It is by no means improbable that Bannister's suggestion had something to do with the eccentric personality of the hero of the _Picturesque Tours_; but the author of the _Memoir of John Bannister_ assumes too much when he records that the ideas for the adventures of Doctor Syntax were struck out at a sitting and in the easy fashion he has described; it is known that the original designs were furnished at the rate of three a month, and that their invention was spread over the entire period of the publication. The popularity enjoyed by this Tour was manifested in the number of editions sold; it was further pirated and imitated in various forms. A German edition was published in Berlin in 1822; the poem was translated under the title of _Die Reise des Doktor Syntax um das Malerische aufzusuchen. Ein Gedicht frei aus dem Englischen ins Deutsche übertragen. Lithogr. v. F. E. Rademacher._ The illustrations were copied in outline on stone, either with a fine point or a pen; the lines are wire-like and give neither fullness nor effect; the pictures are also coloured in a feeble and powerless style, and the whole is a very poor rendering, as far as the artist's work is concerned. A French edition, freely translated by M. Gandais, appeared in Paris, with twenty-six engravings--rendered with considerable ability by Malapeau (lith. de G. Engelmann)--drawn on stone with care and spirit in lithographic chalk; these illustrations, printed in a warm tint, and coloured by hand, will compare fairly with even Rowlandson's original etchings. We give the title of this edition:--_Le Don Quichotte Romantique, ou Voyage du Docteur Syntaxe à la recherche du Pittoresque et du Romantique; Poême en XX chants, traduit librement de l'Anglais par M. Gandais, et orné de 26 gravures par Malapeau. À Paris chez l'auteur, rue du Faubourg Saint Denis 45, et Pélicier libraire, cour du Palais Royal._ 1821. The author's advertisement, as written by Combe, is carefully and literally rendered, and the translator has added a slight _avertissement_ of his own, briefly alluding to the reputation enjoyed in England by the original engravings and the descriptive verses which accompany them, and setting forth the circumstances of his own version, &c. Numerous imitations, less legitimate than the foreign translations alluded to, also appeared in this country, such as _The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London_; _Doctor Syntax in Paris, in Search of the Grotesque_; _Doctor Prosody_; _Sentimental Tour through Margate and Hastings by Doctor Comparative, Junr._; and _Doctor Syntax's Life of Napoleon_, which is possibly due to Combe's pen, and derives a strong additional interest from the illustrations, which are fair examples of George Cruikshank's handiwork. A parody, in verse, entitled _The Adventures of Doctor Comicus, by a modern Syntax_, was also issued, with coloured imitations of Rowlandson's designs.