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Would, like a base clod of the valley, lie 

 Outstretched in slumber ? 



Hark, hark ! the chase is up, the blythe hounds bay 

 A chorus to the hunter's melody. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



We cannot consistently with the principles to which we are pledged by our address, 

 insert the " Latin Translation" of Etonensis. The tendency of the poem is simply to 

 excite the passions, without any reference to time, place, or motive. Neither is it so 

 highlj^ polished as might have been expected from the shortness of the poem and the 

 school of the writer. We could wish that he had dipped a little more deeply into his 

 original author, and selected— no very difficult task — a poem of a higher and nobler 

 character. 



We have received, from a correspondent at a considerable distance, the following 

 communications. The first was an article signed — we shall say X. Y. — which, as we 

 could not insert in our present number, we returned, at its author's request. Within 

 a day or two, we received from the individual to whose care the first had been com- 

 mitted, two further communications, in his own proper person. Of these one was 

 a paper which we should have had no objection to insert, had we found room, in the 

 present number ; the other was a review of a periodical journal, to which our cor- 

 respondent and his friend X. Y. have largely contributed, and in the management of 

 which the)' seem, from their letters, to have some concern. The reviewer, whose 

 review, by the way, is grossly deficient both in grammar and that which, in the 

 absence of a more appropriate word, we must call style, (" as is," for " which is," 

 &c.) after praising generally the periodical in question, proceeds to speak of his 

 friends and his own contributions in terms which no man of common modesty would 

 apply even in thought to his own writings, and no man of judgment to many of the 

 writings of other people. In this review also the editor is praised, and possibly 

 very justlj', for impartiatitt/. 



A few days after the receipt of this, appeared another letter, urging on the im- 

 mediate publication of the papers, and concluding with the following paragi-aph, 

 underlined as we here give it: "If my paper and review appear in your October 

 Number, it is my intention to spread that number far and near; and I have with 

 difficulty prevailed on many of my friends to procure it, which they will only do i/ 

 these are puUished. — P. S. If you print my notice of the (the periodical re- 

 viewed) I will review your own journal in some of the best periodicals of the day." 

 And in another place he ^\Tites, " Should these two papers appear in j'our next num- 

 ber, I intend to take a dozen or more copies of it, to distribute to my friends. I take 

 thirty copies of the ." 



Now it is contrary, both to our wishes and our policy, to hurt the feelings of any 

 man, and therefore we withhold names and even initials, but we feel called upon 

 openly to reject the correspondence and pecuniary support of a person who is so 

 grossly deficient in morality as to attempt thus to bribe our administration of that 

 praise or censure, of that impartiality, of the duty of which his own letters shew 

 him to be aware, and for the discharge of which, be their influence impotent or 

 powerful, editors of reviews and those who assist them, are heavily and solemnly 

 responsible. 



The editor of this journal is perfectly at a loss to conceive from the perusal of 

 which of his wi-itings this person has been induced to offer him this degrading insult. 



J. CHII.COTT, PRINTER, WINE STREET, BRISTOL, 



