{1}This was written during the lifetime of Mr.Arnold and Mr.

Browning.

{2}Since this was written,Mr.Bridges has made his lyrics accessible in "Shorter Poems."(G.Bell and Sons:1890){3}Macmillans.

{4}Reynolds was,perhaps,a little irreverent.He anticipated Wordsworth's "Peter Bell"by a premature parody,"Peter Bell the First."{5}Appendix on Reynolds's "Peter Bell."

{6}"Aucassin and Nicolette"has now been edited,annotated,and equipped with a translation by Mr.F.W.Bourdillon (Kegan Paul &Trench,1887).

{7}Edinburgh,1862.

{8}The Elzevir piracy was rather earlier.

{9}Pindar,perhaps,in one of his fragments,suggested that pretty Cum regnat Rosa.

{10}See next letter.

{11}Mr.Munro calls the stone "a black agate,"and does not mention its provenance.The engraving in his book does no justice to the portrait.There is another gem representing Lucretius in the Vatican:of old it belonged to Leo X.The two gems are in all respects similar.A seal with this head,or one very like it,belonged to Evelyn,the friend of Mr.Pepys.