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REPLY1850

Van Voorst's Polyglot Edition

By H. C. DE ST. CRIOX.

In reply to the communication of J. F. M. in your Number respecting *Gray's Elegy*, I beg to state that there was an edition in 1 vol. 8vo. published by Van Voorst in 1839, on every other page of which there is a neat woodcut and the English version of one verse, and on the page facing it a translation in Greek by Professor Cooke beginning, Νὺξ πέλει, οὐδ᾽ ἀν' ἀγρὼς πυρὰ καίεται, οὐδ᾽ ἀνά κῶμάς. Latin by Rev. W. Hildyard, Audin' ut occiduæ sonitum campana diei. German by Gotter (from the Deutsches Lesebuch, Bremen, 1837): Die Abendglocke ruft den müden Tag zu Grabe. Italian by Guiseppe Torelli…