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Thoma Grayip in Ccemeterio Rustico con- scriptaro, Latine reddidit H. S. Dickinson, A.M. Ipswich, R. Deck, Printer, MDCCCXLIX." It is indeed a poem upon which many scholars have tried their hands, and with varying success. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

In the third edition of the * Arundines Cami,' 1846, there is only one contributor with the initials J. H. M. This is John Hey rick Macaulay, and his initials are at the end of the Latin translation of Gray's 'Elegy.' There are two contributors of the name of Merivale in this edition ; but one is Charles, and the other is Alexander Frederic.

E. YARDLEY.

There is not the slightest doubt that the version in 'Arundines Garni ' was by J. H. Macaulay, formerly head master of Repton. The complete version disappears from the fifth edition of the * A. C.,' one stanza only being given in two places, pp. 184, 202, and three at p. 252. I see no notice at 10 th S. i. 59 of Prof. Munrp's version. Is there in circu- lation a version by Prof. Sir R. C. Jebbl Some of my brother readers of ' N. & Q.' may be able to give information on this head. Is there a version in any of the recently published collections of Oxford and Cambridge compositions 1 Would it be too much to ask the loan of 'Musa Clauda' from any possessor ?

Some readers may be glad of a reference to Macmillaris Magazine, xxxi. 253, 340, 472, 533, and to 'N.'&Q.,' 1 st S. i. 101, 138, 150, 221,389; x. 94.

With regard to the various Latin versions

of the 'Elegy,' I venture to reproduce,,

pace scriptoruiu, Chesterfield's remark that

'nothing but a bishop is improved by

translation." P. J. F. GANTILLON.

Cheltenham.

RUNEBERG, FINNISH POET (10 th S. ii. 9). There is a little book called Johan Ludvig Runeberg's 'Lyrical Songs, Idylls, and Epigrams/ the translation into English by Eirikr Magnusson and E. H. Palmer, pub- lished in 1878. So far as I know, this is all of Runeberg which exists in English. more than once into German; but 1 have never heard of an English version.
 * Fanrik Stals Sagner ' has been translated

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

STORMING OF FORT MORO (10 th S. i. 448, 514). 1 am extremely obliged for W. S.'s reply. Could he tell me any records of the 1st Royals and 90th Regiment, and also the names of the first fifty men, led by Lieut.

Forbes (of the 1st Royals), who assaulted the* Moro? These fifty men were no doubt the forlorn hope, and I expect to find Wiggins or O'Higgins among them. Would the London. Gazette give the names of any one who particularly distinguished himself?

W. L. HE WARD.

MR. HEWARD cannot do better than con- sult Entick's 'General History of the late Wars, 1755 to 1762, in Europe, Asia, Africa,, and America,' 5 vols., and Fortescue's 'History of the British Army.' This latter contains a most valuable list of authorities consulted, which should be of the greatest assistance to MR. HEWARD.

M. J. D. COCKLE,

Solan, Punjab.

"TALENTED" (10 th S. ii. 23). MR. CURRY'S interesting article needs one more reference to clinch the argument. Need I say that this is to the 'N.E.D.'? Under -ed, suffix 2 t the formation of similar adjectives from substantives a peculiarity of English is- discussed, and objections thereto parenthe- tically dismissed as groundless. If, in fact, one adopts ivooded, cultured, bigoted, and the like, talented cannot be logically cold- shouldered. Nor had Lady Holland adequate grounds for condemning influential, an astro- logical term dating from 1570 : or gentlemanly, which goes back to 1420, and was used by Steele and Swift. The case for gifted is stronger still ; for not only is it formed regularly from a verb (hence without original sin), but also is used by Milton ('Samson Agonistes,' 36). Of the other rival to talented* to wit, the youthful and little-known geniused* it suffices to remark that Coleridge would certainly also have " pm-m-mjected " to its employment, had it existed in 1832.

J. DORMER.

Dr. Johnson, in his life of Gray, has written thus :

" There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives derived from substantives the termina- tion of participles; such as the cultured plain, the* daisied bank ; but I was sorry to see in the lines, of a scholar like Gray the honied spring."

Johnson's own Dictionary would haves taught him that Shakspeare and Milton both have used honied. Gray, after his fashion, was borrowing the phraseology of other great poets. Johnson was very rash in his remark, and I think that eminent critics of a later date have been equally rash. Shak- speare in ' King John ' has this line :

A landless knight makes thee a landed squire. Virgil has alatus and pennatus. These seem to be adjectives derived from substantives