On the other hand there were unsympathetic writers who ridiculed the Germans and their literature. The _Monthly Magazine_ published a letter entitled _Literary Industry of the Germans_, which decried their pedantic scholarship in unprofitable directions.[29] This attack is also expressed in the form of parodies, of which the following were found: _The Wolf King_, a satire on _The Water King_, _The Fire King_, etc. (1802), _The Paint King_, a burlesque on _The Cloud King_, _The Fire King_ and others (1809, 1833), _Against Faustus_ (1804), _The Squeaking Ghost_, "a tale imitated from the German, according to the true and genuine principles of the horrifick" (1808, 1809, 1810), _Parody on Bürger's Earl Walter_ (1807), _Ode to the German Drama_, "Parody of Gray's Ode to Adversity" (1806), and _Burlesque on the style in which most of the German romantic ballads are written_ (1799, 1801). In some of these instances the parodies may denote no real hostility but merely a rhymester's attempt to be clever. [Footnote 29: "A German writer, L. W. Bruggeman, has published, at Stettin, in Pomerania, a Prussian province, a work, in English, on which he has laboured twenty-five years. It contains _a view of all the English editions, translations and illustrations of the ancient Greek and Latin authors_. In the execution of this work, he has been at great expense, being obliged to purchase and import a great number of English books. This is a very curious specimen of learned perseverance and labour. That a man should spend his life in recounting the translations of ancient authors into a language foreign to his own! It is one of the most difficult, tiresome, unpopular, and unprofitable branches of the trade. Germany, however, affords innumerable instances of this kind of literary diligence. There is a press at Leipsic abundantly supplied with editions and interpretations of Chinese, Abyssinian, Coptic and Syriac productions." _Mo. Mag. and Amer. Rev._, II-8, 1800, N. Y.]