PARALLEL PASSAGES OR PLAGIARISMS IN CHILDE HAROLD

Permit me to add two further plagiarisms or parallel passages on the subject of *Childe Harold* to those already contributed by your valuable correspondent "Melanion." Mrs. Radcliffe (who I am informed was never out of England) is describing in her *Mysteries of Udolpho*, Chap. xvi. the appearance of Venice. "Its terraces, crowded with airy, yet majestic fabrics touched as they now were with the splendour of the setting sun, appeared as if they had been *called up from the Ocean by the wand of an enchanter*." In the 1st stanza of the 4th canto of *Childe Harold* we have the well known lines— "…