church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is in the patronage of the Duke
of Beaufort.

SELEUCUS.

_"Incidis in Scyllam," &c._ (Vol. ii., p. 85.).--MR. C. FORBES says he
"should be sorry this fine old proverb should be passed over with no
better notice than seems to have been assigned to it in Boswell's
_Johnson_," and then he quotes some account of it from the _Gentleman's
Magazine_. I beg leave to apprise MR. FORBES that there is no notice
whatsoever of it in Boswell's _Johnson_, though it is introduced (_inter
alia_) in a note of _Mr. Malone's_ in the later editions of Boswell; but
that note contains in substance all that MR. FORBES'S communication
repeats. See the later {142} editions of Boswell, under the date of 30th
March, 1783.

C.


_Dies Iræ_ (Vol. ii., p. 72. 105.).--Will you allow me to enter my
protest against the terms "extremely beautiful and magnificent," applied
by your respectable correspondents to the _Dies Iræ_, which, I confess,
I think not deserving any such praise either for its poetry or its
piety. The first triplet is the best, though I am not sure that even the
merit of that be not its _jingle_, in which King David and the Sybil are
strangely enough brought together to testify of the day of judgment.
Some of the triplets appear to me very poor, and hardly above macaronic
Latin.

C.