[FN#425] Called Chevaliers de Paille because the sign was a straw in the mouth, a la Palmerston.

[FN#426] I have noticed that the eunuch in Sind was as meanly paid and have given the reason.

[FN#427] Centuria Librorum Absconditorum (by Pisanus Fraxi) 4to, p.  Ix. and 593.  London.  Privately printed, mdccclxxix.

[FN#428] A friend learned in these matters supplies me with the following list of famous pederasts.  Those who marvel at the wide diffusion of such erotic perversion, and its being affected by so many celebrities, will bear in mind that the greatest men have been some of the worst:  Alexander of Macedon, Julius Caesar and Napoleon Buonaparte held themselves high above the moral law which obliges common-place humanity.  All three are charged with the Vice.  Of Kings we have Henri iii., Louis xiii. and xviii., Frederick ii.  Of Prussia Peter the Great, William ii. of Holland and Charles ii. and iii. of Parma.  We find also Shakespeare (i., xv., Edit.  Francois Hugo) and Moliere, Theodorus Beza, Lully (the Composer), D’Assoucy, Count Zintzendorff, the Grand Conde, Marquis de Villette, Pierre Louis Farnese, Duc de la Valliere, De Soleinne, Count D’Avaray, Saint Megrin, D’Epernon, Admiral de la Susse La Roche-Pouchin Rochfort S. Louis, Henne (the Spiritualist), Comte Horace de Viel Castel, Lerminin, Fievee, Theodore Leclerc, Archi-Chancellier Cambaceres, Marquis de Custine, Sainte-Beuve and Count D’Orsay.  For others refer to the three volumes of Pisanus Fraxi, Index Librorum Prohibitorum (London, 1877), Centuria Librorum Absconditorum (before alluded to) and Catena Librorum Tacendorum, London, 1885.  The indices will supply the names.

[FN#429] 0f this peculiar character Ibn Khallikan remarks (ii. 43), “There were four poets whose works clearly contraried their character.  Abu al-Atahiyah wrote pious poems himself being an atheist; Abu Hukayma’s verses proved his impotence, yet he was more salacious than a he-goat, Mohammed ibn Hazim praised contentment, yet he was greedier than a dog, and Abu Nowas hymned the joys of sodomy, yet he was more passionate for women than a baboon.”

[FN#430] A virulently and unjustly abusive critique never yet injured its object:  in fact it is generally the greatest favour an author’s unfriends can bestow upon him.  But to notice a popular Review books which have been printed and not published is hardly in accordance with the established courtesies of literature.  At the end of my work I propose to write a paper “The Reviewer Reviewed” which will, amongst other things, explain the motif of the writer of the critique and the editor of the Edinburgh.

[FN#431] 1 For detailed examples and specimens see p. 10 of Gladwin’s “Dissertations on Rhetoric,” etd., Calcutta, 1801.

[FN#432] For instance:  I, M. | take thee N. | to my wedded wife,
| to have and to hold, | from this day forward, | for better for
worse, | for richer for poorer, | in sickness and in health, | to
love and to cherish, | till death do us part, etc.  Here it
becomes mere blank verse which is, of course, a defect in prose
style.  In that delightful old French the Saj’a frequently
appeared when attention was solicited for the titles of books: 
e.g.  Lea Romant de la Rose, ou tout lart damours est enclose.

[FN#433] See Gladwin loc. cit. p. 8:  it also is = alliteration (Ibn Khall. ii., 316).