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Now, supposing that I had disapproved of Mr. H.'s
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A grand comic spectacle, interspersed with numerous dis

The fact, however, is, that I wrote, not against the system itself, but against the "quackery and imposture" that were connected with it. By referring to the Courier of 4th August, or to the Kaleidoscope of a few days later date, it will be found stated, that I used a system similar to Mr. Hamilton's fifteen years ago, with succsss, "so great as to be worth noting ;" and that, "from my own experience,” I was convinced that his system is a good one, for the first three months after commencing the study of a language."

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AT Mr. PARIS'S SALOON, HARDMAN-STREET,

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gret their own: most of them never read my letters; and
many of those who professed to have read them supposed
that I had condemned the system altogether. I hope they
will, in future, study their subject before they attempt to
speak upon it.
Yours, &c.

JAMES MACGOWAN.

Hope-street, 21st Sept. 1824.

EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS, &c.

TO THE EDITOR.

Mr. PUTNAM gives Private instruction in Elocution, and correspondents has commenced a critique on the paintings

In the higher branches of English Reading. 10, Clarence-street.

SIR, I am not a little pleased to see that one of your at the Institution. From his signature we are entitled to expect to be enlightened on the subject, though if we look into his production, we shall be led to think that he has arrogated unto himself a title to which he has not the most lofty pretensions, if we may form an opinion from his re

"Ne sutor ultra crepidam."-PLINY. Knowledge I boast not, ah; small is my store, To this it amounts, just this, and no more: A cobler who patches and mends up a sole, The strength of the shoe, the life of the whole. There will that translation suit you, Mr. Z.? It seems rather different to what you intended, and you perhaps might have given a shorter :-still the original will bear it. You know, Mr. Z, Virgil once said of the writings of Ennius," se aurum coligere de stercore Ennii.”

I am obliged by your kind offer to translate the quotation for me, but as you have not hitherto granted us a specimen of your abilities in that line, I really dare not trust you to do it; especially as the style of your native English is so inferior. Besides, I was unwilling to lose the opportunity, which your "treat" has given me, of shining in my own "meridian;" being somewhat vain, for you recollect you flattered me with seeming to have a little taste in quotations."

NEW MUSIC AT HALF PRICE. WILLMER and Co. 25, LORD-STREET (opposite W. and T. GREGSON's Tea Warehouse) have on sale upwards of 5000 Pieces of the most celebrated Vocal and Instru- marks on the three first pictures he has thought worthy. prius," you will, if I mistake not, be much more angry;

mental MUSIC, which they are selling at HALF the published
prices. Best Music Paper 3s. per quire.
Printing and Bookbinding neatly executed

It would have been modest and unassuming in him, at

A large Assortment of Stationery, Bibles, Prayers, School least, to have left it to his readers to substantiate his claim books, and other publicationson Salǝ.

TO THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY.

LAST WEEK-Those who have not yet seen the REAL SWISS GIANTESS are respectfully informed that next SATURDAY, the 2nd of October, the Exhibition will POSITIVELY CLOSE in Liverpool, and no time, therefore, to be lost by those who desire to behold this wonderful

etnale.

To be seen at Stoakes's Rooms, Church-street; open from
Ten in the morning to Nine at night.
Admittance, 1s.; Children and Servants, 6d.

atience.

after all you are right? Had you calmly requested the But, dear Sir, why are you so angry and vexed when editor to refer to your manuscript, it would have been much more effective. If Mr. Editor will allow you to see my poor note, which has so offended your "amor profor it is more bitter than you imagine. Its intent, however, was merely to ridicule the errors in the Essay on Taste, whether originating with yourself, or the Printer's Devil. Should Mr. Editor print it in the Kaleidoscope, or permit you to read it, you will perceive, from its whole tenor, that instead of my intending “ Hæc si qui, e," &c. to be correct, it is exactly the reverse.

