VONDEL'S LUCIFER

I have to complain of injustice done by a correspondent of "Notes AND Queries ," to the Dutch poet Vondel. To the question mooted by F. (Vol. i. p. 142.), whether my countryman's *Lucifer* has ever been translated into English, Hermes answers by a passage taken from the *Foreign Quarterly Review* for April, 1829; and subjoins a list of the *dramatis personæ* "given from the *original Dutch* before him. The tragedy itself is condensed by your correspondent into a simple "&c." Now, if Hermes, instead of referring to a stale review for a comparison between Vondel's tragedy and the *Paradise Lost*…