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 fathers, looked up in curious admiration, as they heard the brief exclamations of wonder they so freely expressed, at the temerity of their hated foe. In short, every occupation was abandoned, for the time; and all other pursuits seemed discarded, in order that the tribe might freely indulge, after their own peculiar manner, in an open expression of their feelings.

When the excitement had a little abated, the old men disposed themselves seriously to a consideration of that which it became the honour and safety of their tribe to perform, under circumstances of so much delicacy and embarrassment. During all these movements, and in the midst of the general commotion, Magua had not only maintained his seat, but the very attitude he had originally taken, against the side of the lodge, where he continued as immoveable, and, apparently, as unconcerned, as if he had no interest in the result. Not a single indication of the future intentions of his hosts, however, escaped his vigilant eyes. With his consummate knowledge of the nature of the people with


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 whom he had to deal, he anticipated every measure on which they decided; and it might almost be said, that in many instances, he knew their intentions even before they became known to themselves.

The council of the Delawares was short. When it was ended, a general bustle announced that it was to be immediately succeeded by a solemn and formal assemblage of the nation. As such meetings were rare, and only called on occasions of the last importance, the subtle Huron, who still sate apart, a wily and dark observer of the proceedings, now knew that all his projects must be brought to their final issue. He, therefore, left the lodge, and walked silently forth to the place, in front of the encampment, whither the warriors were already beginning to collect.

It might have been half an hour before each individual, including even the women and children, was in his place. The delay had been created by the grave preparations that were deemed necessary to so solemn and unusual a conference. But, when the sun was seen climbing above the tops of that

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 mountain, against whose bosom the Delawares had constructed their encampment, most were seated; and as his bright rays darted from behind the outline of trees that fringed the eminence, they fell upon as grave, as attentive, and as deeply interested a multitude, as was probably ever before lighted by his morning beams. Its number somewhat exceeded a thousand souls.

In a collection of such serious savages, there is never to be found any impatient aspirant after premature distinction, standing ready to move his auditors to some hasty, and, perhaps, injudicious discussion, in order that his own reputation may be the gainer. An act of so much precipitancy and presumption, would seal the downfall of precocious intellect for ever. It rested solely with the oldest and most experienced of the men to lay the subject of their conference before the people. Until such an one chose to make some movement, no deeds in arms, no natural gifts, nor any renown as an orator, would have justified the slightest interruption. On the present occasion, the aged warrior whose


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 privilege it was to speak, was silent, seemingly oppressed with the magnitude of his subject. The delay had already continued long beyond the usual, deliberative pause, that always precedes a conference; but no sign of impatience, or surprise, escaped even the youngest boy. Occasionally, an eye was raised from the earth, where the looks of most were riveted, and strayed towards a particular lodge, that was, however, in no manner distinguished from those around it, except in the peculiar care that had been taken to protect it against the assaults of the weather.

At length, one of those low murmurs that are so apt to disturb a multitude, was heard, and the whole nation arose to their feet by a common impulse. At that instant, the door of the lodge in question opened, and three men issuing from it, slowly approached the place of consultation. They were all aged, even beyond that period to which the oldest present had reached; but one in the centre, who leaned on his companions for support, had numbered an amount of years, to which the human race


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 is seldom permitted to attain. His frame, which had once been tall and erect, like the cedar, was now bending under the pressure of more than a century. The elastic, light step of an Indian was gone, and in its place, he was compelled to toil his tardy way over the ground, inch by inch. His dark, wrinkled countenance, was in singular and wild contrast with his long white locks, which floated on his shoulders, in such thickness, as to announce that generations had probably passed away, since they had last been shorn.

The dress of this patriarch, for such, considering his vast age, in conjunction with his affinity and influence with his people, he might very properly be termed, was rich and imposing, though strictly after the simple fashions of the tribe. His robe was of the finest skins, which had been deprived of their fur, in order to admit of a hieroglyphical representation of various deeds in arms, done in former ages. His bosom was loaded with medals, some in massive silver, and one or two even in gold, the gifts of various christian poten-


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 tates, during the long period of his life. He also wore armlets, and cinctures above the ancles, of the latter precious metal. His head, on the whole of which the hair had been permitted to grow, the pursuits of war having so long been abandoned, was encircled by a sort of silver diadem, which, in its turn, bore lesser and more glittering ornaments, that sparkled amid the glossy hues of three drooping ostrich feathers, dyed a deep black, in touching contrast to the colour of his snow-white locks. His tomahawk was nearly hid in silver, and the handle of his knife shone like a horn of solid gold.

So soon as the first hum of emotion and pleasure, which the sudden appearance of this venerated individual created, had a little subsided, the name of "Tamenund" was whispered from mouth to mouth. Magua had often heard the fame of this wise and just Delaware; a reputation that even proceeded so far as to bestow on hint the rare gift of holding secret communion with the Great Spirit, and which has since


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 transmitted his name, with some slight alteration, to the white usurpers of his ancient territory, as the imaginary, tutelar saint of a vast empire. The Huron chief, therefore, stepped eagerly out a little from the throng, to a spot whence he might catch a nearer glimpse of the features of the man whose decision was likely to produce so deep an influence on his own fortunes.

The eyes of the old man were closed as though the organs were weaned with having so long witnessed the selfish workings of human passions. The colour of his skin differed from that of most around him, being richer and darker; the latter hue having been produced by certain delicate and mazy lines of complicated and yet beautiful figures, which had been traced over most of his person by the operation of tattooing. Notwithstanding the position of the Huron, he passed the observant and silent Magua without notice, and leaning


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 on his two venerable supporters, proceeded to the high place of the multitude, where he seated himself in the centre of his nation, with the dignity of a monarch, and the air of a father.

Nothing could surpass the reverence and affection with which this unexpected visit, from one who belonged rather to another world than to this, was received by his people. After a suitable and decent pause, the principal chiefs arose, and approaching the patriarch, they placed his hands reverently on their heads, seeming to intreat a blessing. The younger men were content with touching his robe, or even with drawing nigh his person, in order to breathe in the atmosphere of one so aged, so just, and so valiant. None but the most distinguished among the youthful warriors even presumed so far as to perform the latter ceremony; the great mass of the multitude deeming it a sufficient happiness to look upon a form so deeply venerated, and so well beloved. When these acts of affection and respect were performed, the chiefs drew back again to their


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 several places, and a deep and breathing silence reigned in the whole encampment.

After a short delay, a few of the young men, to whom instructions had been whispered by one of the aged attendants of Tamenund, arose, left the crowd, and entered the lodge which has already been noted as the object of so much attention, throughout that morning. In a few minutes they re-appeared, escorting the individuals who had caused all these solemn preparations, towards the seat of judgment. The crowd opened in a lane, and when the party had re-entered, it closed in again, forming a large and dense belt of human bodies, arranged in an open circle.


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Chenopodium.] ''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 363; Raoul, Choix, 43; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 213; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 230; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' v. 161. C. ambiguum, ''R. Br. Prodr.'' 407.

4. C. urbicum, ''Linn. Sp. Plant.'' 218.—A coarse erect or spreading branching herb 1–2 ft. high or more, green and glabrous or rarely slightly mealy; stem angled, grooved. Lower leaves on slender petioles ½–1 in. long; blade ¾–1½ in., triangular or rhombic-ovate, coarsely and irregularly toothed and lobed, rather thin, green on both surfaces, veined; upper smaller, narrower, more acute. Flowers small, in little clusters arranged in dense leafless axillary spikes, or in terminal panicles which are leafy below. Stamens 5, exserted. Styles short. Fruiting-perianth $1⁄15$ in. diam.; segments obtuse, not completely covering the utricle. Seed horizontal, much depressed, minutely punctulate, margins obtuse.—''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 213; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 230.

5. C. ambrosioides, ''Linn. Sp. Plant.'' 219.—An erect much-branched strong-smelling glandular annual herb 1–3 ft. high; branches slender, strict, leafy. Leaves shortly petiolate, 1–4 in. long, ovate- or oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, cuneate at the base, coarsely sinuate-toothed or -lobed, membranous, glabrous or pubescent, green, not mealy; upper ones gradually smaller, linear-lanceolate, entire or nearly so. Flowers exceedingly numerous, very minute, in little clusters in slender axillary often elongated spikes, frequently so copiously produced as to render the upper portion of the plant a large leafy panicle. Stamens 5. Styles 3–4, elongate. Fruiting-perianth about $1⁄25$ in. diam., segments closed over the fruit and completely enclosing it. Seed horizontal or rarely vertical, smooth, polished, shining, margins obtuse.—''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 213; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 230; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' v. 162.

