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Memoir of John Murray
John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825
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Preface
Vol. 1 Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
Chapter XIII.
Chapter XIV.
Chapter XV.
Chapter XVI.
Chapter XVII.
Chapter XVIII.
Chapter XIX.
Vol. 2 Contents
Chap. XX.
Chap. XXI.
Chap. XXII.
Chap. XXIII.
Chap. XXIV.
Chap. XXV.
Chap. XXVI.
Chap. XXVII.
Chap. XXVIII.
Chap. XXIX.
Chap. XXX.
Chap. XXXI.
Chap. XXXII.
Chap. XXXIII.
Chap. XXXIV.
Chap. XXXV.
Chap. XXXVI.
Chap. XXXVII.
Index
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January 18th, 1825.

Thank you, for the third time, for the prints, which, however well done, lose half their merit with me; for I
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never could read the ‘Sketch Book,’ nor, what d’ye call it? ‘Knickerbocker.’ Mr. Irving has a charming English style, formed by a careful and affectionate study of Addison, perhaps a little too much sweetened; and so polished that, although the surface is proportionably bright, it is nothing but surface. I can no more go on all day with one of his books than I could go on all day sucking a sugar-plum. The ‘American Dutchmen’ I do not understand at all; an historical account of such people might be entertaining, but, without any means of distinguishing how much is fiction and how much truth, these stories puzzle and tire me. How should you like to see Jan Steen’s figures introduced in Daniell’s Judean landscapes? “Si vrai, ce n’est pas toujours vraisemblable.” I am so ignorant as not to know how much is vrai, and so stupid as to think none of it vraisemblable.

Yours,
J. W. Croker.