[30] Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland. By Jeremiah Curtin. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1890.

[31] Cook's Boston Monday Lectures: Biology, p. 51. After some hesitation I have decided to reprint this paper, because the "fundamental rule of procedure" here criticised is a favourite one with other controversialists than Mr. Cook, and it is one against which readers sometimes need to be put on their guard.

[32] In spite of an occasional slip of the pen which may seem to imply the contrary. See above, pp. 58-60.

[33] The italicizing is, of course, mine, both here and below.

[34] Biology, p. 67.

[35] Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, "Biology," p. 686.

[36] This article was published in the fortieth-anniversary number of The Atlantic Monthly, November, 1897.

[37] Iliad, vi. 168.

[38] The comedy afterward developed into All's Well that Ends Well.

[39] Davis, The Law in Shakespeare, St. Paul, 1884.