Macmillans.
{4} Reynolds was, perhaps, a little irreverent. He anticipated
Wordsworth's "Peter Bell" by a premature parody, "Peter Bell the First."
{5} Appendix on Reynolds's "Peter Bell."
{6} "Aucassin and Nicolette" has now been edited, annotated, and
equipped with a translation by Mr. F. W. Bourdillon (Kegan Paul & Trench,
1887).
{7} Edinburgh, 1862.
{8} The Elzevir piracy was rather earlier.
{9} Pindar, perhaps, in one of his fragments, suggested that pretty _Cum
regnat Rosa_.
{10} See next letter.
{11} Mr. Munro calls the stone "a black agate," and does not mention its
_provenance_. The engraving in his book does no justice to the portrait.
There is another gem representing Lucretius in the Vatican: of old it
belonged to Leo X. The two gems are in all respects similar. A seal
with this head, or one very like it, belonged to Evelyn, the friend of
Mr. Pepys.