Part 28

Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands, 37, 164

Willoughby, Colonel the Hon. Claude, 141

Wings, 54, 58, 142, 145, 150

Witherby, H. F., 53 n.

Wood pigeon, 35, 152

Woodcock, 28-30

Wounded Deer, Homing Instincts of, 123-35 stags, attacking stalkers, 155-64 danger of, 81, 157

Wye, river, 12, 85

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FOOTNOTES.

“The Death of the Wye,” Images and Meditations, a Book of Poems, by Mary Duclaux. T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., London.

It is singular that this poem was written and published in 1849, and that Tennyson’s In Memoriam, which contained the famous lines:

“’T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all,”

was written in 1834 but not published until 1850, and then anonymously. This is surely very remarkable, for it is impossible to believe that a man of the high and noble character of Clough would have consciously plagiarised any other poet.

After the publication of these verses in the above article, as it originally appeared in the issue of Country Life for August 6, 1921, their authorship was discovered through the kindness of some of the readers of that journal and the enterprise of its editor. In a letter in Country Life for August 27, 1921, Bishop G. F. Browne, late Lord Bishop of Bristol, thus describes their origin. “The first three stanzas were composed at Lowick Rectory, Northants, by the rector, J. S. Watson, his daughter Betty, and Dean Ingram of Peterborough. The authors felt that there ought to be a concluding stanza, ambiguously stating a final result. I told the story to Father Waggett on our way from Bournemouth to Clouds, and he suggested ‘booked it’ as the point of a last stanza. On that hint I wrote the stanza. In my book I remark that its tendency would be unjust to any real fisherman’s imaginative powers.”

December 11, 18, 25, 1921.

January 28, February 4, 11, 18, 1922.

Field, February 18, 1922, p. 233.

“Velocity of Flight among Birds,” by Colonel R. Meinertzhagen, D.S.O., in the Ibis for April 1921, pp. 237-238.

Field, February 18, 1922, p. 234.

Wild Sports of the Highlands, chap. x. p. 135.

Field, February 18, 1922, pp. 233-234.

Ibis, April 1921, p. 234.

Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands, by Charles St. John, ch. x. p. 131.

See also the letter of Mr. H. G. Hurrell in the Field for March 8, 1923.

This is a very considerable warning--H. F.

Pp. 258-259 (Witherby & Co., London, 1914).

Pp. 35, 36.