DR. JOHNSON AND PROFESSOR DE MORGAN

Mr. Editor,—Although your cleverly conceived publication may be considered as more applicable to men of letters than to men of figures, yet I doubt not you will entertain the subject I am about to propound: because, in the first place, "whole generations of men of letters" are implicated in the criticism; and, in the next place, because however great, as a man of figures, the critic may be, the man of letters criticised was assuredly greater. Professor de Morgan has discovered a flaw in the great Johnson! and, in obedience to your epigraph, "*when found make a note of it*," he *has* made a not…