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AN AUTHOR WANTED.

[To THE EDITOR or vu. " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —.1 see with regret that the idea that no one reads Byron nowadays is true, otherwise you would scarcely have printed your correspondent "A Constant Reader's" request for the authorship of the line :—

" The murmuring prelude to the ruder gale."

It is to be found In Byron's "Corsair," Canto I., line 374.—I am,