r,
Closed in from London shouts and ceaseless brawl--
Twas you brought Nature to the visiting,
Till she herself seemed breathing in the room,
And Art grew fragrant in the glow of Spring
With homely scents of gorse and heather bloom.
Or sunbeams shone by many an Alpine fountain,
Fed by the waters of the forest stream;
Or glacier-glories in the rock-girt mountain,
Where they so often fed the poet's dream;
Or else was mingled the rough billow's glee
With cries of petrels on a sullen sea.

Again on page 393 of the same editions will be found Miss May
Morris's beautiful water colour of Kelmscott Manor, the country-house
jointly occupied by Rossetti and William Morris in which takes place
what has been called 'the crucial scene in _Aylwin_.'

APPENDIX II

So many questions about the characters depicted in _Aylwin_ were put
to the editor of _Notes and Queries_ that he suggested that a key to
the novel would he found acceptable. Some weeks after this suggestion
was made there appeared in that journal (7th June 1902) the following
contribution by Mr. Thomas St. E. Hake, an intimate friend of
Rossetti, and of other leading characters of the story. The
republication of it here has been kindly sanctioned by Mr. J. C.
Francis, a name so indissolubly associated both with the _Athenaeum_
and _Notes and Queries_. Mr. Hake writes as follows:

Ever since the publication of _Aylwin_ I have, at various times, seen
in _Notes and Queries_, the _Daily Chronicle_, the _Contemporary
Review_, and other organs, inquiries as to the identification of the
characters that appear in that story. And now that an inquiry comes
from so remote a place as Libau in Russia, I think I may come forward
and say what I know on the subject. But, of course, within the limited
space that could possibly be allotted to me in _Notes and Queries_, I
can only say a few words on a subject that would require many pages to
treat adequately. Until _Aylwin_ appeared, Mr. Joseph Knight's
monograph on Rossetti in the 'Great Writers' series was, with the sole
exception of what has been written about him by his own family and by
my late father, Dr. Gordon Hake, in his _Memoirs of Eighty Years_, the
only account that gave the reader the least idea of the man--his
fascination, his brilliance, his generosity, and his whimsical
qualities. But in _Aylwin_ Rossetti lives as I k