Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright,)
He comes, the herald of a noisy world," &c.
In modern editions, I believe universally, we find the following corruption of the passage:—
"Hark! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge,
That with," &c.
closing with a colon or period at "bright," and beginning a new sentence with "He comes;" and thus making the poet use the vulgar colloquialism "'tis the horn over the bridge," instead of the remark, that the postman is coming over it.
W.P.P.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
All who have placed on their shelves—and who that desires to know thoroughly the history of this country during the period which it illustrates has not done so—the last edition of The Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, so ably edited by Lord Braybrooke, have felt the want of a corresponding edition of Evelyn's Diary. To meet this want, Mr. Coulburn has announced a new edition of it, "rendered as complete as possible by a careful revision," and accompanied by illustrative notes, to be completed in four monthly volumes.