More circumstances?——.—[MS.]

[EY] And now as silent as an unstrung drum.—[MS.]

[280] {229}The light and elegant wherries plying about the quays of Constantinople are so called.

[281] {230}[Ilderim, a Syrian Tale, by Henry Gally Knight, was published in 1816; Phrosyne, a Grecian Tale, and Alashtar, an Arabian Tale, in 1817. Moore's Lalla Kookh also appeared in 1817.]

[282] [St. Bartholomew was "discoriate, and flayed quick" (Golden Legend, 1900, v. 43).]

[EZ] We from impalement——.—[MS.]

[283] {231}"Many of the seraï and summer-houses [on the Bosphorus] have received these significant, or rather fantastic names: one is the Pearl Pavilion; another is the Star Palace; a third the Mansion of Looking-glasses."—Travels in Albania, 1858, ii. 243.

[FA] {232}

Of speeches, beauty, flattery—there is no

Method more sure——.—[MS.]