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[35] Cf. “Suggestions for Academic Reorganization.”
[46] The last three stanzas are by an eminent Anthropologist.
[48] Thomas of Ercildoune.
[66] A knavish publisher.
[88] Vous y verrez, belle Julie,
Que ce chapeau tout maltraité
Fut, dans un instant de folie,
Par les Grâces même inventé.‘À Julie.’ Essais en Prose et en Vers, par Joseph Lisle; Paris. An. V. de la République.
[108] “I have broken many a pane of glass marked Cruel Parthenissa,” says the aunt of Sophia Western in Tom Jones.
[194] N.B. There is only one veracious statement in this ballade, which must not be accepted as autobiographical.
[196] These lines do not apply to Miss Annie P. (or Daisy) Miller, and her delightful sisters, Gades adituræ mecum, in the pocket edition of Mr. James’s novels, if ever I go to Gades.
[207] Tonatiu, the Thunder Bird; well known to the Dacotahs and Zulus.
[208a] The Hawk, in the myth of the Galinameros of Central California, lit up the Sun.
[208b] Pundjel, the Eagle Hawk, is the demiurge and “culture-hero” of several Australian tribes.
[208c] The Creation of Man is thus described by the Australians.
[209a] In Andaman, Thlinkeet, Melanesian, and other myths, a Bird is the Prometheus Purphoros; in Normandy this part is played by the Wren.
[209b] Yehl: the Raven God of the Thlinkeets.
[210a] Indra stole Soma as a Hawk and as a Quail. For Odin’s feat as a Bird, see Bragi’s Telling in the Younger Edda.
[210b] Pundjel, the Eagle Hawk, gave Australians their marriage laws.
[210c] Lubra, a woman; kobong, “totem;” or, to please Mr. Max Müller, “otem.”
[210d] The Crow was the Hawk’s rival.
[232] Lycaon, the first werewolf.