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originated in the 17th 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 " ; 

 II. 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 

 deserved to live : " To Lucasta from Prison," " To Lu- 

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

 They are 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 lucky authors who, 

 without great powers, have written one or two pieces so 

 facile in thought and fortunate in phrase as to be carried 

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



