To deal as fairly as I can with the public, I have all along deposited my Spanish transcripts, as soon as I have done with them, in the British Museum.

The reading of manuscripts, however, is at best laborious.
The public may be inclined to accept as proved an uncontradicted charge, the value of which they cannot readily test.

I venture therefore to make the following proposal.

I do not make it to my reviewer.

He will be reluctant to exchange communications with me, and the disinclination will not be on his side only.