The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-08 00:00:00

DR. COURTENAY'S NEW WORK.

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• • This Day was published, price 4s.
N HISTORICAL and PRACTICAL
A
TREAtIst on SYPHILIS, Gonorrhea, Gleets,
SeminalPans' Weakness, Strictures, Eruptions, and Nocturnal
so frequently mistaken for Rheumatism. These
—43" ti are illustrated by .a variety of highly interesting
eases, to ether with the 11liseriei of a secret. Vice, bn long
the hg unhappily pursued by the youth of both sexes.. In
• one it will be fouad the unfailing source of Barrenness,
the other have its rave ges fatally developed by a distressing
7ate of debility, which, if not timely remedied, terminates
'n Impotence; these are its remote and ultimate effects,
'while Consumptions, loss 0- Mustular Power, and various
Nervous Complaints, usually characterise the earliest stages
of this most destructive and insidious habit, for the cure of
which a mode ed treatment, the result of long and success-
Jul practice, and at ox..lsafe, speedy, and effectual
adopted by the Author. With concluding remarks on' isthe
evils ',whin from attempts at Self
Principiis obsta; aero medicina paratur.
By C. R. COURTENAYouD R
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THE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN'S LIBRARY

MANUAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. -

SIR—As some of your Contemporaries have,
done me the favour to notice a book called the
English Gentleman's Library Manual, permit
me to solicit the favour of the insertion of the'
followiug literary anecdotes, which I can assure
you are original, (extracted from the department
of English Literature.)

I remain, Sir, your obedient Servant,
155, Oxford-street,-Oct. 3. WM. GOODHUGH.

DR. JOHNSON.

After the publication of his English Dictionary, John-
son made a proposal to a number of booksellers convened
for that purpose, of writing a Dictionary of Trade and
Commerce. The proposal went round the room without
any answer, when a well known son of the trade, remark-
able for the abruptness of his manners, replied, " Why,
Doctor, what the devil do you know of Trade and Com-
merce ?" The Doctor very mildly answered, " Not much,
I confess, in the practical line, but 1 believe I could glean
from different authors of authority on the subject, such
materials as would answer the purpose very well." The
proposal, however, fell to the ground.
Dr. Johnson was not paid above two guineas a week for
writing the Raiabler, of which the booksellers cleared
above five thousa-•d pounds.
The late Lord Buchan was net an admirer of Johnson,
especially from Me. manner in which Johnson speaks of
Thomson in his Lives of the Poets.

His Lordship, in a letter addressed to me, denies the
assertion of Johnson relative to Thomson, that his first
want on coming to London was a pair of shoes. His
Lordship sayer—
" The trifling story about his losing his bundle on his
way from Wapping to Mallet's house, in London, and the
want of shoes, is in the peculiar style of malevolence which
stain the works of Johnson as a biographer.
" The only occasion I had the mischance to meet John-
son, was at old Strahan's, the translator of the six first
books of ,the Eueid, in Suffolk-street, London, where I
found him and Mallet preparing that work for publica;
Lion, after having censured Gavin Douglas, Dryden, and
the other predecessors of poor Strahan, in the translation
of Virgil.

" Of all the men distinguished in this or any other age,
Dr. Johnson has left upon posterity the strongest and most
vivid impression, so far as person, manners, disposition,
and conversation are concerned. We do but name him or
open a hook which he has written, and the sound and ac-
tion rectal to the imagination at once, hi, form, his merit,
his peculiarities, nay, the very uncouthness of his gestures,
and the deep impressive tone of his voice. We learn not
only what he said, but how he said it."—Sir W. Scott.