But, Sir, I fear you have been too hasty in giving utterance to those high-sounding, dictatorial words presumption," "miserably deficient." Turn back to this remark in my present note, the style of your native English is so inferior." How happens it, Sir, that you who boast of being "thoroughly acquainted" with Latin do not write even your native tongue with correctness and

to the appellation of “ A Connoisseur," and to judge whe-
ther he is one of those "competent to enter into the
merits of the pictures exhibited." He says he does not
set himself up for a "public censor;" this is an amiable
confession! nor does he write for any other purpose than
to provoke criticism. Truly I am provoked, when I see
"A Connoisseur" commence by praising No. 1, as "as
fine a picture as any in the collection." The term "fine"
is no proof of connoisseurship, as here applied. He says
the artist stands unrivalled in mellowness of tint and mas-perspicuity?
terly style of handling. Perhaps he does not know that
this artist has a brother a landscape painter, or that there
are such painters as Havel, Westall, &c. If he would
take the trouble to observe the works of these gentlemen,
he would find his encomiums to apply better; but I find
No. 2, is the finest picture in the collection. I do not
know how Connoisseur" reconciles this, when he has
just told us that No. 1, is as fine. I should not wish to
detract from the merits of the above pictures, each of
which are deserving of praise in their respective styles,
but I would not wish to mislead those who "Connoisseur"
complains are content to see with another's eyes.

Extraordinary Vegetation.-The extraordinary progress
regetation, during seasonable and plentiful rain, has
frequently excited admiration and surprise; but that seeds,
after being sown, should arrive to perfection in as many
cond, as by the process of nature they require days
in the finest climates, is a curiosity which few persons
have witnessed. Franklin was the first who applied
the mighty power of electricity to the purposes of ve-
gation, by which, at any season, a dish of sallad,
tanis, &c. might be obtained in a few seconds. We
were exceedingly amused with this experiment on
Friday evening last, when it was admirably performed
by Mr. Charles to a most fashionable and numerous
Upon this occasion, a lady, at the request
Mr. Charles, placed some mould in a tin case, and
ok some seeds over it. In three seconds from the time
Mr. Charles applied it to the electrifying machine, the
cover was removed, when there appeared a plentiful growth
I have now pursued this letter farther than my first in-
of toung-grass and parsley. Mr. Charles very politely tention, which was only to answer the part of "A Con-
prised a lady present to produce the same effect onnoisseur's" communication wherein he complains of the
one flower seeds, which she requested permission to send want of criticism. Let me, therefore, state, that the
him for that purpose next morning.-See adv.
opinions expressed upon the pictures in last year's exhi-
bition, when not in unison with the artist's own, were
taken in such high dudgeon, that it became formidable
to hazard a judgment for or against; and if any one was
STR.-About six weeks ago there appeared in the Cou-in preference to the modern, or even that he had a respect
hardy enough to express his fondness for the old masters
rier, some letters from me, in answer to a defamatory
pamphlet, published by Mr. Hamilton; and, about a fort-
night ago, there appeared in the Mercury, an advertise-
meat, stating that I was going to give a few ladies a smat-
of French, on a plan similar to Mr. Hamilton's.
Almost every day, since that advertisement appeared, I
e heard of some person or other who had expressed sur-
at my having been so inconsistent as to write against
ystem, and yet to adopt it myself.

In your Essay on Taste, you say "from whence,”—an evident solecism. A little further on is the following sentence: It is unworthy of being suffered to obtain effects of the ingenua artes,' which we hear so much in any mind that has been enlarged and fertilized by the about." First, there is the beautiful construction-" It is unworthy of being suffered;" this, though not absolutely improper, is no more than the offal of English composition. Secondly, there is the active verb" to obtain" without an accusative or objective case after it, which is quite false; it should be followed by place, or an equivalent. Lastly, to close the awkward squad," after ingenuœ artes" in limps" which we hear so much about," thinking to complete a squadron already whole. After reading a little more, another exquisite sentence salutes the eye:"IT IS, indeed, one of those subtle essences which are intrinsically untangible; and IT IS upon this property which, I believe, IT IS generally allowed to possess," &c. Here the noble "it is" occurs three times in little more than two lines, besides a plentiful sprinkling of it through the whole essay.

A little more than half way through the essay is a long, mysterious, intricate, and perplexed sentence, which runs thus:" Thus far any man may judge with comparative and imperceptible, there are qualities so nearly resembling confidence; but, where the limits of distinction become more circumscribed, there are shades of separation so slight each other, which are yet essentially different, to any combinations of which it is difficult to assign the palm of the highest excellence, or to say which one surpasses the case, can arraign the opinions of others on these difficult others, as to render it matter of wonder to me how any one, knowing (as every man of sense must) that such is the niceties for not agreeing with his own."

