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BOOKS OF ENTERTAINMENT, &c.

No. 1 _THE CONNOISSEUR, a Collec|tion of elegant Ess••ys and Writings up|on the Modern Manners, Customs, Virtues, and Vices of Mankind, writ|ten with infinite Vivacity, by Doctor Thornton and Mr. Colman.—The Conncisseur amongst a great Va|riety of Subjects, treats on the following;—A•• Acc••unt of a new Order of F••males call'd Demi Reps Account of a Plague lately broke out, with the Eff••cts of it a|mongst Members of Parliament. Officers of the Army and Navy, Aldermen, the Nobili••y, Maids of Honour; at Court, &c. &c.—Letter on Married People Fondling and T••ying before Company, with the B••h••viour of a Lo••ing Coup••••••a•• Dinner;—On Free-thinking.—Letters complaining of the Whis|perers and Giglers amongst the ••••••ir Sex, Last••nce. of th••ir rude B••haviour during ••isi; at Divine Ser|vice▪ &c. &c.—On B••t••; parti••u••••••ly the Custom

of staking one Man's Life against an other.—Letter, proving the City of London to be an University, and that Arts and Sciences are taught there in greater Per|fection than at Oxford and Cambridge—Description of a Quack Doctor, and of a Company of Strolling Players.—Character of Lady Belle Modeley, and the Colonel her Husband, with the Education of their Son and Daughter, and the Consequences thereof.—On the Vanity of People making Appearance a|bove their Circumstances, wi••h the Pride and Po|verty of a certain little French Man.—On Conscience, with the Terrible Exit of Tom Dare Devil, a Buck and an Atheist, together with his Life and Actions. On Boxing, with a D••scription of a very Famous Boxing Match betwe••n Slack and Petit.—Letter on Duelling, with Proposals for making Duels publick Diversions.—Letter on Snuff taking. Letter on the Villas of Citizens and Tradesmen, with a Des|cription of a Sunday's Visit to a Citizen at his Country House.—On Dress.—On Courtship.—On Orator Henley.—On the Turf, with a sprightly Des|cription of the Famous Newmarket Horse Races.—Study of the English Language Recommended.—An humerous Survey of the Audience at the Play, the Behaviour of Persons in the Boxes, Pitt, Gal|lery, of the Ladies of Pleasure, and of the fine Gen|tlemen on the Stage.—Two pretty Letters from a pretty Miss in Breeches, and from a Blood in Pet|tycoats.—On Frolicks.—On good Company.—Cha|racters of a Gamester, Drunkard, Lounger, Wrang|lers, &c. &c.—Of keeping Secrets.—Of Match|making.—Of Drinking.—Of Love.—Of keeping Low Company.—Of the Knowledge of the World, &c. &c.—This most excellent Miscellany has passed thro' many Editions, is universally read, and has greatly contributed to reform the depraved Taste and Manners of the Age, &c. &c.

No. 2 The ADVENTURER, by the Celebrated Dr. Hawkes|worth.—This Work has likewise passed thro' seve|ral Editions, is written with Spirit and Elegance, and contains amongst other Subjects, the History of Melissa.—The Story of Opsinous.—Story of Mr. Friendly and his Nephew.—Several fine Eastern Stories.—A Paralell between an Evening spent at the Play House, and the several Stages of Life.—Unhappiness in Marriage occasioned by Im|pruden Choice, exemplified in many Characters.—The Origin of Cunning.—Folly of Extravagance in the Story of Misargus.—The Adventures of an Half-penny.—Parallel betwen Alexander the Great and an Highwayman.—The Infam•• of Betraying Private Conversation.—On Lying.—The Hero distinguish|ed from the Man of Modern Honour, in which the not accepting a Challenge, is declared Honour|able by the Articles of War, illustrated in the Story of Eugenio.—Account of Tim Wildgoose, and of Ned Froth.—Real Story of the Reverend Mr. Simon Brown, a celebrated Author, and a remarkable Lunatick.—A Visit to Bedlam with Dean Swift.—The Miseries of Life.—The Adventures of a Lo use, &c. &c. &c.

3 The RAMBLER, by the Learned and Ingenious Sa|muel Iohnson, containing some of the finest Essays in the English Language, amongst the rest, upon the following Subjects.—Affability.—Affectation.—Af|fliction.—Ambition.—Amusement.—Anger.—Au|thors.—Beauty.—Bashfullness.—Benificence.—Bu|siness.—Censure.—Conversation.—Curiosity.—Edu|cation.—Fear.—Flattery.—Happiness.—Health.—Humour.—Knowledge.—The Ladies.—Learning.—Old Age.—Pevishness.—Pleasure.—Politeness.—Time.—Truth.—Virtue; interspersed with ex|cellent Novels, Tales, &c. &c.

No. 4 The WORLD.—A Collection of Polite Essays

written by the Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Orrery, Mr. Walpole, Sir. Charles Hanbury Williams, Mr. Cam|briage, Mr. Moore, Mr. Ioseph Warton, Mr. ••••ventry, Mr. Whitehead, Sir. D. Dalrympl••, 〈…〉〈…〉 Mr. Cooper, and many others of the most d••stinguished Characters in the Annals of Lit|terature; the Essays are upon a great Variety of Sub|j••••••s in genteel Li••e, calculated to divert at the same T••me that they improve the Taste and Sentiment of the Reader.

5 The F••MALE SP••CTATOR, written by Mrs. Eliz. Haywood to rectify those Errors, which small, as th••y m••y seem at fi••st, may if indulged, grow up into greater, till they at last become Vices, and occa••••on all the Mis••o••tunes of our Lives; this is a Book of very great Entertainment, containing amongst others, the following Subj••cts.—For|tune a Breaker of Friendship.—The Husband's Stra|tagem.—A Widow's Reason for Marrying.—The ••ountry Ladies Surpirse.—The hard Fate of two Sisters.—A Dut••h Woman's Story.—An Adventure at ••raves••nd. Second Marriages condemned.—The Coquette a She Fop.—Story of a Taylor in Love with Queen Elizabeth.—Celemena's Story.—Str••phon and Celia, &c. &c.

