For critical utterances we have the ensuing:--'A strain of patriotism pure, ardent, and even sublime.... Versification combining conciseness and strength with a considerable degree of harmony.... Both talent and genius.... Some passages of it, and those not a few, are of the first order of the pathetic and descriptive.' (3) _A Syrian Tale._ Of this book I have failed to find any trace in the _Quarterly Review_, or in the Catalogue of the British Museum. (4) Mrs. Lefanu. Neither can I trace this lady in the _Quarterly_. Mrs. Alicia Lefanu, who is stated to have been a sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and also her daughter, Miss Alicia Lefanu, published books during the lifetime of Shelley. The former printed _The Flowers, a Fairy Tale_, 1810, and _The Sons of Erin, a Comedy_, 1812. To the latter various works are assigned, such as _Rosard's Chain, a Poem_. (5) Mr. John Howard Payne was author of _Brutus, or the Fall of Tarquin, an Historical Tragedy_, criticized in the _Quarterly_ for April, 1820. I cannot understand why Shelley should have supposed this criticism to be laudatory: it is in fact unmixed censure. As thus:--'He appears to us to have no one quality which we should require in a tragic poet.... We cannot find in the whole play a single character finely conceived or rightly sustained, a single incident well managed, a single speech--nay a single sentence--of good poetry.' It is true that the same article which reviews Payne's _Brutus_ notices also, and with more indulgence, Sheil's _Evadne_: possibly Shelley glanced at the article very cursorily, and fancied that any eulogistic phrases which he found in it applied to Payne. 1. 51. _A parallel between the Rev. Mr. Milman and Lord Byron._ I have not succeeded in finding this parallel. The _Quarterly_ _Review_ for July 1818 contains a critique of Milman's poem, _Samor, Lord of the Bright City_; and the number for May 1820, a critique of Milman's _Fall of Jerusalem_. Neither of these notices draws any parallel such as Shelley speaks of. 1. 52. _What gnat did they strain at here_. The word 'here' will be perceived to mean 'in _Endymion_,' or 'in reference to _Endymion_'; but it is rather far separated from its right antecedent. 1. 59. _The circumstances of the closing scene of poor Keats's life were not made known to me until the Elegy was ready for the press_. See p. 22.