I cannot refrain from taking this opportunity of protesting, under your justly powerful auspices, against the use of the word "Exposition" in its French sense of Exhibition, now creeping into places where it could scarcely have been expected.
AVENA.
The White Rose (Vol. iii., p. 407.).
—The version which I have of the beautiful lines quoted by your correspondent is (I quote from memory):
"If this fair rose offend thy sight
It on thy bosom wear,
'Twill blush to find itself less white,
And turn Lancastrian there."
The succeeding couplet has equal merit:
"But if thy ruby lip it spy