6 The Story of Iemmy and Ienny I••ssamy, written by Mrs. Elizabeth Haywood, containing much Hu|mour and Adventure, with many useful and ex|••mplary Hints to young Pe••sons of both Sexes, designed to make the Reader wiser and better.

7 Epistl••s for the Ladies, written by Mrs Elizabeth Haywood, containing a Variety of pleasing No|vels, and Romances; calculated to form the Stile in Letter wri••ing.

8 The Invisible Spy, written by Mrs. Elizabeth Hay|wood, containing interesting and instructive Histo|ries, with many S••••nes and Adventures.

No. 9 The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, by Mrs Elizabeth Haywood, with her Amours and Adven|tures, containing a great Variety of Incidents, instructive and entertaining.

10 Letters from Felicia to Charlotte, by Mrs. Collier, containing a Series of the most interesting Events, interspersed with Moral Reflections; chiefly intend|ing to prove, that the Seeds of Virtue are implant|ed in the Mind of every reasonable Being.

11 The Droll Adventures of Roderick Random, by Doctor Smollett.

12 The Adventures and Deplorable Fate of Ferdinand Fatham, by Doctor Smo••lett, wri••ten with a View of instructing the Ignorant and entertaining the Va|cant, subjecting Folly to Ridicule, and Vice to In|dignation; the Author has roused the Spirit of Mirth, wakened the Soul of Compassion, and touch|ed the Secert Springs that move the Heart, adorn|ing Virtue with Honour and Applause, and branding Iniqu••t•• with Reproach and Shame.

13 The E••••ertaining Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Commodore Trunnion, &c. &c. In which are given the Characters of many considerable Persons, now existing in Europe, and amongst others, that of the Celebrated Lady Vane, from Mater••als wrote by herself, and dressed up in a pretty Novel, by the Ingenious Doctor Smollett, in which is exhibited a View of that Lady's Intrigues Gallantries, Elope|ments from her Lord, &c. The like not to be equal|ed in any other real History of the pr••sent Age.

14 The Devil upon Crutches, with Asmodeus's Crutch|es, and Dialogues between two Chimneys of Madrid, an Humerous Satire upon the Follies of Mankind in General.

15 The Devil upon Crutches in England, or an Hume|rous Satire upon the Vices of our own Mother Country.

No. 16 The Life and Adventures of Iames Ramble, interspersed with the various Fortunes of certain Noble Personages.

17 Memoirs of a Man of Quality, written by himself after his Retirement from the World.

18 The Tell Tale, a Collection of pleasant and diverting Iests, and Sayings of the liveliest Wits of the Age.

19 Love Letters between Lord Grey and his Sister, ex|treamly soft and amorous.

20 Cato's Letters, or Essays on Civil and Religious Li|berty, by Mr. Gordon.

21 The Independant Whigg, or a Defence of Primitive Christianity against the Exorbitancy and Encroach|ments of Fanatical and Dissaffected Clergymen, by Mr. Gordon.

22 The Adventures of a Guinea, a most extraordi|nary Modern Novel, wherein are exhibited the Cha|racter of all the principal Persons who have appeared in public Life in Great Britain and America during the last Seven Years, with curious and interesting Anecdotes of their Lives. A Book of infinite En|tertainment, read with extream Delight by all those who have a Desire of Knowing the secret History of Britain, her Kings, Ministers, Courtiers, and others of inferior Rank; the following Characters in particular are to be found in this Work; King George the 2d.—Sir Peter Warren; Ge|neral Wolfe; Mr. Pitt; Several Admirals, Ge|nerals, and Captains, at Sea and Land; The Lords of the Court; The Countess of Y—The Marquis of G—Several Bishops; The Re|verend Mr. George Whitefield; Lord Loudoun; Lord George S—The King of Prussia; The Dutch Nation; Lord Chesterfield; Lord Colvil; Lord L—Kitty Fisher; Jenny Douglass; The Momus of the Age, Samuel Foote, Esq &c. &c.

No. 23 Shaftesbury's Characteristics, 3 Vol. containing a Letter concerning Enthusiasm.—An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour.—Soliloquy.—An Enquiry concerning Virtue and Merit.—the Mora|lists, a Philosophical Rhapsody.—Reflections.—A Notion of the Historical Draught, or Tablature of the Judgement of Hercules

24 SPECTATOR, 8 Vol. by Addison, &c. containing Adventures of Brunetta and Phillis.—Story of Inkle and Yarico.—Life of Pharamond.—Monsieur Pon|tignan's Adventures.—Vision of Mirza.—Dr. Ken|net's Accounts of Country Wakes.—Behaviour of Charles the Great to his Secretary, who had de|bauched his Daughter.—Will. Honeycomb's Ap|plication to rich Widows.—Story of a traveiling Dervise.—Adventures of Amanda.—Prince Eugene compared with Alexander.—Adventures of Fidel••o.—Story of Basilicus Valentinus and his Son.—Fla|via's Character and Amour with Cynthio.—Fairs for buying and selling of Women.—Nemesis an Old Maid, a great Discoverer of Judgments.—Amour of King Edgar with a Servant Maid.—Story of Hilpa.—Story of Penelope's Web. &c. &c.

25 TATLER, by Addison, containing Aesculapius's Re|cipe for Love.—Batchelor's Scheme to govern a Wife.—Medicine for a Scold.—Life of Mr. Bick|erstaffe; of Dronico a Sharper.—Description of a Rural Squire, &c.—Treatment of a young Lawyer that endeavoured to debauch a Merchant's Wife.—Character of Alexander.—Sir Francis Bacon.—His|tory of Joseph.—Adventures of Palmede, &c. &c.

