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[0] The Coming of Love and Other Poems, by Theodore Watts-Dunton (John Lane).
[21] For an excellent summary of this doctrine, vide Introduction to Herbert Spencer, by W. H. Hudson.
[40] Thomas De Quincey, by H. S. Salt (Bell’s Miniature Biographies).
[48] De Quincey’s Life and Writings, p. 456, by A. H. Japp, LL.D.
[70] The gypsy word for Antonio.
[71] Devil.
[102] It is a peculiarly American trait. The same thing dominates Whitman. Saxon egotism and Yankee egotism are quite distinctive products.
[106] Thoreau, by H. A. Page.
[124a] Later Essays.
[124b] Introduction, The Letters of Robert Lents Stevenson.
[147] The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Walter Besant.
[149] Perhaps even more remarkable is the abnormal state of consciousness described in the “Ancient Sage.”
[151a] Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, by F. Max Müller.
[151b] Quoted by Professor William James, Varieties of Religions Experiences, p. 402.
[153a] Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 427.
[153b] Vide Richard Jefferies, by H. S. Salt.
[157a] The Life of the Fields, p. 72.
[157b] Curious similarity of thought here with Elia’s “popular fallacy,” though probably quite uninspired by Lamb. Jefferies was no great reader. It is said that he knew little or nothing of Thoreau.
[173] Vide Introduction to Borrow’s The Romany Rye, by Theodore Watts-Dunton.
[180] Familiar Studies of Men and Books, by R. L. Stevenson.
[186] Walt Whitman, a study, by J. A. Symonds.
[188] Walt Whitman, by William Clarke, p. 79.
[197] Vide Life of William Morris by J. W. Mackail.
[199] Robert Browning: Essays and Thought, by John T. Nettleship.
[204] The New Spirit, by Havelock Ellis.