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Child set in the midst by Modern Poets, The, 123
Child who will never grow old, The, 250
Children and Childhood. F. T.'s childhood, 5-14, 24, 98;
his child-likeness, 247, 249;
his ways with children, 74, 104, 114-17, 119, 251;
on the children of London, 79-82
Chisholm, Mr. Hugh, 140
Church, the, 202, 226, 322
Church Court (or Passage), Chancery Lane, 5, 68
"Clarendon" Reading Room, 68
Clarke, Fr. R. F., 85, 193
Clement, St., 222-3
Cobbe, Frances Power, 260-1
Cock, Mr. Albert, 201
Coleridge, F. T.'s early reading of, 10, 96, 161-2, 241;
affinities and analogies with F. T., 3, 47, 49, 56, 71 n., 94-5, 163, 241, 325, 340, 343-4;
and opium, 53;
as a poet, 127, 163-4;
quoted, 166, 179, 205
"Collecting" books, 62
Collins, 87
Colwyn Bay, 12-13, 44
Constable & Co., Messrs., 277
"Contemplation," 222
Contemporary Review, 136
Conversation, F. T.'s, 47, 62, 111, 253, 311-12, 314, 342, 349
Cooper, T. Fenimore, 16
Corbishly, Monsignor, 26
Corporal Punishment, 19-20
"Corymbus for Autumn, A," 137 n., 321, 342
EncyclopÆdia, an, 56
Enlistment, 56-7, 163
"Erotic" poet(!), F. T. as an, 3, 14 n., 124
Esotericism, 191-6, 223-4
Eternal punishment, 226
Etymologies, 159-60
Eve, the New, 194-5
Exercise-books, 32, 34, 104
Extinct animals, 37, 157
Failures, F. T.'s successive, 32-4, 54-6,
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Landladies, 274, 279-80, 317
Lane, Mr. John, 129, 135-6, 145, 184
Lang, Mr. Andrew, 136-7, 139, 165
Latin, 171
Latinisms, 33, 155-7
Laureateship, the, 233-4
Lecky, Mr. Walter, 137
Le Gallienne, Mr. Richard, 135-6, 141, 145, 149
Leo XIII., 283
Leonard Square, 250
Leslie, Mr. Shane, 91
Libraries, F. T. as a haunter of, 10, 16, 25, 27, 37, 47, 63
Light, 190, 238 n.
Light-heartedness, F. T.'s, 27-8, 77
Lilly, W. S., Century of Revolution, 124
"Lily of the King, The," 283
Literary World, 240
Liturgy, the, 30-31, 33, 156, 171-4
Lockyer, Sir Norman, 238
Lodge, 160
Lodging-houses, 64-5
"Lodi, Storming of the Bridge, at," 26
Log-rolling, 138, 140-143
London, F. T. on, 77, 79, 277-9;
F. T. in, 46, 54, 61-93, 104, 236
Lord's, 44-5
Love and love-affairs, 11, 14, 38, 73-4, 230-2
"Love declared," 230
Lower-worldliness, F. T.'s, 64-7
Lucas, Mr. E. V., 41, 45, 253, 264
Lucas, Winifrid (Mrs. H. Le Bailly), 250
Lytton-Bulwer, 74, 238, 242, 250 > (1893), 122, 129, 135-48, 158, 170, 238, 243, 341
"Poet breaking Silence, To a," 126, 133
"Poets as Prose Writers," 255, 316
Politics, 335, 339
Pope, 229, 272
"Poppy, The," 118, 341
Portiuncula, the, 185
Poverty, fair and foul, 77-8 n., 181, 284-5
Prayer, 73, 84, 104, 280, 286, 287 n.
Premonstratensians, 95
Preston, 1, 5
Priesthood, F. T. and the, 5, 31-2, 33, 73
Prison, 64, 258
Probyn, Miss May, 85, 116
Prose, F. T.'s, 97-8, 135, 149, 177, 206, 267, 310, 312
Puns, 13, 326
Quantity, 176
Quiller-Couch, Sir A. T., 153, 241
Rabelais, 64
Railton, Sergeant, 19
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 48, 156, 256
Ranjitsinhji, Prince, 42
Realm, The, 141, 146
Reformation, the, 12
Refuges, 65
Religion, 30, 31, 33, 34. See Catholicism, and Mysticism
Rendall, Mr. Vernon, letters to F. T., 336
"Renegade Poet on the Poet, A," 125
Sonnets, 73, 126
South African War, 9
South Kensington Museum, 105
Southampton Row, 71, 74
Southwater, 159, 349
Southwell, 167
Speaker, The, 140, 153, 240, 241
Spenser, 155, 163
Stalybridge, 39, 144
Standard Book of British Poetry, 74
Star, The, 145
Stead, W. T., 106-7
Stephanon, Lamente forre, 28-9
Stevenson, R. L., 165, 170, 297, 302
Storrington, 95-6, 111
Strand, the, 24, 71 n., 163, 278
Suckling, 165
Sun, the, and sun-worship, 210-12, 229, 238, 272-3
Sunrises and Sunsets, 131, 161,
/a>, 233-4, 236, 238;
to Mrs. Patmore, 234;
to Mrs. Saleeby (nÉe Monica Meynell), 340-341;
to Miss Agnes Tobin, 252
—— Letters to, from Father Anselm, 344-5;
from Mr. W. Archer, 242;
from Mother Austen (his sister Mary), 334;
from Mr. J. L. Garvin, 332-3;
from Mr. C. L. Hind, 264;
from Mrs. Hamilton King, 132, 250;
from Miss K. Douglas King, 250;
from Mr. H. W. Massingham, 332, 336;
from Mrs. Meynell, 129, 158;
from Coventry Patmore, 149, 194, 197, 221, 233;
from Mrs. Patmore, 237;
from Mr. Vernon Rendall, 336;
from W. T. Stead, 106;
from Mrs. Tynan Hinkson, 102
Thompson, Helen (F. T. s sister), 1 n.
Thompson, John Costall (F. T.'s uncle), 2, 3
Thompson, Margaret (F. T.'s sister), 1, 128
Thompson, Mary (F. T.'s sister), "Mother Austin," a nun, 1 n., 7, 8, 12-14, 39-4, 57, 59, 75, 127, 186, 287 n., 341;
letter to, 333;
letter from, 334
Thompson, Mary Turner, nÉe Morton (F. T.'s mother), 1, 4, 7, 10, 46, 48-9
Thorp, Mr., 259
Times, The, 240, 319, 320
Timidity, F. T.'s, 13, 15, 32, 265
"To my Godchild," 123, 137, 162, 273
Tobin, Miss Agnes, [1] Their first child, a son, lived only one day, and of the three daughters whose births followed Francis's, one, Helen, died in infancy. Of the other two, the elder, Mary, is a nun in Manchester, the other, Margaret Richardson, wife and mother in Canada.

