_Maudlin_ (Vol. vi., p. 552.).--Your Massachusetts correspondent comes a
long way for information which he might surely have obtained on his own
side of the Atlantic. Dr. Johnson says, "_Maudlin_ is the corrupt
appellation of _Magdalen_, who is drawn by painters with swollen eyes and
disordered look." And do we not know that Magdalene College is always
called _Maudlin_, and that _Madeleine_ is the French orthography? very
closely resembling our vernacular pronunciation?