"POPULOUS NO."
[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR:]
SIR,—In your review of Mr. Topper's poems, you express yourself at a loss to understand what populous No' can mean. The words are no doubt used as equivalent for populous city,' just as we say of London, "modern Babylon," &c. They are to be found in iii. 8 of the prophet Nahum. Though we may not admire Mr. Tupper's poetry, we must admit the use of the words as a permissible poetical licence. I do not know that the place indicated by the word " No " has ever been identified by
Biblical critics.—I am, Sir, &c., W.
[Something like the whole population of 'populous No,' which must be large, have separately and independently undertaken to en- lighten our ignorance,—which we confess and regret. We may add that wears informed, on good authority, that "No" has been con- jectured by certain respectable critics to be the Egyptian Thebes. —ED. Spectator.]
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