What I would suggest is, that a separate title-page be prefixed to every poem or treatise in an
author's works, and that they be sold collectively or separately at the purchaser's option. Thus few would encumber themselves with the entire works of Dryden, but many would gladly purchase some of his poems if they could be had separately.
These remarks are still more applicable to encyclopædias. The Encycl. Metropol. was a step in the right direction; and henceforth we may hope to have each article sold separately in octavo volumes. Is there no chance, amid all these reprints, of our seeing Heywood, Crashaw, Southwell, Habington, Daniel, or Drummond of Hawthornden?
Mariconda.
Uhland, the German Poet.—Mr. Mitchell, in his speech at New York, is said to have stated that Uhland, the German poet, had become an exile, and was now in Ohio. This is a mistake; for Uhland is now living in his native Würtemberg, and is reported in the papers to have quite recently declined a civic honour proposed to be conferred on him by the King of Prussia at the suggestion of Baron Humboldt.
J. M.
Oxford.
Virgilian Inscription for an Infant School.—
"... Auditæ voces, vagitus et ingens,
Infantumque animæ flentes, in limine primo."