[28] See Haigh, “The Tragic Drama of the Greeks”, Oxford University Press; Murray, “Ancient Greek Literature”, Appleton, etc.—So far as I know no scholar has suggested that the goat did the singing of the “goat songs.”
[29] See “Sacred Books of the East”, vol. XXVIII, pp. 92-131.
[30] This has now come to an end. In October, 1924, the deposed emperor was driven out of his palace by the “Christian” General Feng Yu-hsiang.
[31] Thorndyke, “Shakespeare’s Theater”, Macmillan Company, page 139.
[32] Ib., page 87.
[33] Page 76.
[34] Op. cit., page 394.
[35] See Taine’s description, Book II, chapter II, in his “History of English Literature.”
[36] Page 261.—According to my friend Ferdinand Lessing, a German sinologist, Giles has here made a mistake. In Lessing’s words, Chinese plays contain “faustdicke Zoten.”
[37] “Shakespeare’s England,” II, 308ff.