Part 44

Chicago, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. By the annexation of Brooklyn, the population of New York is now (1899) carried up to 3,500,000, making it the second city in the world.

In 1898 the number had risen to 4660, besides 411 women students in Radcliffe.

Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland. By Jeremiah Curtin. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1890.

Cook's Boston Monday Lectures: Biology, p. 51. After some hesitation I have decided to reprint this paper, because the "fundamental rule of procedure" here criticised is a favourite one with other controversialists than Mr. Cook, and it is one against which readers sometimes need to be put on their guard.

In spite of an occasional slip of the pen which may seem to imply the contrary. See above, pp. 58-60.

The italicizing is, of course, mine, both here and below.

Biology, p. 67.

Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, "Biology," p. 686.

This article was published in the fortieth-anniversary number of The Atlantic Monthly, November, 1897.

Iliad, vi. 168.

The comedy afterward developed into All's Well that Ends Well.

Davis, The Law in Shakespeare, St. Paul, 1884.

There is reason for believing that this choice was an instance of the megalomania developed by Miss Bacon's malady. She imagined a remote kinship between herself and Lord Bacon. Possibly there may have been such kinship.

Fischer, Shakespeare und die Bacon Mythen, Heidelberg, 1895.

The Baconizers usually delight in berating poor Shakespeare, making much of the deer-stealing business, the circumstances of his marriage, etc.

Literary Essays, ii. 163.

The Bankside Shakespeare, vol. xi. p. xi.

The writings of Hippocrates abound in examples, as in his interesting explanation of congestion, extravasation, etc. (De Ventis, x.-xiv., Opera, ed. Littré, tom. vi. pp. 104-114), to cite one instance out of a thousand: Ἑπειδαν ουν ες τας παχεις και πολυαιμους των φλεβων πολυς αἡρ βριση,βρισας δε μενη, κωλυεται το ἁιμα διεξιεναι τη μεν ουν ενεστηκε, τη δε νωθρως διεξερχεται, τη δε θασσον etc.

Budget of Paradoxes, pp. 9, 178, 259, 260, 336.

The Theory of Concentric Spheres, Louisville, 1878; second edition, 1885.

Proctor, The Great Pyramid, p. 43.

De Morgan, p. 179.

De Morgan, p. 163.

A site not far from that of Evansville, Indiana.

This was my first visit, with Dr. James and other friends, as above described.

Brother Fuller resigned in 1877, and was succeeded by Brother Richards as Spiritual head, or high priest of the Adoni-shomo.