[2] Edward Healy Thompson married Harriet Diana, daughter of Nicolson Calvert, sometime M.P. for Hertford, by Frances, co-heir of the 1st and last Viscount Pery. Another uncle of the poet was the Rev. Henry Thompson, who was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford; took clerical duty at Kirk Hammerton and at Greatham (Hants); published a sermon (1850) entitled The New Birth by Water and the Spirit; married Julia, daughter of Sir William Yea, Bart. A daughter by this union, Charlotte Anne Hechstetter Yea Thompson, married (1869) Ralph Abercrombie Cameron, elder son of the Rev. Alexander Cameron by Charlotte, daughter of the Hon. Edward Rice, D.D., Dean of Gloucester. A fourth uncle of the poet, James Thompson, lost his life in South Africa.

[3] At the Convent of the Holy Child, St. Leonard's-on-Sea.

[4] A photograph (now missing), taken at the age of eleven or twelve, shows Francis with a small bust of Shakespeare—the treasured gift of his mother. In all the early photographs he conforms to one early description—"a boy known for his piety, obedience, and truthfulness"—and he is tidy, too!

[5] "Dream Tryst" was afterwards alluded to by Mr. Edward Healy Thompson as "erotic"—a poem, explained Francis, "addressed to a child. Nay, hardly that—to the memory only of a child known but once when I was eleven years old."

[6] Lamb's jest was perhaps remembered when F. T. wrote: "If a boy were let into Heaven, he would chase the little angels to pluck the feathers out of their wings"—a justification of Boyer rather than the Boy.

[7] Prowess in English was officially reported. From Father Nowlan, a friend of the family, to Doctor Thompson, Easter, 1872:—"You will be anxious to hear how Frank has passed at the last examinations. They have been very satisfactory indeed—second in Latin and first in English. His master was speaking to me about him yesterday, and said that his English composition was the best production from a lad of his age which he had ever seen in this seminary. His improvement in Latin is also remarkable, and his steady improvement in this subject will depend in a great measure upon a cure of that absent-mindedness which certainly, at the very outset, threatened to prove a great obstacle to his application to study. This, I am happy to tell you, has disappeared in a great measure, and in a little time we may be quite sure of its entire disappearance."

