_Errors of Poets._--In Vol. iv., p. 150., amongst the "Errors of
Painters" a picture is noticed, in which "the five wise and five foolish
virgins have increased into two sevens." A similar mistake is made by
Longfellow in his last poem, _The Golden Legend_, p. 219., where one of
the characters says:
"Here we stand as the Virgins Seven,
For our celestial bridegroom yearning;
Our hearts are lamps for ever burning,
With a steady and unwavering flame,
Pointing upward for ever the same,
Steadily upward toward the Heaven."