Facing the title-page is a portrait of Bishop Taylor, engraved by Van Hove. The Preface, without mentioning the author's name, informs the reader that the two sermons following, "by means of a person of Honour yet living, are now come into the press for public use and benefit." The first sermon is on Matt. xi. 30.: "For my Yoke is easy, and my Burthen is light;" and is contained in Taylor's _Life of Christ_ (Eden's edit. of his _Works_, vol. ii. pp. 515-528.). The second sermon is on Luke xiii. 23, 24., and begins "The life of a Christian is a perpetual contention for mastery;" and ends, "If we strive according to his holy Injunctions, we shall certainly enter, according to his holy promises, but else upon condition." This sermon does not appear, as far as I have been able to discover, in any collection of Taylor's Works, nor amongst his Sermons in the new edition; nor do I find the volume itself noticed by any of his biographers. It would be extraordinary if, when so much has been printed as part of his works which did not belong to him, a sermon indisputably his should have been omitted by all his various editors; a sermon, too, which every reader will allow to be a fine one. Perhaps the rev. editor of the new edition of Taylor's _Works_ can explain the reason of this omission. I shall be glad to be corrected if I have overlooked the sermon in any part of the Bishop's collected Works. JAMES CROSSLEY. COWLEY AND GRAY, NO. II. Gray, when alluding to Shakspeare, in his Pindaric ode on "The Progress of Poesy," had probably Cowley in memory: "Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's Darling laid, What time, where lucid Avon stray'd. To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face: _the dauntless child Stretch'd forth his little arms and smil'd_." Wakefield, in one of his notes, remarks on this-- "An allusion perhaps, to that verse of Virgil, "'Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem.'" Instead of Virgil, I suspect that Gray was thinking of the first Nemean Ode of Pindar, wherein the infant Hercules is described as strangling the snakes sent to destroy him by Juno: "ὁ δ' ὀρθὸν μὲν ἄντεινεν κάρα, πειρᾶτο δὲ πρῶτον μάχας, δισσαῖσι δοιοὺς αὐχένων μάρψας ἀφύκτοις χερσὶν ἑαῖς ὄφιας." Let me give a portion of Cowley's translation: "The big-limb'd babe in his huge cradle lay, Too weighty to be rock'd by nurse's hands, Wrapt in purple swaddling bands; When, lo! by jealous Juno's fierce commands, Two dreadful serpents come. "All naked from her bed the passionate mother lept To save, or perish with her child, She trembled, and she cry'd; the mighty infant smiled: The mighty infant seem'd well pleased At his gay gilded foes, And as their spotted necks up to the cradle rose, _With his young warlike hands on both he seiz'd_."