[2] Most recently, Albert M. Lyles, Methodism Mocked (London, 1960).
[3] Journal, 8 February 1753, quoted by A. R. Humphreys, The Augustan World (New York, 1963), p. 20.
[4] The pseudonymous author, Peter Paragraph, is identified by Halkett and Laing, Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature, as James Makittrick Adair. Adair did write some works under that pseudonym but probably did not write The Methodist and Mimic. Lyles, op. cit., p. 129n., suggests that the author may be Samuel Foote, in whose play, The Orators, a character, Peter Paragraph, appears, probably representing George Faulkner. Robert Lloyd, in “The Cobbler of Cripplegate’s Letter,” hints that Peter Paragraph may be Bonnel Thornton.
[5] The Critical Review, XXIII (1766), pp. 75-77.
[6] The Power of Satire (Princeton, 1960), p. 222 and passim.
[7] The Methodist was reviewed by The Monthly Review, XXV (1766), pp. 319-321, and Gentleman’s Magazine, XXXVI (1766), p. 335. Conversation was reviewed more favorably by The Monthly Review, XXXVII (1767), p. 394, and by The Critical Review XXIV (1767), pp. 341-343. The Critical Review compared him with Swift.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
This facsimile of The Methodist (1766) is reproduced from a copy [840. k. 10. (18.)] in the British Museum by kind permission of the Trustees.