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 78 Anecdotes by Richard Cumberland.

scholar he ranks very high. When I would have consulted him upon certain points of literature, whilst I was making my collec tions from the Greek dramatists for my essays in The Observer, he candidly acknowledged that his studies had not lain amongst them, and certain it is there is very little shew of literature in his Ramblers, and in the passage, where he quotes Aristotle, he has not correctly given the meaning of the original x. (Volume i.

P- 356.)

1 Rambler, No. 139.

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