26 Smollet's History of England, with 180 elegant c•••••• of the principal Subjects of the Work,—with his History of the War in Europe and America, minute•• relating every Particular that has occurred in the last sixteen Years, being a Continuation of the above His|tory of England to the Year 1761.—The Public has

given such a favourable Reception, that more of this Work has been sold than of any History pub|lished in the Memory of Man.—The following Cha|racters of Mr. Secretary Pitt, and the immortal Gen|eral Wolfe, are given here as Specimens of the Stile in which Doctor Smollet has written his History of England, and his History of the present glorious War in Germany, America, and in the East and West Indies.—

William Pitt, Esq was appointed Paymaster General of the Forces, and Privy Counsellor: He displayed a surprizing Extent and Precision of po|litical Knowledge, an irrisistble Energy of Argu|ment, and such Powers of Elocution, as struck his Hearers with Astonishment and Admiration. It flashed like the Lightning of Heaven against the Ministers, and Sons of Corruption, blasting where it smote and withering the Nerves of Op|position; but his more substantial Praise was founded upon his disinterested Integrity, his un|corruptible Heart, his unconqurable Spirit of Inde|pendence, and his invariable Attachment to the Interest and Liberty of his Country.

—The fol|lowing is the Character given by Dr. Smollett of Ge|neral Wolfe.—

The Death of General Wolfe was a national Loss, universally lamented. He inherited from Nature, an animating Fervour of Sentiment, an intuitive Perception, an extensive Capacity, and a Passion for Glory, which stimu|lated him to acquire every Species of military Knowledge that Study could comprehend, that actual Service could illustrate and confirm. This noble Warmth of Disposition seldom fails to earl forth and unfold the liberal Virtues of the Soul. Brave above all Estimation of Danger, he was also generous, gentle, complacent, and humane; the Pattern of the Officer, the Darling of the Soldier: There was a Sublimity in his Geni••s

which soared above the Pitch of ordinary Minds; and had his Faculties been exercised to their full Extent by Opportunity and Action; had his Judgment been fully matured by Age and Experience, he would, without Doubt, have rival'd in Reputation the most celebrated Cap|tains of Antiquity.

27 Lord Anson's celebrated Voyage round the World, performed in the Years 1740, 41, 42, 43, 44. Com|piled from his Lordships Papers, and containing a very great Variety of interesting and affecting E|vents. Illustrated with Charts, Maps, Views, &c.

28 Du Halde's History of China, containing a general View•• of the Empire of China.—Antiquity of the Chinese Monarchy.—Two Novels, and a Chinese Tragedy.—Captain Beering's Travels into Siberia.

39 Hanway's Travels into Russia and Persia, contain|ing the Rise of the British Trade to Persia.—De|scription of Moscow, Schah Nadir's Palace, with an Account of the Trade and Religion of the Persians.—The Manner of ordering Silk Worms.—The English and French Trade to the Levant.—Revolution in Persia.—Description of Petersb ••urg. Berlin, the Prussian Guards, Curiosities in Dres|den.—An Account of Hanover, Hamburg. Altena, Amsterdam, Harlem, Rotterdam, &c.—Origin of the Persian Empire.—Revolutions in Persia, from the Year 1700 to 1727.—Birth of Nadir Shah, his Robberies, Victories, Reign, War with the Turks, the Great Mogul, &c. his Assassination, and the Reign of his Successor Adil Shah.

40 The Voyages and Cruises during the late Spanish and French Wars, of that Generous, Brave, and Skilful, but Unfortunate Officer Commodore Walker. Be|sides an entertaining Narration of Events in his Cruizes against the French and Spaniards, the Commodore discovers himself to be perfectly Ma|ster of the Passions, Humours and Affections of the

private Seamen; as the Reader will find in the Course of this diverting Relation of his Adventures.

No. 41. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain, and Ireland, to the Time of Dean Swift, by Cibber, 5 vols, Containing the Lives of Chaucer, Spencer, Raleigh, Dryden, Johnson Cartwright, Howel, Cowley, Davenant, Milton, Hobbs, Butler, Waller, Rochester, Otway, Oldham, E. of Roscommon, Denham, Etheridge, Mountford, Shadwell, Dryden, Farquhar, Philips, Garth, Addison, Prior, Congreve, Steel, Booth, Dennis, Lansdown, Wharton, Ward, Smith, Mrs. Rowe, Savage, Swift, Philips Trap, Thompson, Pope, Hill, Theobald, Croxal, Pitt, Lillo, Chandler.

42. Plutarch's Lives, 9 vol. containing, the Lives of Plutarch, Theseus, Romulus, Lycurgus, Numa, So|lon, Poplicola, Themistocles, Camillus, Pericles, Fabius, Alcibiades, Coriolanus, Timoleon, Emili|us, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Marcus Cato, Philopemenon, Flaminius, Pyrrhus, Marius, Ly|sander, Scylla, Lucullus, Nicias, Crassus, Agesilaus, Eumenus, Pompey, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Pho|cion, Cato Minor, Agis, Cleomenes, Gracchus, Domosthenes, Cicero, Dion, Brutus, Artaxerxes, Aracus, Galba, Otho.

43. The History of the Devil, written by Daniel Desoc, Father of Mr. Desoc, late Merchant at New York. Containing his Original, a State of his Circumstan|ces, his Conduct publick and private, the various Turns of his Affairs from Adam to the present Time, the Methods he takes of conversing with Mankind, with the Manner of his making Witches, Wizards and Conjurors, and how they sell their Souls to him, &c. &c. The whole interpersed with many of the Devil's Adventures, to which is added a Discription of the Devil's Dwelling vulgarly called HELL. The Subject of this Book is singular, the wise Part o••

the Word has been pleased with it, the••r ••••••ry Part have been diverted with it, and the Ignorant Part has been taught by it

No. 44. The Arabian Nights Entertainments, consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, told by the Sulta|ness of the Indies to divert the Sultan from the Exe|cution of a bloody Vow he had made to marry a La|dy every Day, and have her Head cut off next Mor|ning to avenge himself for the Disloyalty of his first Sultaness. Containing a better Account of the Cus|tom, Manners, and Religion of the Indians, Persians, &c. than is to be met with in any Author hitherto published.

