_Butler wrote this in_ 1876; _it has appeared before only in_ 1879 _in the_ Examiner, _where it formed part of the correspondence_ “_A Clergyman’s Doubts_” _of which the letter signed_ “_Ethics_” _has already been given in this volume_ (_see p._ 304 _ante_). “_The Righteous Man_” _was signed_ “_X.Y.Z._” _and_, _in order to connect it with the discussion_, _Butler prefaced it with a note comparing it to the last six inches of a line of railway_; _there is no part of the road so ugly_, _so little travelled over_, _or so useless generally_, _but it is the end_, _at any rate_, _of a very long thing_. vii. _To Critics and Others_. _This was written in_ 1883 _and has not hitherto been published_. viii. _For Narcissus_ _These are printed for the first time_. _The pianoforte score of_ Narcissus _was published in_ 1888. _The poem_ (_A_) _was written because there was some discussion then going on in musical circles about additional accompaniments to the_ Messiah _and we did not want any to be written for_ Narcissus. _The poem_ (_B_) _shows how Butler originally intended to open Part II with a kind of descriptive programme_, _but he changed his mind and did it differently_. ix. _A Translation Attempted in Consequence of a Challenge_ _This translation into Homeric verse of a famous passage from_ Martin Chuzzlewit _was a by-product of Butler’s work on the_ Odyssey _and the_ Iliad. _It was published in_ The Eagle _in March_, 1894, _and was included in_ Seven Sonnets. _I asked Butler who had challenged him to attempt the translation and he replied that he had thought of that and had settled that_, _if any one else were to ask the question_, _he should reply that the challenge came from me_. x. _In Memoriam H. R. F._ _This appears in print now for the first time_. _Hans Rudolf Faesch_, _a young Swiss from Basel_, _came to London in the autumn of_ 1893. _He spent much of his time with us until_ 14_th_ _February_, 1895, _when he left for Singapore_. _We saw him off from Holborn Viaduct Station_; _he was not well and it was a stormy night_. _The next day Butler wrote this poem and_, _being persuaded that we should never see Hans Faesch again_, _called it an In Memoriam_. _Hans did not die on the journey_, _he arrived safely in Singapore and settled in the East where he carried on business_. _We exchanged letters with him frequently_; _he paid two visits to Europe and we saw him on both occasions_. _But he did not live long_. _He died in the autumn of_ 1903 _at Vien Tiane in the Shan States_, _aged_ 32, _having survived Butler by about a year and a half_. xi. _An Academic Exercise_ _This has never been printed before_. _It is a Farewell_, _and that is why I have placed it next after the In Memoriam_. _The contrast between the two poems illustrates the contrast pointed out at the close of the note on_ “_The Dislike of Death_” (_ante_, p. 359):