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tum, to whom he is unknown, offers battle as one of the host of the Tartar King Afrasiab, to any champion of the Persian Kai Khosroo. The challenge is accepted by Rustum, who fights as a nameless knight (like Wilfrid of Ivanhoe at the Gentle and Joyous Passage of Ashby), and so becomes the unwitting slayer of his son. For the story of the pair the poet refers his readers to Sir John Malcom's _History of Persia_. See _Poems_, by Matthew Arnold (Macmillan), i. 268, 269. CX, CXI _Ionica_ (Allen, 1891). By permission of the Author. _School Fencibles_ (1861) was 'printed, not published, in 1877.' _The Ballad for a Boy_, Mr. Cory writes, 'was never printed till this year.' CXII By permission of the Author. This ballad, which was suggested, Mr. Meredith tells me, by the story of Bendigeid Vran, the son of Llyr, in the _Mabinogion_ (iii. 121-9), is reprinted from _Modern Love_ (1862), but it originally appeared (_circ._ 1860) in _Once a Week_, a forgotten print the source of not a little unforgotten stuff--as _Evan Harrington_ and the first part of _The Cloister and the Hearth_. CXIII From the fourth and last book of _Sigurd the Volsung_, 1877. By permission of the Author. Hogni and Gunnar, being the guests of King Atli, husband to their sister Gudrun, refused to tell him the whereabouts of the treasure of Fafnir, whom Sigurd slew; and this is the manner of their taking and the beginning of King Atli's vengeance. CXIV _English Illustrated Magazine_, January 1890, and _Lyrical Poems_ (Macmillan, 1891). By permission of the Author: with whose sanction I have omitted four lines from the last stanza. CXV By permission of Sir Alfred Lyall. _Cornhill Magazine_, September 1868, and _Verses Written in India_ (Kegan Paul, 1889). The second title is: _A Soliloquy that may have been delivered in India, June 1857_; and this is further explained by the following 'extract from an Indian newspaper':--'They would have spared life to any of their English prisoners who should consent to profess Mahometanism by repeating the usual short formula; but only one half-caste cared to save himself that way.' Then comes the description, _Moriturus Loquitur_, and next the poem. CXVI-CXVIII From _Songs before Sunrise_ (Chatto and Windus, 1877), and the third series of _Poems and Ballads_ (Chatto and Windus, 1889). By permission of the Author. CXIX, CXX _The Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte_ (Chatto a
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