CAMPBELL'S POETRY.
'TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—Mr. R. F. Jupp quotes from " Gertrude of Wyoming" a line—
"The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below," as being in every one's month on occasion. Surely " A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear," is the one line of the poem referred to known to all readers of Campbell's poetry, and the one line of the poem which will be remembered.
To revert to a subject discussed by your correspondent, " C. W.," in the Spectator of October 17th, does he not recollect
Lord Macanlay's estimate of Lord Althorp ? It will be found at p. 248 of the " Life and Letters," Vol. I., and is most interesting as confirming Greville's character in almost every particular, and in very much the same language. On the whole, Macaulay's opinion of Lord Althorp was perhaps even higher than that of Greville, and this would make the parallel between the two statesmen (viz., Lord Althorp and Mr. W. H. Smith), as Leaders of the House of Commons, still more exact.
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