45 The Ladies drawing Room, being a faithful Picture of the Great World, in which the various Humours of both Sexes are displayed. Drawn from the Life, and interspersed with entertaining and affecting Novels.

46 The Letters of Pliny, elegantly translated by Mr. Melmoth, one of the most ingenious Writers of the Age. The polite and spirited Turn of these Letters is by no Means their principal Recommendation: They receive a much higher Value, as they exhibit one of the most amiable and animating Characters. Pliny's whole Life seems to have been employed in the Exercise of every generous and social Affection: To forward modest Merit, to encourage ingenious Talents, to vindicate oppressed Innocence, are some of the glorious Purposes to which he devoted his Power, his Fortune, and his Abilities.

47 The Letters of Cicero to his Friends, translated by Mr. Melmoth, who has preferred these Letters to those his Author wrote to Atticus in order the better to trace the Conduct and inquire into the Character of Cicero, as they shew him in a greater Variety of Connections, and he is seen in almost every possible Point of View.

No. ••8. The Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosberne, alia•• Melmoth, on several Subjects, written by the same most ingenious Hand.

49 Dr. Middleton's History of the Life of Marcus Tul|lius Cicero.— There is no Part of History, which seems capable of yielding either more Instruction or Entertainment, than that which offers to us the select Lives of great and virtuous Men, who have made an eminent Figure on the public Stage of the World. In these we see at one View, what the Annals of a whole Age can afford, that is worthy of Notice; and in the wide Field of Universal History, skipping as it were over the barren Places, gather all its Flowers, and possess ourselves at once of every thing that is good in it.—This Work contains the History of the Times of Cicero, includ|ing a Period above 60 Years, which for the Import|ance of Events and the Dignity of the Persons con|cerned in them, is by far the most interesting in prosane History.

50 Memoirs of the Great Maximilian, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great, which have always been ranked among the best of Books by the Judgment of all the Lovers of Litera|ture, being fraught with the wisest Maxims of State, the finest Instructions and Examples of Morality, and a Variety of the most important Events.

51 UNIVERSAL HISTORY from the earliest Account of Time, with Maps, Cuts, and Notes, &c. 20 Vol. Containing the History of the World to the Birth of Abraham;—History of Egypt to Alexander the Great.—History of Egypt, of the Moabites, Am|monites, Midianites, Edomites, Amalekites, Ca|naanites, and Philistines, Syrians, Phoenicians; and Holy Land.—History of the Jews, from Abraham to the Babylonish Captivity, and from that Period to their Entrance into the Land of Canaan.—Explana|tion of Solomon's Temple, History of the Asiyrians,

Babylonians, Phrygians.—History of the Medes and Persians.—History of the Scythians, Lydians, of Sicyon, Afgos, Attica, Baeotia, Thebes, Arcadia, Thessaly, Corinth, Sparta, and the Athenians.—History of the Lacedaemonians, Thebans, Achaia, A••hens, Sicily and Syracuse.—Rhodes, Crete, Cy|prus, Samos, and the Macedonians.—History of the Seleucidae; the Ptolomies, the Armenians, and Kingdom of Pontus.—History of Capadocia, Perga|mus, Thrace, Epirus, Bythinia, Colchis, Ibe••••, Albania, Jews, Parthians, Persians, Arabs.—Ro|man History from Romulus to the burning of the City by the Gauls.—Roman History from rebuild|ing of Rome to the perpetual Dictatorship of Sylla.—Roman History, from the perpetual Dictatorship of Sylla, to the settling of the Empire by Octavius.—Roman History from the settling of the Empire to the Death of Vitellius. Roman History from the Death of Vitellius to the Removal of the Imperial Seat to Constantinople.—History of the Etruscans; the Constantinopolitan History.—History of the Ea|stern and Western Empire.—History of the Car|thaginians, Numidians, Mauritanians, Ethiopians, Arabs, Spaniards, and Gauls, &c. Ancient Ger|mans: Britains; Huns, Goths, Vandals, Sucdes, Franks, Burgundians, Lombards, &c. Turks, Tar|tar••, Moguls, Indians, and Chinese;—A general Index to the Whole.

No. 52 The MODERN HISTORY; a Continuation of the Ancient Universal History.

53 Tom Brown's Comical Works, containing, the Quaker's Grace.—The merry Quack.—The Blind Man in Love.—Letters from the Dead to the Liv|ing—Billet Deux.—Odes—Dialogues, of the Dead.—Epigrams.—Fables.—The Dispensary, &c.

54 Cibber's Plays.

55 Otway's Plays, containing Venice preserved;—The Orphan.—The Soldier's Fortune.—Ai••••hi|ades.

—Don Carlos.—Caius Marcus.—Titus and Bernice.—Friendship in Fashion.—The Cheats of Scapin; &c. &c.

No. 56 Farquhar's Plays, containing Love in a Bottle.—Constant Couple.—Sir Harry Wildair.—The In|constant.—Twin Rivals.—Recruiting Officer.—Beaux Stratagem.—Letters on Love and Gal|lantry, &c. &c.

57 Gay's Poems, containing Rural Sports.—The Fan. Pastorals.—The What-d've call it.—Epistles.—Tales. Eclogues.—Miscellanies.—Dione, &c.

58 Behn's (Mrs.) Histories, Novels, 2 Vol. Contain|ing her Life.—Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave.—Fair Jilt.—Nun, or the perjured Beauty.—Agnes de Castio.—Lover's Watch.—Lucky Mistake.—Ad|ventures of the Black Lady.

59 Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle, intermixed with the Story of Mrs. Villars, an English Lady, with whom he made his Escape from. Barbary.—The History of an Italian Captive.

60 Nature Display'd, being Discourses of such Parts of Natural History, as are thought most proper to excite the Curiosity, and form the Minds of Youth of both Sexes.—From this Book, young Persons are made sensible of what Treasures they possess unen|joyed, and Observations are presented on those Things, that Distance. Minuteness, or Inattention, may have concealed from them. The wonderful Works of Providence in the animal, vegetable, and mineral Creation, are laid open: The Sun, Moon, Planets, with whatever is curious in Mathematics, Mechanics, &c. are explained: Being a complete course of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, cre|ating in the Mind of the Reader an exalted Idea of the great Creator; and in order the better to explain and illustrate the several Subjects, a very great Va|riety of fine Cutts are added.

