THE POEMS OF EBENEZER JONES.
ere TRH EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR."3
a notice of my new edition of Ebenezer Jones's "Studies of Sensation and Event," which appeared in your last issue, I find the following sentence :—" Mr. Shepherd ex- presses whet seems to us the obvious truth when, in a note affixed to the poem, A Crisis,' he says that through the volume the immaturity and unsettled. condition of the author's ideas are very apparent.'" These words are erroneously attributed. by the reviewer to me. They form part of a note in the author's handwriting, pencilled. in the margin of p. 140 of a copy of the original edition of the " Studies," of which the whole is printed as a foot-note on p. 124 of the new edition, as his own reason and my justification for the omission of nine lines towards the end of the poem entitled "A Crisis," which the author has carefully ecored out, in two corrected copies now lying before me.—I am, Sir,
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