Quod meliore frui post mortem lumine sperat.
Immortalem animam spes hæc probat."
The idea is similar to that contained in—
"Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?"
Addison seems to me to have had May's description of Cato's death in his mind, when he wrote the soliloquy.
J. H. L.
Bunting's Irish Melodies.—This admirable musical scholar many years since promised a new edition of the first two volumes of his Irish Airs. Is there any hope of this being soon accomplished?
George Stephens.
Stockholm.