In fact, so far from the sense requiring the alteration of "makes" into "_un_makes," the substitution, if we would preserve the author's meaning, should be "remakes:" "Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath _remakes them_, as a breath has made." I only put this in illustration: Heaven forbid I should recommend it as an improvement! As for the cited "parallel passages," the best answer that can be given to _them_ is, that they cease to be parallel passages! I shall therefore take the liberty to repeat a sentence from MR. BREEN, with a slight alteration: "That Goldsmith wrote the line in question with the word 'unmakes,' there seems (_every_) reason to doubt." A. E. B. Leeds. P.S.--As a mere matter of fact, apart from other considerations, although a breath from the fountain of honour may create a noble, it may be questioned whether it would not require something more than a breath to _un_make him? [We have received many other excellent defences of the original reading of this passage in Goldsmith. We have selected the present as one of the shortest among those which first reached us. We will add to it a postscript from the communication of another correspondent, J. S. W., showing a curious typographical error which has crept into the recent editions of Goldsmith.] _Passage in the Traveller._--There is a line in the _Traveller_, I may observe, into which an error of the press, or of some unlucky critic, has intruded. Goldsmith, speaking of the Swiss, says that he "_Breasts_ the keen air, and carols as he goes." In some editions it is given-- "_Breathes_ the keen air," &c. _Breasts_ was doubtless the original word, for it is quoted in Johnson's _Dictionary_, under the word _Breast_. This alteration, however, does not, like the supposed change of _unmakes_ into _can make_, affect the sense. J. S. W. Stockwell. BOGATZKY. (Vol. iii., pp. 478., 526.; Vol. iv., p. 44.) Perhaps the following Note may prove interesting, as a contribution to the literary history of Bogatzky's popular work, and as explanatory of the statement of R. D. H. (Vol. iii., p. 526.), that the book was almost entirely re-written _by the Rev. H. Venn_.