hundred and fifty years later. These are the long measures and the
short measures. So the long and short of it is, that you can keep
the two poets 320 years apart, while I have rather more than a
century which I can select any night of, for a bivouac scene, in
which to bring them together. Believe me, my dear Miss D., always
yours, &c.

"Confess that you forgot the Arundelian Marbles!"




THE SOUTH AMERICAN EDITOR


[I am tempted to include this little burlesque in this collection simply
in memory of the Boston Miscellany, the magazine in which it was
published, which won for itself a brilliant reputation in its short
career. There was not a large staff of writers for the Miscellany, but
many of the names then unknown have since won distinction. To quote them
in the accidental order in which I find them in the table of contents,
where they are arranged by the alphabetical order of the several papers,
the Miscellany contributors were Edward Everett, George Lunt, Nathan
Hale, Jr., Nathaniel Hawthorne, N.P. Willis, W.W. Story, J.R. Lowell,
C.N. Emerson, Alexander H. Everett, Sarah P. Hale, W.A. Jones, Cornelius
Matthews, Mrs. Kirkland, J.W. Ingraham, H.T. Tuckerman, Evart A.
Duyckinck, Francis A. Durivage, Mrs. J. Webb, Charles F. Powell, Charles
W. Storey, Lucretia P. Hale, Charles F. Briggs, William E. Channing,
Charles Lanman, G.H. Hastings, and Elizabeth B. Barrett, now Mrs.
Browning, some of whose earliest poems were published in this magazine.