ike _some poets_, utter,
How much I'd praise thee, sweetest Gutter!

After the publication of this parody John Davis printed "The
Philadelphia Pursuits of Literature. By Juvenal Junius of New Jersey.
Phila.: John Davis, 1805."

"Then Muses aid me! and I'll fain review
The Philadelphia lounging scribbling crew."

Davis had met the gentlemen of the _Port Folio_ and had all the
information necessary for stinging satire of the Mutual Admiration
Society that met at Meredith's and Hopkinson's or at Dennie's office. In
his "Travels" (p. 203), he writes: "At Philadelphia I found Mr. Brown
(C. B.), who felt no remission of his literary diligence by a change of
abode (from New York). He was ingratiating himself into the favor of the
ladies by writing a new novel, and rivalling Lopez de Vega by the
multitude of his works. Mr. Brown introduced me to Mr. (Asbury) Dickins,
and Mr. Dickins to Mr. Dennie; Mr. Dennie presented me to Mr. Wilkins,
and Mr. Wilkins to the Rev. Mr. Abercrombie; a constellation of
American geniuses, in whose blaze I was almost consumed.... Rev. Mr.
Abercrombie was impatient of every conversation that did not relate to
Dr. Johnson, of whom he could detail every anecdote from the time he
trod on a duck till he purchased an oak-stick to repulse
Macpherson."[15]

[15] Abercrombie's prospectus for a new edition of Johnson's Works--"to
be comprised in fourteen octavo volumes, with new designs and plates.
Phila.: 1811"--is contained in the _Port Folio_, Vol. VI, p. 98.

In the "Philadelphia Pursuits" Davis wrote of Dennie:

"There's no clown from Walpole to Hell-Gate,
But ribaldry from him has learned to prate."

And again:

"Such is our Dennie! high exalted name,
Eager alike for dollars and for fame."

Two Philadelphians only escaped the sting of the adder:

"With Clifton, Nature's poet, who shall vie?
Though low he lies, his works shall never die.
And Linn, distinguish'd for his moral lays,
Shall, by his strain, Columbia's triumph raise."

"The Sketches in Verse" was magnificently printed for C. and A. Conrad
by Smith and Maxwell in 1810.

To "a pastoral love-ditty" that began--

"Where Schuylkill o'er his rocky bed
Roars, like a bull in battle"--

Rose appended the note:

"Our American names, although some of them are truly savage, are
not much worse than many of those with which we might be furnished
by other nations in abundance; and Schuylkill woul