MISQUOTATIONS

Mr. Editor,—The offence of misquoting the poets is become so general, that I would suggest to publishers the advantage of printing more copious indexes than those which are now offered to the public. For the want of these, the newspapers sometimes make strange blunders. The *Times*, for instance, has lately, more than once, given the following version of a well-known couplet:— "Vice is a monster of *so frightful* mien, *As* to be hated needs but to be seen." The reader's memory will no doubt instantly substitute such hideous for "so frightful," and that for "as." The same paper, a short time s…