hubiera
sido ahora. La vida y memoria de las revistas, es muy corta.
Salen como miraposas y mueren en un dia. Los muertos y los idos
no tienen amigos. Los vivos a la mesa, y los muertos a la
huesa. Al istante que esta imprimido un nuevo numero, el pasado
y esta olvidado y entra entre las cosas del Rey Wamba. Que le
parece a V.M., ultimamente en un baile donde sacaron un Rey de
Hubas (twelfth night) tire El Krallis de los Zincali. Incluyo a
V. Majestad tabula, de veras es preciso que yo tengo en mis
venas algunas gotitas de legitimo errante. El Senor Gagargos
viene a ser nombrado Consul espanol a Tunis, donde no le
faltaron medios de adelantarse en el idioma y literatura
arabica. Queda de S.M. afemo. su amigo, Q.B.S.M.,

RICHARD FORD.[165]

Here is a second letter of the following month:

_February 26th_, HEAVITREE HOUSE, EXETER.

BATUSCHCA BORROW,--I am glad that the paper pleased you, and I
think it calculated to promote the sale, which a too copious
extracting article does not always do, as people think that
they have had the cream. Napier sent me L44 for the thirty-two
pages; this, with Kemble's L50, 8s. for the _Zincali_, nearly
reaches L100: I lay it out in claret, being not amiss to do in
the world, and richer by many hundreds a year than last year,
but with a son at Eton and daughters coming out, and an
overgrown set of servants, money is never to be despised, and I
find that expenditure by some infernal principle has a greater
tendency to increase than income, and that when the latter
increases it never does so in the ratio of the former--enough
of that. How to write an article without being
condensed--epigrammatical and _epitomical cream-skimming that
is_--I know not, one has so much to say and so little space to
say it in.

I rejoice to hear of your meditated biography; really I am your
wet nurse, and you ought to dedicate it to me; take time, but
not too much; avoid all attempts to write fine; just dash down
the first genuine uppouring idea and thoughts in the plainest
language and that which comes first, and then fine it and
compress it. Let us have a glossary; for people cry out for a
Dragoman, and half your local gusto evaporates.

I am amazed at the want of profits--'tis sad to think what