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 POSTSCRIPT.

Naples, Feb. 10, 1786.

SINCE the foregoing went to the press, having seen a passage from Mr. BoswelPs Tour to the Hebrides, in which it is said, that / could not get through Mrs. Montagu's Essay on Shakespeare, I do not delay a moment to declare, that, on the contrary, I have always commended it myself, and heard it commended by every one else ; and few things would give me more concern than to be thought incapable of tasting, or unwilling to testify my opinion of its excellence 1.

1 ' I spoke of Mrs. Montague's very it ; for neither I, nor Beauclerk, nor

high praises of Garrick. JOHNSON. Mrs. Thrale could get through it." '

" Sir, it is fit she should say so much, Life, v. 245.

and I should say nothing. Reynolds For BoswelPs reply to Mrs. Piozzi's

is fond of her book, and I wonder at Postscript see ib. n. 2.

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