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FOOTNOTES

{1} When "Heartsease" first appeared, Percy Fotheringham was believed to be a portrait; but the accomplished auth.o.r.ess in a letter written not long before her death told me that the character was wholly imaginary.

{6} Pedigrees are perplexing unless tabulated; so here is Kinglake's genealogical tree.

Kinglakes of Saltmoor had sons ROBERT KINGLAKE and WILLIAM KINGLAKE.

ROBERT KINGLAKE had sons SERJEANT JOHN KINGLAKE and Rev. W. C. KINGLAKE.

Woodfordes of Castle Cary had a daughter MARY WOODFORDE.

WILLIAM KINGLAKE married MARY WOODFORDE and had sons A. W. KINGLAKE ("Eothen") and Dr. HAMILTON KINGLAKE.

{12a} "Eothen," p. 33. Reading "Timbuctoo" to-day one is amazed it should have gained the prize. Two short pa.s.sages adumbrate the coming Tennyson, the rest is mystic nonsense. "What do you think of Tennyson's prize poem?" writes Charles Wordsworth to his brother Christopher. "Had it been sent up at Oxford, the author would have had a better chance of spending a few months at a lunatic asylum than of obtaining the Prize."

A current Cambridge story at the time explained the selection. There were three examiners, the Vice-Chancellor, a man of arbitrary temper, with whom his juniors hesitated to disagree; a cla.s.sical professor unversed in English Literature; a mathematical professor indifferent to all literature. The letter _g_ was to signify approval, the letter _b_ to brand it with rejection. Tennyson's ma.n.u.script came from the Vice-Chancellor scored all over with _g_'s. The cla.s.sical 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."

{12b} "Enoch Arden," p. 34.

{13} "Eothen," p. 169. Reprint by Bell and Sons, 1898.

{14a} "Eothen," p. 17.

{14b} 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 ragam.u.f.fins call themselves saints, angels, prophets, cherubim, Olympian G.o.ds and G.o.ddesses if they like; but their pretension in taking the rank of officers in the army is to me beyond measure repulsive."

{14c} "Eothen," p. 190 in first edition. It was struck out in the fourth edition.

{22} "Eothen," p. 18. Reprint by Bell and Sons, 1898.