P. 294. The Three Palaces.—­Published originally on a similar occasion to the last story, in “A Volunteer Haversack,” an extensive repertory of miscellaneous contributions in prose and verse, printed and sold at Edinburgh for a benevolent purpose in 1902.

P. 300. New Readings in Biography.—­Originally published in The Scots Observer in 1889.

P. 315. The Poison Maid.—­The author wrote this tale in entire forgetfulness of Hawthorne’s “Rapaccini’s Daughter,” which nevertheless he had certainly read.

[Transcriber’s note:  a misprint in the book was corrected in this edition, from “He martyrdom” to “His martyrdom".]