31 MARCH 1877, Page 14

MR. PALEY'S " HECUBA."

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

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Is not the late Judge Coleridge's (note to Coleridge's "Table- Talk ") a sufficient interpretation ?—

" And I, too, by the taper's light,

Which in the golden mirror's haze Flashed its interminable rays, Bound up the tresses of my hair, That I Love's peaceful sleep might share."

—I am, Sir, &c.,

SIR,—In your review last week of Mr. Paley's edition of the "Hecuba," you criticise, as "perhaps an attempt to fix too definite a meaning upon the words," his explanation of c'474v4Gyee: ai■vei; in,—