liams_ and the tale of _Bluebeard_;" and Preface to
_Cloudesley_: "The present publication may in the same
sense be
denominated a paraphrase of the old ballad of the Children
in
the Wood."]

[79: Scott, Introduction to _The Abbot_, 1831.]

[80: _William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries_, 1876, vol.
ii.
p. 304.]

[81: _Caleb Williams_, ch. x.]

[82: _William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries_, vol. i.
pp.
330-1.]

[83: _Political Justice_, bk. ii, ch. ii.]

[84: _William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries_, vol. i.
pp.
330-1; Preface to 1st edition, 1799.]

[85: _Hermippus Redivivus_; or _The Sage's Triumph over Old Age
and
the Grave_ (translated from the Latin of Cohausen, with
annotations), 1743. Dr. Johnson pronounced the volume "very
entertaining as an account of the hermetic philosophy and as
furnishing a curious history of the extravagancies of the
human
mind," adding "if it were merely imaginary it would be
nothing at
all."]

[86: _St. Leon_, vol. iv. ch, xiii.]

[87: _St. Leon_, Bk. iv, ch. v.]

[88: _Lives of the Necromancers_, 1834, Preface. "The main purpose
of
this book is to exhibit a fair delineation of the credulity
of
the human mind. Such an exhibition cannot fail to be
productive
of the most salutary lessons."]

[89: _St. Godwin: A Tale of the 16th, 17th and 18th Century_, by
Count
Reginald de St. Leon, 1800, p. 234.]

[90: Dowden, _Life of Shelley_, vol. i. p. 10.]

[91: Dowden, _Life of Shelley_, vol. i. p. 44.]

[92: Hogg, _Life of Shelley_, vol. i. p. 15.]

[93: Cf. Castle of Lindenberg story in _The Monk_, and ballad of
Alonzo the Brave.]

[94: A versification of the story of the Wandering Jew, Bleeding
Nun
and Don Raymond in _The Monk_.]

[95: This poem was borrowed from Lewis's _Tales of Terror_
(without
Shelley's knowledge), where it is entitled _The Black Canon
of
Elmham, or St. Edmond's Eve_.]

[96: Letter to Edward Fergus Graham, Ap. 23, 1810 (_Letters_, ed.
Ingpen, 1909, vol. i, pp. 4-6).]

[97: Letter to John Joseph Stockdale, Nov. 14, 1810.]

[98: Mme. de Montolieu, _Caroline de Lichfield_, translated by
Thos.
Holcroft, 1786.]

[99: Mme. de Genlis, translated by Rev. Beresford, 1796.]

[100: Peter Middleton Darling, _Romance of the Highlands_, 1810.]

[101: Regina Maria Roche, _The Discarded Son, or The Haunt of the