26. Mucha bueno (Spanish), corrupted form of muy bien, very good.

b. 53. Has traido el Doctor? (Spanish). Have you brought the doctor?

54. Si, si!... Y el viejo? (Spanish). Yes, indeed. And what of the old man?

maman

56. Aye! pobre!... hace tres días que está He died three days ago. muerto, ah! poor fellow! d'mande si 921. a. 55. M'sieu-le-Docteur, vous n'avez bisoin d' que'que chose? Creole French for Monsieur-le-Docteur, maman demande si vous n'avez besoin de quelque chose? Doctor, mama wishes to know if you need anything.

b. 1. Baragouin (French gibberish). 37. Plait-il? (French). Beg pardon?

49. Tutoiement (French). Theeing and thouing. In Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden there are two forms of address denoting the degree of acquaintanceship between the persons, one familiar and one formal. Tutoiement would denote the familiar form of address.

54. Dis-moi qui tu es, mignonne;

dis-moi ton

nom (French). Tell me who you are, darling; tell me your name.

922. a. 11. C'est à dire (French) that is to say.

32. No importa, Conchita;-le hablaré en Español (Spanish). Never mind, Conchita. I shall speak to her in Spanish.

34. Bien, entonces! All right, then.

35. Adios, señor! (Spanish). Good by, sir! 46. To laimin moin? to batté moin! (French patois). Do I love you? I slapped you! etc. jour camarade!

(French). b. 48. Bon Good morning, comrade! We're going to have pretty bad weather, my poor Julian.

51. Comment, un mauvais temps? What kind of bad weather?

55. Un vilain temps, miserable weather. 58. Chéri! dearest, darling.

923. b. 17. Mentira! (Spanish). It's a lie! 19. Jamas (Spanish). Never.

24. Si! si! - es el vómito! yo lo conozso, Carmen! (Spanish). Yes, yes, it's the yellow fever I know it, Carmen.

29. Moi, au contraire, il faut que je me lève toujours! (French). On the contrary, I must stantly get up.

con

34. Resurgam! (Latin). I shall rise again. Who's there? 37. Qui çà? (French. 41. N'importe, mon ami, etc. (French). mind, my friend, you are going to see her ere long. who then, Laroussel?

Never

924. b. 19. Alma de Cristo, etc. (Spanish). Most blessed soul of Christ, sanctify me! Blood of Christ, transport me!! O good Jesus, hear me!

49. O Jesus misericordioso, etc. O most merciful Jesus, have compassion upon him!

BEREAVED

929. In Letters of Riley and Bill Nye,' Harper's Magazine, March, 1919, is told the circumstances of the writing of this poem. Nye and Riley were for a long time together on the lecture platform, Riley reading from his poems and Nye entertaining with his fun and humorous sketches. After the tours, though they were no longer together, their friendship continued vital. One of the strange experiences of Riley's life illustrates this poetically.

'It was at night; he could not sleep, and he arose with a feeling that he must write that he must express, in some way, the sympathy he felt for he knew not whom. In this spirit Riley wrote Bereaved. As was very unusual, he set it down quite rapidly, the entire composition requiring less than half an hour. A few days afterward came the news that a child of Nye's was dead. Riley at once addressed the poem to the bereaved parents, feeling that he understood what had prompted him, to write it.' Harper's Magazine prints a facsimile of the poem as Riley wrote it on the back of an old envelope bearing the post mark Feb. 8, 1890.

931. a. 23. St. Germain, died 1780, by asserting that he had discovered certain of the secrets of Nature and had even found the elixir of life, led a life in the various courts of Europe that reads like a fairy tale.

23. Cagliostro, died 1795, a criminal who professed to be an alchemist and deceived many.

24. La Motte, a French adventuress who was a principal in the famous plot to steal the priceless diamond necklace which Louis XV had had made for Madame du Barry.

b. 10. Bon chien chasse de race, a good coursing dog of thoroughbred stock.

24. Cavagnari, a Frenchman who became a British subject and spent his life in government service in India. With several other Europeans he was assassinated at Kabal, Sept. 3, 1879, in a sudden uprising of mutinous Afghan troops.

932. a. 6. Bagnères de Bigorre, one of the most famous of the few cures.' It has fifty springs, and each is supposed to be a specific for some disease.

