232 Invocation of Isis 234 234 The Coming of Isis 235 235 The Spinet The Spinet 236 236 Notes Notes 237 237 p. 1INTRODUCTION p. 1 Thirty years have passed, like a watch in the night, since the earlier of the two sets of verses here reprinted, Ballades in Blue China, was published. At first there were but twenty-two Ballades; ten more were added later. They appeared in a little white vellum wrapper, with a little blue Chinese singer copied from a porcelain jar; and the frontispiece was a little design by an etcher now famous. Thirty Thirty years ago blue china was a kind of fetish in some circles, æsthetic