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A Publisher and His Friends

CHAPTER XII
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Jeremy Taylor, Milton (his prose works), and Burke--Dante and Milton--Scaliger and Dr.Johnson.Secondly, if especial attention were paid to all men who had produced, or aided in producing, any great revolution in the Taste or opinions of an age, as Petrarch, Ulrich von Hutten, etc.

(here I will dare risk the charge of self-conceit by referring to my own parallel of Voltaire and Erasmus, of Luther and Rousseau in the seventh number of "The Friend ").

Lastly, if proper care was taken that in every number of the _Review_ there should be a fair proportion of positively _amusing_ matter, such as a review of Paracelsus, Cardan, Old Fuller; a review of Jest Books, tracing the various metempsychosis of the same joke through all ages and countries; a History of Court Fools, for which a laborious German has furnished ample and highly interesting materials; foreign writers, though alive, not to be excluded, if only their works are of established character in their own country, and scarcely heard of, much less translated, in English literature.

Jean Paul Richter would supply two or three delightful articles.
Any works which should fall in your way respecting the Jews since the destruction of the Temple, I should of course be glad to look through.
Above all, Mezeray's (no! that is not the name, I think) "History of the Jews," that I _must_ have.
I shall be impatient for the rest of Mr.Frere's sheets.

Most unfeignedly can I declare that I am unable to decide whether the _admiration_ which the _excellence_ inspires, or the wonder which the knowledge of the countless _difficulties_ so happily overcome, never ceases to excite in my mind during the re-perusal and collation of them with the original Greek, be the greater.


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