To the late Monsignor Corbishly I am indebted for the following record of the place Francis held in the compositions set three times a year:—

"In Latin he was first six times, second three times, and twice he was third. The lowest place was 6th, except when he composed in so-called Latin verse, when he got 23rd. His muse could not get going in a dead language. In Greek his place ran from 2nd to 10th. In French, average place about 8th. In English, 1st sixteen times; of his Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry the less said the better. He was a good, quiet, shy lad. Physically, a weakling: he had a halting way of walking, and gave the impression that physical existence would be rather a struggle for him. He did practically nothing at the games. Haec habeo quae dicam de nostro poeta praeclarissimo."

[8] It pleases the idle mind of the present writer to find that Francis visited Tregunter Road when my mother, who was years later to be the lady of "Love in Dian's Lap," was staying there, unknown to him.

[9] His uncle, Edward Healy Thompson, afterwards remembered that The Opium Eater was his favourite book at home: "We had often said his experiences would surpass those of de Quincey."

At the same time the family noted other influences; it was a tradition of theirs that "On the 3rd Sunday of September, 1885, Fr. Richardson of St. Mary's, Ashton-under Lyne, delivered a sermon on 'Our Lady of Sorrows,' which, Francis hearing, was the subject of his meditation, and, two years later, of his poem 'The Passion of Mary.' It is thought that he did not make any notes on the sermon in church, but in the drawing-room at home in Stamford Street he made use that same night of pencil and paper."

[10] There is some parallel for this image (Tom-o'-Bedlam's, be it remembered) in Rossetti's—

But the sea stands spread
As one wall with the flat skies,
Where the lean black craft, like flies,
Seem well-nigh stagnated,
Soon to drop off dead.

[11] Here is a minor clue to the region of London best mapped out in his mind. From the Academy, 1900, he tore Mr. Whitten's review of an atlas of London, in which a comment is made on the restrictions of the scale—three inches to the mile; so that "York Street, Covent Garden, is merged in Tavistock Street; and Panton Street, Haymarket, and its short continuation, Spur Street, are marked but not named." When Francis does not dog de Quincey he is at the heel of Coleridge. Each had gone for a soldier; both were accosted with friendship in London. The Strand is remembered as the place where Coleridge was, as a youth, once walking in abstraction with waving arms, to find himself with his hand in a pedestrian's pocket and accused of attempted thieving. "I thought, sir, I was swimming in the Hellespont," he explained, and made a friend only less valuable than Mr. McMaster.

[12] Of the despoiling of the Lady Poverty he writes in an unpublished poem:—

DEGRADED POOR
Lo, at the first, Lord, Satan took from Thee
Wealth, Beauty, Honour, World's Felicity.
Then didst Thou say: "Let be;
For with his leavings and neglects will I
Please Me, which he sets by,—
Of all disvalued, thence which all will leave Me,
And fair to none but Me, will not deceive Me."
My simple Lord! so deeming erringly,
Thou tookest Poverty;
Who, beautified with Thy Kiss, laved in Thy streams,
'Gan then to cast forth gleams,
That all men did admire
Her modest looks, her ragged sweet attire
In which the ribboned shoe could not compete
With her clear simple feet.
But Satan, envying Thee Thy one ewe-lamb,
With Wealth, World's Beauty and Felicity
Was not content, till last unthought-of she
Was his to damn.
Thine ingrate ignorant lamb
He won from Thee; kissed, spurned, and made of her
This thing which qualms the air—
Vile, terrible, old,
Whereat the red blood of the Day runs cold.

[13] F. T.'s review of Booth's In Darkest England.

[14] In Booth's In Darkest England.

[15] Merry England was a magazine he had known in Manchester, and noted especially during his Christmas holiday at home. His uncle, Edward Healy Thompson, was already a contributor, and among others were Cardinal Manning, Lionel Johnson, Hilaire Belloc, May Probyn, St. John Adcock, Sir William Butler, Coulson Kernahan, Alice Corkran, Coventry Patmore, W. H. Hudson, Katharine Tynan, J. G. Snead Cox, Aubrey de Vere, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Father R. F. Clark, J. Eastwood Kidson, and Bernard Whelan.

[16] He himself notes the circumstances of composition. "Mem.—'Ode to Setting Sun' begun in the field of the Cross, and under shadow of the Cross, at sunset; finished ascending and descending Jacob's Ladder (mid or late noon?)" "The Song of the Hours" also was written at Storrington.

