itzGerald. I am positive that
Burton never read Omar Khayyam before 1859, and I doubt whether he ever
read the original at all.]

[Footnote 332: For example:-- "That eve so gay, so bright, so glad, this morn
so dim and sad and grey;
Strange that life's Register should write this day a day, that
day a day."

Amusingly enough, he himself quotes this as from Hafiz in a letter to
Sir Walter Besant. See Literary Remains of Tyrwhitt Drake, p. 16. See
also Chapter ix.]

[Footnote 333: We use the word by courtesy.]

[Footnote 334: See Life, ii., 467, and end of 1st volume of Supplemental
Nights. Burton makes no secret of this. There is no suggestion that they
are founded upon the original of Omar Khayyam. Indeed, it is probable
that Burton had never, before the publication of The Kasidah, even heard
of the original, for he imagined like J. A. Symonds and others, that
FitzGerald's version was a fairly literal translation. When, therefore,
he speaks of Omar Khayyam he means Edward FitzGerald. I have dealt with
this subject exhaustively in my Life of Edward FitzGerald.]

[Footnote 335: Couplet 186.]

[Footnote 336: Preserved in the Museum at Camberwell. It is inserted in a copy
of Camoens.]

[Footnote 337: Italy having sided with Prussia in the war of 1866 received as
her reward the long coveted territory of Venice.]

[Footnote 338: Born 1844. Appointed to the command of an East Coast expedition
to relieve Livingstone, 1872. Crossed Africa 1875.]

[Footnote 339: "Burton as I knew him," by V. L. Cameron.]

[Footnote 340: Nearly all his friends noticed this feature in his character
and have remarked it to me.]

[Footnote 341: The number is dated 5th November 1881. Mr. Payne had published
specimens of his proposed Translation, anonymously, in the New Quarterly
Review for January and April, 1879.]

[Footnote 342: This was a mistake. Burton thought he had texts of the whole,
but, as we shall presently show, there were several texts which up to
this time he had not seen. His attention, as his letters indicate, was
first drawn to them by Mr. Payne.]

[Footnote 343: In the light of what follows, this remark is amusing.]

[Footnote 344: See Chapter xxiii, 107.]

[Footnote 345: In the Masque of Shadows.]

[Footnote 346: New Poems, p. 19.]

[Footnote 347: The Masque of Shadows, p. 59.]

[Footnote 348: Published 1878.]

[Footnote 349: New Poems, p. 179.]

[Footnote 350: Published 1871.]

[Footnote 351: