[P. 365.] Home, Sweet Home. This Fantasia is taken from Airs from Arcady, 1885, by permission of Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.
[P. 374.] Ode on a Retrospect. This Ode was put into the mouth of an Eton master named Joynes. Being a Liberal with Nationalist sympathies, he visited a disturbed district in the North of Ireland (presumably in the summer of 1882), and contrived to get himself arrested, and imprisoned for a short time. He then wrote a book or pamphlet on the subject, with the result indicated in the verses, which seem to point to his having withdrawn his work rather than resign his appointment. Mr. Joynes still held his mastership when the Retrospect was published in November, 1882, and the popularity of the piece at Eton was prodigious, especially the admirable line, 'They snatched a fearful Joynes.'
[P. 378.] To A. T. M. 'The K.' was the 'A. T. M.' to whom the piece is addressed—A. T. Myers (Arthur, a physician of some eminence), the youngest brother of the poet parodied. Sir Herbert Stephen (by whose permission his brother's parodies, from Lapsus Calami, are given) states that in the early days of the Society for Psychical Research, founded by F. W. H. Myers, and of the study of the newly-named 'telepathy,' such experiments were frequently tried by the members, and he thinks it highly probable that the incident of Arthur Myers taking peppermint in order to test the ability of an alleged telepathist 'in quite another room' to say what it was, took place in fact as described. 'The K.' was a nickname by which A. T. M. was very generally known among his friends and relations: the reason is obscure.
[P. 379.] Wake! for the Ruddy Ball. This imitation by Francis Thompson of the Rubaiyat was first printed in Mr. E. V. Lucas's One Day with Another. It is here given by permission of Mr. Wilfrid Meynell and of Messrs. Burns and Oates.
[P. 382.] Robert Fuller Murray. 'The Poet's Hat' and 'Andrew M'Crie' are taken, by permission of Messrs. MacLehose and Sons, from The Scarlet Gown, 1891, the parodies in which, according to Andrew Lang, are not inferior to Calverley. 'Andrew M'Crie' is an improved edition of the verses originally contributed to the University News-Sheet (St. Andrews) in 1886, entitled 'Albert McGee.'
[P. 384.] A 'semi' is an undergraduate of the second, a 'tertian' of the third, year.
[P. 387.] Fish have their times to bite. This parody of Mrs. Hemans, by an unknown author, is taken from College Rhymes, 1861. The original begins:
Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north-wind's breath,
And stars to set—but all,