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 admission. Sickness, hardship, danger are her fellow travellers—her inseparable companions. She may have been out of the reach of these S.W. N.W. gales, before they began to blow, or they may have spent their fury on land, and not ruffled the sea much. If it has been otherwise, she has been sorely tossed, while we have been sleeping in our beds, or lying awake thinking about her. Yet these real, material dangers, when once past, leave in the mind the satisfaction of having struggled with difficulty, and overcome it. Strength, courage, and experience are their invariable results; whereas, I doubt whether suffering purely mental has any good result, unless it be to make us by comparison less sensitive to physical suffering Ten years ago, I should have laughed at your account of the blunder you made in mistaking the bachelor doctor for a married man. I should have certainly thought you scrupulous over-much, and wondered how you could possibly regret being civil to a decent individual, merely because he happened to be single, instead of double. Now, however, I can perceive that your scruples are founded on common sense. I know that if women wish to escape the stigma of husband-seeking, they must act and look like marble or clay—cold, expressionless, bloodless; for every appearance of feeling, of joy, sorrow, friendliness, antipathy, admiration, disgust, are alike construed by the world into the attempt to hook a husband. Never mind! well-meaning women have their own consciences to comfort them after all. Do not, therefore, be too much afraid of showing yourself as you are, affectionate


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Cleanup...(Part 2)
I recentyl finished cleaning out the 'missing-end' tage linter of block level tags as far as I was able.

Any chance you could add to your list of ongoing projects, cleanup of ns0 works using raw HTML elements that are not recomended?

Like use of the HTML tags BLOCKQUOTE, FONT and CENTER directly.

Many older direct HTML usages in ns0 have templated equivalents now :)

See also:-
 * https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/4407/blockquote.txt
 * https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/4407/rawcenter.txt
 * https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/4407/rawfont.txt

Can you think of other 'clunky' direct HTML coding that a regexp can find, and replace with a (semanticly meaningful) templated alterantive? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:38, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

 * One thing that comes to mind is  tags. I don't know how easy they'd be to replace automatically, but they're definitely not necessary, and can be found pretty easily. Do you have a list of non-recommended HTML coding? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 19:16, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

 * There are places where  tags are preferred, such as in headers where a paragraph break is needed in text set as a parameter value.  Without the tag, the text overlaps the bottom margin. --EncycloPetey (talk) 19:22, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Good to know; thank you! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 19:23, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Subsequent to the above the links may have changed.
 * In addition you might want to consider if the wikitext layer for Syntaxhighlight or HTML is a good fit for some and  and  styled source wikitext in documentation. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:18, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Thank you..
For resolving some of those long-standing LintErrors.

You'll be working through the 2,000 or stripped tags in Page:Namespace? (They don't transfer over into main namespace suggesting they are mostly unpaired templates, or header, footer content related?.

The strategy I had at one point was to resolve all the mis-nesting, then the stripped tags, and then the missing ones. When all the tags were matched up, it would be a lot more straightforawrd to resolve all the obselete formatting, given that a large proportion of that task could be automated.

You might find some of my Template tweaks useful in resolving even more LintErorrs and formatting glitches:- Such as:- https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Span_tag&diff=prev&oldid=12337463 use the parameter with the wikitext you want to place inside the span. An example would be  can be used as a replacement for center and c where the content is inside another span (such as a float right or float left or various sidenotes.  If inside a ref tag, remember to use blockref tag at the start of the REF tag, so that when certain limitations in Mediawiki are removed the relevant markup can be changed back.

https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AHeading&type=revision&diff=12307430&oldid=11131499 headings can now have an anchor set directly by using the heading template. Use the or  parameter, to override the default that would otherwise be generated. I implemented this so that headings with complex formatting could have sane anchors. :)

 * /s and related may be useful for lists you want to class, I wrote the templates as work-around for not being able to style Mediawiki style lists directly, so that I could apply Indexstyles/Templatestyles to lists, and have list items, with multiple blocks/paragrpahs as needed. (NB. You might want to update the documentation to be more comprehensive). (NB you will need to use explicit */e at the end of a list or sublist though.

Hope this helps. (If you want I can I think generate a list using pywikibot of 'Stripped Tag' pages that are nominally validated (ql:4)?) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:56, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

The following PAWS results set https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/ns0_missingend_transcluded, has some entries in that I didn't feel comfortable updating. Perhaps you'd care to take a look? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 18:29, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

 * @ShakespeareFan00: I got a 404 for that one, but I would be happy to take a look at those pages. Would also appreciate a list of validated 'Stripped Tag' pages. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 20:46, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Hmm - Try it again now - https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/ns0_missingend_transcluded, I'll see what I can some up with for what you mention :)  ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:34, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

On your second point - https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/ql4_ns104stripped.txt - 500 or so pages, and I had to fix some 'funky' titles or the query didn't run correctly. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:24, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

I also generated some queries for the other quality levels:- https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/ql1_ns104stripped.txt https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/ql2_ns104stripped.txt https://public.paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/ql3_ns104stripped.txt

I've not generated a list for missing tags as they tend to be a bit larger. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:09, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

Conversion of articles to format
Hi, thanks for converting some EB1911 articles to style, but I found an issue (which I've since corrected) when you edited. By using the "onlysection" parameter, you're assuming every page in the range has a section tag. Page:EB1911 - Volume 08.djvu/906 was missing a tag (now added) and so it's content wasn't displaying. Is there an easy way to check that other EB1911 articles you've converted include pages that might also be missing a section tag? Thanks – DivermanAU (talk) 22:54, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

 * @DivermanAU: I don't know of a good way to search my contributions in particular, but this search query should get you most of the potentially problematic pages. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 05:37, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the query - but there's a lot of pages in the report but no indication if any have problems. Would the Source Checker ( https://checker.toolforge.org/?db=enwikisource_p&title=Index:EB1911_-_Volume_08.djvu ) reveal the issue? DivermanAU (talk) 12:07, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * @DivermanAU: The Checker tool (or the new JS-based replacement being tested, see WS:S) will let you find pages that are unexpectedly not transcluded on a single index. I'm not aware of any tool that will give you that kind of info across a set of indexes. Xover (talk) 13:35, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Incidentally, this is why I think it's best to use /  by default and only break out the   approach in exceptional cases (e.g. where   will be extra tedious, or in cases where you have full control and can plan your transclusions based on it). I've made this particular mistake a few too many times. :) Xover (talk) 08:13, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I did an experiment by creating (which spans three pages) and deliberately using "onlysection" and leaving one page without a section tag (so that page did not display, as expected). Unfortunately when I ran the Source Checker I mentioned above, it regarded the page Page:EB1911 - Volume 18.djvu/474 as being transcluded even though the text from the page did not appear in the article. I assume the Checker only looks to see if a page is included in a range, and not whether that page has a section tag which is specified in the page range.
 * I've since added a section tag to the page in question so it appears in the article now. DivermanAU (talk) 21:17, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Oh, weird. I'm guessing this is caused by the proofreadpage extension (or possibly LST, which PRP uses under the hood for this) generating a dependency on that page as a whole, but then filtering out its contents on display due to the . As far as MediaWiki is concerned, the page has been transcluded even if none of its contents are displayed anywhere. Xover (talk) 23:10, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

my failure, your clean-up?
I just lose it when I get to adding new authors to the author pages. Me and the alphabet.... Also, I was patrolling one day and I prevented an ip edit from bolding an author. Since then, I have guessed that the bold on the author pages means awards (due to the defense given by the ip editor.

Adding new authors to the author list... I was spotty before that and just don't do it since then. So, my clean-up request:

Could you go through my "contributions" and add the authors I created to the right pages? The whole thing has just been a nightmare to me, including that little ticky feeling when I know I am avoiding something and will continue to do so.

Me and the alphabet, not so good of friends since 8th grade....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 18:21, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

 * @RaboKarbakian sure! Noting for my own reference that I'm going off of this query and it's been pretty straightforward so far with the exception of Author:Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 19:35, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

 * Thank you so much! 'has been bothering me for more than a year now!  I am sorry for the number on that list -- mostly it is the magazine, and quite a bit of authors of children's lit. which is for sure the reason they were not here to begin with.  I was counting on your abilities with the query, which I also lack....--RaboKarbakian (talk) 21:06, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Index:Gems of Chinese literature (1922).djvu
Do you have 'something stronger' to standardise the formatting in this? I'll continue lint matching tags, but it might need someone to compell a more logical standardised format. 13:39, 20 February 2023 (UTC) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:39, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

 * @ShakespeareFan00 Hmm, so my first thought is that the p tags for ordinary text aren't necessary; normal paragraphs are fine. Once those have been taken out, the headers can be formatted with pseudoheading and index styles. For example: Page:Gems of Chinese literature (1922).djvu/242. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 22:44, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Feel free to proceed in stripping uneeded P then :) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:51, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Template:UKSI/paragraph and related..
There are a set of wrapper templates that handle various different levels.. However these were developed prior to Lua being available and prior to Templatestyles..

