Van Zeller had, in the first instance, been written to, in
my behalf, by Mrs. E. J. Burton.]

[Footnote 5: It is important to mention this because a few months ago a report
went the round of the newspapers to the effect that the tomb was in
ruins.]

[Footnote 6: See Chapter xvii.]

[Footnote 7: It is as if someone were to write "Allah is my shepherd, I shall
not want," &c., &c.,--here and there altering a word--and call it a new
translation of the Bible.]

[Footnote 8: See almost any 'Cyclopaedia. Of the hundreds of person with whom
I discussed the subject, one, and only one, guessed how matters actually
stood--Mr. Watts-Dunton.]

[Footnote 9: Between Payne and Burton on the one side and the adherents of E.
W. Lane on the other.]

[Footnote 10: At the very outside, as before stated, only about a quarter of
it can by any stretch of the imagination be called his.]

[Footnote 11: Burton's work on this subject will be remembered.]

[Footnote 12: 31st July 1905.]

[Footnote 13: See Chapters xxii. to xxix. and xxxv. He confessed to having
inserted in The Arabian Nights a story that had no business there. See
Chapter xxix., 136.]

[Footnote 14: Thus she calls Burton's friend Da Cunha, Da Gama, and gives
Arbuthnot wrong initials.]

[Footnote 15: I mean in a particular respect, and upon this all his friends
are agreed. But no man could have had a warmer heart.]

[Footnote 16: Particularly pretty is the incident of the families crossing the
Alps, when the children get snow instead of sugar.]

[Footnote 17: Particularly Unexplored Syria and his books on Midian.]

[Footnote 18: It will be noticed, too, that in no case have I mentioned where
these books are to be found. In fact, I have taken every conceivable
precaution to make this particular information useless except to
bona-fide students.]

[Footnote 19: I am not referring to "Chaucerisms," for practically they do
not contain any. In some two hundred letters there are three Chaucerian
expressions. In these instances I have used asterisks, but, really, the
words themselves would scarcely have mattered. There are as plain in the
Pilgrim's Progress.]

[Footnote 20: I have often thought that the passage "I often wonder... given
to the world to-day," contains the whole duty of the conscientious
biographer in a nutshell.]

[Footnote 21: Of course, after I had assured them that, in my opinion, the
portions to be used were entirely free from matter to which excepti