No. 61 The whole Works of Dean SWIFT, containing A Tale of a Tub.—Gulliver's Travels.—The Battle of Books.—The Draper's Letters.—The Wonder of all Wonders. The History of Iohn Bull—The Art of Lying.—Memoirs of the Clerk of this Parish.—Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerius.—Polite Con|versation.—Directions to Servants.—The Story of the Injured Lady.—Letters between Swift and his Friends.—Tales, Riddles, all his poetical Pieces, with his Life and Will, forming a complete Collec|ction of all the Works of this inimitable Genius.

62 ADDISON's Works, containing his Poems.—The Campaign. Rosamond.—Cato.—The Drummer.—Trial of Tariff.—Battle of the Pigmies.—The Puppet Shew.—Bowling Green Resurrection.—Of the Christian Religion, &c. &c.

63 PRIOR's Poems, containing The Lady's Looking-Glass.—Cupid and Ganymede.—The Nut Brown Maid.—Henry and Emma.—The Process of the Mind.—Solomon, or the Vanity of the World.—E|pistles.—The Life of Prior.—The Turtle and Spar|row.—Collin's Mistake.—The Curious Maid.—Bubble, &c. &c.

64 ROWE's Plays and Works, containing Tamerlane.—Fair Penitent.—Jane Shore.—Royal Consort.—Jane Grey.—Ambitious Step-Mother.—The Art of Getting beautiful Children.—The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, &c. &c.

65 The whole Works of POPE, published by Warbur|ton, adorned with most elegant Cutts, containing, his Pastorals.—Windsor Forest.—Essay on Criti|cism.—Rape of the Lock.—Sappho to Phaon.—E|loise to Abelard.—Temple of Fame.—January and May.—The Wise of Bath.—The Thebais of Sta|tius.—Essay on Man.—Universal Prayer.—Moral Essays.—Satires.—Dunciad.—Memoris of Martinus Scriblerus.—Memoirs of P. P. Clerk of this Parish.—The Poet Laureat.—His Letters to and from

Dean Swift, to and from Lord Bolinbroke, to and from Gay, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Allen of Bath, and Bishop Warburton.—An Account of Mr. Pope's Death and Will.

No. 66 POPE's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

67 SHAKESPEAR's Plays, containing The Tempest.—Midsummer Night's Dream.—Two Gentlemen of Verona.—Merry Wives of Windsor.—Measure for Measure.—Comedy of Errors.—Much ado.—Mer|chant of Venice.—Love's Labour lost.—As you like it.—Taming of the Shrew.—All's well that ends well.—Twelfth, Night.—Winter's Tale.—King Lear.—King John.—Richard II.—King Henry IV. two Parts.—Henry V.—Henry VI.—King Henry VI. Part 2 and 3.—King Richard III.—King Henry VIII.—Timon of Athens.—Corio|lanus.—Julius Caesar.—Anthony and Cleopatra—Titus Andronicus. Macbeth.—Troilus and Cressi|da.—Cymbeline.—Romeo and Juliet.—Hamlet.—Othello.

68 DRYDEN's Plays, 6 Vols containing an Essay on Dramatic Poesy.—Wild Gallant.—Rival Ladies. Indian Queen.—Indian Emperor.—Secret Love.—Sir Martin Mar all.—Tempest.—Evening's Love, or Royal Marriages Alamode.—Affignation—Am|boyna.—The State of Innocence.—Aurengzebe.—All for Love, or the World well lost.—Limerham. Oedipus.—Troilus and Cressida.—Spanish Friar.—Duke of Guise.—Albion and Albianus.—Don Se|bastian.—Amphitrion.—Cleomenes, King of Spar|ta.—King Arthur.—Love Triumphant.

69 DRYDEN's Virgil, 3 Vol. with Cuts, containing Life of Virgil.—Pastorals.—Georgics.—Aeneis, first six Books. Aeneis, last six Books.

70 DRYDEN's Miscellany Poems, containing Mac Flecknoe.—Absalom and Achitophel.—Year of Wonders.—Plague of Athens.—Hind and Panther.—Pastorals, Tales, &c.

No. 71 DRYDEN's Satires of Iuvenal.

72 DRYDEN's Fables, ancient and modern.

73 THOMPSON's Seasons.

74 THOMPSON's Works, containing The Castle of In|dolence.—The Tragedies of Sophonisba, Agameni|non, Tancred and Segismunda, Coriolanus, Edward and Eleonora, Alfred.—Poems, &c. &c.

75 VANBRUGH's Plays, containing The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger.—The Provok'd Wife.—Aesop.—The Confederacy.—The False Friend.—The Mistake.—The Journey to London, &c. &c.

76 YOUNG's Night Thoughts.

77 YOUNG's Love of Fame.

78 YOUNG's Works, in 4 Vols. Containing Love of Fame.—Last Day.—Paraphrase on Job.—Busiris.—Revenge.—Brothers; and Centaur.

79 Iewish Spy, by the Marquis d'Argens, 5 Vols. con|taining, Adventures of a Carmelite and Sempstress.—Two Husbands that cuckolded each other.—Ad|ventures of a Cordelier and a Female Votary; a Frenchman and a Spaniard, a Chymist and his Wife. Adventures of a sick Scholar with three Physicians; an Officer with a Coquette; and Innkeeper's Son with an English Woman of Quality.—Abelard, his grievous Calamities.—Algerine Women fond of Europeans, their Amours, &c.

80 Ladies Library; 3 Vols. On Employment; Wit and Delicacy; Recreation, Dress, Chastity, Charity, Detraction.—Of the Duties of a Daughter, a Wife, a Mother, a Widow, and a Mistress.—Of Religion, Prayer, Fasting, Repentance, the Sacrament, Zeal, Perfection, and Scruples.

