[Footnote A: (P. 5) Advertisement. Johnson's dictum first appeared in the abridgment of his dictionary, 1756, under _Alias_, which he defined as "A Latin word signifying otherwise; as Mallet _alias_ Mallock; that is, _otherwise_ Mallock." In four places in his _Memorials and Letters Relating to the History of Britain in the Reign of James the First_ (1762) Dalrymple had given Mallet "his real name"; he had repented after the sheets were printed and had inserted a corrigendum, "For Malloch, r. Mallet," which only made matters worse. See _The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence_, iv. 78 _n._ 17. Dalrymple chided the authors of _Critical Strictures_ gently for using his name, and said he was sorry for having thus yielded to a private pique (LJ, p. 190 _n._ 6). But the matter remained of interest to him, for as late as 1783 he sent Johnson a copy of one of Mallet's earliest productions, the title-page of which bore the name in its original spelling (_Life_, iv. 216-217; see also _Private Papers of James Boswell ... in the Collection of ... R.H. Isham_, ed. Geoffrey Scott and F.A. Pottle, 18 vols., Privately Printed, 1928-1934, xv. 208).] [Footnote B: (P. 15) "We heard it once asserted by _David Hume_, Esq." On 4 November 1762, in Hume's house in James's Court, Edinburgh. "Mr. Mallet has written bad Tragedies because he is deficient in the pathetic, and hence it is doubted if he is the Author of _William and Margaret_. Mr. Hume said he knew people who had seen it before Mallet was born. Erskine gave another proof, viz. that he has written _Edwin and Emma_, a Ballad in the same stile, not near so good." See _Private Papers_ (as in the note preceding this), i. 126-127, or the Limited Edition of _Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763_, McGraw-Hill and Heinemann, 1951, p. 101. Hume protested vigorously, though with good humor, at this breach of confidence, and Boswell wrote a flippant reply (LJ, pp. 206-207, 208-209).]