GRAY'S ELEGY

J.F.M. (Vol. i., p. 101.) remarks, "I would venture to throw out a hint, that an edition of this *Elegy*, exhibiting all the known translations, arranged in double columns, might be made a noble monument to the memory of Gray." It has been asserted that there is scarcely a thought in this *Elegy* that Gray has not borrowed from some writer, ancient or modern and if this be true, I would take the liberty of adding a hint to that of J.F.M., namely, that the proposed edition should contain a *third* column, exhibiting all the known plagiarisms in this famous *Elegy*. To begin with the first line—…