81 The Young Miss's Magazine; containing, Dialogues between a Governess of a genteel Boarding School, and her Scholars: In which their several Faults are pointed out, and the easy way to mend them; as well as to think, speak and act properly; forming

their Hearts to Goodness, and enlightning their Un|derstanding, with useful Knowledge.

No. 81 The Young Ladies Magazine: Or, Dialogues betwen a discreet Governess, and several young Ladies of the first Rank under her Education; de|signed for the Use and Improvement of young Ladies, when the most dangerous of all Stages of Life, comes on, about Fourteen and Fifteen, when they are en|tering into the World. The Design of these admir|able Performances, is to give a just Way of think|ing, speaking and acting to young People, accord|ing to their different Stations of Life, and they every Way do contribute to enlighten the Under|standing, and form the Heart to Goodness.

82 A new and General Biographical Dictionary; con|taining an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Persons in every Nation; particularly the British and Irish; from the earliest Accounts of Time to the present Period. Wherein their remarkable Actions or Sufferings, their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are particularly displayed; with a Catalogue of their Literary Pro|ductions.—As it is unnecessary to shew the use|fulness of an accurate Historical Account of such persons and facts as have been the objects of pub|lick attention in all Ages and Nations, nothing more can be expected in a preface to this work, than an account of the manner in which it is executed, and the reasons why it was not thought to be precluded by any other work of the same kind that is already extent.

The principal of these works are Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary; the General Dictionary; the Biographia Britanniaa; the Athenae Oxonienses; and Mr. Collier's Historical Dictionary.

Bayle's Work is in 5 large Volumes in Folio, yet there are many persons of great eminence both an|tient and Modern, whom Bayle has not so much as

named, though he has mentioned others of whom nothing is known, but that they were the occasion of the subject of some useless controversy, the very Terms of which few understand, and the Merits of which a small part even of those few are disposed to examine. Bayle's Lives are indeed nothing more than a Vehicle for his Criticism, and his Work seems to have been chiefly the transcript of a vo|luminous Common-place-book, in which he inserted his own remarks on the various authors he had read, and gratified his peculiar turn of mind by discussing their opinions and correcting their mistakes; it is therefore rather a miscellany of critical and meta|physical speculation••, than a system of Biography. The General Dictionary, as it includes Bayle, is so far liable to the same objection: it is indeed aug|mented with other Articles, but they are also writ|ten in Bayle's manner, and for that Reason the work upon the whole is not much better adapted to general use. There are many redundancies, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 there are many defects; and there is besides an objection of more weight though of another kind•• the work consisting of no less then ten volumes in folio, for which the purchaser must pay more tha•• so many Pounds.

The Biographia Britannica, is indeed much more an historical work than Bayle's, but it is written up|on a much less extensive plan; it contains the Lives of those eminent persons only who were born in Great Britain and Ireland, and of these the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 al••ne are selected, though many others have a ••••|gree of eminence sufficient to render them objects of general curiosity.

The Athenae Oxonienses is written on a plan still more contracted, for it contains an account of such authors only, as reueived their academic education at the University of Oxford; so that neither, nor 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of these performanc••, however voluminous and

expensive, contain what ought to be found in an Universal Biographical Dictionary, and such is the work which we now offer to the Publick.

This contains some account of every life that has been sufficiently distinguished to be recorded; not indeed a list of all the names that are to be found in chronological and regal tables, for of many no|minal rulers both of the Church and State, it can o••ly be said that they lived and died; but a judi|cious narrative of the actions or writings, the ho|nours and disgraces of all those whose Virtues, Parts, Learning, or even Vices, have preserved them from oblivion in any writing, of whatever age and in whatever language.

This Work will therefore naturally include a his|tory of the most remarkable and interesting transac|tions, an historical account of the progress of learn|ing, and an abstract of all opinions and principles by which the world has been influenced in all its ex|tent and duration. We have been particularly care|ful to do justice to the learned and ingenious of our own Country, whose works are justly held in the highest esteem; and we have also been attentive to the instruction and amusement of the Ladies, not only by decorating our work with the Names of all who have done honour to the Sex, but by making our account of others sufficiently particular to excite and gratify curiosity; and, where the subject would admit, to interest the passions, without wearying attention by minute prolixity or idle speculations.

In the execution of this plan we have not had re|course merely to dictionaries, nor contented ourselves with supplying the defects of one dictionary from another, and cutting off the redundancies of all; but we have collected from every performance in every language that had any relation to our design. For the lives of authors, we have had recourse to their works, and for the lives of others, to the best

memoirs that are extant concerning them; we shall, however, notwithstanding the extent of our under|taking, and the labour and expence necessary to the execution of it, comprize this work within Twelve volumes in Octavo, and sell them for Six Shillings a volume; so that the price of the whole will be no more than three pounds twelve shillings when bound. In a work so various, the materials of which are so numerous, diffused and dissimilar, we have endea|voured to select in every instance, what was in it|self most eligible; we hope therefore that when our Readers consider what we have done, they will not withhold their approbation, upon a mere supposition that we might have done more. Those who are acquainted with the pains and attention requisite for the compiling of great works, will readily excuse any small defects that may have escaped us. The Au|thors hope for success from the candid and judicious only, whose approbation of this work, it is their utmost ambition to obtain, as it has been their earnest endeavours to merit.

THE AUTHORS.