These were created so that there was a standard format/ style for UK Statutory Instruments on English Wikisource. Would you be willing to look into collating the family into a module like you are trying to do with getting headings under control?

Also UKroadsign and related would possibly be easier to maintain as a Module, albiet in the process it might be plausible to simplify it a little bit.. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:39, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

 * Yes, I would be happy to work on these templates. Thank you for asking, and I'll keep you posted! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 01:10, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Page:Urbiztondo_Ordinance_no._1-_2022.pdf/1
Hi, id like a second view on something...

IS there a template or module to do the indentation and numbering? Numbered div is a bit cumbersome and should be overhauled. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:47, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

 * @ShakespeareFan00 IMO it's easier to just use a numbered list and use CSS to get the right kind of numbering. I've done the first page as a demo. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:06, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks..
 * Can you also look into modularising *!/s and others, with a view to making them able to support the id numbers and classing you recommend?
 * I created those templates so I didn't have to do as much in terms of raw HTML in page namespace.
 * ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:57, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hmm. - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Urbiztondo_Ordinance_no._1-_2022.pdf/7. We can't set custom list marker types. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:36, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The W3C notes on CSS COunter Styles Levle 3 even have a way to do this formatting, but it can't be placed in an Indexstyle as it doesn't recognise @counterstyle, Also ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:45, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @ShakespeareFan00, I'll take a look! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 01:29, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

 * Specfically, the list should go x,y,z,..aa,bb,cc,dd, etc.. not aa, ab, ac .. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:12, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Yep, I noticed! That's one of the things I will need to look into. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 20:21, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Block center an redirects...
Once you've rationalised the headings, Any chance you could look into "pseudo" poems using Block center and related? In many many instances, they should be using ppoem which is now reasonably stable. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 18:02, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

 * Ooh, yes… —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 00:05, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Cleanups...
Thanks for the params cleanup.. Any chance you could look into these which need de-liniting?

https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/u_pair https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/i_pair https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/i_space https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/b_space https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:ShakespeareFan00/s_space ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:06, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

 * @ShakespeareFan00: I took a look at the s_space scan, and all of the errors were the result of bad OCR. I fixed the immediate problem by replacing the pages in question with mediocre OCR, but your scans will be more helpful if you don't include un-proofread pages. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:23, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
 * You can skip Vol 6 of Complete peerage (I will consider taking it manually  out of the search results anyway), it needs a regeneration of the entire OCR layer anwyay due to page layout changes in the original.ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:26, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the cleanups, it helps immensely. Any objections to essentially helping proofread the text portions of Index:The University Hymn Book.djvu, as you'd done already? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:42, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The objective with the i_space and i_pair lists was so that those tags when balanced, could be automatically converted over to using "appropriate" wikitext.  tags can be replaced with U once balanced as well.
 * Once the lints are resolved, a LOT of automated conversions are more feasible. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:42, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

 * How good are you with obscure notations?

https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LintErrors/missing-end-tag&offset=1960971&exactmatch=1&namespace=104&tag=p&template=all&titlecategorysearch=

This is a highly significant work, but it seems to have a lot of issues with P tags. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:36, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

span and p
https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Span_tag&diff=prev&oldid=13491919

Nice idea.. but both these templates should be module based so that the giant switch code is instead a set of "/data" and can thus be changed without needing to patch the parse template? (The same approach was used with ts a while back and it made things more efficient :) ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:39, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Cleanups (Part 3)
https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LintErrors/missing-end-tag&exactmatch=1&namespace=104&tag=table&template=all&titlecategorysearch=

In most cases it's simply a case of adding the right closure for a table in the footer... ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 09:08, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Running header module changes...
You might find this useful in checking if your consolidations broke things :) https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2Fwst-running-header%2F&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns1=1&ns2=1&ns3=1&ns4=1&ns5=1&ns6=1&ns7=1&ns8=1&ns9=1&ns10=1&ns11=1&ns12=1&ns13=1&ns14=1&ns15=1&ns100=1&ns101=1&ns102=1&ns103=1&ns104=1&ns105=1&ns106=1&ns107=1&ns114=1&ns115=1&ns710=1&ns711=1&ns828=1&ns829=1&ns2300=1&ns2301=1&ns2302=1&ns2303=1 ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:51, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Selectors
In Index:The New International Encyclopædia 1st ed. v. 01.djvu/styles.css you use the selector. At first blush that looks pretty highly-specified. Is that deliberate? I haven't checked the cascade in play there, but I would have started with. The class  cannot appear anywhere that   isn't also applied, and it can never have any children but the ones we add from code so specifying that we only want divs that are the first child is unnecessary. We might of course need higher specificity to override other selectors (from the TemplateStyles, typically), but my first thought was that it seems over-specified as is. Just a thought... Xover (talk) 07:29, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

 * @Xover: I wasn't putting too much thought into it.  does seem to be specific enough! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 22:58, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Edit summaries are always nice, but when editing code-ish stuff it's more or less a requirement. Both to let other contributors know what you are doing, but also when looking back through history to find when something changed and why. Think of them as turn lights in traffic: without them other drivers won't be able to tell what you're planning to do and there will be a lot more fender benders. :-) Xover (talk) 10:11, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

 * Good point, I'll pay more attention to that going forward! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 21:13, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

Header
Just a heads up... I noticed you've sandboxed some stuff for header. That template is a kind of special case with extremely high risk. My call has been that sandboxing followed by a big bang switchover is too risky. My plan, that I've been slowly chipping away at when time has allowed, has been to slowly migrate pieces of the template to Module:Header until there's nothing left in the template. At that point we'll have much better control and can code around most edge cases or transitions needed. Not sure what you're planning for the sandbox stuff, so this might be entirely irrelevant, but just wanted to give you a heads up before you step on a landmine there. Xover (talk) 11:27, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

 * @Xover: Thank you, this is a useful heads up. My current plans are roughly as follows:
 * Make sure that Module:Header/sandbox behaves correctly with the current header code. (It's not quite there yet, but I think I can do it.)
 * I've written code to allow for some changes in behavior, like putting a "by" before and defaultsorting titles without "A/An/The" in front, but it's not enabled.
 * Work on using Module:Header/container for author, portal header, process header and translation header as well.
 * Once everything looks like it's working, the transition plan:
 * Take the CSS from Template:Header/sandbox/styles.css and add it to Template:Header/styles.css. This is adding CSS from Template:Header/main block/styles.css and Template:Header/notes block/styles.css but is not changing any definitions.
 * In Module:Header/container, change "Template:Header/sandbox/styles.css" to "Template:Header/styles.css".
 * Protect Module:Header/container.
 * Add the code in Module:Header/sandbox to Module:Header.
 * Make header simply an invocation of Module:Header.
 * Remove the legacy functions from Module:Header.
 * Thoughts? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 06:04, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Why a submodule?You'll never be able to catch all the weird edge cases in header (and the umpteen other templates that wrap it; including being called by Proofread Page itself) use in /testcases. People have been allowed and encouraged to throw any old thing into its parameters that seems to "work" (fsvo) over the last 10+ years, and there's a lot of "magical" behaviour that people have relied on. That's why I've been approaching it piecemeal. Pick one bit of the template code, reimplement it in Lua, switch the template over to call that part of the module, and then give it a good long time in production to shake out and notice any issues. Rinse and repeat for the next bit of template code. This is much much safer, much less likely to lead to catastrophic failures that take time to track down and fix (and attendant mobs of community members with pitchforks and torches), and less likely to leave subtle problems lurking undiscovered somewhere.Once this slow-and-steady process has everything over in Lua, even if it's badly designed by straight replicating the template-based design, you can start iteratively refactoring the module. Switching to use Module:Header/year for example. And at that point it'll be easier to see what to abstract out to a more general-purpose module and what to keep in-core in Module:Header. At that point it'll also be easier to start proposing changes to behaviour and interface. For example, I want to kill override_author in favour of an approach similar to the CS1 modules on enWP (e.g. author1-name + author1-display). Maybe untangle the "please don't remove params" logic that is unlike every other template in existence. Look into some way to make it be smarter about subpages. Behave better when called from Proofread Page. Redo the markup structure and stylesheet to be more modern, scale better on mobile, be more flexible for long titles or chapter names, etc. etc. There's a lot of technical debt and bitrot in there, and a lot of opportunities for improvement too.Apart from being big-bang-based, your transition plan looks fine to me. Xover (talk) 08:08, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Xover: That's a good point; it's easier to figure out how we want to do things if we do them piece-by-piece. In that case, my first proposal is to add  and declare all the variables, which I hope is pretty straightforward—does Module:Header/sandbox look good to you? After that, I'll work on tweaking the year code so that years actually display on the testcases page. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:39, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks, for making the size relative, I'd based the styles on what was on the page at Metawiki. but you seem to have come up with a series of fized ratios that works much better. I even adapted the approach over on Wikibooks ( I shifted the ratios, to be better conformant with observed behaviour for the FONT tag. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 22:39, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

 * You're welcome! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 22:54, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure about the +1, +2 type behaviour though - See https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/graphics.html#edef-FONT ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 23:08, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I might consider adding a line=param to deprecate some uses of U and S tags. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 23:08, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

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I may have determined the problem that is causing widespread display errors in Greek, specifically with ellision as seen in which should display as two words with a space between, but is instead now being displayed as a single word without a space. The character is a combining character, which has been entered with following space, which means it ought to display on its own, but the software may be interpreting this as a double space (space-below and following space) and collapsing the perceived double-spacing to single spacing, which unfortunately removed the desired space between the words.

