disposed to inquire further if it has any merits; but, although its subject is often unpoetical and trivial, the versification is easy and occasionally excellent. Bulhão Pato published other volumes of gentle album poetry, as _Poesias_ (1850), _Versos_ (1862), _Canções da Tarde_ (1866), and _Hoje: Satyras, Canções e Idyllios_ (1888), besides sketches and recollections in prose. Nearly fifty years before his death the romantic school in Portugal had received a severe shock, and the fact that long romantic poems continued to appear is proof how deep its roots had penetrated. FOOTNOTES: [655] His _Romanceiro_ published in 3 vols. (1843, 51) contains poems of national themes drawn from popular songs and traditions, written by himself (as [656] The name of the first Earl of Desmond (cr. 1328) was Maurice fitzThomas (†135) not Gerald, Gerod, Gerott, Garrett, or Garrt (see Lord Walter FitzGerald, _Notes on the FitzGeralds of Ireland_). The forms Garret and Gareth existed in Catalonia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, e. g. the Catalan poet Bernardo Garret, born at Barcelona, who wrote in Italian and became known as Chariteo (_c._ 1450-_c._ 1512). [657] Amorim, _Memorias_, i. 28. [658] Of _O Magriço_, a still longer epic, only fragments remain; it went down in manuscript in the _Amelia_, sunk by the Miguelists off the Portuguese coast. [659] Preface to 4th ed. (1845) of _Catão_. [660] The ‘tyranny’ of the day was that of General Beresford. Some scenes of _Catão_ (derived from the _Cato_ (1713) of Addison), of which a Portuguese version by Manuel de Figueiredo (_Theatro_, vol. viii) had appeared in Garrett’s boyhood, were directed against this English despot. A few years later Garrett learned to enjoy English society, as his Anglophobe biographer, Amorim, admits. [661] Published in 1841. [662] Written ten years earlier. [663] These two plays were published in vol. vii of his _Obras_ (1847) with _D. Philippa de Vilhena_. [664] A contemporary novel, _Helena_ (1871), remained unfinished at his death. [665] It was, however, no sudden decision. As early as 1851 he wrote, in a letter to Garrett, ‘... _me ver entre quatro serras com algumas geiras de terra proprias, umas botas grossas e um chapeu de Braga, bello ideal de todas as minhas ambições mundanas_’. [666] The second edition with additional poems was entitled _Poesias_ (1850). [667] _Cronica, poema, lenda ou o que quer que seja_, he says. [668] The late Dr. Gonçalvez Viana considered Herculano ‘the most vernacular, scrupulous and perfect writer of the nineteenth century’ (_Palestras Filolójicas_, 1910, p. 116). [669] _O Alliciador_ (1859), _O Astrologo_ (1860). [670] The last novel to appear in Rebello da Silva’s lifetime was _A Casa dos Phantasmas_ (1865). _De Noite todos os gatos são pardos_ was published posthumously.