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To look for and find in masterpieces little flaws, real or -Imagined, Is an oc cupation that must have its mysterious Joys, otherwise, as it brings no profit, the task would not command all the time and labor that are devoted to it, nor would every such discovery be so exultingly proclaimed. This condition Is based, or, rather, its repetition, by the letter in which a correspondent confessed that, having heard verbal perfection ascribed to Gray's "Elegy," he was moved carefully to examine th verses on the chance of proving this praise undeserved. And he did, he thinks, having found no less than two errors in the lines: Their name, ttieir years, spelt by the un lettered muse The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews To teach the rustic moralist to die. "Name" should be "names,'' this au thority declares, for the reason that the stones bore not one but severa'i names, and "many a holy text," being singular, demands "teaches" instead of "teach!" Now, just why Gray put the word "name" in the singular and not in the plural might be made the subject of in genious inquiry, with any one of half a dozen sufficient explanations as recom pense and all inconclusive, but to see force in the diversity of village patro nymics that requires more than inge nuity; it demands perversity. As foi "many a holy text," that does indeed, the grammarians say, insist that a verb in immediate sequence be singu lar. Even the grammarians admit, however, with innumerable writers oi both verse and prose, that If the vert be in a later clause the plural idea in volved in "many" can properly be al lowed to govern. Would our corre spondent insist that when the estima ble W. Scott, quoted by Goold Browa in debating this very question, wrote In Hawick twinkled many a light. Behind him soon they set In night the "they" should have been turned to "it?" The change would at least be amusing. That much can be said. 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