Note 51 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
At Oxford I first heard the couplet which tells how
"From out their different tubs Stubbs butters Freeman, Freeman butters Stubbs,"
it was quoted by one member of a prolific triumvirate which then filled a considerable proportion of the critical journals. In those days it was hardly possible to read an article by A which did not contain a panegyric of B's latest book; it was no less difficult to read B's book without meeting a reference to what had been "most justly observed by C."