NOTE ON PROFESSOR KEY'S CHARGE OF PLAGIARISM AGAINST THE REVERE
ND J. W. DONALDSON.
WE have received from the Reverend J. W. DONALDSON a pam- phlet, entitled A Reply to the Calumnies and Misrepresentations of Professor T. H. Key, and a letter referring to our" notice" of the attack, which Mr. DONALDSON seems only to have heard of, not seen. This "notice" was contained in a single sentence in a abort note on Professor KEY'S Alphabet, &e.; and having had no opportunity of examining the facts, from not having seen Mr. DONALDSON'S Varronianus, we confined our remark to the mode of statement : the preface contains "a charge of wholesale plagiarism, neatly, calmly, but clinchingly made." The object of Mr. Do- stamsos's present publication is to deny the facts on which the charge was made. This is done in various ways; but the most im- portant are-1. That in quoting passages for the purpose of illus- tration, not of emendation, Mr. DONALDSON was not bound to men- tion every philologist who had quoted them before : 2. That some of Mr. KEY'S references to specific pages are misstatements : 3. That when Mr. DONALDSON really derived any assistance from Mr. KEY, he made an ample acknowledgment. There are also some more particular remarks in the pamphlet, and an attack upon Mr. KEY as a philologist, together with some counter criticisms. But with these we have no concern.
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