I have a large work in ethe press (translationz from ethe A.-Saxon) printed
entirely in ethis or?ography.
GEORGE STEPHENS.
Stockholm.
[Even our respect for Mr. Stephens' well-known scholarship, fails to
remove our prejudices in favour of the ordinary system of orthography.]
_On a Passage in "The Tempest"_ (Vol. ii., pp. 259. 299. 337.).--Will you
allow me to suggest that the reading of the original edition is perfectly
correct as it stands, as will be seen by simply italicising the emphatic
words:--
"_Most_ busie _least_, when I doe it."
The construction is thus merely an instance of a common ellipsis (here of
the word _busy_), and requires the comma after _least_. This is another
proof of the advantage of being slow to abandon primitive texts.
GEORGE STEPHENS.
_Saint, Legend of a_ (Vol. ii., pp. 267.).--The circumstance alluded to is
perhaps that in the legend of _St. Patrick_. It was included by Voragine in
his life of that saint. See the "Golden Legend" in init.
GEORGE STEPHENS.
_Cupid and Psyche_ (Vol. ii., pp. 247.).--This is probably an old
_Folk-tale_, originally perhaps an antique philosophical temple-allegory.
Apuleius appears only to have dressed it up in a new shape. The tale is
still current, but in a form _not_ derived from him, among the _Swedes_,
_Norwegians_, _Danes_, _Scots_, _Germans_, _French_, _Wallachians_,
_Italians_, and _Hindoos_.
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