all literature.  The letter g was to signify approval, the letter b to brand it with rejection.  Tennyson’s manuscript came from the Vice-Chancellor scored all over with g’s.  The classical professor failed to see its merit, but bowed to the Vice-Chancellor, and added his g.  The mathematical professor could not admire, but since both his colleagues ordained it, good it must be, and his g made the award unanimous.  The three met soon after, and the Vice-Chancellor, in his blatant way, attacked the other two for admiring a trashy poem.  “Why,” they remonstrated, “you covered it with g’s yourself.”  “G’s,” said he, “they were q’s for queries; I could not understand a line of it.”

{4} “Enoch Arden,” p. 34.

{5} “Eothen,” p. 169.  Reprint by Bell and Sons, 1898.

{6} “Eothen,” p. 17.

{7} His deferential regard for army rank was like that of Johnson for bishops.  Great was his indignation when the “grotesque Salvation Army,” as he called it, adopted military nomenclature.  “I would let those ragamuffins call themselves saints, angels, prophets, cherubim, Olympian gods and goddesses if they like; but their pretension in taking the rank of officers in the army is to me beyond measure repulsive.”

{8} “Eothen,” p. 190 in first edition.  It was struck out in the fourth edition.

{9} “Eothen,” p. 18.  Reprint by Bell and Sons, 1898.

{10} He is very fond of this word; it occurs eleven times.

{11} “Quarterly Review,” December, 1844.

{12} “Eothen,” p. 46.

{13} Poitier’s “Vaudeville.”

{14} One characteristic anecdote he omits.  Two French officers were attached to our headquarters; and the staff were partly embarrassed and partly amused by Lord Raglan’s inveterate habit, due to old Peninsular associations, of calling the enemy “the French” in the presence of our foreign guests.

{15} Some of us can recall the lines in which Sir G. Trevelyan commemorated “The Owl’s” nocturnal flights: 

“When at sunset, chill and dark,
Sunset thins the swarming park,
Bearing home his social gleaning —
Jests and riddles fraught with meaning,
Scandals, anecdotes, reports, —
Seeks The Owl a maze of courts
Which, with aspect towards the west,
Fringe the street of Sainted James,
Where a warm, secluded nest
As his sole domain he claims;
From his wing a feather draws,
Shapes for use a dainty nib,
Pens his parody or squib;
Combs his down and trims his claws,
And repairs where windows bright
Flood the sleepless Square with light.”

{16} Greville, vii. 223, quotes from a letter written after Inkerman to the Prince Consort by Colonel Steele, saying “that he had no idea how great a mind Raglan really had, but that he now saw it, for in the midst of distresses and difficulties of every kind in which the army was involved, he was perfectly serene and undisturbed.”