COMETS AND ECLIPSES. _We are requested by our valued correspondent_ C. _to
say that his Reply_, p. 253., _should have been headed_ Eclipses, _and was
intended to refer to the list of_ Eclipses (_not Comets_) _in the work to
which he refers. He was probably led into this slip of the pen by the
manner in which_ S. P. O. R. _had, in_ No. 73. p. 223. _mixed up Comets and
Eclipses in the same Query._
JARLTZBERG _has our best thanks. We receive his friendly suggestions in the
spirit in which they are offered; and will, as far as practicable, attend
to them. We trust he will receive in the same spirit our explanation, that
the delay in inserting his communications arises chiefly from the
difficulty in deciphering them. Our correspondents little know how greatly
editorial labours are increased by this apparently trifling cause._
E. T. C. _Our correspondent will find, on referring to our First Vol._, p.
445., _that the so-called French original of_ "Not a drum was heard," _is
only a clever literary hoax from the pen of Father Prout, which first
appeared in_ Bentley's Miscellany.
J. B. C. _A proof of the Sovereign of 1820; and if in very good condition,
would perhaps sell for Two or Three Pounds._
LLEWELLYN. _Will this correspondent favour us with his address, that we may
forward a communication which we have received for him?_