I must not neglect to add that there was another mode of forming the genitive, namely, by the possessive pronoun, as _the king his palace_. "A fly that flew into my _mistress_ her eye," is the title of one of Carew's poems. THOS. KEIGHTLEY. * * * * * Minor Notes. _Longfellow's Poetical Works._--One of the best printed editions of Longfellow's _Poetical Works_ which has appeared in England is ushered in by "An Introductory Essay" by the Rev. G. Gilfillan, A.M. I had lived in hopes, through each successive edition, that either the good taste of the publishers would strike out the preface entirely, or the amended taste of its author curtail some of its redundancies. As neither has been the case, but the 4th edition of the book now lies before me, I beg to offer the following examples: 1. Of Ancient History: "His [Longfellow's] ornaments, unlike those of the _Sabine_ maid, have not crushed him." 2. Of Modern History--_Dickens a Poet_: "A prophet may wrap himself up in austere and mysterious solitude: a poet must come 'eating and drinking.' Thus came Shakspeare, Dryden, Burns, Scott, Goethe; and thus have come in our day, _Dickens_, Hood, and Longfellow." Is the song of "The Ivy Green" in _Pickwick_ sufficient to justify this appellation? I do not remember any other "Poem" by Charles Dickens. 3. Of Metaphors. Out of sixteen pages it is difficult to make a selection, but the following are striking: "If not a prophet, _torn by a secret burden, and uttering it_ in wild tumultuous strains,... he has found inspiration ... in the legends of other lands, whose _native vein_, in itself exquisite, has been _highly cultivated_ and _delicately cherished_." "Excelsion," we are told, "is one of those happy thoughts which seem to drop down, like fine days, from some serener region, or _like moultings of the celestial dove_, which _meet instantly the ideal_ of all minds, _and run on afterwards_, and for ever, _in the current of the human heart_." Does not this almost come up to Lord Castlereagh's famous metaphor? It certainly goes beyond Mr. Gilfillan's own praise of Longfellow, whose sentiment is described as "never false, nor strained, nor mawkish. It is _always mild_,... and _sometimes_ it _approaches the sublime_." Mr. G. goes one step farther. W. W. Northamptonshire. _Sir Walter Raleigh._--I find the following remonstrance in defence of this distinguished man, against the imputation of Hume, in a letter addressed by Dr. Parr to Charles Butler: