The tracing, the accuracy of which may be relied upon, I shall be very happy to lend to A. E. C., if it will be of any service to him. Fuller's autograph has not yet been discovered in the library, but, I have reason to believe, will be found in the President's lodge.
W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.
14. Grove Road, North Brixton, Surrey.
Lines on the Bible (Vol. iv., p. 473. Vol. v., p. 66.).
—It has been already shown that these lines are not Byron's, but are to be found in the 12th chapter of Sir W. Scott's Monastery. I write now for the purpose of noting, that in a similar collection, almost exclusively of the Evangelical school, called Sacred Poetry, and published by Oliphant of (I think) Edinburgh, Byron's lines from The Giaour, beginning—
"Yes! Love indeed is light from heaven;
A spark of that immortal fire,
With angels shared, by Allah given,
To lift from Earth each low desire," &c.—
are printed with the "Allah" of the third line simply changed into "Jesus!" And so a passage, applicable solely to the earthly Eros, is made to do duty as descriptive of another love of which the noble poet had, I fear, remarkably little notion. The editors have had the grace not to append Byron's name as the author. How far is this mode of "improving" a passage honest?