Frederick A. Pottle Yale University. NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION 1. _Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763_, ed. F.A. Pottle, McGraw-Hill Book Co. (New York), William Heinemann (London), 1950, p. 152, quoted with permission of the McGraw-Hill Book Co. This edition (which will hereafter be referred to as LJ) prints the journal in a standardized and modernized text. In the passage above quoted I have restored the ampersands and capitals of Boswell's manuscript. 2. See F.A. Pottle, _The Literary Career of James Boswell_, Clarendon Press, 1929, pp. 6, 12. 3. "The Life of Mallet," in _Lives of the Poets_. 4. James Boswell's _Life of Samuel Johnson_, ed. G.B. Hill and L.F. Powell, Clarendon Press, 6 vols., 1934-1950, i. 268. (Hereafter referred to as _Life_.) 5. Douce MS 193, 93^v, quoted with permission of the Curators of the Bodleian Library. 6. LJ, pp. 154-155, 162, 163-164, 172, partly paraphrased, partly quoted. 7. John Genest, _Some Account of the English Stage from ... 1660 to 1830_, 10 vols., Bath, 1832, v.12-13. 8. _Life_, i. 409 _n._ 1; _The Critical Review_, xv (Feb. 1763). 160. 9. _The Monthly Review_. xxviii (Jan. 1763). 68, written by the editor, Ralph Griffiths (B.C. Nangle, _The Monthly Review, First Series 1749-1789_, Clarendon Press, 1934, p. 84, no. 995). * * * * * CRITICAL STRICTURES ON THE New TRAGEDY OF ELVIRA, WRITTEN BY Mr. DAVID MALLOCH. LONDON: Printed for W. FLEXNEY, near Gray's Inn, Holborn. MDCCLXIII. (Price Sixpence.) * * * * * Advertisement.[A] We have followed the Authority of Sir _David Dalrymple_, and Mr. _Samuel Johnson_, in the Orthography of Mr. _Malloch_'s Name; as we imagine the Decision of these Gentlemen will have more weight in the World of Letters, than even that of the said Mr. _Malloch_ himself. * * * * * CRITICAL STRICTURES, &c.