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 brother, adopting some of his emendations, but rejecting others in favour of readings evidently taken from Shepherd's edition, Ellis and Yeats (ii. 31-36) print 'The Mental Traveller,' with interpretation as 'a sun-myth and a story of the Incarnation.' In the same volume (pp. 220-225), they give the MS. Book version of the 'Monk of Charlemaine,' but ignore the Pickering variant called 'The Grey Monk.' The remaining poems, including 'Long John Brown and Little Mary Bell,' they print in vol. ii, pp. 72-83, Their text generally follows that of the Aldine edition, but with some new readings of their own for which there is no authority. W. B. Yeats, under the general heading, 'Ideas of Good and Evil,' prints all the poems, with the exception of 'Long John Brown,' arbitrarily arranged among poems taken from the Rossetti MS., the Island in the Moon, and other late and early sources.