PROFESSOR ROBINSON PT,T,ts AND CONINGTON. [TO THE EDITOR OP MEN
"spzoremoan Si,—My attention had been called to the criticism on Coning- ton's Virgil, ascribed to me in Mr. Tuekwell's " Reminiscences of Oxford," before I read the review which appeared in the Spectator of December 22nd. I must disclaim it; the more so that Conington used often to talk with me of Virgil as his edition progressed, and made me a confidant of his vexation when H. "A: J. Munro treated his first volume with a severity he had not expected: I was, however, in the habit of con- trasting Conington's (perhaps unavoidable) fluctuation in his notes on Virgil with Munro's precision in his notes en Lucretius. I think it may have been some remark of this kind to which the criticism on Conington's Virgil most wrongly imputed to me owes its origin.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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