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NIMMO, 14, King William-street, Strand. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1887. CONTENTS.-N° 103. Leyden'-Confirmation in Wakefield Prison, 484-End of Heraldry-Cambridge University Life in 1550, 486. NOTES:-D. G. Rossetti, 481-Old Southwark, 482- Dr. Crockford's Shopocracy-Garter Motto-"A good wheat year, a fine plum year"-Macaulay's Schoolboy-A Survival -Gossip-Temple Bar-Misprint, 485-Sou'-wester (Hat)Female Sailors-Union Jack-Parker's Bible - Mitre in QUERIES:-Sealed Prayer Book-Jewish Government in Malabar-Continental Superstition-Poets' Corner-Conundrum-Highlandman's Promise, 487-Cantilever : CantonConingham Warburton-Jumatoes-Scroope-Catesby: Gadsby Goss-J. Evetts-" Public Translator," 488-Durlock-Macaulay's "New Zealander "-Tower of LondonZennor Quoit, 489. 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Rossetti, in his preface to the 'Collected Works' of his brother, describes him as a very fastidious writer, who "spared no afterpains in clarifying and perfecting. He often recurred to his old poems, and was reluctant to leave them merely as they were" (vol. i. p. xxxiv). It would have afforded a truer idea of Dante Rossetti's mode of workmanship if, in a definitive edition of his 'Works,' some specimens of this fastidiousness had been given in the notes. The history of the various poems is not presented with that fulness of detail which I venture to think a subject of such interest deserves. With regard to some of them, the student of Rossetti will turn for information to Mr. William Sharp's study of the poet. There are, however, many pieces in which important variations occur between the text of the first and subsequent editions, and which, so far as I know, have remained unnoticed by writers on Rossetti. Some of these afford excellent examples of the nicety of taste which was one of his characteristics. Four editions at least of the volume of Poems' were published in 1870. In the study of the writings of this unparalleled artist, I have Imade a careful collation of the first and fourth editions, and have ascertained that within the space of a few months only several of the poems underwent the "clarfying and perfecting" process. Most of the alterations will, I think, be considered unquestionable improvements; others, perhaps, are not quite so happy. With the permission of the Editor, I will subjoin the results of my inquiry, naming the two editions A and B, and explaining that after the issue of the fourth edition no alterations appear to have been made (save the expunging of the sonnet 'Nuptial Sleep'), as the text of that issue is identical with that of the 'Collected Works.' A, p. 14, 'Love's Nocturn,' st. 18, ll. 5, 6, 7:— Silent let mine image go, Its old share His message thence to wring? This alteration seems to me to weaken the unity of the central idea of the poem. Confer the first stanza: the secret or the message is the stream's, and though it was, of course, a message of love that was desired, to personify Love, and turn it into his message, causes ambiguity. Besides, a message is intended to be communicated; no one entrusts another with a message, with instructions to keep it secret. There is, therefore, no question of "wringing" a message, and the word is inapplicable. The whole piece, including the title, hinges on the feeling of the lover that the stream conceals a secret within its bosom, and I think it a pity the first reading was not retained. Love, indeed, seems to be given two different personalities in the poem (compare stanzas 2 and 3 with stanza 24), unless it is meant that he has first conveyed a secret message to the stream, and then is asked to wring it back. This involves a weakness of construction for which the beautiful passages with which the poem abounds scarcely atone. A, ibid., st. 25, 11. 5, 6 :— And by thy voice Love's self with high All-hail |