s ascribed by Wood to Dr. Tho'm.
Powell, canon of St. David's, who was, says he, 'an able
philosopher, a curious critic, and well versed in various
languages.' See an abstract of this scarce book in Oldys's _British
librarian_, p. 42."

"N.B.--The above is the hand-writing of the Rev'd. M'r. Granger,
author of the _biographical history._--I bought it of Mr. Prince,
at Oxford, who purchased his books." [John Brand.]

I have now only to consign the learned Powell to future biographers, and
to recommend the volume as one which deserves a place in every choice
collection of English books.

BOLTON CORNEY.

* * * * *

MINOR NOTES.

_Quotations from Pope._

D***N**R. (p. 38.), gives, as an instance of misquotation, a passage
from Pope, as it appeared in the _Times_, and adds a correction of it.
As my _memory_ suggested a version different from both that of the
_Times_, and the correction of your correspondent, I turned to Pope
(Bowles edition, 1806), and found the passage there, precisely as it is
given from the _Times_. Has your correspondent any authority for his
reading? No various reading of the lines is given by Bowles.

While on the subject of Pope, I will make a note (as I have not seen it
noticed by his commentators), that the well-known line,

"The proper study of mankind is man,"

is literally from Charron (_De la Sagesse_, I. i. ch. 1.)--

"La vraye science et le vray etude de l'homme c'est
l'homme."

F.F.B.

[We may add, that in the Aldine edition of Pope, which was produced
under the editorial superintendence of the Rev. A. Dyce, the lines
are given as quoted from the _Times_, and without any various
reading. See vol. ii. p. 55.]

_Angels' Visits._

Campbell's famous line,

"Like angels visits, few and far between,"

has been clearly shown by a correspondent in another paper, to be all
but copied from Blair:--

----"like an ill-used ghost
Not to return;--or if it did, its visits
_Like those of angels, short and far between._"

Blair's _Grave_.

But the same phrase, though put differently, occurs in a religious poem
of Norris of Bemerton, who died in 1711:--

"But those who soonest take their flight,
Are the most exquisite and strong,
_Like angels visits, short_ and bright,
Mortality's too weak to bear them long."

WICCAM