The ideas of this sentence are good; but, from being all

crowded into one sentence, they are almost unintelligible. of their native territory, where the more agitating pursuits
I am afraid few readers of the Kaleidoscope would un-of life are almost unknown, where the face of a stranger
derstand it. If it were arranged as follows, which appears is rarely seen, where the same routine of employments
a me to be the right way, then the meaning would be plain: have descended, with the same habits and ideas, without
Thus far any man may judge with comparative confidence;
but, where the limits of distinction become more circum- much alteration, as it were from generation to generation,
scribed, there are shades of separation so slight and imper- such friendships, formed in early life, and strengthened
ceptible; there are qualities so nearly resembling each by constant intercourse and similar habits of thinking,
other, which are yet so essentially different; that, to any
combinations of them, it is difficult to assign the palm of may certainly be found; these, indeed, seem to be the
the highest excellence, or to say which one surpasses the only spots upon the civilized world where such instances
others. This renders it matter of wonder to me, &c.' ever occur in any considerable number.
Indeed, Mr. Z. it is your common fault that you draw
your sentences to too great a length, and cram in too many
long words. And yet it is surprising that you, who have
read Horace, should be guilty of such an error: you
surely have overlooked that passage.

Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se
Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures.
Sat. 10, line 9 and 10.

You imitate Cicero in the length of your sentences, without placing, like him, at proper intervals, those principal, those emphatic words which seem so many telegraphs conveying the sense from one extremity to the other. On reading the title "On Taste," we naturally expect a style as delicate and beautiful as the subject. But expectation is disappointed; and in place of light and melodious sounds, in place of full and well-turned periods, in place of harmonious and sweetly-falling cadences, the ear is offended by listening to all the uncouth jarring words, all the mazy, winding sentences, and never-dying cadences, which could well be huddled together in so small a space. Your subject and your style, Sir, resemble a beautiful nun, whose charms are all closely concealed by a dress of the darkest hue, so that, with the exception of the face, not a single beauty can emerge into day, or give the least token of its existence.-Your affectionate cousin,

then-adieu.

Y. Z.

The frequent existence of such instances, however strange the assertion may seem, is materially at variance zation and extended knowledge. In the instances above with the system produced by an increased degree of civilialluded to, friendships arising from early intimacy, and confirmed by mutual knowledge of character, are certainly valuable; and much is it to be regretted that the present state of society generally opposes almost insuperable obstacles to the frequency of such: but in this bustling and variable world, such opportunities of proving the real value of early intimacies seldom present themselves; and the varieties of pursuits in after life materially alter the original views and ideas of almost every one, so that I a:0 induced to think that nobody will accuse me of undervaluing the precious gift of friendship, when I say, that the transient nature of early attachments, arising from the circumstances of the times that we live in, is rather to be considered as a fortunate result than otherwise: and that such a result has been produced I think few will now deny.

It is an undoubted fact, that in youth the character is N.B. As your essays are numbered, of course the world comparatively unformed; and, ready as it is to receive a will expect soon to have another. I beg and pray that bias in any direction which circumstances may influence it these few playful remarks of your dear coz. may not pre-to take, the mind is incapable of deciding upon the exact vent its appearance; and, in the mean time, as revenge nature of its own sensations, much less can it form any is sweet," I beg to inform you, that having sent a scrap of certain, or even probable conclusion with respect to its original poetry to the editor, if he should think fit to insert future impressions, or the light in which, at some distant it, you will have a good opportunity of retaliating: till period, it may regard objects at present admired and esteemed. Those who will affirm, that in friendship mind does not form an essential part, and that it may consist in only a spontaneous impulse of the feelings towards any particular individual, may say, that this state of unformed ideas by no means unfits a man for the choice of his friends:-but let me ask any one who would assign a higher rank to that almost divine possession, who would not sink friendship to a level with the instinctive fondness “Omnino amicitiæ, corroboratis jam confirmatisque et that even the "beasts that perish" feel one towards an

Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1824.

Literature, Criticism, &c.

NO. V.

ON EARLY FRIENDSHIPS.

ingeniis et ætatibus judicandæ sunt."

" 'Dispares enim mores disparia studia sequunter, quarum dissimilitudo dissociat amicitias."-Cic. de Amicit.

It has long been a favourite theme for authors, and more especially those of a sentimental cast, to enlarge upon the force and permanence of friendships contracted in early life; those ties, they say, with which we are bound in our youth, derive additional firmness through advancing years from the well known power and fascination of early associations; besides, the heart of youth is peculiarly fitted to receive those warm impressions, which maturer and more calculating age, while it strengthens the growth of affections already implanted, is unwilling and unsuited to admit readily. The picture which they draw is, at first glance, certainly pleasing; but even if it were really correct, I think, that, when inspected more narrowly, the many dangers which would arise from the chance of youth, inexperienced as it proverbially is, forming unsuitable attachments, which, under the supposition of their view being a just one, might endure through life, would present no very agreeable feature in this imaginary prospect.

