Mr. Watts-Dunton, the Earl of Crewe, and Dr. Richard Garnett
have also written enthusiastically of Mr. Payne's poetry.]

[Footnote 352: Of "The John Payne Society" (founded in 1905) and its
publications particulars can be obtained from The Secretary, Cowper
School, Olney. It has no connection with the "Villon Society," which
publishes Mr. Payne's works.]

[Footnote 353: See Chapter xi., 43.]

[Footnote 354: Dr. Badger died 19th February, 1888, aged 73.]

[Footnote 355: To Payne. 20th August 1883.]

[Footnote 356: No doubt the "two or three pages" which he showed to Mr.
Watts-Dunton.]

[Footnote 357: This is a very important fact. It is almost incredible, and yet
it is certainly true.]

[Footnote 358: Prospectuses.]

[Footnote 359: Its baths were good for gout and rheumatism. Mrs. Burton
returned to Trieste on September 11th.]

[Footnote 360: This is, of course, a jest. He repeats the jest, with
variation, in subsequent letters.]

[Footnote 361: The author wishes to say that the names of several persons are
hidden by the dashes in these chapters, and he has taken every care
to render it impossible for the public to know who in any particular
instance is intended.]

[Footnote 362: Of course, in his heart, Burton respected Lane as a scholar.]

[Footnote 363: Apparently Galland's.]

[Footnote 364: Mr. Payne's system is fully explained in the Introductory Note
to Vol. i. and is consistently followed through the 13 volumes
(Arabian Nights, 9 vols.; Tales from the Arabic, 3 vols.; Alaeddin and
Zein-ul-Asnam, i vol.).]

[Footnote 365: One of the poets of The Arabian Nights.]

[Footnote 366: See Chapter iii. 11.]

[Footnote 367: He published some of this information in his Terminal Essay.]

[Footnote 368: Perhaps we ought again to state most emphatically that Burton's
outlook was strictly that of the student. He was angry because he had,
as he believed, certain great truths to tell concerning the geographical
limits of certain vices, and an endeavour was being made to prevent him
from publishing them.]

[Footnote 369: Burton's A. N. vi., 180; Lib. Ed. v., 91, The Three Wishes, or
the Man who longed to see the Night of Power.]

[Footnote 370: The Lady and her Five Suitors, Burton's A. N., vi., 172; Lib.
Ed., v., 83; Payne's A. N., v., 306. Of course Mr. Payne declined to do
this.]

[Footnote 371: Possibly this was merely pantomime. Besant, in his Life of
Palmer, p. 322, assumes that Matr Nassar, or Meter,