[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.'