and there are very fine passages among his poemsdistinguishing them from his metres in which there is scarcely a redeeming line, thought, or expression."

Has the Laureate given up his intended memoir of Sydney?

Page 57.-The words of Erasmus are:-Extruxit ad Flumen Thamysin haud procul ab urbe Londino, prætorium nec sordidum, nec ad invidiam usque magnificum, commodum tamen; illic agit cum intimo sodalitio, uxore filio et nuru, tribus filiabus, et totidem generis, una cum nepotibus jam undecim, &c.

Cardinal Wolsey, whose penetration, at least, has never been questioned, is reported to have declared that there was no person so fit to succeed him as Sir Thomas More.

Page 126.-See some articles on the Orientalisms of the Greek writers in the Asiatic Journal.

Page 164." In the days of Chaucer and Gower," says Coleridge, "our language might be compared to a wilderness of vocal reeds, from which the favourites only of Pan or Apollo could construct even the rude Syrinx; and from this the constructors alone could elicit strains of music." See also a passage upon Chaucer's versification in the Table-Talk.

Page 198.-Let me add here three stanzas from this

The first relates to the sanguine

delightful poem.
hopes of youthful love.

She thinks of Eden-life, and no rough wind,
In their pacific sea shall wrinkles make :
That still her lowliness shall keep him kind,
Her cares keep him asleep, her voice awake.

SHAME.

He taught them shame, the sudden sense of ill;
Shame, Nature's hasty Conscience, which forbids
Weak inclination ere it grow to will,

And stays rash will, before it grow to deeds.

MUSIC.

Toss'd cymbals (which the sullen Jews admir'd)
Were figured here, with all of ancient choice

That joy did ere invent, or breath inspir'd,
Or flying fingers touch'd into a voice.

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