a in New-York
long before their appearance in London, or the publication of Thompson's
_German Theatre_. It is a circumstance worthy of notice, that the Rev. Mr.
Will, then of this city, added to the stock of our literary treasures, by
other translations into the English, such as the _Constant Lovers, &c._,
of Kotzebue, before, I believe, any recognized English version appeared
abroad. But I must leave this subject for the fuller investigation of the
learned Dr. Schmidt professor of German, in Columbia College.

David Longworth's name is a good deal blended with the progress of
American literature during years gone by. He was by birth a New Jerseyman;
and the publication of his _City Directory_, for some thirty or more
years, gave him sufficient notoriety; while his Shaksperean Gallery
introduced him to many of the cultivators of the fine arts, at a period,
when Trumbull and Jarvis were our prominent painters. Longworth had been
brought up as a printer, at a daily press, but he seems early to have got
a taste for copper-plate engraving, accurate printing, and elegant
binding. With determined energy he issued an edition of Telemachus, which,
for beauty of typography and paper, was looked upon, by the lovers of
choice books, as a rich specimen of our art. His _Belles-Lettres
Repository_ no less evinced his taste in the _elegantiae literarum_. He
was, nevertheless, a man of many strange notions. It is well known that
about the commencement of the eighteenth century, in our English books,
printed in the mother country, the substantive words were almost always
begun with a capital; the like practice obtained in many newspapers; but
Longworth, not content with the partial change which time had brought
about, of sinking these prominent and advantageous upper case type, waged
a war of extermination against almost every capital in the case, and this
curious deformity is found in many of his publications, as _british
america_, and _london docks_. Even in poetry, of the first word, he
tolerated only small letters at the beginning of the lines. His practice,
however, found no imitators, though 'tis said that it first began in
Paris. His bookstore, at a central situation by the Park, with works of
taste classically displayed, afforded an admirable lounge for the
litterateurs of that day. Here, when Hodgkinson, and Hallam, and Cooper,
and Cooke were at the zenith of their histrionic career in the Park
Theatre, adjacent, might be seen