1 NOVEMBER 1873, Page 16

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Tlie lines on C. C. Philipps, quoted by your correspondent in last Saturday's issue, are well known to all readers of Boswell's

"Johnson," as are also the really beautiful ones suggested by the Doctor as a substitute for them. But as that delightful book is perhaps less read by the present generation than by the former one,. you will, I hope, not object to insert them :-

"Philipps, whose touch harmonious could remove

The pangs of guilty power or hapless love, Rest hero, distress'd by Poverty no more ; Here find the calm thou gav'st so oft before ; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine."