120 Fabled nothing fair. Told no false stories to smooth matters

over.

121 Your example. Cf. II. 195-199.

122 "In her amazement the Lady Blanche threw up her hands (a sign of helplessness), and her eyes (an attitude of appeal to Heaven).”– Wallace.

124 Astray.

An exquisitely effectual word for 'irrelevantly.' 126 Limed. Caught, like birds that alight on boughs smeared over with bird-lime.

130 Puddled. Made muddy, befouled.

136 Duty duty. Cf. I. 25. The effectiveness of such expressions seems due to the use of the repeated word in its completest generic sense, while the former noun carries but the involved individual application of the term. Thus "my father thought a king a king" means 'my father held that a king, no matter if the least worthy and sufficient of his sort, must insist on all that kingship typically stands for.' Lady Blanche's formula is a very elastic and convenient one for the present

case.

147 Head and heart. Here she is neither; for, if Ida is the head, Psyche is as surely the heart. Cf. 1. 23, above.

148 Broadening. Like a river towards the sea. 154 Dip. Slant to the horizon.

158 Ran up his furrowy forks.

two peaks."-Wallace.

159 Platans. Plane-trees.

Hallam Tennyson says, “shot up its

160 Fled on. The hours seem, now, to the Prince to have wings. 173 Were and were not. Gave both the experiences of being actual,

and of illusory.

175-178 The Princess nowhere arouses in the Prince the virile im

think he understands women? Explain. (e) Why do you think Cyril began (1. 118) by affecting maiden-meekness? (f) Do you consider his frankness (1. 121) tactful? Why? (g) Is there suggestion (l. 139) of real discipline in patience? (h) Why did not Cyril say (l. 141) third place, as he knew was true? (i) Does not Blanche realize that Cyril cares nothing for her or her cause? How can she listen to him? (j) Can you see what Cyril has been put into the poem for?

8 (a) Does the Princess invite all the new arrivals (ll. 153, 154) apparently for this excursion? (b) Why should she, the Head, play advocate (l. 155-157) to these humble freshmen? (c) Why should the tone be so changed from (II. 28-52, 60-84) the one which so palpably pervades the first interview? (d) Who is meant (1. 157) by she?

9 (a) Why did the day (1. 160) now flee? (b) Is there any assignable reason why the weird seizure (1. 167) should come now? (c) How far is what the Prince sees, according to his statement (11. 169-171), the truer view?

pulse of conquest, but merely the effeminate one of winning her by submission.

179 Retinue.

Accented as in Milton and Shakespeare.

186 The thing you say. "Too harsh."

194 The Prince later (IV. 75-98) ventures to tell considerably more of this experience.

206 Our meaning here. The purpose and mission of her sex.

208 Even. Equally high.

210 The reason for the proxy-wedding, as furnishing the Princess with a motive, becomes clearer.

212 Vashti. Queen of Ahasuerus. Cf. Esther, Chap. I.

215 Breathes full East.

"For the metaphor-which may have been suggested by the preceding reference to a proud and defiant Oriental queen, but which is derived from the bitter and blasting character of the east wind in England-cf. Audley Court, 51-53."—Wallace.

218 Gray. Hoary, ancient.

225 Might I dread. May I entertain the fear?

230 A worse word than "barbarian" (cf. 1. 26) is necessary now.

10 (a) How does it chance (1. 181) that the Princess and the Prince ride thus together? (b) Is it or is it not natural that a college president should, under such circumstances, lead the conversation? (c) Would it be likely, or not likely, to be personal? (d) Can you imagine why it is the Prince and not Cyril who finds himself here? Is there conceivable a difference in stature, or some other characteristic, between Florian or Cyril and the Prince? (e) If there is ground for suspecting these Northern-Empire pupils are but ambassadresses, should you expect the Head to listen to them? (f) How far is being strange (1. 188) a

reason?

II (a) What makes the Prince (1. 190) stammer? (b) Would Cyril have mentioned (1. 191) precontract? (c) Suppose the speaker had hinted something to the effect that the Prince was trying, and not unsuccessfully, to forget her, would the Princess have been pleased? (d) Why does she not like to hear about (l. 194) his longing? (e) Or the chance of his taking (l. 197) to drink, from disappointment?

