Wounded Deer, Homing Instincts of, 123-35 stags, attacking stalkers, 155-64 danger of, 81, 157
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[1] “The Death of the Wye,” _Images and Meditations, a Book of Poems_, by Mary Duclaux. T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., London.
[2] It is singular that this poem was written and published in 1849, and that Tennyson’s _In Memoriam_, which contained the famous lines:
“’T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all,”
was written in 1834 but not published until 1850, and then anonymously. This is surely very remarkable, for it is impossible to believe that a man of the high and noble character of Clough would have consciously plagiarised any other poet.
[3] After the publication of these verses in the above article, as it originally appeared in the issue of _Country Life_ for August 6, 1921, their authorship was discovered through the kindness of some of the readers of that journal and the enterprise of its editor. In a letter in _Country Life_ for August 27, 1921, Bishop G. F. Browne, late Lord Bishop of Bristol, thus describes their origin. “The first three stanzas were composed at Lowick Rectory, Northants, by the rector, J. S. Watson, his daughter Betty, and Dean Ingram of Peterborough. The authors felt that there ought to be a concluding stanza, ambiguously stating a final result. I told the story to Father Waggett on our way from Bournemouth to Clouds, and he suggested ‘booked it’ as the point of a last stanza. On that hint I wrote the stanza. In my book I remark that its tendency would be unjust to any real fisherman’s imaginative powers.”
[5] January 28, February 4, 11, 18, 1922.
[7] “Velocity of Flight among Birds,” by Colonel R. Meinertzhagen, D.S.O., in the _Ibis_ for April 1921, pp. 237-238.
[9] _Wild Sports of the Highlands_, chap. x. p. 135.
[10] _Field_, February 18, 1922, pp. 233-234.
[12] _Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands_, by Charles St. John, ch. x. p. 131.
[13] See also the letter of Mr. H. G. Hurrell in the _Field_ for March 8, 1923.
[14] This is a very considerable warning--H. F.
[15] Pp. 258-259 (Witherby & Co., London, 1914).
[17] _Manual of British Birds_, by Howard Saunders, 2nd ed. (Gurney & Jackson, London), pp. 264, 266.