I found these lines written on the back of an odd volume of Atterbury's Sermons. Most likely they have already appeared in print.
E. H. A.
Minor Notes.
"Milton Blind."—A little poem bearing this title, and commencing,—
"Though I am old and blind,"
is said to have been included in an edition of the poet's works recently published at Oxford. It was written by Miss Lloyd, a lady of this city, a short time ago.
Uneda.
Philadelphia.
Hydropathy.—For a long time, I believe in common with many others, I have imagined that the water cure is of late origin, and that we are indebted for it to Germany, to which we look for all novel quackeries (good and bad) in medicine and theology. This belief was put to flight a short time ago by a pamphlet which I discovered among others rare and curious. It is entitled Curiosities of Common Water, or the Advantages thereof in preventing and curing many Distempers. The price of the pamphlet was one shilling, and the author rejoices in the name of John Smith. After his name follows a motto, the doctrine of which it