A short introduction is scarcely the place to examine the presumed existence of these defects in the _Dictionary_. Nevertheless, a few facts, based on a random sampling of passages in the _Deformities_, may provide a partial historical perspective for Callender's censures. Of the group of 210 words on pages 71-72 whose real currency he doubts or denies, 190 also appear in the second edition (1736) of Nathan Bailey's _Dictionarium Britannicum_, a copy of which Johnson interleaved and used as he compiled his own _Dictionary_. Equally revealing, the _OED_ includes 204 of the 210, the second edition of _Webster's International_ 158, and the third edition 108. Again, of the 65 words on pages 51-53 whose definitions Callender objects to, 48 also appear, with comparable explanations, in Bailey's dictionary. Finally, an unsystematic comparison of Bailey's and Johnson's works reveals a much higher incidence of so-called "indecent"--at least sexual--terms in the former than in the latter. The author of the _Deformities_, it is quite obvious, knew what he disliked about the _Dictionary_; when pressing his strictures against the book, however, as when mounting his other attacks on Johnson, his violent passions rode roughshod over his faint pretensions to fairness and objectivity. University of Chicago Findlay College NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION 1. The _DNB_ and the _DAB_ both contain accounts of Callender (complete, of course, with lists of their primary sources) to which we are indebted for various details in our own sketch of his life. However, neither mentions his pamphlets on Johnson. 2. Quoted from Hamilton by David Loth in _Alexander Hamilton: Portrait of a Prodigy_ (New York, 1939), p. 249. 3. From the Richmond _Recorder_ as printed in the New York _Evening Post_, 10 September 1802; quoted from _Jefferson Reader_, ed. Francis Coleman Rosenberger (New York, 1953), pp. 109-111. 4. There were apparently three editions of _A Critical Review_: (1) Edinburgh: Printed for J. Dickson, and W. Creech, 1783. (2) Second Edition. London. Printed for the Author, and sold by T. Cadell and J. Stockdale; at Edinburgh, by J. Dickson and W. Creech, 1783. (3) London. Printed for R. Rusted, 1787. We are indebted to the Pierpont Morgan Library for a photographic reproduction of its copy of the first edition of the pamphlet. 5. Brit. Mus. Addit. MS 6401, f. 175 b. Part of this letter is quoted by L. F. Powell in Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, IV, 499 (cited hereafter as _Life_). 6. Writing to Boswell on 28 March 1782, Johnson remarks: "The Beauties of Johnson are said to have got money to the collector; if the 'Deformities' have the same success, I shall be still a more extensive benefactor" (_The Letters of Samuel Johnson_, ed. R. W. Chapman [Oxford, 1952], II, 475). 7. _Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. With Critical Observations on His Works_ (3rd ed.; Edinburgh, 1815), p. 231. Anderson is apparently incorrect in saying that Callender was Thomson's nephew.