Mr. Editor,--The offence of misquoting the poets is become so general,
that I would suggest to publishers the advantage of printing more
copious indexes than those which are now offered to the public. For
the want of these, the newspapers sometimes make strange blunders. The
_Times_, for instance, has lately, more than once, given the following
version of a well-known couplet:--
"Vice is a monster of _so frightful_ mien,
_As_ to be hated needs but to be seen."
The reader's memory will no doubt instantly substitute _such hideous_
for "so frightful," and _that_ for "as."