Samuel Johnson—Gilbert Wakefield

Whoever has had much to do with the press will sympathise with Mr. Charles Knight in all that he has stated ("Notes and Queries," Vol. iii., p. 62.) respecting the accidental—but not at first discovered—substitution of *modern* for *moderate*. If that word *modern* had not been detected till it was too late for an explanation on authority, what strange conjectures would have been the consequence! Happily, Mr. Knight was at hand to remove that stumbling-block. I rather fancy that I can rescue Samuel Johnson from the fangs of Gilbert Wakefield, by the supposition of an error of the press. In 178…