[Art.] ... And I have been made indignant to-day by reading some rubbish we all have heard about, the beauty of unfinished work and sketches - and I lost my temper - and I wanted to write to the Fool and ask him if he would want to live in an unfinished house - or listen to unfinished music - or what would touch him more, eat an half-cooked dinner. The air is full of such crude barbarous stuff, and hurtles with folly - the ponderous British newspapers have just now got hold of it - about ten years too late to be novel as usual, and patience will be needful, but I won't make any rash vow like a man I knew once, did, who couldn't bear Johnson to be called "the Great Lexicographer," and in the hearing of many men, vowed he would leave the room and company if ever it was said in his hearing again - and that very night he was at supper, and was happy, because supper could make him very happy - when suddenly someone spoke of the Great Lexicographer, and we looked at our companion to see him fulfill his vow - and he never stirred, butlooked abashed and ate on - to be the victim of our wit for a little time. ...