MRS. ARCHER CLIVE'S POEMS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " STECTE/011 Sia,—I have a copy of the " second edition, with some addi- tions," of " IX. Poems by V.," 1841. " Youth and Age" (Part IL) begins at p. 33. The preceding poems are :—" Star- light," " At Llyncmstraethy," " The Grave," " Youth took one summer day his lyre," " Written in Illness," " Former Home," "Heart's Ease," "Written in Health," " Frontispiece of an Album." Pp. 32 and 33 are not numbered.
On the back of the half-title is the following quotation:— " Of " IX. Poems by V." we emphatically say in old Greek, Bata par eiXTei POA A. It is an Ennead to which every Muse may have contributed her ninth. The stanzas printed by us in italics are, in our judgment, worthy of any one of our greatest poets in his happiest moments: —Quarterly Review, September, 1840."—I am, Sir, &c.,
WALTER BOSWELL-STONE.
Shute Haye, Walditch, Bridport, Dorset, December 2nd.
[The Greek motto is retained in the new edition as well as the Quarterly Review's panegyric.—En. Spectator.]
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