This, however, I will not attempt to discuss; for it is my opinion, and as far as I have had the opportunity of witnessing, my observation has confirmed it, that, a few instances excepted, the very reverse of the preceding view of the subject is, in point of fact, correct.

a small and sequestered communities, where the inhabitants of which rarely wander far beyond the boundary

other, who would require the interchange of all the in-
tellectual properties of the mind, as well as that of sen-
timent, to constitute what he would dignify by that de-
lightful name;-whether, at such a period of life, the
chance of forming intimacies, (even supposing them to
last) which maturer reason would reprove, is not fully as
great as that they should be such as might prove, in a
more advanced age, a source of happiness?

It is, therefore, I think, fortunate that the friendships
which are apt to be contracted in youth, seldom outlive
that season; they generally die away when the fire of over-
heated imagination which supported them has subsided,
unless by some chance the connexion has been such as
increasing years render more valuable; but instances such
as these, I fear, rarely occur.

It is when experience has instructed a man to judge cor-
rectly of the professions of others; it is when repeated
disappointments have rendered him cautious, and taught
him the value of sincerity and disinterestedness, that a
friendship, which his past knowledge of the world pre-
vents him from rashly forming, is not only likely to prove
really valuable, but is properly appreciated. It is cemented
by mutual confidence, and the intimate knowledge of each
other's character; and it is such a friendship as this (qua-
lis sit, talis utinam nostra esset) that will outlive the
stroke of misfortune, and the lapse of time, and which,
indeed, realizes the words of the French moralist, who
calls it "La plus belle des felicités terrestres.”
Sep. 22, 1824.

Z.

THE BOLD DRAGOON,

OR THE ADVENTURES OF MY GRANDFATHER. (From Tales of a Traveller, by Was`rington Irving.)

have been dragoons, and died in the field of honour, exMy grandfather was a bold dragoon, for it's a profession, d'ye see, that has run in the family. All my forefathers cept myself, and I hope my posterity may be able to say the same; however, I dont mean to be vain glorious. Well, my grandfather, as I said, was a bold dragoon, and had served in the Low Countries. In fact, he was one of that very army, which, according to my uncle Toby, swore the doctrine Corporal Trim mentions of radical heat and self; and, moreover, was the very man that introduced so terribly in Flanders. He could swear a good stick himradical moisture; or, in other words, the mode of keeping out the damps of ditch-water by burnt brandy. Be that tell it to show you that my grandfather was a man not as it may, it's nothing to the purport of my story. I only easily to be humbugged. He had seen service, or, ac cording to his own phrase, he had seen the devil-and that's saying every thing.

Well, gentlemen, my grandfather was on his way to bad luck to the place! for one where I was kept by storms England, for which he intended to embark from Ostendjolly companion or pretty face to comfort me. Well, as I and head winds for three long days, and the devil of a was saying, my grandfather was on his way to England, or rather to Ostend-no matter which, it's all the same. So one evening, towards night-fall, he rode jollily into Bruges.

Well, gentlemen, it being the time of the annual fair, all the town was crowded, every inn and tavern full, and my grandfather applied in vain from one to the other for that looked ready to fall to pieces, and which all the rats admittance. At length he rode up to an old rackety inn, would have run away from, if they could have found room in any other house to put their heads.—My grandfather eyed the house curiously as he approached. It might not have altogether struck his fancy, had he not seen in large letters over the door,

My grandfather had learnt enough of the language to know that the sign promised good liquor. This is the house for me," said he, stopping short before the door.

HEER VERKOOPT MAN GOEDEN DRANK

The sudden appearance of a dashing dragoon was an of traffic. A rich burgher of Antwerp, a stately ample event in an old inn, frequented only by the peaceful sona man in a broad Flemish hat, and who was the great man, and great patron of the establishment, sat smoking clean long pipe on one side of the door, a fat little dis tiller of Geneva from Schiedam sat smoking on the other; hostess, in crimped cap, beside him; and the hostess and the bottle-nosed host stood in the door, and the comely daughter, a plump Flanders lass, with long gold pendanu in her ears, was at a side window.

