"The notes are delightful. By the way I can add to one. When Mr.
Butler came to tell me he was going to stay with Dr. Creighton, he
told me that Alfred had decided he might go on finding the little
flake of tobacco in the letter. Then he asked me if I would lend him
a prayer-book as he thought the bishop's man ought to find one in his
portmanteau when he unpacked, the visit being from a Saturday to
Monday. I fetched one and he said:
"'Is it cut?'"
{261} "Ramblings in Cheapside" in Essays on Life, Art and Science.
{263} Edmund Gurney, author of The Power of Sound, and Secretary of
the Society for Psychical Research.
{279} Cf. Wamba's explanation of the Saxon swine being converted
into Norman pork on their death. Ivanhoe, Chap. I.
{282} See "A Medieval Girl School" in Essays on Life, Art & Science.
{333} "Above all things, let no unwary reader do me the injustice of
believing in ME. In that I write at all I am among the damned. If
he must believe in anything, let him believe in the music of Handel,
the painting of Giovanni Bellini, and in the thirteenth chapter of
St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians" (Life and Habit, close
of chapter II).
{343} "No one can hate drunkenness more than I do, but I am
confident the human intellect owes its superiority over that of the
lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has
given to imagination--imagination being little else than another name
for illusion" (Alps and Sanctuaries, chapter III).
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