CHAP. VI.] INTRODUCTIONS AT TOM DAYIES's.
just given Goldsmith, himself only two guineas.* Which 1762.
latter munificent payment was exactly contemporaneous with jjuy
the completion of another kind of history, on more expensive
terms, by paymaster Henry Fox; from whom twenty-five
thousand pounds had gone in one morning, at the formal
rate of £200 a vote, to patriotic voters for the Peace.
There is reason to believe (from another of the book-
seller's memoranda) that the two guineas was for " seventy-
" nine leaves" of addition to a school-history, comprising the
reign of George the Second, and paid at the rate of eight
shillings a sheet. This payment, with what has before been
mentioned, and an addition of five guineas for the assignment
and republication of the Chinese Letters (to which Newbery,
as we have seen, appears to have assented reluctantly, and
only because Goldsmith would else have printed them on his
own account), are all the profits of his drudgery which can
be traced to him in the present year. He needed to have a
cheerful disposition to bear him through; nor was nature chary
portion of the dialogue in which, as Groldsmith repeated it, the contrast of Newbery's
slow gravity, -with Annet's impatience, rising at last into fury, had a most amusing
effect. "But, Mr. Anet," says Newbery, in his grave manner, " would putting
' your name to it, do you think, increase the value of your book ?" ANET.
'Why not, sir ?" NEWB. " Consider a bit, Mr. Anet." ANET. "Well, sir, I do :
' what then ?" NEWS. "Why, then, sir, you must recollect that you have been
' pilloried, and that can be no recommendation to any man's book." ANET. "I
' grant I have been pilloried, but I am not the first man that has had this
' accident; besides, sir, the public very often support a man the more for those
' unavoidable misfortunes." NEWS. " Unavoidable, Mr. Anet! Why, sir, you
' brought it on yourself by writing against the established religion of your
' country; and let me tell you, Mr. Anet, a man who is supposed to have
' forfeited his ears on such an account, stands but a poor candidate for public
' favour." ANET. "Well, well, Mr. Newbery, it does not signify talking; you
' either suffer me to put my name to it, or by Gr—! you publish no book of
' mine." And so, in a quite unexpected catastrophe of flaming wrath the visitors
vanish, and the Ohild's Grammar is heard of no more. See Europ. Mag.
xxiv. 92.
* I quote from an autograph of Goldsmith in the possession of Mr. Rogers :
" Received of Mr. Newbery the sum of two guineas for the completion of the
" English History. July 27, 1762."