[17] The Shelley Essay bears signs of the booklessness of Storrington. All the quotations were made from memory, and nearly all were inaccurate.

[18] Also a Shelley "Selection," not published.

[19] There perished with Mr. Stead in the Titanic disaster in 1912 a Catholic priest, who had, shortly before sailing, recommended "The Hound of Heaven" (with the strangely significant line "Adown Titanic glooms of chasmÉd fears") to a friend, as an antidote to decadent poetry.

[20] At this time he met another Cardinal, then without his Hat, who knew his people in Manchester. There were many pauses when the talk turned to his home. Francis, untamable in shabbiness, even to the point of rags, explained afterwards: "I did not like to dwell on the subject, lest he should discover that I was in poor circumstances. You see he corresponds with my father." But his father did, of course, already know of his need. A letter, dated April 1892, from Bishop Carroll, runs:—

"My dear Mr. Meynell,—Francis Thompson's father has agreed to give me a small sum weekly (3s. 6d.) for his son. I have consented to forward it, and will do so monthly, adding a little myself. I now enclose a cheque for 24s. It is not much, but it will help.—Ever yours sincerely,

J. Carroll."

[21] The old Archbishop's House in Carlisle Place.

[22] At this time he wrote to W. M. of an article in Merry England:

"The Franciscan article is decidedly good. But I am getting a little sick of this talk of 'individualism,' which only darkens counsel. The writer seems to mean by it not at all what it means to me—and, I think, to the Cardinal. What he calls regulated individualism many people would call Socialism. In fact, some Socialists claim the Franciscans as a Catholic and religious experiment in the direction of Socialism. It seems to me that you can juggle with words like 'individualism' to suit your own whims."

[23] In after years Francis wrote letters that seemed to supply no possible opening for the comforter. Read to-day, their desperation offers no outlet but a return to the streets. But no sooner did F. T. come into my father's presence, than he was consoled, often without the exchange of a word.

[24] Browning left Asolo at the end of October, and died in Venice early in December.

[25] For all that, Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, who walked over his own acres with Thompson as his guest, wrote:—"He could not distinguish the oak from the elm, nor did he know the name of the commonest flowers of the field."

[26] The poem by which my mother broke silence was "Veni Creator."

[27] Among the things he wrote when A. M.'s book came to hand is this of "Domus Angusta," an essay they had discussed before. "Never again meditate the suppression of your gloomy passages. It is a most false epithet for anything you could ever write. You might as well impeach of gloominess my favourite bit in 'Timon,' with the majestic melancholy of its cadence—

'My long sickness
Of wealth and living now begins to mend,
And nothing brings me all things.'
Both that passage and yours are poignant; both are deeply sad; while yours has an added searchingness which makes it (in De Quincey's phrase) veritably 'heart-shattering'; but how can you call 'gloomy' what so nobly and resignedly faces the terror it evokes?"

[28] His work having appeared in a Catholic magazine, it was known to the Catholic papers. Apart from the Weekly Register, where notices of his periodical writings were printed, priority belongs to The Tablet, which printed, September, 1889, and 19th July, 1890, serious notices of the issues of Merry England containing the "Ode to the Setting Sun" and "The Hound of Heaven"; and to Miss Katharine Tynan, who quoted the whole of "The Making of Viola" from Merry England, May, 1892, in the Irish Independent in the course of the same month. The Catholic papers made no particular sign of welcome when the books themselves were published, but it may be noted that the Ave Maria, Notre Dame, Indiana, had praise for the much-abused extravagance of the opening of the "Corymbus for Autumn." To the Catholic World, February, 1895, Mr. Walter Lecky contributed many compliments and several biographical inaccuracies. In the secular press of America F. T. fared less well. The New York Post, 19th of January, 1898, found his work "... not altogether hopeful, since his impulses are wayward, like his life." The Critic, July, 1894, would by no means allow Browning's phrase, "conspicuous abilities," to pass unchallenged.

[29] The Anti-Jacobin, edited by Mr. Frederick Greenwood.

[30] Of Sister Songs Mr. Le Gallienne wrote:—

"Critics are continually asking a writer to be someone else than himself, but happily Mr. Thompson seems to be one of those poets who go their own way, oblivious of the cackle of Grub Street.... Passion, in its ideal sense, has seldom found such an ecstatic, such a magnificently prodigal expression. For the love that Mr. Thompson sings is that love which never finds, nor can hope to find, 'its earthly close.' It is the poet's love of love in the abstract, revealed to him symbolically in the tender youth of two little girls, and taking the form of a splendid fantastic gallantry of the spirit."

