chapter viii

, p. 134.

And compare the idea underlying “The World of the Unborn” in _Erewhon_.

{26} The two chapters entitled “The Rights of Animals” and “The Rights of Vegetables” appeared first in the new and revised edition of _Erewhon_ 1901 and form part of the additions referred to in the preface to that book.

{30} On the Alps It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, Which some did die to look on: and all this— It wounds thine honour that I speak it now— Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek So much as lank’d not.—_Ant. & Cleop._, I. iv. 66–71.

{31} _Walks in the Regions of Science and Faith_, by Harvey Goodwin, D.D., Lord Bishop of Carlisle. John Murray, 1883.

{32a} This quotation occurs on the title page of _Charles Dickens and Rochester_ by Robert Langton. Chapman & Hall, 1880. Reprinted with additions from the Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Vol. VI, 1880. But the italics are Butler’s.

{32b} This is Butler’s note as he left it. He made it just about the time he hit upon the theory that the _Odyssey_ was written by a woman. If it had caught his eye after that theory had become established in his mind, he would have edited it so as to avoid speaking of Homer as the author of the poem.

{41} _Life and Habit_ is dated 1878, but it actually appeared on Butler’s birthday, 4th December, 1877.

{92} The five notes here amalgamated together into “Croesus and his Kitchen-Maid” were to have been part of an article for the _Universal Review_, but, before Butler wrote it, the review died. I suppose, but I do not now remember, that the article would have been about Mind and Matter or Organs and Tools, and, possibly, all the concluding notes of this group, beginning with “Our Cells,” would have been introduced as illustrations.

{106} Cf. the note “Reproduction,” p. 16 ante.

{107} _Evolution Old & New_, p. 77.

{128} _Twelve Voluntaries and Fugues for the Organ or Harpsichord with Rules for Tuning_. By the celebrated Mr. Handel. Butler had a copy of this book and gave it to the British Museum (Press Mark, e. 1089). We showed the rules to Rockstro, who said they were very interesting and probably authentic; they would tune the instrument in one of the mean tone temperaments.

{131} Mr. Kemp lived in Barnard’s Inn on my staircase. He was in the box-office at Drury Lane Theatre. See a further note about him on p. 133 post.

{136} If I remember right, the original Jubilee sixpence had to be altered because it was so like a half-sovereign that, on being gilded, it passed as one.

{147} Raffaelle’s picture “The Virgin and child attended by S. John the Baptist and S. Nicholas of Bari” (commonly known as the “Madonna degli Ansidei”), No. 1171, Room VI in the National Gallery, London, was purchased in 1885. Butler made this note in the same year; he revised the note in 1897 but, owing to changes in the gallery and in the attributions, I have found it necessary to modernise his descriptions of the other pictures with gold thread work so as to make them agree with the descriptions now (1912) on the pictures themselves.

{151} Cf. the passage in _Alps and Sanctuaries_,