THE SNOW, AND WIND, AND HAIL. Ronsard's rendering of the famous
passage in Odyssey, vi., about the dwellings of the Olympians.
The vision of a Paradise of learned lovers and poets constantly
recurs in the poetry of Joachim du Bellay, and of Ronsard.

ROMANCE. Suggested by a passage in La Faustin, by M. E. de
Goncourt, a curious moment of poetry in a repulsive piece of
naturalisme.

M. BOULMIER, author of Les Villanelles, died shortly after this
villanelle was written; he had not published a larger collection
on which he had been at work.

EDMUND GORLIOT. The bibliophile will not easily procure Gorliot's
book, which is not in the catalogues. Throughout The Last Maying
there is reference to the Pervigilium Veneris.

BIRD-GODS. Apparently Aristophanes preserved, in a burlesque
form, the remnants of a genuine myth. Almost all savage religions
have their bird-gods, and it is probable that Aristophanes did not
invent, but only used a surviving myth of which there are scarcely
any other traces in Greek literature.

SPINET. The accent is on the last foot, even when the word is
written spinnet. Compare the remarkable Liberty which Pamela took
with the 137th Psalm.

My Joys and Hopes all overthrown,
My Heartstrings almost broke,
Unfit my Mind for Melody,