The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851

4

'Marvel died in 1678, in his fifty-eighth year, not without the strongest suspicions of having been poisoned; for he was always very temperate, and of an healthful and strong constitution to the last.'

5

On the death of this rector, however, the monument and inscription was placed on the north wall of the church, near the spot where he is supposed to lie.

6

The Literary World at that period was edited by the able, candid, and universally beloved C.F. Hoffman.—(Ed. Int.)

7

"The writer seems not to have been aware that this still leaves the priority to Laborde—whose journey was undertaken even earlier than that of Robinson, and whose really valuable work, Commentaire Geographique sur l'Exode et les Nombres, which now lies before us, was published in the very year of Mr. Kellogg's journey, 1844. This work certainly forms the best literary result of Laborde's celebrated journey."

8

Foreign Reminiscences. By Henry Richard Lord Holland. Edited by his Son, Henry Edward Lord Holland. Longman and Co., London. New-York: Harpers.

9

Wilson's Miscellanies, vol. ii. p. 118.

10

Noctes Ambrosianæ, vol. ii. p. 103.

11

Introduction to the second volume of Ornithological Biography, p. xvii.

12

This poem, in an unfinished form, was published some months ago in Sartain's Magazine. It has since been re-written for the International, and is now much more than before deserving of the applause with which it was received.

13

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by G. P. R. James, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.

14

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by Stringer & Townsend, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

15

Anglice. Good day, my dear Pignana.

16

The original of this sentence is Je vais vous donner la liste … c'est a dire le compte de nos hommes … non de nos sommes, etc., etc. It is scarcely probably that Monte-Leone and Pignana, speaking Italian, indulged in French jeux des môts.

17

This was the celebrated society called the Académie de ces Messieurs: it numbered among its members all the more celebrated wits of the day.

18

The Emperor Diocletian.

19

The title of Excellency does not, in Italian, necessarily express any exalted rank: but it is often given by servants to their masters.