How far his own metre corresponds to Catullus' is a question for experts like Bridges, Mayor, R. C. Trevelyan, etc., to determine, but I heard him more than once read first the Attis poem and then his "Boädicea," and I thought at the time there was an extraordinary resemblance in rhythm. He wished that the "Boädicea" were musically annotated, so that it might be read with proper quantity and pace. The last of the Catullus poems I want to refer to he never read to me as a whole. It is the lovely Epithalamium in honour of Junia and Manlius, calling on Hymenaeus to attend and bless the marriage: Collis o Heliconii Cultor, Uraniae genus, Qui rapis teneram ad virum Virginem, o Hymenaee Hymen, O Hymen Hymenaee! Dweller on the mount of Helicon, Seed of the Heavenly One, Thou that bearest off the tender maiden to her bridegroom, O Hymenaean Hymen, O Hymen Hymenaean! I do not know if he ever read it as a whole to any one. It would have been splendid to hear, but towards the end of the long poem, where the poet, like Spenser, prays, "Send us the timely fruit of this same marriage night," comes a verse he was very fond of quoting, and in particular the third line: Torquatus volo parvulus Matris a gremio suae Porrigens teneras manus Dulce rideat ad patrem Semhiante labello. I want a baby-boy Torquatus to stretch out his little hands from his mother's lap, and sweetly to smile upon his father with half-opened lips. These, I think, were the most remarkable of the Catullus poems he showed me, though of course there were others. I come now to the kindred Greek genius, who had a special fascination for him, the poetess Sappho. He loved her Sapphics, and greatly disliked the Sapphics of Horace, "with their little tightly curled pigtails." I believe I owe it to him that I am a worshipper of that most marvellous muse of Sappho.... [EDITORIAL NOTE.--Unhappily Mr. Dakyns never completed his paper. For, while still engaged on it, he died suddenly, June 21, 1911. A friend, Miss F. M. Stawell, has added the following notes from recollections of what Mr. Dakyns said or wrote to her on the subject.] Mr. Dakyns's manuscript breaks off abruptly, but he left some headings for what he intended to write: Sappho, Goethe, Béranger, Walt Whitman, Victor Hugo, Life at Farringford, The French Tour and Clough, Clough and the Pyrenees. I think he would have quoted first from Sappho the lines beginning: [Greek: hoion to glykymalon ereuthetai akrô ep' ysdô] Like the sweet apple that reddens upon the topmost bough, for he loved the passage, and the book was left open at this page. No doubt he would have gone on to quote others that were favourites both with the Poet and with himself. Such as the heart-sick cry of love: [Greek: dedyke men ha selanna kai Plêiades, mesai de nyktes, para d' erchet' hôra, egô de mona katheudô.]