[16] Pall Mall Gazette, April 28, 1888.
[17] Farnham Herald, September 16, 1899.
[18] Wayfarings: a Record of Adventure and Liberation in the Life of the Spirit, 1918.
[19] The Academy, October 15, 1898.
[20] The substance of what is here said about Francis Adams is taken from my editorial note to the revised edition of the Songs of the Army of the Night, published by Mr. A. C. Fifield, 1910.
[21] De Rerum Naturâ, iii. 9-13, as translated in Treasures of Lucretius.
[22] It is significant that the title of Edward Carpenter’s lines to Shelley: “To a Dead Poet,” became, in later editions of Towards Democracy, “To One who is where the Eternal are.”
[23] Sonnet to Shelley, by N. Douglas Deuchar.
[24] From a letter on “Swinburne at Eton,” Times Literary Supplement, December 25, 1919.
[25] The assertion made in Mr. H. M. Hyndman’s Records of an Adventurous Life (1911) that Meredith’s vegetarianism was “almost the death of him,” and that he himself “recognized the truth,” viz. that flesh food is a necessity for those who work with mind as well as body, is directly at variance with what Meredith himself told me twenty years nearer the date of the experiment in question.