[43] Mr. F. Balfour was killed on the Aiguille Blanche de Peuteret, July 1882.
[44] Mr. Browning told the same story of the Carlyles at this party which Mrs. Ritchie narrates in Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning, pp. 198, 199.
[45] The nom de plume adopted in writing Candid Examination of Theism.
[46] See sonnets, The Bible of Amiens, and Christ Church, Oxford.
[47] See Nature, January 25, 1883.
[48] Mr. Romanes remarked à propos of Pfleiderer's lecture that St. Paul seemed to be a very hard nut for the lecturer to crack.
[49] Dr. King.
[50] Through the kindness of Lord Rosebery.
[51] One of Mr. Romanes' numerous pet names.
[52] This is in allusion to a minister of a small country parish in Scotland, who prayed that there might be at this time, on account of this parish, 'a very great commotion among the angels.'