12 (a) What conception is she seen (l. 198) to have formed, from the Prince's talk, concerning his manliness and mental sufficiency? (b) What does she mean (1. 201) by blind ideal? (c) Does the Princess think (1. 208) that nobility or worth can make itself appreciated by force?

13 (a) Has the Princess (ll. 210, 211) the right notion respecting the proxy-ceremonial? (b) Why does she applaud (ll. 212-214) the conduct of Queen Vashti? (c) Can you explain her breaking out in this apostrophe ?

14 (a) Does the Prince, now that he has recovered breath, mend in his wooing? (b) Is the Princess aware that she is being wooed? (c) What points does the Prince attempt to make in this paragraph?

237 Babble. As in II. 225, 226.

241 Ourselves.

"The children are so much a part of the mother's life as to be her real self, the self through which she suffers more than in her single life."--Woodberry.

246 Pou sto. "From the challenge of Archimedes, the mathematician and mechanist of Syracuse (B.C. 287-212): Give me a place to stand upon, and I will move the world.'"--Wallace.

249 Dissipated. Be disintegrated, dispersed.

251 In lieu of many mortal flies. Instead of being so many shortlived creatures of a year, we had been a few select creatures of giant mould.

254 The sandy footprint harden. Our uncertain experiment, innovation, become institutionalized.

256, 257 Grand imaginations. Visions, imaginings of grand achieve

ments.

261 South-sea-isle taboo.. The 'taboo' or restraint that prevails in the South Seas. The expression is used as interpretative of the degree of inflexible tyranny endured by woman hitherto. "This word was brought home by Captain Cook's expedition. The South Sea islands were under the domination of a priesthood, which reserved to its own use anything which any of the members of its class might fancy, by marking it and calling it taboo, or devoted to religious uses."-Dawson. Nothing that was so marked could by any means be recovered by its rightful owner. 262 Gynæceum. The part of a Greek house, by no means usually the most covetable, occupied by the women.

265 Proof.

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Of how much their welfare is a passion to us.'

269, 270 "In the Latin War (B.C. 340) Publius Decius Mus, one of the Roman generals, sacrificed himself on the spears of the enemy in order to secure the victory to his army, it having been revealed to him in a vision from heaven that one army was doomed and the general of

15 (a) Why does the Princess at last command silence? (b) Is her manner of doing it queenly and well-bred? Account for this. (c) What argument or reason do you find in 1. 232? (d) What argument does she think she has in it? (e) Why does she say, We are not talked to thus, yet prolong the conversation? (f) How does her thought (ll. 236, 237) about children square with the sentiment of the song at the close of Canto I.? (f) How does her next (ll. 240, 241) idea agree with the song at the end of Canto II.? (g) What of the logic in wherefore (1. 248), and in the paragraph as a whole?

16 (a) Why is not the Princess grateful that the Prince at last is silent? (b) Why should she care if he does think her unwomanly? (c) Can you explain why she does not remember her dignity as a college officer, and not (1. 258) break out with further argument?

17 (a) What can the Princess mean (1. 260) by we are used to that? (b) Can you explain her willingness, even enthusiasm (ll. 266–270) for martyrdom?

the other. . . . A chasm having appeared in the market-place of Rome, and the priests having declared that this would not close up until there had been cast into it the chief element of Rome's greatness, a young noble named Marcus Curtius, thinking that this condition would best be fulfilled by the sacrifice of one of her sons, leapt into it on horseback and in full armor (B.C. 362)."--Wallace.

275 Shook the woods. According to Hallam Tennyson,-"in the wind made by the cataract."--Wallace.

276 Color. The rainbow.

277 Vast bulk.

As the megatherium or the mastodon.

280 Dare we dream. Is it right to theorize, concerning the power that wrought us, that it learns to make by making? Does not that conception condition God?'

