Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 54: For August December, 1831 Mr Croker tells us, in a note, that Derrick, who was master of the ceremonies at Bath, died very poor, in We read on; and, a few pages later, we find Dr Johnson and Boswell talking of this same Derrick as still living and reigning - as having retrieved his character - as possessing so much power over his subjects at Bath, that his opposition might be fatal to Sheridan's lectures on oratory.1 And all this is in 1763. The fact is, that Derrick died in 1769. In one note we read, that Sir Herbert Croft, the author of that pompous and foolish account of Young, which appears among the Lives of the Poets, died in Another note in the same volume states, that this same Sir Herbert Croft died at Paris, after residing abroad for fifteen years, on the 27th of April. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.