s were fond of his POETRY';
which, being interpreted, signifies that he flourished in 914
B.C., and, consequently, could have had no more to do with David
than to plant ivy over his grave, in some of his voyages to
Phoenicia.

"I thank you for the suggestion. I knew the unforgetting
professor; and I do not doubt that he remembered David and Homer
as his near friends. But, of course, to such a memory, a century
or two might easily slip aside.

"Now, did you look up Clement? And did you not forget the
Arundelian Marbles? For, if you will take the long estimates, you
will find that some folks think Homer lived as long ago as the
year 1150, and some that it was as 'short ago' as 850. And some
set David as long ago as 1170, and some bring him down to a
hundred and fifty years later. These are the long 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!"

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
ma