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originated in the 1 7th century." We would it had ! 

 But we suspect that men had died of both these diseases 

 earlier. What he should have said was that the restric- 

 tion of meaning to dying with hunger was modern. 



II. XX. 239 we have " the God's " for " the Gods' " and 

 a few lines below " Anchisiades' " for " Anchisiades's " ; 

 11. xxi. 407, " press'd " for " prest." 



We had noted a considerable number of other slips, 



but we will mention only two more. " Treen broches" 



is explained to mean "branches of trees." (Hymn to 



Hermes, 227.) It means " wooden spits." In the 



Bacchus (28, 29) Mr. Hooper restores a corrupt reading 



which Mr. Singer (for a wonder) had set right. He 



prints, — 



" Nay, which of all the Pow'r fully-divined 

 Esteem ye him ? ' ' 



Of course it should be powerfully-divined, for otherwise 

 we must read " Pow'rs." The five volumes need a very 

 careful revision in their punctuation, and in another edi- 

 tion we should advise Mr. Hooper to strike out every 

 note in which he has been tempted into etymology. 



We come next to Mr. W. C. Hazlitt's edition of Love- 

 lace. Three short pieces of Lovelace's have lived, and 

 desei-ved to live : " To Lucasta from Prison," " To Lu- 

 casta on going to the Wars," and " The Grasshopper." 

 They ai-e graceful, airy, and nicely finished. The last 

 especially is a charming poem, delicate in expression, 

 and full of quaint fancy, which only in the latter half is 

 strained to conceit. As the verses of a gentleman they 

 are among the best, though not of a very high order as 

 poetry. He is to be classed with the luclct/ authors who, 

 without gi-eat powers, have written one or two pieces so 

 facile in thovight and fortunate in phrase as to be carried 

 lightly in the memory, poems in which analysis finds lit- 