The realization came when I spotted that this issue does not happen for text in Header templates (see Hymn to Venus (Sappho), for example), so I'm guessing that something can be done locally to prevent the incorrect collapse of spacing in Greek. --EncycloPetey (talk) 03:00, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

 * Huh, glad you figured it out! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:49, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @EncycloPetey: I'm pretty sure this is specifically a problem with GentiumPlus, because Hymn to Venus (Sappho) doesn't wrap the Greek text in Greek and it looks fine, and "κατ᾽ ἔμον " looks fine, and "κατ᾽ ἔμον ", but " κατ᾽ ἔμον " has the display bug. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 03:29, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

 * Is there a means to prevent the selection of GentiumPlus for display? It's affecting multiple works across en.WS.  --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:11, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @EncycloPetey: Find another suitable font and edit Template:Greek/styles.css. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:12, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Woah. Hold yer horses!First of all, Gentium Plus is not any old random font that looks pretty. It's a font specifically designed for this sort of use by SIL, and it is actually maintained by SIL. And it's one of the few custom webfonts made available through the i18n machinery in MediaWiki, which means it is actually available for all visitors unlike any other font (we can't use, say, Google's fontcdn or other third-party webfonts due to the Privacy Policy). Fonts for this kind of purpose are also not replaceable willy-nilly: there are a whole host of concerns—some straightforward, some subtle or obscure—that need to be addressed. Complicated by the fact that Greek text can appear in a whole host of different contexts. Why do you think the testcases are so extensive?The way to address this is to start by figuring out whether the font is really what's causing this. Or is it something about what we're inputting, or how MediaWiki is treating the input. Eliminating the web browser and local fonts and font rendering engine etc. And if it's the font we need to figure out whether the behaviour is actually incorrect, and if so in what way (this is not always obvious). Some such flagged issues have turned out to be a matter of preference between multiple valid renderings and behaviours. If it's a matter of preference we can request a font feature flag from SIL to switch between the two, and run some suitable community process to decide. If it's an actual error we can report it as a bug and wait for an updated release of the font. Once either have been released we can request that the language team at the WMF update the WMF copy of the font.This stuff is complicated, and there are usually no quick fixes, is what I'm saying. Xover (talk) 08:03, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hey, thanks for helping out with cleaning up the Dictionary of Spoken Spanish! I do have some questions about your edits, just in case I should take on the changes as part of my own standards: I appreciate any information you can provide! I want to do my best on this work since (for some reason) it's the most-viewed work on the whole site.
 * 1) On the TOC page, I noticed you removed the dot leaders. I usually add these; is it better practice to leave them out? I also usually omit links to the page numbers; what's your rationale for adding them?
 * 2) On Page iv, you used the template on each centered line instead of just once; is there a technical reason for this or is it more for clean formatting?
 * 3) Also on Page iv, you removed and {{code| {| cellpadding=0 {{ts|al|w100}} }} and added{{code| {| style="text-align:left; margin:auto; border-collapse:collapse;" }} instead. I'm not too knowledgeable on CSS styles; should I make this change on the rest of the tables?
 * 4) I noticed you made the CSS page; if it's not too much to ask, could you explain what it does?

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 * @SpikeShroom: Thank you for reaching out, and for working on this bizarrely popular work!
 * Yes, it's better practice to leave out the dot leaders; they're not really supported in HTML and they add a lot of cruft to the page for not a lot of benefit. @Xover has a very detailed explanation of this, but I'm not sure if it's available as a stable page or if I've just seen it in previous discussions. The page number links were just for my convenience, so I could check the formatting of chapter headers for consistency.
 * Using c on each centered line was just for cleaner formatting; it doesn't make a technical difference.
 * Yes, please do make these changes to the rest of the tables. It's better to use text-relative units like em, rather than px, for block widths (see H:PXWIDTH). You don't need bc to center a table, you can just use  (the relevant part is  ). If you do this, the table will be centered on the page, and adjust its width automatically to fit the contents. I also just find ts overcomplicated and hard to read; I had to go to Special:ExpandTemplates to figure out what it was doing.
 * I'll work on implementing more of the formatting with index CSS, so you don't have to do so much of it manually.
 * The CSS page applies styles to all pages in the index; see Help:Page styles. The styles that are there right now affect elements with the  class—that is, the table of contents, which uses TOC begin. They apply the formatting that was being done inline with templates, like making the chapters use small caps and adjusting the spacing of the appendix subsections.
 * It's better for screen-reader accessibility and improved copy-pasting to use  and use normal capitalization on text that's written in all caps for stylistic reasons.
 * —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 21:43, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Did someone set out a nice big soapbox and then invite me to get up on it? Oh, yes, precious, they certainly did! 😎But since I've been kinda overdoing it with the soapboxing lately and my throat is getting sore, I'll spare you the extended version here and instead just link to WS:S#Orley Farm Contents+Illustrations Lists.Regarding centering… using on a single line is reasonably robust, but the second you put more than one line into a template parameter you 1) run into heightened risk that something will go wonky, and 2) you make the wikicode much harder to read (to keep track of where it starts and ends). That's why we, for most templates, have block variants like  and c/e (short for and );  / ;  / ; and so forth. These start+end variants are a lot more robust, can even be used across Page: pages if needed, and it's a lot easier for someone reading to see where the centered (or whatever) content starts and ends. Xover (talk) 06:58, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

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I had need to debug and noticed its output is… well, not to put too fine a point on it, it's pretty yuck. :-)Why does it need this many nested s (not to mention the  s)? Two of those useless spans are added by MediaWiki (for some darn reason) but we exacerbate it with that extra wrapper span instead of just setting the class directly on MW's image output.

And why does the styling need to be using selectors more akin to XPath than CSS? So before I go start tearing out stuff there (a layout table? surely not!), am I missing something or is this just replicating an old pre-Lua markup structure and styling? Xover (talk) 07:13, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

 * @Xover: Yep, this is just replicating the pre-Lua structure; tear away. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 20:19, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Cleanups-
Index:Beowulf (Wyatt).djvu Can you take a look over this, it's generating a lot of paired Missing/Stripped lint concerns.. I suppect it's due to a SPAN based template being used instead of DIV based one, but it's widespread over the work in question. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:25, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

 * @ShakespeareFan00: I fixed the stripped tag error on Page:Beowulf (Wyatt).djvu/126 by editing pages 125, 126 and 127 to use  at the start and   at the end instead of using a separate lang invocation on each page. I don't really feel like doing the rest of the pages right now, but hopefully this is a helpful model; let me know if you do this and there are still stripped tag errors when you're done. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 08:21, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Noted.. I'm converting currently, but it will take a while. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 16:10, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Template:Physical Revue TOC
I feel like this template is a bit unwieldy where it appears on a work edition page; what would you think if I were to replace it with a link to a new portal Portal:The Physical Revue? —Beleg Tâl (talk) 14:56, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

 * Sounds good to me! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 15:42, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Beleg Tâl: I've created Portal:The Physical Revue and linked it from the relevant songs. Feel free to add to and edit it! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:20, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Awesome! —Beleg Tâl (talk) 20:45, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Form
I'm curious about this removal, which would have classified the song by its period. --EncycloPetey (talk) 07:29, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

 * I made Category:Cantigas d'amigo a subcategory of Category:Medieval songs, since Wikipedia says it's a genre of medieval lyric poetry. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 07:30, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * But that conflates genre and time period as categorization, which is why I did not do that. These items are now categorized by genre explicitly, but not by form/date.  And while the cantiga originated in the middle ages, it's still written / performed even today.  It's a genre. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:26, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * That's a good point; thanks for checking my work! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 19:51, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Template:Biblecontents2
Please re-check, your update is causing it to throw out unmatched P tags (according to Special:Linterrrors)ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 08:51, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

