Don Horacio 



accompanying poem had been com- 

 posed. 



When this publication met Mr. 

 Cutter's eye, he promptly announced 

 to his inquiring friend not only the 

 alleged discovery of the verses but, 

 moreover, the further information, 

 invented by himself, that the author 

 of the lines was " Ruthven Jenkyns," 

 whose poem first appeared in the 

 Greenwich Magazine for Marines in 

 1701. 



The joke was taken seriously and 

 communicated in good faith by its 

 credulous victim to the press, im- 

 mediately provoking further discus- 

 sion of the subject, which, during 

 many following years, was often re- 

 vived both in America and England. 

 Mr. Edward Everett Hale, in Old 

 and New, intimated that the marines 

 at Greenwich had hardly attained in 

 1 701 such development of literary 

 culture as to require a magazine of 



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