No More Learning

3.

Upon thy table's baize so green
The last new Quarterly is seen,--
But where is thy new Magazine,[100]
My Murray?

4.

Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine
The works thou deemest most divine--
The Art of Cookery,[101] and mine,
My Murray.

5.

Tours, Travels, Essays, too, I wist,
And Sermons, to thy mill bring grist;
And then thou hast the _Navy List_,
My Murray.


6.

And Heaven forbid I should conclude,
Without "the Board of Longitude,"[102]
Although this narrow paper would,
My Murray.

Venice, _April 11_, 1818.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 171. ]

FOOTNOTES:

[99] [William Strahan (1715-1785) published Johnson's _Dictionary_,
Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_, Cook's _Voyages, etc_. He was
great-grandfather of the mathematician William Spottiswoode (1825-1883).

Jacob Tonson (1656? -1736) published for Otway, Dryden, Addison, etc.
He
was secretary of the Kit-Cat Club, 1700. He was the publisher (1712,
etc. ) of the _Spectator_.

Barnaby Bernard Lintot (1675-1736) was at one time (1718) in partnership
with Tonson. He published Pope's _Iliad_ in 1715, and the _Odyssey_,
1725-26. ]

[100] [See note 2, p. 51. ]

[101] [Mrs. Rundell's _Domestic Cookery_, published in 1806, was one of
Murray's most successful books. In 1822 he purchased the copyright from
Mrs. Rundell for ? 2000 (see _Letters_, 1898, ii. 375; and _Memoir of
John Murray_, 1891, ii. 124). ]

[102] [The sixth edition of _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_ (1813) was
"printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars, for John Murray, Bookseller to the
Admiralty, and the Board of Longitude.