 * @ShakespeareFan00: Fixed now? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 20:11, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Template:Citation
Could you consider converting this to a module? I've got a really hard to track down LintError in Page:Biodiversity Assessment of the Fishes of Saba Bank Atoll, Netherlands Antilles.pdf/37 and the current citation/core template is too complicated to maintain/debug. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:42, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

 * Oof, yeah, I'll take a look. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 15:03, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @ShakespeareFan00: I've mostly finished working on the module. The only remaining issue is Scriptorium/Help. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 18:45, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!
Big thanks for WD version now being a module, etc.!!--RaboKarbakian (talk) 14:30, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

 * You're welcome! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 15:02, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Comment on “Early Results of Slanted Recession of the Lateral Rectus Muscle for Intermittent Exotropia with Convergence Insufficiency”
Throws a missing SPAN lint. But thanks for updating the citation template to Lua should be more strightforward for someone to track down the glitch. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:53, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

 * Fixed; thanks for pointing out the issue! —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 00:25, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

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was sitting under the shadow of a huge crag, on a shaggy, impressive spot, where the steep mountain path turned abruptly round a corner, down into the chasm. The sun was still high, and brightening the tops of the pine-trees in the clefts at his feet. He was looking at something in his note-book, when Felix, who had been clambering about, came to him with a stone in his hand. "What is the name of this stone, father?" said the boy. "I know not," answered Wilhelm. "Can this be gold that glitters in it so?" said Felix. "No, no," replied Wilhelm; “and now I remember, people call it mica, or cat-gold." "Cat-gold!" said the boy, smiling. "And why?" "I suppose because it is false, and cats are reckoned false too." "Well, I will note that," said the son, and put in the stone beside the rest with which he had already filled his pockets. Scarcely was this over when, adown the steep path, a strange enough appearance came in sight. Two boys,


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NOTES TO THE FIRST VOLUME. rejects, in a great measure, the influence of climates upon men. All is custom and education, says he. It is not from nature, that the Athenians are learned, the Lacedemonians ignorant, and the Thcbans too, who are still nearer neighbours to the former. Even the difference of animals, he adds, depends not on climate.

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sect or society amidst a greater, are commonly most regular in their morals; because they are more remarked, and the faults of individuals draw dishonour on the whole. The only exception .to this rule is, when the superstition and prejudices of the large society are so strong as to throw an infamy on the smaller society, independent of their morals. For in that case, having no character either to save or gain, they become careless of their behaviour, except among themselves.

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apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilized nation of that complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences. On the other hand, the most rude and barbarous of the Whites, such as the antient Germans, the present Tartars, have still something eminent about them, in their vaour, form of government, or some other particular. Such a uniform and constant difference could not happen, in so many countries and ages, if nature had not made an original distinction between these breeds of men. Not to mention our colonies there are Negro 'slaves dispersed all over Europe, of whom none ever discovered any symptoms of ingenuity; though low people, without education, will start up amongst us, and distinguish themselves in every profession. In Jamaica, indeed, they talk of one Negro as a man of parts and learning; but it is likely he is admired for slender accomplishments, like a parrot who speaks a few words plainly.


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38 As for the Brunios, they were very much distressed when they found out that the chipmunk was gone. By spying, they discovered some of Eepersip's strange habits. Then, early one morning, they took their little kitten--the twins had rather stupidly named her "White," for her colour--up to the field where Eepersip had her home, let her go very near Eepersip’s burrow, and then ran away quickly before the kitten could find them. Well, White didn’t care much about being left in the dewy grass, bewilderedly shaking first one paw, then another. But presently Eepersip came out of her burrow with Chippy. Seeing the patch of white, Eepersip thought the kitten was an exceptionally late bit of snow left on the grass. But no, it certainly had not been there the last time she had looked. And then she realized that it was altogether too late for any snow. Darting up to it, she found the little kitten, so snow-white, with the blue-grey eyes like little moonstones, gazing pitifully up at her. Because she thought the kitten had been a patch of snow, Eepersip named her Snow-flake.

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 and good-hearted; do not too harshly repress sentiments and feelings excellent in themselves, because your fear that some puppy may fancy that you are letting them come out to fascinate him; do not condemn yourself to live only by halves, because if you showed too much animation some pragmatical thing in breeches might take it into his pate to imagine that you designed to dedicate your life to his inanity. Still, a composed, decent, equable deportment is a capital treasure to a woman, and that you possess. Write again soon, for I feel rather fierce, and want stroking down."

"June 13, 1845.

"As to the Mrs., who, you say, is like me, I somehow feel no leaning to her at all. I never do to people who are said to be like me, because I have always a notion that they are only like me in the disagreeable, outside, first-acquaintance part of my character; in those points which are obvious to the ordinary run of people, and which I know are not pleasing. You say she is 'clever'—'a clever person.' How I dislike the term! It means rather a shrewd, very ugly, meddling, talking woman I feel reluctant to leave papa for a single day. His sight diminishes weekly; and can it be wondered at that, as he sees the most precious of his faculties leaving him, his spirits sometimes sink? It is so hard to feel that his few and scanty pleasures must all soon go. He has now the greatest difficulty in either reading or writing; and then he dreads the state of dependence to which blindness will inevitably reduce


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 him. He fears that he will be nothing in his parish. I try to cheer him; sometimes I succeed temporarily, but no consolation can restore his sight, or atone for the want of it. Still he is never peevish, never impatient; only anxious and dejected."

For the reason just given, Charlotte declined an invitation to the only house to which she was now ever asked to come. In answer to her correspondent's reply to this letter, she says:—

"You thought I refused you coldly, did you? It was a queer sort of coldness, when I would have given my ears to say Yes, and was obliged to say No. Matters, however, are now a little changed. Anne is come home, and her presence certainly makes me feel more at liberty. Then, if all be well, I will come and see you. Tell me only when I must come. Mention the week and the day. Have the kindness also to answer the following queries, if you can. How far is it from Leeds to Sheffield? Can you give me a notion of the cost? Of course, when I come, you will let me enjoy your own company in peace, and not drag me out a-visiting. I have no desire at all to see your curate. I think he must be like all the other curates I have seen; and they seem to me a self-seeking, vain, empty race. At this blessed moment, we have no less than three of them in Haworth parish—and there is not one to mend another. The other day, they all three, accompanied by Mr. S., dropped, or rather rushed, in


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 unexpectedly to tea. It was Monday (baking-day), and I was hot and tired; still, if they had behaved quietly and decently, I would have served them out their tea in peace; but they began glorifying themselves, and abusing Dissenters in such a manner, that my temper lost its balance, and I pronounced a few sentences sharply and rapidly, which struck them all dumb. Papa was greatly horrified also, but I don't regret it."

On her return from this short visit to her friend, she travelled with a gentleman in the railway carriage, whose features and bearing betrayed him, in a moment, to be a Frenchman. She ventured to ask him if such was not the case; and, on his admitting it, she further inquired if he had not passed a considerable time in Germany, and was answered that he had; her quick ear detected something of the thick guttural pronunciation, which, Frenchmen say, they are able to discover even in the grandchildren of their countrymen who have lived any time beyond the Rhine. Charlotte had retained her skill in the language by the habit of which she thus speaks to M. Héger:—

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 que j'aurais gagné assez d'argent pour aller à Bruxelles, j'y irai."

And so her journey back to Haworth, after the rare pleasure of this visit to her friend, was pleasantly beguiled by conversation with the French gentleman; and she arrived at home refreshed and happy. What to find there?

It was ten o'clock when she reached the parsonage. Branwell was there, unexpectedly, very ill. He had come home a day or two before, apparently for a holiday; in reality, I imagine, because some discovery had been made which rendered his absence imperatively desirable. The day of Charlotte's return, he had received a letter from Mr., sternly dismissing him, intimating that his proceedings were discovered, characterizing them as bad beyond expression, and charging him, on pain of exposure, to break off immediately, and for ever, all communication with every member of the family.

All the disgraceful details came out. Branwell was in no state to conceal his agony of remorse, or, strange to say, his agony of guilty love, from any dread of shame. He gave passionate way to his feelings; he shocked and distressed those loving sisters inexpressibly; the blind father sat stunned, sorely tempted to curse the profligate woman, who had tempted his boy—his only son—into the deep disgrace of deadly crime.

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 EXPLANATIONS.

G. is put for the common Greek text.

P. for the Protestant version, authorized by King James.

G. P. marks the places in which they harmonize.

Cath. for “A Catholic.” Both denote the version ascribed to Dr. Lingard.

Lit. for Literally.

