measures and the short
measures. So the long and short of it is, that you can keep the two
poets 320 years apart, while I have rather more than a century
which I can select any night of, for a bivouac scene, in which to
bring them together. Believe me, my dear Miss D., always yours, &c.

"Confess that you forgot the Arundelian Marbles!"

FOOTNOTES:

[1] After Chapman.

[2] After Cowper and Pope. Long after!

[3] Iliad, vi.

[4] Iliad, vi.--POPE.

[5] Iliad, xii., after Sotheby.

THE SOUTH AMERICAN EDITOR

[I am tempted to include this little burlesque in this collection
simply in memory of the Boston Miscellany, the magazine in which it
was published, which won for itself a brilliant reputation in its
short career. There was not a large staff of writers for the
Miscellany, but many of the names then unknown have since won
distinction. To quote them in the accidental order in which I find
them in the table of contents, where they are arranged by the
alphabetical order of the several papers, the Miscellany
contributors were Edward Everett, George Lunt, Nathan Hale, Jr.,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, N. P. Willis, W. W. Story, J. R. Lowell, C. N.
Emerson, Alexander H. Everett, Sarah P. Hale, W. A. Jones,
Cornelius Matthews, Mrs. Kirkland, J. W. Ingraham, H. T. Tuckerman,
Evart A. Duyckinck, Francis A. Durivage, Mrs. J. Webb, Charles F.
Powell, Charles W. Storey, Lucretia P. Hale, Charles F. Briggs,
William E. Channing, Charles Lanman, G. H. Hastings, and Elizabeth
B. Barrett, now Mrs. Browning, some of whose earliest poems were
published in this magazine. These are all the contributors whose
names appear, excepting the writers of a few verses. They furnished
nine tenths of the contents of the magazine. The two Everetts,
Lowell, William Story, and my brother, who was the editor, were the
principal contributors. And I am tempted to say that I think they
all put some of their best work upon this magazine.

The misfortune of the Miscellany, I suppose, was that its
publishers had no capital. They had to resort to the claptraps of
fashion-plates and other engravings, in the hope of forcing an
immediate sale upon persons who, caring for fashion-plates, did not
care for the literary character of the enterprise. It gave a very
happy escape-pipe, however, fo