[1] _Cf_. Lyall, _Ancient Arabian Poets_.

[2] _Cf_. Whittaker, _The Neo-Platonists_.

[3] Of course I use Professor Margoliouth's superb edition of the
letters.

[4] _Cf_. Thielmann, _Streifzüge im Kaukasus, etc_.

[5] _Cf_. Ambros, _Geschichte der Musik_, 1862.

[6] _Cf_. Pliny, _Nat. Hist._, vii. 174.

[7] Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, vol. i., p. 254.

[8] Meredith, _The Shaving of Shagpat_.

[9] Anatole France, _Le Puits de Sainte Claire_.

[10] Quoted by Grimm, _Teutonic Mythology_, vol. 2, p. 845.

[11] Stoufenb., 1126.

[12] _Cf_. in Scandinavia the death-goddess Hel.

[13] Romain Rolland, _Jean Christophe_.

[14] Ella d'Arcy, _Modern Instances_.