NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I think your opinion is quite correct that it was the subject of the Newdigate in 1852, " Belshazzar's Feast," which gave rise to many absurd lines about Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel's reference to Nebuchadnezzar in his reproof of Belshazzar afforded an easy opportunity of transition to some candidates who would have acted wisely if they had refrained from being candidates. One of the adjudicators of the prize in 1852 stated afterwards in my bearing that there was an unsuccessful candidate who passed—perhaps by this route—from Belshazzar 's Feast to Nebuchadnezzar, of whom he wrote :— "Amidst the dew he cropped unwonted grass
With herds of oxen and the fleet wild ass."
The Rectory, Byfield, R.S.O., Northants.
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