23 AUGUST 1919, Page 16

CARLYLE AS A POET:

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—May I venture to point out that the verses on " Drum- whirn Bridge," referred to under the above heading in your last issue, cannot have appeared in Leigh Hunt's Journal in 1832, because, in 1832, Leigh Hunt's Journal (1850-51) did not exist ? The lines are to he found in Leigh Hunt's London Journal (1834-35), Vol. I., p. 238, being No. 30, for Wednesday, October 22nd, 1834. They are dated "November, 1832," in which year the bridge over the river Orr was built. No doubt the similarity in the titles of the periodicals is somewhat