FOOTNOTES
[1] Queen Mary: A Drama. By Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co. 1875.
[2] It is proper to state that the present criticism is not by the writer of the article on Mr. Tennyson in The Catholic World for May, 1868.
[3] The preceding article was ready for the printers before a copy fell into our hands of Mary Stuart—a drama by Sir Aubrey de Vere—a poem which it had not been our good fortune to have read before. The public would seem to have exhibited an appreciation of this work we should scarcely have expected from them, for it is, we believe, out of print. For ourselves, we must say that for poetical conception, appreciation and development of the several personages of the drama, it appears to us to be very much superior to Queen Mary.
[4] The title of captal (from capitalis) was formerly a common one among Aquitaine lords, but was gradually laid aside. The Captals de Buch and Trente were the last to bear it.
[5] In the Journal of the Sisters of Charity of that time we read:
“Jan. 22.—M. Vincent arrived at eleven o’clock in the evening, bringing us two children; one perhaps six days old, the other older. Both were crying.…”
“Jan. 25.—The streets are full of snow. We are expecting M. Vincent.”
“Jan. 26.—Poor M. Vincent is chilled through. He has brought us an infant.…”