12. Pardon, madame, etc., pardon me, madam, I am going to cough up my other lung.

29. Madame Blavatsky, a Russian occultist who November 17, 1875, in New York, with the aid of Colonel Henry S. Olcott founded the theosophical society.

933. b. 48. Chuprassie, wearer of an official badge, a servant occupying an important position in the household of an Indian landowner.

50. Hookah or Narghyle, the native smoking apparatus of the East. The smoke is cooled by being drawn through water.

54. Trichinopoli, a district in Madras, British India.

934. a. 38. Nawab, the same as Nabob.

39. The hunting, the revolt against British authority in India in 1857-8.

935. a. 3. Chillum, part of a hookah. Also loosely applied to the material smoked.

936. b. 53. Hadji, a title conferred on one who has made a pilgrimage to the tomb of the prophet at Mecca.

938. a. 43. Moolah, the same as Mullah, a title given to one learned in theology and sacred law. 49. Another mutiny, the first mutiny had been brought on by the introduction of a new rifle which compelled the sepoy soldiers to touch the grease used on the cartridges.

12. La Tour d'Auvergne, a French soldier named by Napoleon the first grenadier of the republic. 14. Ney, one of Napoleon's most brilliant generals.

SYRINX

945. In Greek mythology Syrinx was a nymph who, being pursued by Pan, fled into the River Ladon, and was changed by the god into a reed.

OLD FRENCH METRICAL FORMS

947. I have omitted Bunner's Chant Royal, which has to do with the cruel deeds of the boarding mistress, Mrs. Brown.

977. Il tremolar della marina, the tremor of the sea.

15. Kingscroft. The poem was written at Windsor, Nova Scotia, at Kingscroft, the residence of Mr. Charles G. D. Roberts, where the poet was visiting when the news of the death of Mr. Parsons reached him.

16. Minas, The Basin of Minas, mentioned in the first line of Longfellow's Evangeline, lies in full view of Kingscroft.

18. Scituate, A village between Boston and Plymouth, home of the poet Parsons.

978. 93. A double loss. Parsons died September 3 and Whittier September 7, 1892.

99. Save one. Holmes.

103. Poet Friend of Poets. Stedman.

105. Lone voice of Arizonian song. Joaquin

Miller.

110. Virginia's hawk of song. Amélie Rives, later Princess Troubetskoy.

113. Indiana's melodist, James Whitcomb Riley. 117. Greek revealer of Canadian skies, Charles G. D. Roberts.

119. Carman,- Bliss Carman, later joint author with Hovey of Songs from Vagabondia.

980. 212. Historian of the Sudbury Inn, Longfellow.

227. Cedarcroft, home of Bayard Taylor. 232. Who is this? Dante.

981. 304. The demon-haunted cliff, Cape of Good Hope.

TROPICAL MOVING AT SEA

991. In December, 1862, Sill set sail for California around the Horn, a voyage of four months. This poem is one of the products of what to the young poet was a veritable visit to the wonderlands of another world. Parts of his journal of the voyage have been published.

THE LIFE MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 992. In a letter to Homer Saint-Gaudens, son or the sculptor, Gilder wrote in 1909:

In the winter of 1886 I was calling on Wyatt Eaton, who was then living on the south side of Washington Square, and on his table I was amazed to notice a mask of Lincoln. I had never heard of

it and, in fact, at this time it was quite unknown. I asked him where he got it, and he said that Douglas Volk had given it to him in Paris, it having been taken by Mr. Volk's father, the sculptor, Leonard W. Volk, who also took Lincoln's hands. This was the now famous life-mask. I thereupon got up a little committee, consisting of Thomas B. Clarke, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, R. W. Gilder, and Erwin Davis. Our circular, I notice, was dated, New York, February 1, 1886. We raised by subscription enough money to purchase the original cast, which we presented to the National Museum at Washington, where it has ever since been on exhibition.'Letters of Richard Watson Gilder.

FATHER DAMIEN

992. Father Damien, a Roman Catholic Missionary, devoted his life to the welfare of the lepers on the leper island of Molokai, Hawaii, finally falling a victim himself to the disease.

AVE: SIDNEY LANIER

993. Father Tabb was with Lanier while he was in the Federal prison at Point Lookout, Virginia, in 1865, and knew him intimately.