[31] Revelation iv, 5, "... there were seven lamps burning before the Throne, which are the seven spirits of God."

[32] F. T. in the Academy, February 6, 1897.

[33] To this he recurs in a note on Tennyson:—"Tennyson too pictorial. Picture verges on marches of sister-art, painting. Feminine; only not so entirely so as Swinburne;—still has remnants of statelier mood and time. Metre—beginning of degeneration completed in and by Swinburne."

[34] Afterwards he lodged at the post-office, and finally in a cottage on the hill behind the monastery.

[35] The Capuchins (Franciscans), are peculiar in aspect among Religious Orders as bearded friars.

[36] This was written long before Mr. Montgomery Carmichael's translation of The Lady Poverty brought the thirteenth-century writer's claim to the world as the Franciscan cloister to Thompson's notice.

[37] "After Her Going" was written in these days.

[38] The mortuary card, preserved in F. T.'s prayer-book, runs:—

"Of your charity pray for the soul of Charles Thompson, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., who departed this life April 9th, 1896, aged 72, fortified by the rites of Holy Church"—with the motto "The silent and wise man shall be honoured."

[39] Dr. Henry Head, F.R.S.

[40] It was not Angelica, but Mrs. Delany.

[41] An allusion to Lewis Morris's Songs Unsung.

[42] On this subject, and the derivation of portions of Ecclesiastes, he corresponded with Fr. Clarke. The contents of commonplace-books of a somewhat early period suggest a taste for many kindred themes. In one he has entered random "Varia on Magic," accounts of and comments on many heresies, suspicions of the Masons, and fears of a Divine Visitation upon the general wickedness in the shape of general war; with these are important notes on Creation Myths, the Chaldean Genesis, the Egyptian Crocodile, the Kabbalist Doctrine of the Pre-existence of Souls; some symbols connected with the Incarnation, the Lotus, the ritual of the funeral sacrifice, with transcriptions from the Book of Respirations, the Prayer to Ammon Ra, &c.; and The meaning of Easter, a cutting scored with his own excursions into the etymology of the word—from Ishtar, the ChaldÆan goddess—"And Ishtar I take to be Ashak Tar (or Tur) the Lady of the Light of the Way." But at the turn of a few pages he is found enlarging and correcting. Still nearer his real concern are the notes on varieties of the Cross symbol.

[43] In a poem "The Schoolmaster for God," which Francis thought just not good enough to put into a volume, he represents Satan as scaling the walls of God's garth, stealing the seed, and giving it a clandestine growth, which grew to fruit that made men who ate it an-hungered for God. And in this poem Satan is named "that Robber from the North." Again, in one of the "Ecclesiastical Ballads," the Veteran of Heaven declares, "The Prince I drave forth held the Mount of the North."

[44] See F. T.'s poem "The Newer Eve," or "After Woman," with whom the world should rise instead of fall.

[45] Mr. Albert Cock in the Dublin Review.

[46] The ending of the "Orient Ode" seems, in the frank exultation of its creed, to be unveiled and native pronouncement, as loud in its faith as the last line of Patmore's "Faint yet Pursuing," where he ends by "hearing the winds their Maker magnify."

[47] "The sun is the type of Christ, giving life with its proper blood to the earth," is Mr. Edmund Gardner's concise statement of F. T.'s meaning.

[48] F. T. had a theory of the solar existence that did not stop short, with Science, at the measurement of gases and their density. "It has," Mr. Ghosh tells me he said, "a life of its own, analogous to the life of the heart, periodic in its manifestations and—," but here Francis stopped. "To Western ears it will sound ridiculous," he said, and was silent. In vain Mr. Sarath Kumar Ghosh asserted his own Eastern aptitude for such speculation. Francis grimly repeated his excommunication, and Mr. Ghosh, conscious of a frock-coat and a great command of the English idiom, was half-convinced of its stness.

[49] Compare Donne's "No cross is so extreme, as to have none"—a thought upon which many paradoxical couplets were turned in the seventeenth century. But Donne goes a little further than his fellows. He seems to have known that an image, bound up with its original, is more than a likeness:—

Let crosses so take what hid Christ in thee;
And be His image, or not His, but He.