No. 83 The Matrimonial Preceptor; a Collection of Examples and Precepts relating to the married State. The following Particulars are treated of in this Book. The Ladies directed in the Choice of a Husband.—Infelicities of Matrimony produced by an imprudent Choice.—The Causes of Disagreement in Marriage.—The married Condition seldom un|happy, but for Want of Temper or Judgment in the Husband.—A Method proposed to keep Love alive after Marriage.—Courtship the pleasantest Part of Life.—Concerning Matches too hastily made up.— Jealousy described, and Methods of allaying it.— On the Brutality of Husbands.—Matrimony and keeping Mistresses compared.—The Folly of unsuit|able Matches.—The Folly of extravagant Expences after entering upon Marriage.—On the Tyrrany of

Husbands.—Advice to those Ladies who have lost the Affections of their Husbands, and how to r••gain them.—Love and Lust distinguished.—On matrimo|nial Quarrels.—On mercenary Matches.—On the Duties of a good Wife.—Matrimony the most Im|portant Station a Man can take in private Life.—Characters of Good and Bad Wives.—This Book is very proper to be perused by the Married Ladies as well as by the Single, and is written in an elegant Stile, by Mr. Addison, Sir Richard Steel, Mr. Ri|chardson, Author of Clarissa, Mr. Fielding, Author of Tom Iones, Mr. Hawkesworth, Mr. Johnson, Au|thor of The Rambler, &c. &c. &c.

No. 84 Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary, 5 Vol. containing the Lives of Abelard, Achilles, A|pelles, Apollo, Aristotle, Bacon, Beda, Bellarmin, Bocace, Anna Bullen, Le Brun, Brutus, Calvin, Erasmus, Euripides, Grotius, Heloise, Hobbes, Lais, Lucretia, Luther, Lycophron, Lycurgus, A|lexander the Great, Machiavel, Mahomet, Milton, Ovid, Pythagoras, Prynne, Sappho, Socinus, Spi|nus, Spinoza, Thais, Timolcon, Virgil, Xenopha|nes, Zeno, Zeuxis.

85 Biographia Britannica; or the Lives of eminent Persons in Great Britain and Ireland. Containing Addison, Alfred, Ashmole, Atterbury, Bacon, Bak|er, Barclay, Beaumont, Beda, Benbow, Bentley, Bingham, Blake, Boyle, Brown, Buller, Chilling|worth, Cambden, Caxton, Churchill, Coke, Cow|ley, Cromwell, Derham, Dudley, Fairfax, Fleet|wood, Friend, Grey, Hackluyt, Halley, Harring|ton, Hobbes, Hollar, Kennet, King, Knox, &c.

86 LOCKE'S Works, 3 Vols. containing an Essay on human Understanding. Letters to Bishop Stilling|fleet, concerning some Passages relating to the Essay on human Understanding.—Some Considerations on Money.—Two Treatises on Government.—Three Letters concerning Toleration.—The Reasonable|ness of Christianity.—On Education.—A Paraphrase

on the Epistles of St. Paul.—Of the Conduct of the Understanding.—An Examination of P. Male|branche.— A Discourse of Miracles.—Letter for To|leration.— Life of Earl of Shaftsbury.—New Method of a Common-Place Bock.—Familiar Letters, &c. o. 87 A new and compleat Translation of the Works of VOLTAIRE, with Notes Historical and Critical, by T. Smollett, M. D. This Work is translated from the last Geneva Edition, published under M. Voltaire's own Inspection: It will be embellished with Copper|plates, engraved by the best Masters.

Mr. de Voltaire, is one of the few happy authors who have lived to enjoy the full fruits of the most extensive reputation. He has lived to see his fame flourishing, not only in his own country, but also diffused over all the civilized kingdoms and states of Europe; among which he is universally admired for the fire of his genius, the brilliancy of his wit, the poignancy of his satire, the elegance of his stile: in a word, for that nameless talent which operates like a charm, engaging the reader's attention and ap|plause, even in spite of himself, and as it were ••en|dering the performance inchanting alike to persons of every age, nation, character, and complexion.

But how much soever he may be admired in other countries, he seems to be peculiarly adapted by na|ture, for the entertainment of the English People, distinguished as he is by that impetuosity of genius, that luxuriancy of imagination and freedom of spirit, which have characterized the most eminent poets of the British nation.

This congenial affinity remarkably appears in that eagerness with which his works are procured, trans|lated, and perused by the natives of Great Britain: an impatience attended with some inconvenience, which it is our purpose to remove.

The works of M. de Voltaire having made their first ••ppearance in detached pie••es▪ were 〈◊〉〈◊〉

translated into the English language separately, by different hands, with very different degrees of merit, published in various parcels, according to the re|spective schemes and abilities of the different editors and translators, who selected from the whole such pieces only as they imagined would best suit their particular purposes: thus the translation of Voltaire's works hath been left incomplete with respect to the general plan, as well as irregular in regard to the printing and paper, the size and execution of the se|parate volumes.

It may also be pronounced defective in another sense. Our author's imagination is so warm and impetuous, that it often transports him from image to image, and from sentiment to sentiment, with such rapidity as obliges him to leave the picture half disclosed, and the connexion unexplained. In his prose-writings, he usually bursts into the subject, and throws a glare of light on some particular part, as if he took it for granted that the reader had before considered it in every other attitude and point of view. This velocity of impulse, added to a re|markable passion for peculiarity in point of sentiment, hath hurried him into some obscurities, inadverten|cies, and errors, especially in the execution of his historical tracts, which of all his works, are the most universally read for entertainment and instruc|tion.— In order, therefo••••, to do justice to his me|rit, and at the same time supply his defects, we pro|pose to publish a complete and ••egular translation of all his works, illustrated with Notes historical and critical, which may correct his mistakes, elucidate his obscurities, point out his beauties, and explain his allusion to the satisfaction of the public.

There are already Eight Volumes of this Work published, and a Volume continues to be published in England, at the Beginning of every Month.

No. 88 Mr. Hoyle's Games of Whist, Quadrille, Pic|quet, Chess, and Backgammon, compleat. In which is contained, the Method of Playing and Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms, including the Laws of the several Games.—To which is now first added, Two new Cases at Whist never be|fore printed: Also, The New Laws of the Game at Whist, as played at White's, Arthur's and Saunders's Chocolate-Houses in London.

89 The Pocket Companion, and History of Free Masons. Containing their Origin, Progress, and present State; an Abstract of their Laws, Constitutions, Customs, Charges, Orders, and Regulations, for the Instruction and Conduct of the BRETHREN, as well as for the Information of those who are inclined to become Free Masons. Together with a Collection of Songs, and a List of all the Lodges. The whole improved beyond the former Edition, and continued down to the present Time.

