Ecstasy Not Ecstacy

It is curious to flnd how often the printer gives "ecstacy" when left to liis own devices. Authors In these ilays prefer the correct form "ecstasy." The late Dr. Gordon Hake, e. g. - the parable poet, as he has been appropriately called - published a serles oí lofty lyrical studies entitled "Maiden Ecstasy," yet it is quite common to see the title quoted with the substantive incorrectly spelled. Two examples of "ecstacy" occur in early chapters of Mr. George Meredith's "Rhoda Fleming." In chapter vi., page 38, a mood is described as being "mixed strangely of humiliation and ecstacy"; and in the opening paragraph of chaptor ix., page 62, a letter from a happy girl in Switzerland is stated to glve the impression "as of a happy spirite resting at celestial stages of her ascent upward through spheres of ecstacy." Proofreaders should assert their authority in reference to this word. - Notes and Querles.