April, 1885.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES
[1] The remark is, of course, general. Most of Victoria, as we all know, is unfortunately definitely sold.
[2] Melbourne Review, October, 1883. (No. 32.)
[3] Victorian Review, May, 1884. (No. 55).
[4] Melbourne Review, April, 1884. (No. 34).
[5] I may parenthetically remark that the idea that Gordon is buried in St. Kilda Cemetery is incorrect, as my doing so may perhaps save others from the trouble of a fruitless pilgrimage there, not to say an examination of all the Cemetery books. He is buried in Brighton Cemetery. The tombstone is a block of blue-stone, topped with a shattered column crowned with a laurel-wreath. The four sides of the block have marble tablets let into them, on which are severally written: “The Poet Gordon. Died June 24, 1870, aged 37 years;” “Sea-Spray and Smoke-Drift;” “Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes;” “Ashtaroth.” The Cemetery is wooded and wild, the vegetation, including the grave-flowers, stragglingly luxuriant. Not altogether an unfitting “sleeping place” for him.
[6] His little article on it in the Contemporary Review is a mere circular.
[7] Victorian Review, February, 1885, in a series of articles on contemporary English poets.