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Notices to Correspondents.
We have this week been compelled to omit our usual Notes on Books, &c.
W. W. (Malta) is thanked for his suggestion. We fear, however, that the difficulties in the way of carrying it out, which are far more than he suspects, will still prevent our doing so, as we have often desired.
Peter the Saxonian is referred to our 1st Vol., p. 102., where he will find that both Blair and Campbell were anticipated by Norris of Bemerton, who sang of
"Angels' visits, short and bright."
R. G. L. The meaning and derivation of Ditto are obvious. It means "the same," from the Italian ditto, the said.
Touchstone. Music is sometimes engraved, sometimes printed from moveable types.
J. C., who inquires whether Shelley first imagined the name of Mab, has, we fear, never read Shakspeare's Romeo and Juliet, or Mercutio's account of "the Fairie's midwife." We almost envy him.