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nd booksellers' catalogues, I know not. But if she is, I trust I have done her accomplished shade no wrong. AN EASTERN APOLOGUE.--Page 43. The initials "E. H. P." are those of the late eminent (and ill-fated) Orientalist, Professor Palmer. As my lines entirely owed their origin to his translations of Zoheir, I sent them to him. He was indulgent enough to praise them warmly. It is true he found anachronisms; but as he said these would cause no disturbance to orthodox Persians, I concluded I had succeeded in my little _pastiche_, and, with his permission, inscribed it to him. I wish now that it had been a more worthy tribute to one of the most erudite and versatile scholars this age has seen. A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC.--Page 48. "373. St. Pierre (Bernardin de), _Paul et Virginie_, 12mo, old calf. Paris, 1787. This copy is pierced throughout by a bullet-hole, and bears on one of the covers the words: '_a Lucile St. A.... chez M. Batemans, a Edmonds-Bury, en Angleterre_,' very faintly written in pencil." (Extract from Catalogue.) "_Did she wander like that other?_"--Page 50. Lucile Desmoulins. See Carlyle's _French Revolution_, Vol. iii. Book vi. Chap. ii. "_And its tender rain shall lave it._"--Page 52. It is by no means uncommon for an editor to interrupt some of these revolutionary letters by a "Here there are traces of tears." "_By 'Bysshe,' his epithet._"--Page 81. i.e. _The Art of English Poetry_, by Edward Bysshe, 1702. THE BOOK-PLATE'S PETITION.--Page 87. These lines were reprinted from _Notes and Queries_ in Mr. Andrew Lang's instructive volume _The Library_, 1881, where the curious will find full information as to the enormities of the book-mutilators. "_Have I not writ thy Laws?_"--Page 93. The lines in italic type which follow, are freely paraphrased from the ancient _Code d' Amour_ of the XIIth Century, as given by Andre le Chapelain himself. A DIALOGUE, ETC.--Page 107. This dialogue, first printed in _Scribner's Magazine_ for May, 1888, was afterwards read by Professor Henry Morley at the opening of the Pope Loan Museum at Twickenham (July 31st), to the Catalogue of which exhibition it was prefixed. "_The 'crooked Body with a crooked Mind.'_"--Page 108. "Mens curva in corpore curvo." Said of Pope by Lord Orrery. "_Neither as Locke was, nor as Blake._"--Page 115. The Shire Hall at Taunton, where these verses were read at the unveil
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