ger.]

[Footnote 47: He edited successively The Daily Telegraph and The Morning
Advertiser, wrote plays and published several volumes of poetry. He
began The Career of R. F. Burton, and got as far as 1876.]

[Footnote 48: City of the Saints, P. 513.]

[Footnote 49: Short died 31st May 1879, aged 90.]

[Footnote 50: In Thomas Morton's Play Speed the Plough, first acted in 1800.]

[Footnote 51: Grocers.]

[Footnote 52: Life, i. 81.]

[Footnote 53: Or so he said. The President of Trinity writes to me: "He was
repaid his caution money in April 1842. The probability is that he was
rusticated for a period." If so, he could have returned to Oxford after
the loss of a term or two.]

[Footnote 54: He died 17th November 1842, aged 65.]

[Footnote 55: Robert Montgomery 1807-1855.]

[Footnote 56: "My reading also ran into bad courses--Erpenius, Zadkiel,
Falconry, Cornelius Agrippa"--Burton's Autobiographical Fragment.]

[Footnote 57: Sarah Baker (Mrs. Francis Burton), Georgiana Baker (Mrs.
Bagshaw).]

[Footnote 58: Sind Revisited. Vol. ii. pp. 78-83.]

[Footnote 59: 5th May 1843. He was first of twelve.]

[Footnote 60: "How," asked Mr. J. F. Collingwood of him many years after, "do
you manage to learn a language so rapidly and thoroughly?" To which he
replied: "I stew the grammar down to a page which I carry in my
pocket. Then when opportunity offers, or is made, I get hold of a
native--preferably an old woman, and get her to talk to me. I follow her
speech by ear and eye with the keenest attention, and repeat after her
every word as nearly as possible, until I acquire the exact accent of
the speaker and the true meaning of the words employed by her. I do not
leave her before the lesson is learnt, and so on with others until my
own speech is indistinguishable from that of the native."--Letter from
Mr. Collingwood to me, 22nd June 1905.]

[Footnote 61: The Tota-kahani is an abridgment of the Tuti-namah (Parrot-book)
of Nakhshabi. Portions of the latter were translated into English verse
by J. Hoppner, 1805. See also Anti-Jacobin Review for 1805, p. 148.]

[Footnote 62: Unpublished letter to Mr. W. F. Kirby, 8th April 1885. See also
Lib. Ed. of The Arabian Nights, viii., p. 73, and note to Night V.]

[Footnote 63: This book owes whatever charm it possesses chiefly to the
apophthegms embedded in it. Thus, "Even the gods cannot resist a
thoroughly obstinate man." "The fortune of a man who sits, sits also."
"Reticenc