285 Diotima. A prophetess of Mantinea, who is said to have instructed Socrates in philosophy.

293 Resort to vivisection.

298 Encarnalize. Enhance the fleshliness, and minimize the spirituality, of their nature.

299 This matter hangs. We may open such a school or department yet.

306, 307 God realizes in present consciousness all that shall ever be evolved in the most distant aeons.' This is strong thinking, and seems put here by the author as an index of the resources of Ida's mind. This paragraph marks the climax of the whole discussion.

313 Thus the necessity, with our limited intelligence, of instalments, of sequence, in cognition, produces the mode called Time.'

322 That lift the fancy. As her fancy (cf. 1. 316, "kindled eyes') has just been lifted.

324 Elysian lawns. The glades of Elysium, the Heaven of the Greek Mythology. "The language of the text, as indicating the general features of this happy land, seems to have been specially suggested by Pindar, Olympia, II. 123–136, which Mr. Earnest Myers translates as follows: Then whosoever have been of good courage to the abiding steadfast thrice on either side of death and have refrained their souls from all iniquity, travel the road of Zeus unto the tower of Kronos: there round the Islands of the Blest the Ocean-breezes biow, and golden

18 (a) Do you think the Prince's continued silence tactful? (b) Why should the Princess be more interested in her companion (ll. 282, 283) as a prize-winner than in his question? (c) Why does the Prince say (1. 289) methinks? Was he not sure? (d) What is to be thought of her answer (ll. 306-315)? Does it argue weakness or unfacility of "vision or mental power?

19 (a) What sentiment has kindled (1. 316) the Princess's eyes? (b) What makes the Prince (1. 320) half-oblivious of his disguise? (c) What does the Princess mean (1. 322) by fair philosophies? (d) Does the or here have stress? (e) What determines the Princess to order the tent

flowers are glowing, some from the land on trees of splendor, and some the water feedeth, with wreaths whereof they entwine their hands.' Wallace.

325 Demigods. Mortals raised by merit or favor to the privileges of Elysium, and of the society of the Gods.

331 Corinna's triumph. Corinna, a poetess of Boeotia, is said to have overcome Pindar in five poetic contests. This was probably very galling (l. 333-335) to Pindar, supposed the first lyric poet of the time, and to his friends; and that circumstance seems to have furnished the chief inspiration to Ida's artist.

332 Florid. Perhaps a degree-word for 'flushed,' over their leader's victory.

334 Victor of ten-thousand hymns. Pindar wrote no end of odes celebrating champions and victories in the national Games, and had been successful in the lyric contests till now.

339 A touch of sunshine. Not so true physically as metaphysically, in a figure. Nothing could be more strikingly in contrast than the refinement and beauty of woman's charm in the savage solitude of the rocks. 340 Shone like a jewel. As they climbed laboriously up the rough face of the cliff.

343 Chattering. Used here surely not without reference to its literal meaning. These palace-bred girls, with their exquisite toilettes, can have had little sympathy with the ostensible purpose of this visit.

The author
But

Stony names. Names of rock; with figurative suggestion also of the hardness, to such students, of the technic terms. evidently intended to establish, with this, the climax of contrast. there seems to us, now-a-days, little incongruity in the idea of lady students hammering off and bringing home apronfuls of specimens, if they will. The notion that women should study curricula essentially different from men's, though yet entertained more or less in England, is as good as exploded here.

347 Rosy heights. After sunset, the tops of mountains not too distant seem shrouded in purple light, and stand out in strange distinctness against the background of the sky. The canto opens and closes, it will be noted, in exquisite coloring.

pitched here? (f) How far may the fact that her companion is a man influence her unconsciously? (g) Glanced and shone (ll. 339, 340) have been objected to as not spiritually true, in kind: can you explain why the author uses them? (h) Are these girls dressed apparently as they would be attired to-day for such a jaunt? (2) Comparing the last two lines of this canto with the first, do you find them of the sublime or of the beautiful?

20 (a) In what latitude do you picture the scene of this song? (b) What light is it that, in this latitude, may be said to shake (1.3)? (c) Which echoes, according to the suggestions, reach farther, those repeating the bugle notes of the first, or the Elfland tones of the second stanza ?