"Humph!" said the rich burgher of Antwerp, with sulky glance at the stranger. Der duyvel!" said the the quick glance of a publican, that the new guest wa fat little distiller of Schiedam.-The landlord saw, with

not at all to the taste of the old ones; and, to tell the truth, he did not himself like my grandfather's saucy eye. He shook his head. "Not a garret in the house but was full."-"Not a garret!" echoed the landlady." Not a and the little distiller of Schiedam, continued to smoke garret !" echoed the daughter. The burgher of Antwerp, their pipes sullenly, eying the enemy askance from under their broad hats, but said nothing.

threw the reins on his horse's neck, cocked his head on t My grandfather was not a man to be brow-beaten. At side, stuck one arm akimbo, "Faith and troth!" said he, "but I'll sleep in this house this very night." As he said this he gave a slap on his thigh, by way of emphasis-the slap went to the landlady's heart. He followed up the vow by jumping off his horse, and making his way past the staring Mynheers into the public room.

There was some show of resistance on the part of the garrison; but my grandfather was an old soldier, and an Irishman to boot, and not easily repulsed, especially after he had gone into the fortress. So he blarneyed the landlord, kissed the landlord's wife, tickled the landlord's daughter, chucked the bar-maid under the chin; and it was agreed on all hands that it would be a thousand pities, and a burning shame into the bargain, to turn such a bold dragoon into the streets. So they laid their heads to gether, that is to say, my grandfather and the landlady. and it was at length agreed to accommodate him with a old chamber that had been for some time shut up.-"Some say it's haunted," whispered the landlord's daughter: "but you are a bold dragoon, and I dare say don's fear

"Arm'd with Hyacinth rod."

18.-OGLE. "Mov'd at what the urchin said.” MOORE.

"The fatal bow the urchin drew."
19.-OGLE.

"Over mead or over hill ;—
Or to perch in lonely wood,
Trusting chance for rustic food."

MOORE.

"O'er the plains, or in the dell,

Or on the mountain's savage swell-
Seeking in the desert wood,

Gloomy shelter, rustic food."

even according to the showing of his uncandid assailants, of Ogle and Moore. We have laid them before our reader
is having, occasionally, in his translation, applied words, in order that they may draw their own conclusions respec
rhymes, or phrases, which had been previously appro-ing the charge of plagiarism, and that we may also offer
priated by other translators.
few observations upon some of the verses of the two tragi
lations which Mr. Playfair conceives to bear such a
semblance that the writers of the one must necessaril
have seen the works of the other.

If this charge were true, it amounts to nothing; nor
ought such a circumstance to operate in the slightest de-
gree to the disparagement of Mr. Moore's originality or
genius. If, indeed, a man appropriate the thoughts and
compositions of some other author, with whose works he
is acquainted, and pass them off to the world as his own,
he is an impostor and a thief; nor have we ever hesitated
to apply such epithets to those whom we have detected in
such mean and fraudulent attempts. The case under
consideration is, however, altogether different. Mr.
Moore's work is a professed translation of the works of
a Greek poet.-Anacreon furnished the material, or the
ideas; and as far as languages can be assimilated, he has
also prescribed the words; because there is always some
one word in the language of a translator which will con-
vey the sense of the author he translates better than any
other word, notwithstanding the synonymise with which
languages abound. The first translator of any work will
naturally appropriate these most forcible words, and it
would be most strange to prohibit any future translator
from the use of such terms, as if they were exclusive patent
right.

One man may have produced a translation, which may be a very indifferent performance; another individual a century afterwards undertakes the same task, and puts the world in possession of a work excellent and every way worthy of the original; in the performance of his task, however, he may, and indeed necessarily must, occasionally use words, phrases, or rhymes, which are to be found in the version of his unsuccessful predecessor; and if this privilege is denied, or denounced as disgraceful, the necessary consequence of such denunciation would be, that every successive translation must be inferior to that which preceded it, in raciness and vigour.

Dryden, Pitt, and Berresford, have translated the Eneid of Virgil, and each of these writers have rendered the first line thus:

"Arms and the man I sing;"

We shall, in the first instance, advert to the most plansible of all the charges preferred against Mr. Moore, a re-echoed con amore by the John Bull.

