----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- I've run across a reference that I can't track down. Thought the Adam Smith experts might help. This regards a piece by [or about?] Adam Smith that appears in xx, European Magazine, August, 1791 (there is a page reference to p. 135). The citation comes from a footnote to a letter from William Wordsworth to John Wilson (2 June, 1802) in which Wordsworth says: ". . . Adam Smith, who, we (are) told, could not endure the Ballad of Clym of the Clough, because the author had not written like a gentleman" Bonus question! -- Who wrote the "Ballad of Clym of the Clough?" or did one Clym of the Clough write a ballad? James Henderson Valparaiso University ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]