A BRIEF NOTICE OF MANUSCRIPTS.

The Alexandrian manuscript, now preserved in the British Museum, is supposed to have been written at Alexandria in the fifth century.

The Vatican manuscript is proved by Hug to belong to the middle of the fourth century. The internal value of its readings is probably superior to the former.

The Ephrem manuscript, a palimpsest, so called from the works of St. Ephrem the Syrian, having been written over the original writing, which has been restored, probably belongs to the sixth century. It is in many places illegible, and has numerous chasms.

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The Dublin manuscript preserved in Trinity College, Dublin, belongs to the sixth century. It exhibits the gospel of St. Matthew, but in a very imperfect state.

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ANCIENT VERSIONS.

The Syriac version, called the Peshito, or simple, was made probably in the first century. A revision of it is known as the Karkaphensian recension, this name signifying mountainous, as it was used in a monastery about Mount Sagara. The Peshito is of great value.

The Philoxenian version in the Syriac language, takes its name from Philoxenus, or Xenayas, Bishop of Mabug, or Hierapolis in Syria, under whose direction it was executed about the year 508. Only a few fragments of it have been yet discovered. The name is given by mistake to the Harclean version made by Thomas of Harkel, or Heraclea, in Syria, Bishop of Mabug, about the year 616.

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 were now explained. There was a reason deeper than any mere indulgence of appetite, to account for his intemperance; he began his career as an habitual drunkard to drown remorse.

The pitiable part, as far as he was concerned, was the yearning love he still bore to the woman who had got so strong a hold upon him. It is true, that she professed equal love; we shall see how her professions held good. There was a strange lingering of conscience, when meeting her clandestinely by appointment at Harrogate some months after, he refused to consent to the elopement which she proposed; there was some good left in this corrupted, weak young man, even to the very last of his miserable days. The case presents the reverse of the usual features; the man became the victim; the man's life was blighted, and crushed out of him by suffering, and guilt entailed by guilt; the man's family were stung by keenest shame. The woman—to think of her father's pious name—the blood of honourable families mixed in her veins—her early home, underneath whose roof-tree sat those whose names are held saintlike for their good deeds,—she goes flaunting about to this day in respectable society; a showy woman for her age; kept afloat by her reputed wealth. I see her name in county papers, as one of those who patronize the Christmas balls; and I hear of her in London drawing-rooms. Now let us read, not merely of the suffering of her guilty accomplice, but of the misery she caused to innocent victims, whose premature deaths may, in part, be laid at her door.


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 We have had sad work with Branwell. He thought of nothing but stunning or drowning his agony of mind. No one in this house could have rest; and, at last, we have been obliged to send him from home for a week, with some one to look after him. He has written to me this morning, expressing some sense of contrition but as long as he remains at home, I scarce dare hope for peace in the house. We must all, I fear, prepare for a season of distress and disquietude. When I left you, I was strongly impressed with the feeling that I was going back to sorrow."

"August, 1845.

Things here at home are much as usual; not very bright as it regards Branwell, though his health, and consequently his temper, have been somewhat better this last day or two, because he is now forced to abstain."

"August 18th, 1845.

"I have delayed writing, because I have no good news to communicate. My hopes ebb low indeed about Branwell. I sometimes fear he will never be fit for much. The late blow to his prospects and feelings has quite made him reckless. It is only absolute want of means that acts as any check to him. One ought, indeed, to hope to the very last; and I try to do so, but occasionally hope in his case seems so fallacious."


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 "Nov. 4th, 1845.

"I hoped to be able to ask you to come to Haworth. It almost seemed as if Branwell had a chance of getting employment, and I waited to know the result of his efforts in order to say, dear, come and see us. But the place (a secretaryship to a railway committee) is given to another person. Branwell still remains at home; and while he is here, you shall not come. I am more confirmed in that resolution the more I see of him. I wish I could say one word to you in his favour, but I cannot. I will hold my tongue. We are all obliged to you for your kind suggestion about Leeds; but I think our school schemes are, for the present, at rest."

"Dec. 31, 1845.

"You say well, in speaking of, that no sufferings are so awful as those brought on by dissipation; alas! I see the truth of this observation daily proved. and  must have as weary and burdensome a life of it in waiting upon their unhappy brother. It seems grievous, indeed, that those who have not sinned should suffer so largely."

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 256 devill, Heb. 2. 14, 15. conquer death, 2 Tim. 1. 10. destroy and kill sinne, Rom. 6. 10. sanctifie his people through the truth, Joh. 17. 19. give life unto the world, Joh. 6. 33. redeeme us from the curse of the Law, Gal. 3. 13. and from all iniquity, Tit. 2. 14. obtaine eternall redemption, Heb. 9. 12. that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him, 2 Cor. 5. 21. that he might deliver us from this present evill world, Gal. 1. 4. that being dead unto sinne, and alive unto God, Rom. 6. 4, 5, 6. we might not live to our selves, but unto him which died for us, and rose againe, 2 Cor. 5. 15. and that we might receive the adoption of sonnes, Gal. 4. 5. And it is absurd to reason it selfe, that Christ by the decree of God should purchase that for men which is not given unto them; that he should acquire what they obtaine not: that by divine imputation Christ should die for every man, when the merits of Christ be not communicated unto them: that the promised seed should be given to Abraham, no blessing or multiplication following. If Christ have purchased a new Covenant, faith, redemption, reconciliation for every man, without question they are or shall be delivered from the condemnation and dominion of sinne; the Spirit is given or shall be given to abide with them; they are or shall be renewed after the Image of God. If Christ be a King, he hath a Kingdome, subjects and territories, wherein he doth exercise his regall power. He is a King not only in personall right, or to punish enemies; but a King to feed and rule a people. God hath given his Sonne the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession, and shall men with-hold it? Shall God give men unto Christ, and shall they detaine themselves from him? If Christ came to destroy the workes of the devill, (that is sinne, as the Apostle shewes, 1 Joh. 3. 8. Joh. 8. 41, 44.) and to deliver men from the feare of death and the devill, shall we not thinke, that Satan is cast downe, and death abolished? Christ is a Saviour as in merit so in efficacy, else should his purchase be in vaine, the end of his comming into the world be uncertaine, his purpose in laying downe his life be frustrate, and Christ should merit by the appointment of God, what God doth not give: therfore the impetration of righteousnesse must not be plucked from the application, nor doth the giving of benefits purchased by the death of Christ depend upon the pleasure of men any more then the acquisition doth. Betwixt the purchase and application of Christs death,


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 with whom he had intrigued, died. Branwell had been looking forward to this event with guilty hope. After her husband's death, his paramour would be free; strange as it seems, the young man still loved her passionately, and now he imagined the time was come when they might look forwards to being married, and might live together without reproach or blame. She had offered to elope with him; she had written to him perpetually; she had sent him money—twenty pounds at a time; he remembered the criminal advances she had made; she had braved shame, and her children's menaced disclosures, for his sake; he thought she must love him; he little knew how bad a depraved woman can be. Her husband had made a will, in which what property he left to her was bequeathed solely on the condition that she should never see Branwell Brontë again. At the very time when the will was read, she did not know but that he might be on his way to her, having heard of her husband's death. She despatched a servant in hot haste to Haworth. He stopped at the Black Bull, and a messenger was sent up to the parsonage for Branwell. He came down to the little inn, and was shut up with the man for some time. Then the groom came out, paid his bill, mounted his horse, and was off. Branwell remained in the room alone. More than an hour elapsed before sign or sound was heard; then, those outside heard a noise like the bleating of a calf, and, on opening the door, he was found in a kind of fit, succeeding to the stupor of grief which he had fallen into on hearing that he was forbidden by his paramour ever to see her


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 again, as, if he did, she would forfeit her fortune. Let her live and flourish! He died, his pockets filled with her letters, which he had carried perpetually about his person, in order that he might read them as often as he wished. He lies dead; and his doom is only known to God's mercy. When I think of him, I change my cry to heaven. Let her live and repent! That same mercy is infinite.

