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dertaken the direction of the Latin department, which, in truth, has but very limited extent. Like all boys, however, he may have been too anxious for the exhibition of his own puerile conceits in certain Latin notes which I see appended to the text. Of this I cannot judge—the reader may;—but whatever unfavourable opinions he may form of young Martin's taste and acquirements, I intreat his suppression of them, lest the aspiring energies of the youngster be extinguished by the damping effects of rigid criticism.
Ballyorley, April, 1834
