"But the day-star attracted his eye's sad devotion. For it
rose o'er his own native isle of the Ocean"? The exile from Erin, when "in a far foreign land" he awakens —i.e., in America, the Western Continent—greets the morning sun because it is rising over his native island, which indubit- ably Res to the east of him, and not (as these critics say) "in the west."—I am, Sir, &c., A. SraTruE PALMER.
Holy Trinity Vicarage, Hernum Hill.' " • [It is not likely that Campbell meant the sun by "day- star." The use of the word by Milton in this sense in " Lycidas" is characteristically classical, probably suggested by the Titania astra of Virg. Aen. VL, 725.- But Mr. Palmer Is undoubtedly right, and the writer of the notice can only plead that he quoted the note without referring . to the poem Itself, and so without observing the words "far foreign land." —ED. Spectator.] ' AN APPEAL FOR THE NAPLES SOCIETY FOR
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