[988]. “Etwas über William Shakspeare,” Werke, VII. 57 f.

[989]. He refers to the Homeric hymn to Hermes, vv. 54-56: “The god sang to the playing what came into his mind, quickly, readily, just as at festal banquets youths tease one another with verses sung in turn.”

[990]. Quoted by Chappell, II. 623.

[991]. See the Greville Memoirs, III. 122, 202.

[992]. Spence, Anecdotes (for Italy), pp. 116 ff., 120 note.

[993]. Travels in Africa, reprinted in Pinkerton, XVI. 844.

[994]. Improvisation of labour songs by women, solitary or in bands, is very common. See Bücher, Arbeit u. Rhythmus, passim, especially, p. 78, and above, p. [269].

[995]. Improvisations at dance, funeral, wedding, and the like, among these Africans, are summed up by Spencer in his unfinished Descriptive Sociology, pp. 24 f.

[996]. See above, p. [20].

[997]. Compendium, 4th ed., p. 641. Cf. Spencer, Princ. Social., II. 151, American ed.