pport of Scott, Wordsworth, Southey,
&c., I see little reason why you should not do as well; and, if
once fairly established, you would have assistance from the
youngsters, I dare say. Stratford Canning (whose 'Buonaparte' is
excellent), and many others, and Moore, and Hobhouse, and I, would
try a fall now and then (if permitted), and you might coax
Campbell, too, into it. By the by, _he_ has an unpublished (though
printed) poem on a scene in Germany, (Bavaria, I think,) which I
saw last year, that is perfectly magnificent, and equal to himself.
I wonder he don't publish it.

"Oh!--do you recollect S * *, the engraver's, mad letter about not
engraving Phillips's picture of Lord _Foley_? (as he blundered it;)
well, I have traced it, I think. It seems, by the papers, a
preacher of Johanna Southcote's is named _Foley_; and I can no way
account for the said S * *'s confusion of words and ideas, but by
that of his head's running on Johanna and her apostles. It was a
mercy he did not say Lord _Tozer_. You know, of course, that S * *
is a believer in this new (old) virgin of spiritual impregnation.

"I long to know what she will produce[48]; her being with child at
sixty-five is indeed a miracle, but her getting any one to beget
it, a greater.

"If you were not going to Paris or Scotland, I could send you some
game: if you remain, let me know.

"P.S. A word or two of 'Lara,' which your enclosure brings before
me. It is of no great promise separately; but, as connected with
the other tales, it will do very well for the volumes you mean to
publish. I would recommend this arrangement--Childe Harold, the
smaller Poems, Giaour, Bride, Corsair, Lara; the last completes the
series, and its very likeness renders it necessary to the others.
Cawthorne writes that they are publishing _English Bards in
Ireland:_ pray enquire into this; because _it must_ be stopped."

[Footnote 47: The reviews and magazines of the month.]

[Footnote 48: The following characteristic note, in reference to this
passage, appears, in Mr. Gifford's hand-writing, on the copy of the
above letter:--"It is a pity that Lord B. was ignorant of Jonson. The
old poet has a Satire on the Court Pucelle that would have supplied him
with some pleasantry on Johanna's pregnancy."]

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