Leeds.
P.S.--As a mere matter of fact, apart from other considerations,
although a breath from the fountain of honour may create a noble, it
may be questioned whether it would not require something more than a
breath to _un_make him?
[We have received many other excellent defences of the original
reading of this passage in Goldsmith. We have selected the present
as one of the shortest among those which first reached us. We will
add to it a postscript from the communication of another
correspondent, J. S. W., showing a curious typographical error
which has crept into the recent editions of Goldsmith.]
_Passage in the Traveller._--There is a line in the _Traveller_, I may
observe, into which an error of the press, or of some unlucky critic,
has intruded. Goldsmith, speaking of the Swiss, says that he
"_Breasts_ the keen air, and carols as he goes."