{2} I Had Nearly Finished The Transcription Of The Following Pages
When I Saw On A Friend's Table The Number Containing The Piece From
Which This Sentence Is Extracted, And, Struck With A Similarity Of
Title, Took It Home With Me And Read It With Indescribable
Satisfaction.
I do not know whether I more envy M. Theuriet the
pleasure of having written this delightful article, or the reader
the pleasure, which I hope he has still before him, of reading it
once and again, and lingering over the passages that please him
most.
{3} William Abercrombie. See Fasti Ecclesia Scoticanae, under
'Maybole' (Part iii.).
{4} 'Duex poures varlez qui n'ont nulz gages et qui gissoient la
nuit avec les chiens.' See Champollion - Figeac's Louis et Charles
d'Orleans, i. 63, and for my lord's English horn, ibid. 96.
{5} Reprinted by permission of John Lane.
{6} 'Jehovah Tsidkenu,' translated in the Authorised Version as
'The Lord our Righteousness' (Jeremiah xxiii. 6 and xxxiii. 16).
{7} Compare Blake, in the Marriage of Heaven and Hell:
'Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads, without
improvement, are roads of Genius.'
*** END OF Essays of Travel, by Robert Louis Stevenson***
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