[FN#515] By A. W. Kinglake.

[FN#516] See Lib.  Ed. Nights, Sup., vol. xi., p. 365.

[FN#517] Chambers’s Journal, August 1904.

[FN#518] Chambers’s Journal.

[FN#519] Ex Ponto, iv., 9.

[FN#520] Or words to that effect.

[FN#521] This was no solitary occasion.  Burton was constantly chaffing her about her slip-shod English, and she always had some piquant reply to give him.

[FN#522] See Chapter xxxv., 166.

[FN#523] Now Queen Alexandra.

[FN#524] Life, ii., 342.

[FN#525] This remark occurs in three of his books, including The Arabian Nights.

[FN#526] Stories of Janshah and Hasan of Bassorah.

[FN#527] One arch now remains.  There is in the British Museum a quarto volume of about 200 pages (Cott.  MSS., Vesp., E 26) containing fragments of a 13th Century Chronicle of Dale.  On Whit Monday 1901, Mass was celebrated within the ruins of Dale Abbey for the first time since the Reformation.

[FN#528] The Church, however, was at that time, and is now, always spoken of as the “Shrine of Our Lady of Dale, Virgin Mother of Pity.”  The Very Rev. P. J. Canon McCarthy, of Ilkeston, writes to me, “The shrine was an altar to our Lady of Sorrows or Pieta, which was temporarily erected in the Church by the permission of the Bishop of Nottingham (The Right Rev. E. S. Bagshawe), till such time as its own chapel or church could be properly provided.  The shrine was afterwards honoured and recognised by the Holy See.”  See Chapter xxxix.

[FN#529] Letter to me, 18th June 1905.  But see Chapter xxxv.

[FN#530] Murphy’s Edition of Johnson’s Works, vol, xii., p. 412.

[FN#531] Preface to The City of the Saints.  See also Wanderings in West Africa, i., p. 21, where he adds, “Thus were written such books as Eothen and Rambles beyond Railways; thus were not written Lane’s Egyptians or Davis’s Chinese.”

[FN#532] The general reader will prefer Mrs. Hamilton Gray’s Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria, 1839; and may like to refer to the review of it in The Gentleman’s Magazine for April, 1841.

[FN#533] Phrynichus.

[FN#534] Supplemental Nights, Lib.  Ed., x., 302, Note.

[FN#535] The recent speeches (July 1905) of the Bishop of Ripon and the letters of the Rev. Dr. Barry on this danger to the State will be in the minds of many.

[FN#536] Burton means what is now called the Neo-Malthusian system, which at the time was undergoing much discussion, owing to the appearance, at the price of sixpence, of Dr. H. Allbutt’s well-known work The Wife’s Handbook.  Malthus’s idea was to limit families by late marriages; the Neo-Malthusians, who take into consideration the physiological evils arising from celibacy, hold that it is better for people to marry young, and limit their family by lawful means.

[FN#537] This is Lady Burton’s version.  According to another version it was not this change in government that stood in Sir Richard’s way.