153. Είθε λύρη, κ. τ. λ. Usually found in the remains of Alcæus. Thomas Moore translates it with his _Odes of Anacreon_ (LXXVII), beginning "Would that I were a tuneful lyre," etc. Lockhart proceeds to ridicule Tennyson for wishing to be a river, which is not what the quoted lines state. Nor does Tennyson "ambition a bolder metamorphosis" than his predecessors. Anacreon (Ode XXII) wishes to be a stream, as well as a mirror, a robe, a pair of sandals and sundry other articles. See Moore's interesting note. 155. _Non omnis moriar_. Horace, _Odes_, III, 30, 6. 156. _Tongues in trees_, etc. Shakespeare's _As You Like It_, II, 1, 17. 157. _Aristæus_. A minor Grecian divinity, worshipped as the first to introduce the culture of bees. 164. _Dionysius Periegetes_. Author of περιήγησις τῆς γῆς, a description of the earth in hexameters, usually published with the scholia of Eustathius and the Latin paraphrases of Avienus and Priscian. For the account of Æthiopia, see also Pausanias, I, 33, 4. 167. _The Rovers_. _The Rovers_ was a parody on the German drama of the day, published in the _Anti-Jacobin_ (1798) and written by Frere, Canning and others. It is reprinted in Charles Edmund's _Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin_. The chorus of conspirators is at the end of Act IV. 169. _The Groves of Blarney_. An old Irish song. A version may be seen in the _Antiquary_, I, p. 199. The quotation by Lockhart differs somewhat from the corresponding stanza of the cited version. 170. _Corporal Trim_. In Sterne's _Tristram Shandy_. 173. _Christopher North_. John Wilson, of _Blackwood's Magazine_. ROBERT BROWNING The reviews of Browning's poems are singularly uninteresting from a historical standpoint. There is usually a protest against the obscurity of the poetry and a plea that the author should make better use of his manifest genius. For details concerning these reviews, see the bibliography of Browning in Nicoll and Wise's _Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century_. The list there given is extensive, but does not include several of the reviews mentioned below.