CHAP. xil. j NEWS FOE, THE CLUB.

after the Vicar, and which Goldsmith at this very time was 1766
labouring at, we find, from, the summer account handed in
by the elder Newbery, that the latter had himself provided
the payment.* He gave G-oldsmith twenty pounds for it;
and had also advanced him, at about the time when the
Vicar was put in hand (it was printed at Salisbury, and was
nearly three months in passing through the press), the sum
of eleven guineas on his own promissory note. The impres-
sion of a common interest between the booksellers is con-
firmed by what I find appended to all Mr. Francis Newbery's
advertisements of the novel in the various papers of the day
("of whom may be had The Traveller, or a Prospect of
" Society, a poem by Doctor G-olclsmith. Price Is. 6cL");
and it seems further to strengthen the surmise of Mr. John
Newbery's connection with the book, that he is himself
niched into it. He is introduced as the philanthropic book-
seller in St. Paul's-churchyard, who had written so many
little books for children (" he called himself their friend,
" buthe was the friend of all mankind"); and as having
published for the Vicar against the deuterogamists of
the age.

So let the worthy bookseller, whose philanthropy was
always under watchful care of his prudence, continue to live
with the Whistonian controversy; for the good Doctor
Primrose, that courageous monogamist, has made both
immortal.

"it"), but for another reason. "'He gave me (I think lie said) £60 for the copy;
" ' and had I made it ever so perfect or correct, I should not have had a shilling
"'more.'" Percy Memoir, 62.

* See post, chap. xiv. The hook was a History of PUosophy and PhilosopTieris,
liy Formey, whose Philosophical Miscellanies Goldsmith already had noticed in the
Critical Review ; see ante, 186.of haste or carelessness in the