Worst review in history?

Macaulay's essay on Doctor Johnson falls into three parts, and the Doctor himself takes centre stage only in the third. The second is Macaulay's incredulous knife-job on the character of Boswell (now known to be unjust, though that adds to the fun) while the first is his painstaking, brick-by-brick demolition of Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. Poor old Croker - whose book did have its merits, apparently - must have spent the rest of his own life hiding under a bucket.