For the last three years of Branwell's life, he took opium habitually, by way of stunning conscience; he drank, moreover, whenever he could get the opportunity. The reader may say that I have mentioned his tendency to intemperance long before. It is true; but it did not become habitual, as far as I can learn, until after the commencement of his guilty intimacy with the woman of whom I have been speaking. If I am mistaken on this point, her taste must have been as depraved as her principles. He took opium, because it made him forget for a time more effectually than drink; and, besides, it was more portable. In procuring it he showed all the cunning of the opium-eater. He would steal out while the family were at church—to which he had professed himself too ill to go—and manage to cajole the village druggist out of a lump; or, it might be, the carrier had unsuspiciously brought him some in a packet from a distance. For some time before his death he had attacks of delirium tremens of the most frightful character; he slept in his father's room, and he would sometimes declare that either he or his father should be dead before morning. The


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 trembling sisters, sick with fright, would implore their father not to expose himself to this danger; but Mr. Brontë is no timid man, and perhaps he felt that he could possibly influence his son to some self-restraint, more by showing trust in him than by showing fear. The sisters often listened for the report of a pistol in the dead of the night, till watchful eye and hearkening ear grew heavy and dull with the perpetual strain upon their nerves. In the mornings young Brontë would saunter out, saying, with a drunkard's incontinence of speech, "The poor old man and I have had a terrible night of it; he does his best—the poor old man! but it's all over with me;" (whimpering) "it's her fault, her fault." All that is to be said more about Branwell Brontë, shall be said by Charlotte herself, not by me.


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the course of this sad autumn of 1845, a new interest came up; faint, indeed, and often lost sight of in the vivid pain and constant pressure of anxiety respecting their brother. In the biographical notice of her sisters, which Charlotte prefixed to the edition of "Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey," published in 1850—a piece of writing unique, as far as I know, in its pathos and its power—she says:—

"One day in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume of verse, in my sister Emily's hand-writing. Of course, I was not surprised, knowing that she could and did write verse: I looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me—a deep conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally write. I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine. To my ear they had also a peculiar music, wild, melancholy, and elevating. My sister Emily was not a person of demonstrative character, nor one, on the recesses of whose mind and feelings, even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude


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Rh powerful lord, however happy he may be he cannot celebrate too loudly; however grief-stricken, he cannot raise his voice in lamentations. He is uneasy no matter what he does; in his every action he trembles like a swallow approaching a falcon’s nest. The poor man who is the neighbor of a wealthy family is always ashamed of his wretched appearance, and makes his entrances and exits in bursts of flattery. And when he sees how envious his wife and children and his servants are, or hears how the rich family despises him, his mind is incessantly torn by an agitation that leaves not a moment’s peace. If a man’s house stands in a crowded place and a fire breaks out in the neighborhood, he cannot escape the danger. If it stands in a remote situation, he must put up with the nuisance of going back and forth to the city, and there is always a danger of robbers.

Those who are powerful are filled with greed; and those who have no protectors are despised. Possessions bring many worries; in poverty there is sorrow. He who asks another’s help becomes his slave; he who nurtures others is fettered by affection. He who complies with the ways of the world may be impoverished thereby; he who does not, appears deranged. Wherever one may live, whatever work one may do, is it possible even for a moment to find a haven for the body or peace for the mind?

I inherited the house of my father’s grandmother and for a long time lived there. Afterward I lost my position and fell on hard times. Many things led me to live in seclusion, and finally, unable longer to remain in my ancestral home, in my thirties I built after my own plans a little cottage. It was a bare tenth the size of the house in which I had lived, and being intended just as a place where I might stay it had no pretensions about it. An earthen wall was, it is true, raised around it, but I lacked the means to put up an ornamental gate. I also built a rough shed of bamboo posts for my carriage. I must confess that when the snow fell or gales blew, I could


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 unlicensed; it took hours to reconcile her to the discovery I had made, and days to persuade her that such poems merited publication Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that since Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at hers. I could not but be a partial judge, yet I thought that these verses too had a sweet sincere pathos of their own. We had very early cherished the dream of one day being authors We agreed to arrange a small selection of our poems, and, if possible, get them printed. Averse to personal publicity, we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names, positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because—without at the time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what is called 'feminine,'—we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice; we noticed how critics sometimes use for their chastisement the weapon of personality, and for their reward, a flattery, which is not true praise. The bringing out of our little book was hard work. As was to be expected, neither we nor our poems were at all wanted; but for this we had been prepared at the outset; though inexperienced ourselves, we had read the experience of others. The great puzzle lay in the difficulty of getting answers of any kind from the publishers to whom we applied. Being greatly harassed


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206 not but feel alarmed; and since the house was near the Kamo River, there was considerable danger of flooding as well as the threat of bandits.

For over thirty years I had tormented myself by putting up with all the things of this unhappy world. During this time each stroke of misfortune had naturally made me realize the fragility of my life. In my fiftieth year, then, I became a priest and turned my back on the world. Not having any family, I had no ties that would make abandoning the world difficult. I had no rank or stipend—what was there for me to cling to? How many years had I vainly spent among the cloud-covered hills of Ohara?

Now that I have reached the age of sixty, and my life seems about to evaporate like the dew, I have fashioned a lodging for the last leaves of my years. It is a hut where, perhaps, a traveler might spend a single night; it is like the cocoon spun by an aged silkworm. This hut is not even a hundredth the size of the cottage where I spent my middle years.

Before I was aware, I had become heavy with years, and with each remove my dwelling grew smaller. The present hut is of no ordinary appearance. It is a bare ten feet square and less than seven feet high. I did not choose this particular spot rather than another, and I built my house without consulting any diviners. I laid a foundation and roughly thatched a roof. I fastened hinges to the joints of the beams, the easier to move elsewhere should anything displease me. What difficulty would there be in changing my dwelling? A bare two carts would suffice to carry off the whole house, and except for the carter’s fee there would be no expenses at all.

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 by this obstacle, I ventured to apply to the Messrs. Chambers, of Edinburgh, for a word of advice; they may have forgotten the circumstance, but I have not, for from them I received a brief and business-like, but civil and sensible reply, on which we acted, and at last made way."

I inquired from Mr. Robert Chambers, and found, as Miss Brontë conjectured, that he had entirely forgotten the application which had been made to him and his brother for advice; nor had they any copy or memorandum of the correspondence.

There is an intelligent man living in Haworth, who has given me some interesting particulars relating to the sisters about this period. He says:—

"I have known Miss Brontë, as Miss Brontë, a long time; indeed, ever since they came to Haworth in 1819. But I had not much acquaintance with the family till about 1843, when I began to do a little in the stationery line. Nothing of that kind could be had nearer than Keighley before I began. They used to buy a great deal of writing paper, and I used to wonder whatever they did with so much. I sometimes thought they contributed to the Magazines. When I was out of stock, I was always afraid of their coming; they seemed so distressed about it, if I had none. I have walked to Halifax (a distance of 10 miles) many a time, for half a ream of paper, for fear of being without it when they came. I could not buy more at a time


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Rh west wall, I have installed an image of Amida. The light of the setting sun shines between its eyebrows. On the doors of the reliquary I have hung pictures of Fugen and Fudō. Above the sliding door that faces north I have built a little shelf on which I keep three or four black leather baskets that contain books of poetry and music and extracts from the sacred writings. Beside them stand a folding koto and a lute.

Along the east wall I have spread long fern fronds and mats of straw which serve as my bed for the night. I have cut open a window in the eastern wall, and beneath it have made a desk. Near my pillow is a square brazier in which I burn brushwood. To the north of the hut I have staked out a small plot of land which I have enclosed with a rough fence and made into a garden. I grow many species of herbs there.

This is what my temporary hut is like. I shall now attempt to describe its surroundings. To the south there is a bamboo pipe which empties water into the rock pool I have laid. The woods come close to my house, and it is thus a simple matter for me to gather brushwood. The mountain is named Toyama. Creeping vines block the trails and the valleys are overgrown, but to the west is a clearing, and my surroundings thus do not leave me without spiritual comfort. In the spring I see waves of wistaria like purple clouds, bright in the west. In the summer I hear the cuckoo call, promising to guide me on the road of death. In the autumn the voice of the evening insects fills my ears with a sound of lamentation for this cracked husk of a world. In winter I look with deep emotion on the snow, piling up and melting away like sins and hindrances to salvation.

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Rh that Chippy had often seen the kitten during his captivity, and had played many a happy game with her in his cage.

Caireen and Flitterveen had thought when they let the kitten go that Eepersip, seeing a new animal, would give them back Chippy. Not so! Eepersip would have two animals than one. Besides, she saw how dearly the two loved each other, and would not have parted them for anything now. The Brunios had been disappointed enough at losing Chippy--and now they had lost the kitten too!

It was now summer, and the Brunios--Mr. Brunio, Caireen, and Flitterveen--decided to climb Eiki-ennern Peak and try to get back their kitten. They wandered around a little while and at last came to a sunny place on the edge of the woods. It was a very grassy spot, all surrounded with blackberry-bushes just blossoming. Near its edge was Chippy asleep, and in the middle was Snowflake washing herself and playing with the dry oak-leaves that swirled about in the breeze. Snowflake started back a little at the sound of whispering voices, and then looked up. Eepersip was not there, for she had gone off to find some sweet bulbs and roots

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 for want of capital. I was always short of that. I did so like them to come when I had anything for them; they were so much different to anybody else; so gentle and kind, and so very quiet. They never talked much. Charlotte sometimes would sit and inquire about our circumstances so kindly and feelingly! Though I am a poor working man (which I have never felt to be any degradation), I could talk with her with the greatest freedom. I always felt quite at home with her. Though I never had any school education, I never felt the want of it in her company."

