[23] For this aspect of the Oxford conspiracy, see George Borrow’s Lavengro, (1851), and The Romany Rye, (1857); also W. L. Cross, The Development of the English Novel, p. 211, and W. L. Gates, Essay on Newman, in Three Studies in Literature, N. Y., (1899).
[24] These quotations are all from the same letter, which may be found in Charles Kingsley; His Letters and Memories of His Life, edited by his wife: Scribners, N. Y., 1894, abridged from the London Edition.
[25] Quoted from a notice of the English translation by M. J. Safford. The notice appeared in a contemporary number of The Spectator, St. Louis.
[26] From a contemporary review in The Mail and Express, N. Y.
[27] Among authors cited are Virgil, Pliny the Elder, Martial, Cicero, Seneca, St. Jerome, Juvenal, Tacitus, Plautus, Dion Cassius, Aulus Gellius, Aurelius Victor, Suetonius, Ovid, Ammianus Marcellinus, Tertullian, and a number of others.
[28] Wallace owes little in the chariot-race scene to Quinton’s The Money God, though a similar scene in The Money God has been pointed out.
[29] Arthur Hobson Quinn, Professor of English and (former) Dean of the College, University of Pennsylvania, in The American Novel—Past and Present; Lectures by the Faculty, 1913-14, p. 302.
[30] J. M. Murray, The Problem of Style, (1922); quoted in The Classical Weekly February 26, 1923.
[31] The Temptation of St. Anthony is probably the best example of dream literature in the world, and Mr. E. L. White may have had in mind this method of transporting one’s thoughts to the past, when he was collecting material for Andivius Hedulio (1921).
[32] See his letter to Mr. Maurice, January 16, 1851 (already quoted), in Charles Kingsley, Letters and Memories of His Life, ed. by his wife, abr. from London ed., Scribner’s, 1894.