50 An extract from The Art was printed in The Monthly Review, 8 (April 1753), 274–8L The reviewer was unenthusiastic: ‘tho’ no extraordinary genius for satyr appears in it, it is far from being a contemptible performance’ (p. 274). The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, ed. Robert Halsband, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965–7), iii. 88. Collier’s joke appears in a letter to James Harris, found in The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding, ed. Battestin and Probyn, p. xxxiii n.38.