NOTB ON MRS. GREY ' S PLAGIARISM. NOTB ON MRS. GREY ' S PLAGIARISM.
Ws have received, in a fair and female hand, the following letter in reference to the novel of The. Duke. .
TO TIIE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. . SIR-In your review of the novel of The Duke, you gave some passages as Ispecimens of pretty writing and one in particular, beaded " Eventide." It sleek me at brat sight to be an old acquaintance ; and on referring to AM- tilotelt, Sermons, (vol. L p. 3230 I found the identical passage, beginning t, There ig an eventide in the day," and ending with" 'them are yet greater things than these," &C.; the whole, with the omission of two or three lines which tiro IA out, having been transferred in totidem verlds to the noiel.
We have also been favoured with a communication from an officer in the Army upon the same subject ; and we trust.his gal- lantry will pardon our giving the per to the lady's letter. .Doubtless, we have read Amsoles Sermons in our time ; but we cannot re- member every thing ; and a plagiarism of this kind may happen to pass undetected even by critics. Luckily for the Spectator, it has critical readers capable of supplying its deficiencies ; -a matter-of gratulation to us and our subscribers. When .Aristarchus nodst, he has able and willing friends to take his place.
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