By Dante G. Rossetti:  “The Carillon, Antwerp and Bruges.”  These verses, and some others further on in “The Germ,” were written during the brief trip, in Paris and Belgium, which my brother made along with Holman-Hunt in the autumn of 1849.  He did not republish “The Carillon”; but he left in MS. an abridged form of it, with the title “Antwerp and Bruges,” and this I included in his “Collected Works,” 1886.  The only important change was the omission of stanzas 1 and 4.

By Dante G. Rossetti:  “From the Cliffs, Noon.”  Altering some phrases in this lyric, and adding two stanzas, Rossetti republished it under the name of “The Sea-limits.”

By W. M. Rossetti:  “Fancies at Leisure.”  The first four were written to bouts-rimes:  not the fifth, “The Fire Smouldering,” which is, I think, as old as 1848, or even 1847.

By John L. Tupper:  “Papers of the MS. Society; No. 1, An Incident in the Siege of Troy.”  This grotesque outburst, though sprightly and clever, was not well-suited to the pages of “The Germ.”  My attention had been called to it at an earlier date, when my editorial power was unmodified, but I then staved it off, and indeed John Tupper himself did not deem it appropriate.  It will be observed that “MS. Society” is said not to mean “Manuscript Society.”  I forget what it did mean—­possibly “Medical Student Society.”  The whole thing is replete with semi-private sous-entendus, and banter at Free Trade, medical and anatomical matters, etc.  The like general remarks apply to No. 4, “Smoke,” by the same writer.  It is a rollicking semi-intelligible chaunt, a forcible thing in its way, proper in the first instance (I believe) to a sort of club of medical students, Royal Academy students, and others—­highly-seasoned smokers most of them—­in which John Tupper exercised a quasi-privacy, and was called (owing to his thinness, much over-stated in the poem) “The Spectro-cadaveral King.”  No. 5, “Rain,” is again by John Tupper, and is the only item in “The Papers of the MS. Society” which seems, in tone and method, to be reasonably appropriate for “The Germ.”

By Alexander Tupper:  No. 2, “Swift’s Dunces.”

By George I. F. Tupper:  No. 3, “Mental Scales.”  This also, in the scrappy condition which it here presents, reads rather as a joke than as a serious proposition:  I believe it was meant for the latter.

By John L. Tupper:  “Viola and Olivia.”  The verses are not of much significance.  The etching by Deverell, however defective in technique, claims more attention, as the Viola was drawn from Miss Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, whom Deverell had observed in a bonnet-shop some few months before the etching was done, and who in 1860 became the wife of Dante Rossetti.  This face does not give much idea of hers, and yet it is not unlike her in a way.  The face of Olivia bears some resemblance to Christina Rossetti:  I think however that it was drawn, not from her, but from a sister of the artist.