Our critic exposes himself to reproof from the manner in which he has conveyed his severe remark: _show a rhyme is sometimes made_. The omission of the relative, a too common practice with our writers, is an impropriety of the grossest kind: and which _neither gods or men_, as one expresses himself, nor any language under heaven, can endure." Now in Dr. Johnson's _Life of Gray_, we find this sentence:-- "In the first stanza 'the azure flowers that blow' show resolutely a rhyme is sometimes made when it cannot easily be found." My notion is, that the word _how_ has been omitted in the printing, from the similarity of blow, show, how; and thus the sentence will be-- "_The azure flowers that blow_ show how resolutely a rhyme is sometimes made when it cannot easily be found." But Gilbert Wakefield was a critic by profession, and apparently as great in English as he was in Greek. VARRO. _Passage in Gray's Elegy._--I do not remember to have seen noted the evident Lucretian origin of the verse-- "For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Nor busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share." Compare Lucretius, lib. 3. v. 907.: "At jam non domus accipiet te laeta; neque uxor Optima, nec dulces occurrent oscula nati Praeripere, et tacita pectus dulcedine tangent." ECHO. * * * * * Queries. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES. (_Continued from_ Vol. iii., p. 87.) (39.) Does any one now feel inclined to vindicate for Inchofer, Scioppius, Bariac, or Contarini, the authorship of the _Monarchia Solipsorum_? Notwithstanding the testimony of the Venice edition of 1652, as well as the very abundant evidence of successive witnesses, in favour of the first-named writer, (whose claim has been recognised so lately as the year 1790, by the _Indice Ultimo_ of Madrid), can there be the smallest doubt that the veritable inventor of this satire upon the Jesuits was their former associate, JULES-CLEMENT SCOTTI? For the interpretation of his pseudonyme, "Lucius Cornelius Europaeus," see Niceron, _Mem._ xxxix. 70-1. (40.) Mr. Cureton (_Ant. Syr. vers. of Ep. of S. Ignat._ Preface, p. ii., Lond. 1845) has asserted that-- "The first Epistles published, bearing the name of St. Ignatius--one to the Holy Virgin, and two to the Apostle St. John, in Latin,--were printed in the year 1495. Three years later there appeared an edition of eleven Epistles, also in Latin, attributed to the same {139} holy Martyr. But nearly seventy years more elapsed before any edition of these Epistles in Greek was printed. In 1557, Val. Paceus published twelve," &c.