IN DEFENCE OF DE Q1J1NCEY.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIE,—In reply to your correspondent Mr. T. Arnold Hyde, I have to remind him that I said in my letter to the Spectator of October 25th that I relied only on Be Quinoey's own edition of his works published in 1855 and following years. I have never examined David Masson's edition, but I have learned from Those who have that it contains matter that might without loss have been left unpublished. I assume that Be Quineey ex- cluded such papers and selected only those for his edition by which he wished to be judged by posterity because they con- tained his matured and settled views on the subjects written on. And indeed there is an air of finality in his judgment concerning Pope's famous satire on Addison contained in his essay on Pope which one cannot but feel as one reads it. For myself, I may say that I have so great an admiration and love for Addison that I do not feel kindly to Pope because of his
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