`  *Issue #1 is now complete, and having completed it, I'm wondering just how far critics have been going in their reading of the J.  I mean, the ``paper war`` is in issue #1!  It's just a revival of Swift's Battle of the Books, which had been kept alive by Thomas Cooke (poet) in his ``Battel of the Poets,`` but all of which is a reiteration of William Temple's spat in Essay on Ancient and Modern Learning, which had been reply to Fontenelle's French pamphlet of 1692, and the battle trope is all from Le Lutrin, anyway.  I.e. the only thing odd is that the dunces felt like self-identifying and fighting back, which is something we can see in James Ralph (Fielding's friend's) The Case of the Authors.  It's a funny time.    `