unes be the mandrake's groan,
If now they tend to mirth when all have none."

Both these passages may have been quoted by some of Campbell's
predecessors. This might justify him in not repeating them, but _not_ in
writing the criticism to which I have ventured to object. His work holds a
high rank in English literature--it is taken as a text-book by _the
generality of readers_; for which reasons I think that every dictum it lays
down ought to be examined with more than usual care and attention.

Compare with different parts of the "Lament:"

"And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves,
Dewy with nature's tear drops, as they pass,
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves,
Over the unreturning brave,--alas!
Ere evening to be trodden like the grass," &c.--_Childe Harold_, Canto
iii. St. 27.

"The morning of the day on which the farmer was to be buried, was
rendered remarkable by the uncommon denseness of an autumnal fog. To
Mrs. Mason's eye, it threw a gloom over the face of nature; nor, when
it gradually yielded to the influence of the sun, and slowly retiring
from the valley, hung, as if rolled into masses, mid-way upon the
mountains, did the changes thus produced excite any admiration. Still,
wherever she looked, all seemed to wear the aspect of sadness. As she
passed from Morrison's to the house of mourning, the shocks of yellow
corn, spangled with dewdrops, appeared to her to stand as mementos of
the vanity of human hopes, and the inutility of human labours. The
cattle, as they went forth to pasture, lowing as they went, seemed as
if lamenting that the hand which fed them was at rest; and even the
Robin-red-breast, whose cheerful notes she had so often listened to
with pleasure, now seemed to send forth a song of sorrow, expressive of
dejection and woe."--Miss Hamilton's _Cottagers of Glenburnie_, chap.
xii.

C. FORBES.

Temple.

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Minor Notes.

"_In the Sweat of thy Brow_" (Vol. ii., p. 374.).--To the scriptural
misquotation referred to, you may add another:

"In the sweat of thy _brow_ shalt thou eat bread."

The true text reads,--

"In the sweat of thy _face_ shalt thou eat bread."--Gen. iii. 19.

The misquotation is so common, that a reference to a concordance is
necessary for proving to many persons that it is not a scripture phrase.

J. GALLATLY.

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