Satires and Epistles of Horace into
English rhyme. For every 120 Latin lines so translated, the sum of
1_l._ 1_s._ 6_d._

These Articles to be performed, according to the time specified,
under the penalty of fifty pounds, payable by either party's
default in performance.

Paid in hand, 2_l._ 10_s._

It appears that Toland never got above 5_l._, 10_l._, or 20_l._, for
his publications. See his article in "Calamities of Authors," p.
155. I discovered the humiliating conditions that attended his
publications, from an examination of his original papers. All this
author seems to have reaped from a life devoted to literary
enterprise, and philosophy, and patriotism, appears not to have
exceeded 200_l._

Here, too, we find that the facetious Dr. King threw away all his
sterling wit for five miserable pounds, though "The Art of Cookery,"
and that of "Love," obtained a more honourable price. But a mere
school-book probably inspired our lively genius with more real
facetiousness than any of those works which communicate so much to
others.

DR. KING.

L s. d.
_18 Feb. 1707-8._
Paid for Art of Cookery 32 5 0

_16 Feb. 1708-9._
Paid for the First Part of Transactions 5 0 0
Paid for his Art of Love 32 5 0

_23 June, 1709._
Paid for the Second Part of the Transactions[246] 5 0 0

_4 March, 1709-10._
Paid for the History of Cajamai 5 0 0

_10 Nov. 1710._
Paid for King's Gods 50 0 0

_1 July, 1712._
Useful Miscellany, Part I 1 1 6
Paid for the Useful Miscellany 3 0 0

Lintot utters a groan over "The Duke of Buckingham's Works"
(Sheffield), for "having been _jockeyed_ of them by Alderman Barber
and Tonson." Who can ensure literary celebrity? No bookseller would
_now_ regret being _jockeyed_ out of his Grace's works!

The history of plays appears here somewhat curious:--tragedies, then
the fashionable dramas, obtained a considerable price; for though
Dennis's luckier one reached only to 21_l._, Dr. Young's _Busiris_
acquired 84_l._ Smith's _Phaedra and Hippolytus_, 50_l._; Rowe's _Jane
Shore_, 50_l._ 15_s._; and _Jane Gray_, 75_l._ 5_s._ Cibber's
_Nonjuror_ obtained 105_l._ for the copyright.

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