Portsmouth.
_Passage in Tennyson_ (Vol. vi., p. 272.).--It appears to me that Tennyson
has fallen into the error of a Latin construction. I call it an error,
because in that language the varied terminations of the cases and numbers
make that plain which we have no means of evidencing in English. I should
translate it "Numenii strepitus volantis"--"The call of the curlew dreary
(drearily) gleams about the moorland, _as he flies_ o'er Locksley Hall."
The summer note of the curlew is a shrill clear whistle, but in winter they
sometimes indulge in a wild melancholy scream.