German

all this time, when I thought myself

Oriental

?

Lent Tierney my box for to-morrow; and received a new comedy sent by Lady C. A.—but

not hers

. I must read it, and endeavour not to displease the author. I hate annoying them with cavil; but a comedy I take to be the most difficult of compositions, more so than tragedy.

Galt says there is a coincidence between the first part of

The Bride

and some story of his—whether published or not, I know not, never having seen it. He is almost the last person on whom any one would commit literary larceny, and I am not conscious of any