To thb Enuon oi' " Thb Evening Mail.'

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 141, 16 June 1896, Page 2

To thb Enuon oi' " Thb Evening Mail.'

Sir.— Kindly allow me to state (re the bisection of the Prophet Isaiah) that if diversity of matter and difference of style prove different authorship, it Will be easy to show io one of your Biblical correspondents that the historical John Milton, Seoretary of State under Cromwell, could not possibly, in a life of only sixtysix years, during some twenty of which ho was totally, blind, have been tbe sole author of "Paradise Lost," "Coinus," " L' Allegro," the lines on " Hobson the Carrier," the Latin poems,' the " Areopagicica," and the "Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce." It will also oe not difficult to show to the same correspondent "that the writer of "Bon Jiian" wbb not the cqffljppfjß-r ,of tbe "Hebrew Melodies;"! Jn the ancient Grecian .literature, as well as in the Roman, wo find genius asserting itself in the artistic variation oi style! And who is ignorant of the fact that in our noble English literature eaoh author

— -■-■ y. -^ -' — „, "rr ' ' "* '"■■ rises up to;the occasioh,' ah-i.eflhi-'t. touch with .'colours nob his own' the peon*; lia.ri.tie_ of, the. new. sn_jebtCcivef)whi._ii his judgment and imagination range? Dr Driver is indeed ~&AdrijM^ and /those', who hastily jump up iht*W-iJieayy^^lf of negative criticism" will 'find themselves .1 sooner or later out of the -rde!path;-,BndJ sticking in the slough' of infidelity, g-j "'-. -> lam,.etOi_> . *M ■■/.■. S. PO-LB, ML'A, Aa\ Nelson; 14/6/96. .. . , A ■ %,A\