THE MANUFACTURING OF FRESH VERBS. [To TEE EDITOR OF THE

"SPECTATOR...1

Sur,—There are many examples in Tennyson of the manu- facture of verbs out of nouns similar to those quoted by Mr.

Murray in the Spectator of February 14th; may I give only a few examples ?- " To nurse my children

And alchemise old hates into the gold

Of Love?' —" Akbar's Dream."

" Shadow-maker, shadow-slayer, arrowing light from clime to clime." —Hymn, " Akbar's Dream."

"And snake-like slimed his victim are he gorged."

—" Sea Dreams."

" Till all the sails were darken'd in the West,

And rosed in the East." —" Sea Dreams."

"And being much befool'd and idioted."—"Aylmer's Field."

"Some little cloud Cuts off the fiery highway of the sun,

And isles a light in the offing."—" Enoch Arden."

"I was lilting a song to the babe."—" The Bandit's Death." And in " Queen Mary " there occurs the line :-

" You have ousted the mock priest, repulpited The Shepherd of St. Peter."

Harrow.