Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

chapter in this history of the human mind; we become critics even by

this literary chronology, and this appraisement of auctioneers. The favourite book of every age is a certain picture of the people. The gradual depreciation of a great author marks a change in knowledge or in taste.

But it is imagined that we are not interested in the history of indifferent writers, and scarc...