Showing the antiquity of “Après moi le déluge,” the fame of all old politicians and aged statesmen who can expect but a few years of life. These “burning questions” (_e.g._ the Bulgarian) may be smothered for a time, but the result is that they blaze forth with increased violence. We have to thank Lord Palmerston (an Irish landlord) for ignoring the growth of Fenianism and another aged statesman for a sturdy attempt to disunite the United Kingdom. An old notion wants young blood at its head. Footnote 248: Suggesting the nursery rhyme: Fee, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Footnote 249: _i.e._ why not at once make an end of her. Footnote 250: The well-known war-cry. Footnote 251: Lit. “Smoke” pop. applied, like our word, to tobacco. The latter, however, is not here meant. Footnote 252: Arab. “Ghuráb al-bayn,” of the wold or of parting. See vol. vii. 226. Footnote 253: Arab. “Haláwah”: see vol. iv. 60. Footnote 254: Here the vocative particle “Yá” is omitted. Footnote 255: Lit. “The long-necked (bird)” before noticed with the Rukh (Roc) in vol. v. 122. Here it becomes a Princess, daughter of Bahrám-i-Gúr (Bahram of the Onager, his favourite game), the famous Persian king in the fifth century, a contemporary of Theodosius the younger and Honorius. The “Anká” is evidently the Iranian Símurgh. Footnote 256: “Chamber” is becoming a dangerous word in English. Roars of laughter from the gods greeted the great actor’s declamation “The bed has not been slept in! Her little chamber is empty!” Footnote 257: Choice Gift of the breast (or heart). Footnote 258: From the Calc. Edit. (1814–18), Nights cxcvi.-cc., vol. ii., pp. 367–378. The translation has been compared and collated with that of Langlès (Paris, 1814), appended to his Edition of the Voyages of Sindbad. The story is exceedingly clever and well deserves translation. Footnote 259: It is regretable that this formula has not been preserved throughout The Nights: it affords, I have noticed, a pleasing break to the long course of narrative. Footnote 260: Arab. “Banát-al-hawá,” lit. daughters of love, usually meaning an Anonyma, a fille de joie; but here the girl is of good repute, and the offensive term must be modified to a gay, frolicsome lass. Footnote 261: Arab. “Jabhat,” the lintel opposed to the threshold. Footnote 262: Arab. “Ghattí,” still the popular term said to a child showing its nakedness, or a lady of pleasure who insults a man by displaying any part of her person. Footnote 263: She is compared with a flashing blade (her face) now drawn from its sheath (her hair) then hidden by it. Footnote 264: The “Muajjalah” or money paid down before consummation was about £25; and the “Mu’ajjalah” or coin to be paid contingent on divorce was about £75. In the Calc. Edit. ii. 371, both dowers are £35. Footnote 265: