ABSTRACT
First published Edinburgh Saturday Post, 5 January 1828, p. 276. Never reprinted. This piece continues the jousting with George Hogarth of the Edinburgh Weekly Journal about the ‘barbarisms’ of ‘the English school’ It is also linked to the following week’s musical article, through its concluding reference to ‘the renowned Moscheles’. The article shows decidedly English interests and sympathies, and contains several phrases that appear fairly often in De Quincey’s articles of this period, such as ‘Mirabile Dictu’ (see below, p. 325), and ‘barbarisms’.
