,—I send you back your friend's letter, and, though I don't agree with his Canons of Criticism, they are not the worse for that.
friend Hodgson
is not much honoured by the comparison to the
Pursuits of L.
, which is notoriously, as far as the
poetry
goes, the worst written of its kind; the World has been long but of one opinion, viz. that it's sole merit lies in the Notes, which are indisputably excellent.
Had Hodgson's "Alterative" been placed with the