Chapter D: Rock

"_To-day we purpose_" (Vol. iii., p. 302).--The verse for which your correspondent G. N. inquires, is taken from _Isabella, or the Pot of Basil_, an exquisitely beautiful poem by Keats, founded on one of Boccaccio's tales.

E. J. M.

_Modern Paper_ (Vol. iii., p. 181.).--Cordially do I agree with every word of your correspondent LAUDATOR TEMPORIS ACTI, and especially as to the prayer-books for churches and chapels, printed by the Universities. _Experto crede_, no solicitude can preserve their "flimsy, brittle, and cottony" leaves, as he justly entitles them, from rapid destruction. Might not the delegates of the University presses be persuaded to give us an edition with the morning and evening services printed on vellum, instead of the miserable fabric they now afford us?