Mock Beggar Hall

* The local name for an important establishment in this neighbourhood; architecturally the first-fruits of Ruskin’s Oxford lectures.

§ Feng shwee. I do not know if this is a correct transliteration of the convenient Chinese term meaning the feeling about the house, its ghost, aroma, genius.

* The reference is to the interruption of Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’.

§ My friend Miss Winstanley, of Aberystwyth University, had given me this explanation of Antigonus, promising chapter and verse from the pamphleteers. I used it, without the question of its accuracy arising, as a type of a surprising development of literary history