The publishers to whom she finally made a successful application for the production of "Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell's poems," were Messrs. Aylott and Jones, Paternoster-row. Mr. Aylott has kindly placed the letters which she wrote to him on the subject at my disposal. The first is dated January 28th 1846, and in it she inquires if they will publish one volume octave of poems; if not at their own risk, on the author's account. It is signed "C. Brontë." They must have replied pretty speedily, for on January 31st she writes again:—

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208 my heart into reading the Sutras, no one will keep me from resting or being lazy, and there is no friend who will feel ashamed of me. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of silence, living alone automatically makes me refrain from the sins of speech; and though I do not necessarily try to obey the Commandments, here where there are no temptations what should induce me to break them?

On mornings when I feel myself short-lived as the white wake behind a boat, I go to the banks of the river and, gazing at the boats plying to and fro, compose verses in the style of the Priest Mansei. Or if of an evening the wind in the maples rustles the leaves, I recall the river at Jinyō, and play the lute in the manner of Minamoto no Tsunenobu. If still my mood does not desert me, I often tune my lute to the echoes in the pines, and play the “Song of the Autumn Wind,” or pluck the notes of the “Melody of the Flowing Stream,” modulating the pitch to the sound of the water. I am but an indifferent performer, but I do not play to please others. Alone I play, alone I sing, and this brings joy to my heart.

At the foot of this mountain is a rough-hewn cottage where the guardian of the mountain lives. He has a son who sometimes comes to visit me. When I am bored with whatever I am doing, I often go for a walk with him as my companion. He is sixteen and I sixty: though our ages greatly differ we take pleasure in each other’s company.

Sometimes I pick flowering reeds or the wild pear, or fill my basket with berries and cress. Sometimes I go to the rice fields at the foot of the mountain and weave wreaths of the fallen ears. Or, when the weather is fine, I climb the peak and look out toward Kyoto, my old home, far, far away. The view has no owner and nothing can interfere with my enjoyment.

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Upon concluding this Fourth Part, I have to express warm thanks to Mr for a punctilious recollation of  manuscript, and to Mr  for again granting the use of the volume. Miss, to remove a doubt about a few readings, has generously taken the trouble to make a facsimile copy of 's manuscript. Mr, whose accuracy is not surpassed by photographic reproduction, has done me favors of a like kind, and of many kinds. Rev. Professor, with all his engagements, has been prompt to render his peculiarly valuable help at the libraries of Cambridge; and Mr , late of Oxford, now of the University of California, has allowed me to call upon him freely for copies and collations at the Bodleian Library. The notes which Dr, Professor , Professor , and Mr have contributed, in the way of Additions and Corrections, will speak for themselves. Miss, translator of the Epic Songs of Russia, has given me much assistance in Slavic popular poetry, and Lieutenant-Colonel , of Calcutta, Mr , of Leeds, and Mr , of London, have made obliging communications as to English ballads.

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 like it to be printed in one octavo volume, of the same quality of paper and size of type as Moxon's last edition of Wordsworth. The poems will occupy, I should think, from 200 to 250 pages. They are not the production of a clergyman, nor are they exclusively of a religious character; but I presume these circumstances will be immaterial. It will, perhaps, be necessary that you should see the manuscript, in order to calculate accurately the expense of publication; in that case I will send it immediately. I should like, however, previously, to have some idea of the probable cost; and if, from what I have said, you can make a rough calculation on the subject, I should be greatly obliged to you.

In her next letter, February 6th, she says:—

"You will perceive that the poems are the work of three persons, relatives—their separate pieces are distinguished by their respective signatures."

She writes again on February 15th; and on the 16th she says:—

"The MS. will certainly form a thinner volume than I had anticipated. I cannot name another model which I should like it precisely to resemble, yet, I think, a duodecimo form, and a somewhat reduced, though still clear type, would be preferable. I only stipulate for clear type, not too small; and good paper."

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 Minute as the details conveyed in these notes are, they are not trivial, because they afford such strong indications of character. If the volume was to be published at their own risk, it was necessary that the sister conducting the negotiation should make herself acquainted with the different kinds of type, and the various sizes of books. Accordingly she bought a small volume, from which to learn all she could on the subject of preparation for the press. No half-knowledge—no trusting to other people for decisions which she could make for herself; and yet a generous and full confidence, not misplaced, in the thorough probity of Messrs. Aylott and Jones. The caution in ascertaining the risk before embarking in the enterprise, and the prompt payment of the money required, even before it could be said to have assumed the shape of a debt, were both parts of a self-reliant and independent character. Self-contained also was she. During the whole time that the volume of poems was in the course of preparation and publication, no word was written telling anyone, out of the household circle, what was in progress.

I have had some of the letters placed in my hands, which she addressed to her old school-mistress, Miss Wooler. They begin a little before this time. Acting on the conviction, which I have all along entertained, that where Charlotte Brontë's own words could be used, no others ought to take their place, I shall make extracts from this series, according to their dates.


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has done me the great service of collating Wynken de Worde's text of The Gest of Robin Hood, the manuscript of Robin Hood and the Monk and of Robin Hood and the Potter, and all the Robin Hood broadsides in the Pepys collection. Mr has collated the fragments of the earlier copy of The Gest which are preserved in the Advocates' Library, and, as always, has been most ready to respond to every call for aid. I would also gratefully acknowledge assistance received from Mr, of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Rev. , Precentor of Lincoln; Dr ; and, in America, from Mr , Miss and Mrs.

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40 But Snowflake did not know her old name since Eepersip had changed it.

"Here, Sugar-bowl!" said Mr. Brunio. (He had got rather used to calling her that, because she loved sugar and had a habit of pawing into the sugar-bowl to get it). This was a trifle more familiar, and she took a step forward.

"That's the way!" said Flitterveen, encouraging her. "Come on!"

Snowflake took back the step.

They grew impatient; yet some of their calls were encouraging that Snowflake could hardly resist creeping through the briers to their feet. Pretty soon she touched Chippy with her nose. He awoke, yawned two or three times, and, when he saw the people there, blatantly pattered of into the woods. Now Snowflake sat very still, in spite of all their coaxings, for she knew that help was coming. And she didn't have long to wait, for in a moment Eepersip came running up with Chippy in her arms. With a beautiful leap she cleared the briers and, taking up Snowflake, cleared them again and vanished into the woods.

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 "January 30th, 1846.

"I have not yet paid my visit to ; it is, indeed, more than a year since I was there, but I frequently hear from E., and she did not fail to tell me that you were gone into Worcestershire; she was unable, however, to give me your exact address. Had I known it, I should have written to you long since. I thought you would wonder how we were getting on, when you heard of the railway panic, and you may be sure that I am very glad to be able to answer your kind inquiries by an assurance that our small capital is as yet undiminished. The York and Midland is, as you say, a very good line; yet, I confess to you, I should wish, for my own part, to be wise in time. I cannot think that even the very best lines will continue for many years at their present premiums; and I have been most anxious for us to sell our shares ere it be too late, and to secure the proceeds in some safer, if, for the present, less profitable investment. I cannot, however, persuade my sisters to regard the affair precisely from my point of view; and I feel as if I would rather run the risk of loss than hurt Emily's feelings by acting in direct opposition to her opinion. She managed in a most handsome and able manner for me, when I was in Brussels, and prevented by distance from looking after my own interests; therefore, I will let her manage still, and take the consequences. Disinterested and


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has helped me in many ways in the preparation of this Sixth Part, and, as before, has been prodigal of time and pains. I am under particular obligations to Mr, of Edinburgh, for his communications concerning the ballad-folk of the Scottish border, and to Dr , of the University of Leipsic, and Mr , my colleague in Harvard College, for contributions (indicated by the initials of their names) which will be found in the Additions and Corrections. Dr will continue his services. Mr, of Warsaw, purposes to review in 'Wisła' all the English ballads which have Polish affinities, and Professor has allowed me to hope for his assistance; so that there is a gratifying prospect that the points of contact between the English and the Slavic popular ballads will in the end be amply brought out. Thanks are due and are proffered, for favors of various kinds, to Lieutenant-Colonel, of London, Lieutenant-Colonel , of Calcutta, Professor , Miss , Professor , of Moscow, Professor , Mr , of Copenhagen (to whom the completion of 's great work has been entrusted), Mr , of Glasgow, Dr , Professor , Mr. and Mr.

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