In consulting the extract numbered 18 the reader may, first sight, be at a loss to know why Mr. Playfair has quot two lines which bear very little resemblance to ex other, as the word urchin is the only word common to bed It is, however, this very word which furnishes these hype critics with "damning proof" of Mr. Moore's plagiar The John Bull, alluding to this coincidence, says: [: Mr. Moore's 33d ode, he uses the term "Urchin," an applies it to Cupid-The unknown (Ogle) has employe this word also. Now in the text there is not any epitta or word conveying an epithet of archness or cunning Cupid is simply called "Puellus." Now if Moore ha consulted Ogle's translation, and had borrowed the phras "urchin" from it, we could easily forgive him; but ve de mur to a conclusion resting upon such flimsy circumstan tial evidence. A translator will often embellish his we by an epithet not to be found in the original, but wh serves to illustrate the sense, or round a period. Now term Urchin as applied to Cupid, was familiarly use long before either Ogle or Moore appropriated Matthew Prior, who was born upwards of sixty years fore the translation of Ogle appeared, says,

"Pleas'd Cupid heard, and check'd his mother's pride, And, who's blind now, mamma? the Urchin cry'd;" so that Moore might have had Prior in his mind's e when he used the term upon which such ridiculous a is here laid.

Another of the instances adduced to substantiate th charge of plagiarism is No 19, although no two traneb tions consisting of so few words, can well differ from eac other much more than that of Moore does from that Ole. There is, however, one word common to both, a the critics pounce upon that word as eagerly as a la would catch at a flaw in an indictment. The word r is to be found in both. What a discovery! what evide whereon to pluck the laurel from the brow of Mo We have on a former occasion observed, that our Gree porated some 25 years ago; had we still retained the of which we could once boast, we certainly should have

nor will any man of common sense and candour charge the
successors of Dryden with servile plagiarisin, because they
could not otherwise render" Arma virumque cano."
Every writer who undertakes to translate this line, must
necessarily use either the words arms, man, and sing,
or some other equally appropriate; and if he can find
none so applicable as those which have been used by a
predecessor, he has an unquestionable right to avail him-sulted old Anacreon himself on this point, as we tha
self of them; especially as if, in the case of Mr. Moore's
Anacreon, he can produce a translation, which, taken as
a whole, excels all that have preceded it.

Having thus registered the slender evidence upon which The accusers of Mr. Moore seem to take it for granted
Mr. Moore's traducers hope that the verdict-" Guilty of that he must have seen Ogle's Anacreon before he trans-
Plagiarism" will be pronounced by a jury of his country-lated that author himself. This is by no means proved;
men, we shall enter upon a brief and desultory examina-
tion of the charge preferred by this anonymous Mr. Play.
fair, and his ready echo the notorious John Bull; after
premising, that a reputed editor of the Bull having
been convicted as a plunderer of the public money to a
large amount, may vainly fancy, that if he could succeed in
proving Mr. Moore to be a pilferer also, although of a
very different description, his own disgrace would be some-
what lessened, because

"Companions in distress
Make the trouble less."

One of these yelpers at Mr. Moore observes that some of the passages we have transcribed from his Anacreon are such palpable imitations that they remind him of the man in the Critic who exclaims," Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee," &c.

This, however, is a very unlucky comparison. Sheridan's plagiarist appropriates the identical ideas and words of Shakspeare, which he would fain pass off as his own; whereas the "head and front" of Mr. Moore's offending,

but if the fact were admitted it amounts to nothing. For
our own parts, so far from censuring Mr. Moore, or any
other man, for consulting and profiting by the works of
another, in the way here presumed, we are decidedly of
opinion that before any writer undertakes the transla-
tion of such a poet as Anacreon, it is his duty to peruse
carefully, all existing translations of the same work, in or-
der, not only to compare them with the original, and with
each other, but to enable him to ascertain whether he is
qualified to enter into competition with them.

We are not, therefore, disposed to justify Mr. Moore from
the charge of having seen Mr. Ogle's translation; nor do
we think it improbable, that where any ambiguity ex-
isted in the original, Mr. Moore has consulted every prior
translation of his favourite author, and has availed him.
self of the hints suggested by the various light in which
critics and commentators sometimes view the same pas-
sage.

It is not our intention to comment upon all the numbered passages we have transcribed from the translations

highly probable that, in the original, a word is used a can only be rendered into English by the correspond word rustic: some Greek word, for instance, which, tra ed into Latin, is rusticulus, and therefore rustic in kg If this is the case, the two translators may have bee turally led to select the same word, without su either to the suspicion of borrowing from the other.

We are at a loss to guess how the two lines (a can be adduced as parallels. Ogle says, "Lage Memphis or the Nile," and Moore has it, "Of Meta or the shores of Nile;" the only points of resem in the two lines being Memphis and the Nile; cannot well conceive how any writer, professing to translation of this line, could have accomplished the without some allusion of the Egyptian city and old f

Nile.

We have pursued this subject much further than w tended, and we must for the present conclude with hope that we have not wholly failed in our atte show that this effort to lower the literary fame of Moore is uncandid, malignant, and abortive.

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