When the _Deformities_ was catalogued in the Bodleian Library in 1834,[8] it was attributed to John Callander of Craigforth. In _A Critical Review of the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson_, the statement is made (p. 4) that "Mr. Callander of Craigforth ... observes" that "'Had the laborious Johnson been better acquainted with the oriental tongues, or had he even understood the first rudiments of the northern languages from which the English and Scots derive their origin, his bulky volumes had not presented to us the melancholy truth, that unwearied industry, _devoid of settled principles_, avails only to add one error to another.'" This latter blast, taken from the "Introduction" to Callander's _Two Ancient Scottish Poems, The Gaberlunzie Man and Christ's Kirk on the Green_ (Edinburgh, 1782), may well have been the evidence that caused _A Critical Review_ to be attributed to John Callander of Craigforth; then, because of the interconnections between it and the _Deformities_ and because of their convincing similarity, the _Deformities_ was also assigned to him. On the other hand, one is puzzled by the Bodleian's failure to accept the passage from John Callander in _A Critical Review_ as conclusive evidence that he was not the author of that work.[9] When the _Deformities_ and _A Critical Review_ were catalogued in the British Museum, in 1854 and 1862, they were likewise attributed to John Callander of Craigforth. In 1915 Courtney and Smith seemed to doubt that John Callander wrote them; for, they noticed, "strangely enough no mention of them is made by Robert Chambers in his memoir of Callander."[10] The _Catalogue of Printed Books in the Edinburgh Library_ (1918) assigns _A Critical Review_ to John Callander; it does not list the _Deformities_. Arthur G. Kennedy, in _A Bibliography of Writings on the English Language_ (1927), attributes the _Deformities_ to John Callander; he lists the 1787 issue of _A Critical Review_ as anonymous. In their _Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature_ (1926-1932), Halkett and Laing assign _A Critical Review_ to John Callander on the authority of the British Museum; the _Deformities_ is also assigned to him on the authority of a note by Chalmers in 1782. Finally, L. F. Powell, _primus editorum_, in his revision of G. B. Hill's edition of Boswell's _Life_ (1934-1950), quoted from a letter by James Thomson Callender to John Stockdale, dated 4 October 1783, which says: "I will be greatly obliged to you, for delivering the remaining Copies of Deformities of Johnson to the bearer, and sending me his Receipt for them." Dr. Powell thinks--rightly, we believe, when all the other evidence is taken into account--that this letter "shows" that Callender "was the author of the book."[11]