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 P. 40 (XIV). The Marlburian, 10 July 1913.

P. 45 (XV). The Marlburian, 31 October 1912.

P. 48 (XVI). The Marlburian, 19 December 1912

The lines

are perhaps the only lines in the book which recall the scenery of the author's Cambridge home.

P. 51 (XVII). The Marlburian, 25 February 1913. This poem, as there printed, was preceded by the explanation, "Early in January a man, without any conceivable reason for doing so, drowned himself in the ——. The verdict at the inquest was, as is usual in such cases, 'Suicide during temporary insanity.' This is the truth." Line 18: river, by mistake printed river's in editions 1 to 3.

P. 54 (XVIII). The Marlburian, 13 March 1913. Line 15: the highway and the way, cp. Isaiah XXXV. 8.

P. 56 (XIX). The Marlburian, 10 July 1913. The rookery referred to is evidently that in the Wilderness, lying between C House and the bathing-place, and visible from the author's dormitory window. Underneath the trees in the Wilderness a good deal of rubbish (rusty iron, etc.) had been thrown.

P. 57 (XX). The Marlburian, 28 July 1913.

Pp. 61, 62 (XXIII, XXIV), entitled in the author's manuscript "Two Songs from Ibsen's Dramatic Poems." They are not translations from Ibsen, but the author's own impressions of the dramatist's characters.

P. 66 (XXVII). This poem had its origin in the author's journey from the Officers' Training Camp at Churn in Berkshire to join his regiment at Shorncliffe on 18 September 1914, when he arrived at Paddington Station shortly before the special train left which took the Marlborough boys back to school for the term. The 130