This work was translated into _German_ by Mr. _Mylins_, when in _England_, under the author's inspection; and the translation, containing twenty-two sheets in quarto, and two large plates, was printed in _London_, price five dollars. Of the same performance a new and correct edition was (_July_ 1, 1754) proposed for publication at _Berlin_, by _Ch. Fr. Vok_, with an explanation of Mr. _Hogarth's_ satirical prints, translated from the _French_; the whole to subscribers for one dollar, but after six weeks to be raised to two dollars. An _Italian_ translation was also published at _Leghorn_ in 1761, 8vo, dedicated "All' illustrissime Signora Diana _Molineux_, Dama _Inglese_." "This book," Mr. _Walpole_ observes, "had many sensible hints and observations; but it did not carry the conviction, nor meet the universal acquiescence he expected. As he treated his contemporaries with scorn, they triumphed over this publication,[41] and irritated him to expose him. Many wretched burlesque prints came out to ridicule his system. There was a better answer to it in one of the two prints that he gave to illustrate his hypothesis. In the ball, had he confined himself to such outlines as compose awkwardness and deformity, he would have proved half his assertion; but he has added two samples of grace in a young lord and lady, that are strikingly stiff and affected. They are a _Bath_ beau and a county Beauty." _Hogarth_ had one failing in common with most people who attain wealth and eminence without the aid of liberal education. He affected to despise every kind of knowledge which he did not possess. Having established his fame with little or no obligation to literature, he either conceived it to be needless, or decried it because it lay out of his reach. His sentiments, in short, resembled those of _Jack Cade_, who pronounced sentence on the clerk of _Chatham_, because he could write and read. Till, in evil hour, this celebrated artist commenced an author, and was obliged to employ the friends already mentioned to correct his _Analysis of Beauty_,[42] he did not seem to have discovered that even spelling was a necessary qualification; and yet he had ventured to ridicule[43] the late Mr. _Rich's_ deficiency as to this particular, in a note which lies before the Rake whose play is refused while he remains in confinement for debt. Previous to the time of which we are now speaking, one of our artist's common topicks of declamation was the uselessness of books to a man of his profession. In _Beer-street_, among other volumes consigned by him to the pastry cook, we find _Turnbull on ancient Painting_, a treatise which _Hogarth_ should have been able to understand, before he ventured to condemn. _Garrick_ himself, however, was not more ductile to flattery. A word in favour of _Sigismunda_, might have commanded a proof print, or forced an original sketch out of our artist's hands. The furnisher of this remark owes one of his scarcest performances to the success of