bers, and to have found her in the power of
the king of Phrygia, Lityerses. Lityerses used to make strangers
try a contest with him in reaping corn, and to put them to death if
he overcame them. Hercules arrived in time to save Daphnis, took
upon himself the reaping-contest with Lityerses, overcame him, and
slew him. The Lityerses-song connected with this tradition was,
like the Linus-song, one of the early plaintive strains of Greek
popular poetry, and used to be sung by corn-reapers. Other
traditions represented Daphnis as beloved by a nymph who exacted
from him an oath to love no one else. He fell in love with a
princess, and was struck blind by the jealous nymph. Mercury, who
was his father, raised him to Heaven, and made a fountain spring up
in the place from which he ascended. At this fountain the Sicilians
offered yearly sacrifices.--See Servius, _Comment. in Virgil.
Bucol._, v. 20, and viii. 68.]

[Footnote 19: NOTE 19, PAGE 294.

_Ah! where is he, who should have come._

The author's brother, William Delafield Arnold, Director of Public
Instruction in the Punjab, and author of _Oakfield, or Fellowship in the
East_, died at Gibraltar on his way home from India, April the 9th,
1859.]

[Footnote 20: NOTE 20, PAGE 295.

_So moonlit, saw me once of yore._

See the poem, _A Summer Night_, p. 257.]

[Footnote 21: NOTE 21, PAGE 295.

_My brother! and thine early lot._

See Note 19.]

[Footnote 22: NOTE 22, PAGE 299.

_I saw the meeting of two
Gifted women._

Charlotte Bronte and Harriet Martineau.]

[Footnote 23: NOTE 23, PAGE 302.

_Whose too bold dying song._

See the last verses by Emily Bronte in _Poems by Currer, Ellis, and
Acton Bell_.]

[Footnote 24: NOTE 24, PAGE 317.

_Goethe, too, had been there._

See _Harzreise im Winter_, in Goethe's _Gedichte_.]

[Footnote 25: NOTE 25, PAGE 325.

The author of _Obermann_, Etienne Pivert de Senancour, has little
celebrity in France, his own country; and out of France he is almost
unknown. But the profound inwardness, the austere sincerity, of his
principal work, _Obermann_, the delicate feeling for nature which it
exhibits, and the melancholy eloquence of many passages of it, have
attracted and charmed some of the most remarkable spirits of this
century, such as George Sand and Sainte-Beuve, and will probably always
find a certain number of spirits whom th