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[Footnote 659: We have seen only the first volume. The second at the time we went to press had not been issued.]
[Footnote 660: See Chapter x.x.xiv.]
[Footnote 661: The Kama Shastra edition.]
[Footnote 662: See Chapter xxvi.]
[Footnote 663: She often used a typewriter.]
[Footnote 664: The same may be said of Lady Burton's Life of her husband. I made long lists of corrections, but I became tired; there were too many.
I sometimes wonder whether she troubled to read the proofs at all.]
[Footnote 665: His edition of Catullus appeared in 1821 in 2 vols. 12 mos.]
[Footnote 666: Poem 67. On a Wanton's Door.]
[Footnote 667: Poem 35. Invitation to Caecilius.]
[Footnote 668: Poem 4. The Praise of his Pinnance.]
[Footnote 669: Preface to the 1898 Edition of Lady Burton's Life of Sir Richard Burton.]
[Footnote 670: In her Life of Sir Richard, Lady Burton quotes only a few sentences from these Diaries. Practically she made no use of them whatever. For nearly all she tells us could have been gleaned from his books.]
[Footnote 671: In the church may still be seen a photograph of Sir Richard Burton taken after death, and the words quoted, in Lady Burton's handwriting, below. She hoped one day to build a church at Ilkeston to be dedicated to our Lady of Dale. But the intention was never carried out. See Chapter x.x.xi.]
[Footnote 672: See Chapter x.x.xvii, 172.]
[Footnote 673: It must be remembered that Canon Wenham had been a personal friend of both Sir Richard and Lady Burton. See Chapter x.x.xvi., 169.]
[Footnote 674: This letter will also be found in The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 722.]
[Footnote 675: All my researches corroborate this statement of Lady Burton's.
Be the subject what it might, he was always the genuine student.]
[Footnote 676: "It is a dangerous thing, Lady Burton," said Mr. Watts-Dunton to her, "to destroy a distinguished man's ma.n.u.scripts, but in this case I think you did quite rightly."
[Footnote 677: Miss Stisted, Newgarden Lodge, 22, Manor Road, Folkestone.]
[Footnote 678: 67, Baker Street, Portman Square.]
[Footnote 679: True Life, p. 415.]
[Footnote 680: Frontispiece to this volume.]
[Footnote 681: The picture now at Camberwell.]
[Footnote 682: Now at Camberwell.]
[Footnote 683: To Dr. E. J. Burton, 23rd March 1897.]
[Footnote 684: I think this expression is too strong. Though he did not approve of the Catholic religion as a whole, there were features in it that appealed to him.]
[Footnote 685: 14th January 1896, to Mrs. E. J. Burton.]
[Footnote 686: Sir Richard often used to chaff her about her faulty English and spelling. Several correspondents have mentioned this. She used to retort good-humouredly by flinging in his face some of his own shortcomings.]
[Footnote 687: Unpublished letter.]
[Footnote 688: Payne, i., 63. Burton Lib. Ed., i., 70.]
[Footnote 689: Unpublished letter.]
[Footnote 690: Lady Burton included only the Nights Proper, not the Supplementary Tales.]
[Footnote 691: The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, ii., 763.]
[Footnote 692: Holywell Lodge, Meads, Eastbourne.]
[Footnote 693: Left unfinished. Mr. Wilkins incorporated the fragment in The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton.]
[Footnote 694: Huxley died 29th June 1895.]
[Footnote 695: Mrs. FitzGerald died 18th January 1902, and is buried under the Tent at Mortlake. Mrs. Van Zeller is still living. I had the pleasure of hearing from her in 1905.]
[Footnote 696: She died in 1904.]
[Footnote 697: Or Garden of Purity, by Mirkhond. It is a history of Mohammed and his immediate successors.]
[Footnote 698: Part 3 contains the lives of the four immediate successors of Mohammed.]
[Footnote 699: Now Madame Nicastro.]
[Footnote 700: Letter of Miss Daisy Letchford to me. 9th August, 1905.]
[Footnote 701: See Midsummer Night's Dream, iii., 2.]
[Footnote 702: Close of the tale of "Una El Wujoud and Rose in Bud."
[Footnote 703: These lines first appeared in The New Review, February 1891. We have to thank Mr. Swinburne for kindly permitting us to use them.]
[Footnote 704: Two islands in the middle of the Adriatic.]
[Footnote 705: J.A.I. Journal of the Anthropological Inst.i.tute of Great Britain and Ireland.]
[Footnote 706: T.E.S.--Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London. New Series.]
[Footnote 707: A.R.--Anthropological Review.]
