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! 
1824.] 
one except himself; but a printer can 
hardly be ignorant, without some mischief 
to the author that is to pass through his 
hands, and finally to the purchaser. There 
are some, indeed, friends to ignorance in 
general, who are of an opposite opinion : 
they fancy that a printer who can only 
read, without understanding, is more likely 
to be correct than one who comprehends 
what he puts together. But this. preju- 
dice in favour of ignorance is limited to a 
few, and may be expected to go out of 
fashion with wigs and Chancery suits. 
In the first of these volumes we have a 
history of printing and printers, with a suc- 
einet and very amusing account of the 
earliest efforts of the press. Brief extracts, 
too, are given from the old authors pre- 
served in these venerable specimens of ty- 
pography, which, to the uninitiated in such 
matters, must be extremely curious. Some- 
times, indeed, they are of a higher quality, 
—as, for instance, in the following lines 
from 
THE FIFTENE JOYES OF MARYAGE. 
Somer passed, and wynter well begone 
The dayes short, the darke nyghtes longe 
Haye taken season, and bryghtnes of the sonne 
Is lytell sene, and small byrdes songe 
Seldom is herde, in feldes or wodes ronge 
All strength and vertue of trees and herbe sote 
Dyscendyuge be, from croppe into the rote, 
And every creature by course of kynde 
For s»coure draweth to tliat countre and place 
Where for a tyme, they may purchase and fynde 
Comforte and-reste, abydynge after grace 
That clere Appolo with bryghtnes of his face 
Wyll sende, whan lusty ver shall come to towne 
And gyve the grounde, of grene a goodly gowne. 
And Flora goddesse bothe of whyte and greene 
‘Her mantell large over all the erthe shall sprede 
Shewynge her selfe apparayled like a quene 
As wellin feldes wodes as in mede 
Havynge so rich a croune upon her hede 
The whiche of floures shall be so fayre and bryght 
That all the worlde shall take thereof a lyght, 
The second yolume is more professional, 
and will probably be caviare to the multi- 
tude. It transplants us into the very pe- 
netralia of the printing-office,—lays open 
the whole mystery of quadrats and com- 
posing-sticks,—of plattins and dogs,—-tym- 
pans and friskets,—and, in short, is a com- 
plete history of all that ever has been, or 
ever can be, said upon the subject. 
In fact, it is not only.a yaluable addition 
to every library, but even an essential, and 
does infinite credit to our friend John 
Johnson, printer, or, as he styles him- 
self, typographer, — certainly a much 
higher designation than the humble word 
printer —two feet higher, —and that is 
no slight matter in these ambitious days, 
when actors are professors, and gentlemen 
bruisers teach the science of defence. Then, 
too, his press is the Apollo press, Holborn ! 
But, alas! that villainous Holborn spoils 
all. Apollo in Holborn! We ‘should as 
s00n expect to meet a dowager-duchess in 
Dyot-street ; there is no keeping in the 
thing ! 
It would be advisable, too, that he should 
lot speak quite so favourably of himself ; 
towever fond a man may be of hearing his 
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own praise, he had better hear it from the 
mouths of other people; and in common 
prudence he should not demand that as a 
right, which is willingly conceded only as a 
favour. The world is always much more 
ready to give than to pay praise; in fact, it 
would fain be deemed liberal, and there is 
no liberality in paying a demand, though 
there may be in the donation of what is not 
even solicited. 
We should like, also, to know whether the 
portrait of John Johnson, in the second 
volume, is the portrait of John Johnson ot 
the Apollo Press? If so, we hope it is 
not a likeness. 
Moments of Forgetfulness. By THoMas 
Cxiarz.—Lord Byron had his Hours of 
Idleness, and Mr. Thomas Clare, in a 
smaller way, has his Moments of Forgetful- 
ness ; and there is exactly the same propor- 
tion in the quality of the respective works : 
Byron’s poem was not good, and Clare’s 
poem is about sixty times below that mea- 
sure. It should seem as if the Northamp- 
tonshire poet had turned out the sweepings 
of his writing-desk, the rejected of ma- 
gazines and booksellers, and published 
them in this way to get rid of them. . It is 
a pity he does not remember: that, at the 
same time, he may get rid of his reputation. 
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translated into English Prose,’ from the 
Greek Text of Brunck, with Notes. 2 
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