THE MIGHTY MONOSYLLABLE.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Szn,—Browning's "Rabbi ben Ezra" is an instance of mono- syllabic power. It contains but 186 polysyllables to 1,020 monosyllables. The correspondence on colours leads me to mention that I have always associated form with the days of the week, Thursday being a perfect square, Saturday a tall rectangle, Monday a very flat rectangle, Tuesday a square with one quarter of it lacking; Friday has a jagged top, while Sunday strikes me as the most proportionable, neither tall nor depressed, a good deal less than a square, without being flat. In a recent issue of the Spectator (August 31st) a letter on "Literary Associations" makes the surprising statement that few people in Concord know much about Walden Pond. As a daily resort for swimming in summer and skating in winter, and for strolling at all seasons, there can be nothing more familiar. As for the grave of Emerson, one can only be silent in sheer astonishment. Such is history !—I am, Sir, &T.,
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