Corrector's" _novelties_, render "the Great Unknown" one act of justice. I
am convinced there are but two practically possible hypotheses, on which to
account for the MS. emendations: either the emendations were for the most
part made from some authoritative document, or they are parts of a modern
fabrication. No third supposition can be reasonably maintained. MR.
KNIGHT'S view, for example, gives no account of the _immense_ number of
coincidences with the conjectural emendations of the commentators.
Whichever of the two hypotheses be the true one, I need hardly say that MR.
COLLIER'S name is a sufficient guarantee for all honorable dealing, so far
as he is connected with the MS. corrections.

Permit me farther to do an act of justice to MR. COLLIER himself. In my
note on a passage in _The Tempest_, I stated that _Mr. Collier_ had
overlooked a parallel passage in _Richard II._ It was I who had overlooked
MR. COLLIER'S supplemental note. However, I must add, that how MR. COLLIER
could persuade himself to print _heat_ for "cheek," in his "monovolume
edition," after he had seen the passage in _Richard II._, is utterly beyond
my power of comprehension.

C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.

Birmingham.

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Minor Notes.

_Injustice, its Origin._--In looking through a file of papers a few days
since, I met with the following as being the origin of this term, and would
ask if it is correct?

"When Nushervan the Just was out on a hunting excursion, his
companions, on his becoming fatigued, recommended him to rest, while
they should prepare him some food. There being no salt, a slave was
dispatched to the nearest village to bring some. But as he was going,
Nushervan said, 'Pay for the salt you take, in order that it may not
become a custom to rob, and the village ruined.' They said, 'What harm
will this little quantity do?' He replied, The _origin of injustice_ in
the world was at first small, but every one that came added to it,
until it reached its present magnitude.'"

W. W.

Malta.

_Two Brothers of the same Christian Name._--An instance of this occurs in
the family of Croft of Croft Castle. William Croft, Esq., of Croft Castle,
had issue Sir Richard Croft, Knight, his son and heir, the celebrated
soldier in the wars of the Roses, and Richard Croft, Esq., second son,
"who, by the description of Richard Croft the Younger, received a grant of
lands" i