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betical references were made to the privately-printed poem of "The Window," not then published. These I was able, with some labour and effort, to piece together, and with the compiler's aid, who supplied the lacunæ {though he had promised not to give any one a copy), I was enabled to secure what was substantially the complete text of the twelve songs, as privately printed at Canford Manor, more than a year before the appearance of the published edition. I printed a few copies privately, as a little pamphlet of sixteen pages, uniform in size with Moxon's editions of the poet's other works, and in December, 1870, I wrote two anticipatory notices which appeared in the Echo, some days or weeks before the publication of the volume containing Mr. Arthur Sullivan's music, much to the indignation of the publisher, the printers, and I suppose of the author.

A rival concordance to Mr. Barron Brightwell's guinea book, of much smaller size, was issued by Tennyson's new publishers, Strahan and Co. The price was six shillings, or seven shillings and sixpence.