[50] "The metre in my present volume," wrote the author in a suppressed preface to New Poems, "is completely based on the principles which Mr. Patmore may be said virtually to have discovered."

[51] "Mrs. Meynell's Essays" in the National Review, Aug. 1896.

[52] Poetry of Pathos and Delight, being selections made by Alice Meynell from the poetry of Coventry Patmore.

[53] "A Captain of Song," addressed to Patmore before his death, and at his death published in the AthenÆum, December 5, 1896.

[54] "Many a bit of true seeing I have had to learn again, through science having sophisticated my eye, inward or outward. And many a bit I have preserved, to the avoidance of a world of trouble, by concerning myself no more than any child about the teachings of science. Especially is this the case in regard to light. I never lost the child's instinctive rightness of outlook upon light because I flung the scientific theories aside as so much baffling distortion of perspective. 'Here is cart for horse,' I felt rather than saw, and would nothing with them.... Though scientists in camp stand together against me, I would not challenge the consensus of the poets."

[55] To this lady's "genius for friendship" the dedication of Mr. Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes bears witness.

[56] William Watson's on the Coronation of Edward VII.

[57] It may also be observed in passing that, while he was more experienced in privation than were any of his friends, Francis could be fastidious. It is still told of him in Sussex, where a clever cook attended his invalided appetite, that he would make great demonstrations at the mere sight of a dish he disapproved. Laying down his knife and fork this frank guest would proclaim against one of the several viands. "Miss Laurence, I hate mutton!" The piled-up emphasis of his voice made such a sentence tremendously effective. "Wilfrid," he once said to my father, "Wilfrid, the Palace Court food is shocking!"

[58] There were exceptions to this habitual carelessness; in 1898 he asked his sister for prayers that a friend might join the Church. She gave them and begged his, for her own purposes, in fair return.

[59] "Bodily being is the analogy of the soul's being; our temporal is our only clue to our spiritual life"; our fleshly senses the only medium for our divine experience. We are the symbols of ourselves. To such thoughts he adds disjointed notes in confirmation from the ancient mythologies: "Bird-heads to gods with man-bodies."—"Zeus = Sky."

[60] With nothing that he has to say of another poet is it so impossible to agree as with his own estimate of the relative importance of the sections of New Poems

"Creccas Cottage, Pantasaph, November 1896.

"My dear Doubleday,—I regret that I cannot consent to the omission of the translations. If anything is to be left out, it must be the section Ultima, not the translations. I said at Pantasaph that I would keep these, whatever I left out. They were held over from my first book, and I will not hold them over again. I regard the 'Heard on the Mountain' as a feat in diction and metre; and in this respect Coventry Patmore agrees with me. But I do not at all mind leaving out the section Ultima.—Yours,

F. T."

[61] Note by F. T.: "That is not drama, but lyric."

[62] This play was again unfavourably received when, in 1903, he submitted it to T. P.'s Weekly. It is thus set forth on his MS. title page:

NAPOLEON JUDGES
A Tragedy in Two Scenes
Dramatis PersonÆ.
Napoleon.
General Augereau.
Madame Lebrun (an opera-dancer, Augereau's Mistress).
President of the Court Martial.
A French Deserter.
Officers. Soldiers.

Place.—Augereau's Camp. Time.—The Italian Campaign of 1796. During the first scene Napoleon is absent from Augereau's Camp.

Of another class is a modern comedy, full of laboriously smart give and take, called "Man Proposes, but Woman Disposes. Un Conte sans Raconteur. In Two Scenes."


Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

Varied hyphenation was retained.

Page 48, "fastastic" changed to "fantastic" (of the fantastic imagery)

Page 201-203, the final line on page 201 ends well before the edge of the right margin. The next line on page 202 has no indentation. A paragraph break was assumed and inserted at the line beginning (He came, even to the point)

Page 211, originally, footnote 48, a word in the original was missing its first two letters. "stness" was retained as no certain word could be inferred from the text.

Page 213, "QuÆ coeli" changed to "Quae cÆli" (Quae cÆli pandis ostium!)

Page 236, "expresssed" changed to "expressed" (expressed in the obituary)

Page 328, "count" was left as printed for it was a quotation from a letter and may well have been used as printed in the original letter. (if character count for)

Page 354, "Portra it" changed to "Portrait" (Canon Law in Her Portrait)

Page 357, "M'Master" changed to "McMaster" to match usage in text (McMaster, Mr., 70-76)

Page 358, "Ranjitsinjhi" changed to "Ranjitsinhji" (Ranjitsinhji, Prince, 42)


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