Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal
“There is nothing to pick off that dry bone,
‘Huarte;’ but the
passage noted is really curious.
“The little paragraph squeezed into the ‘M. Chronicle,’ I am told, was
copied literatim et verbatim from the
‘Herald.’ Who
sent it thither, I cannot conjecture, but I am almost certain, from internal
evidence, it was not you.
“If you happen to be disengaged next Sunday morn,
about twelve, pray come to me, and I will read part of the ‘Vathek’ episodes to you.
Those I may possibly soon publish, but cannot bring myself to let out the
‘Liber Veritatis’—ce
n’est pas toute vérité qui est bonne à dire.
“Your’s ever most gratefully,
“W. B.”
Juan Huarte de San Juan (1530 c.-1588)
Spanish physician whose
Examen de ingenios para las ciencias
(1575) had a European reputation.
Morning Chronicle. (1769-1862). James Perry was proprietor of this London daily newspaper from 1789-1821; among its many
notable poetical contributors were Coleridge, Southey, Lamb, Rogers, and Campbell.
Morning Herald. (1780-1869). Sir Henry Bate Dudley (1745–1824) and Alexander Chalmers (1759–1834) were among the
original editors; Thomas Holcroft (1745–1809) was Paris correspondent.