way in which he packs his meaning. And I am therefore bound to express my deep gratitude to the first Victorine scholar in England, and probably in Europe, the Dean of Westminster, for his criticisms and alterations. At p. 126 are these lines:
Whom Luke's pen, true ox-horn, showeth
On the Cross whence healing floweth:
Dr. Trench pointed out to me that in the original
Quem exaltat super cruce
Cornu bovis, penna Lucæ,
I had omitted the force of the exaltat as taken in connection with the cornu, and proposed—unfortunately too late for me to insert it in the text,—what I should wish to be read there:
Whom Luke's pen, true ox-horn, lifted
On the Cross with healing gifted.
Indeed, Adam is worth any pains and any study:—and if any reader thinks it worth while to compare the translations from him in the first and second editions of my book, he will see, I think, that they have not been spared.
One more observation remains to be made. I have kept strictly to the rule of adopting the exact measure and rhyme of the original,—at whatever inconvenience and cramping. The