90 The Complete Angler; or, Contemplative Man's Re|creation; with a fine Head of Charles Cotton, Esq engraved from an Original Painting of Sir Peter Lely. Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing. In two Parts. The first written by Mr. Isaac Walton; the second by Charles Cotton, Esq To which are now prefixed the Lives of the Authors, containing an Account of them and their Works. Illustrated with Cuts of the several Kinds of River Fish, and the Implements used in Angling; Views of the principal Scenes described in the Book, and Notes, historical, critical, and explanatory.

To this Edition are added three Lists of Flies, never before published, containing upwards of sixty in Number, and Directions for making them so as to resemble Nature to the greatest Degree of Exact|ness; with many other Improvements and valuable Discoveries relating to Fishing in general, but more particularly Fly-fishing. The Cuts to the above

Work are more in Number, and greatly superior to any other Work of the Kind; which Cuts, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 may be assured, cost in designing and engraving, upwards 〈◊〉〈◊〉 two Hundred Pounds, Sterling.

No 91 Boo•• Keeping Methodiz'd; or, a Methodical Treatise of Merchants Accompts, according to the Italian Form. Wherein the Theory of the Art is fully explained, and reduced to Practice, by Variety of suitable Examples in all the Branches of Trade. To which is added, a large Appendix, containing, Descriptions and Specimens of the Subsidiary Books used by Merchants—Monies and Exchanges, the Nature of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Bills of Parcels.—Precedents of Merchants Writ|ings, peculiar to England, Scotland, and common to both.—The Commission Duty, and Power of Factors.—A short History of the Trading Companies in Great-Britain, with an Account of her Exports and Imports.—The Produce and Commerce of the Sugar Colonies; with a Specimen of the Accompts kept by the Factors and Store-Keepers; and an Explication of Wharf and Plantation Accompts—The Produce and Commerce of the Tobacco Colonies; with a Specimen of the Accompts usually kept by the Store-Keepers.— The Method of keeping Accompts proper for Shopkeepers or Retailers.—A Dictionary explain|ing abstruse Words and Terms that occur in Mer|chandise. By Iohn Mair, A. M.

92 The American Gazetteer; containing a distinct Ac|count of all the Parts of the new World; their Situation, Climate, Soil, Produce; former and present Condi|dition, Commodities, Manufactures and Commerce. Together with an accurate Account of the Cities, Towns, Ports, Bays, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Passes, and Fortifications. The whole intended to exhibit the present State of America, with the Views and Interests of the several Powers who have Possessi|ons in that Part of the Globe; with six entire new

Maps, which makes this Book the most complete and satisfactory Account extant of North and South America.

No. 93 The Youth's Instructor; or, Useful Penman. Con|taining, the Art of Writing, with Copies teaching how to improve in all Hands. By several eminent Masters.

94 Penmanship illustrated, in a new Work. Contain|ing, a great Variety of excellent Copies in all the useful Hands, to assist Beginners and others that would improve in that excellent Art; interspersed with various Examples, adapted to form the Man of Business.

95 The Young Clerk and Tradesman's Directory. Exhi|biting select Specimens of various Kinds, such as Bills of Parcels, Bills, Notes, Book Debts, Ac|counts Current, &c. Also, the Forms generally used in the Counting-House. All elegantly Writ|ten, and properly Graced.

96 The select Penman. Consisting of copious Extracts from all the most excellent Performances now in Esteem.

97 The Principles of Drawing. Consisting of a great Variety of Examples of the several Parts of the Human Body, whole Figures, Landscapes, Views and Ruins, from the Designs of those celebrated Artists Abraham Bloemaert, and M. Le Clerc, To which are added, Instructions and the proper Use of Instruments and Materials necessary for Drawing, with the Method of managing them.

98 The complete Drawing Book. Containing many and curious Specimens made easy to the Comprehen|sion of Beginners, by the most eminent Masters. To which are added, proper Instructions to Youth, for their Entertainment and Improvement in this Art.

99 The complete Letter-Writer. Containing, Letter•• on the most common Occasions in Life; on Busi|ness

Courtship, Duty, Love, Amusement, Mar|riage, Affection, Friendship, &c. To which is prefixed, Directions for writing Letters in an easy and proper Manner. Also, a plain and com|pendious Grammar of the English Tongue.

No. 100 A Collection of the most elegant Poems, &c. which have been published in detached Pieces, by the Nobility, Gentry, and first Writers of England, Scotland and Ireland, within the last Twenty Years, and now collected in Six Volumes, com|monly distinguished by the Title of Dodsley's Col|lection of Poems, and written by the Earl of Chesterfield; Mr. Dyer, Author of the Fleece; Mr. Gr••en, the charming Author of the Spleen; Mr. Gray, Author of the Elegy in a Church Yard; Mr. Mason, of Elfrida; Mr. Shenston; Mr. Cambridge, of the Scriberiad; Lord Littleton; Mr. Spence; Bishop Warburton; Mr. Whitehead; Lord Bolingbroke; Mr. H. Walpole, &c.

101 The Works of the Right Honourable the late famous Lord Bollingbroke.

102 A Grammar of the English Tongue, with the Arts of Logic, Rhetoric, Poetry, &c. Illustrated with useful Notes, giving the Grounds and Rea|sons of Grammar in general; the whole making a complete System of an English Education, By Iohn Brightland.

103 The Roman History, with Cuts. The History of England, with Cuts. The Grecian History. The History of France. Note, these four very useful Books are Extracted from the most celebrated Historians, for the Entertainment of our Youth of both Sexes.

104 The celebrated Poems and Works of Waller.

105 The Works of Virgil, translated, in 4 Vols. By Mr. Warton; Bp. Warburton, &c.

106 The Odes and Works of Pindar, 2 Vols. by Gilber•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉

No. 107 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with very humerous Frontispieces by Hogarth. A Collection of incomparable Sermons in 2 Vols. with the Authors Head, finely engraved; written by the Revd. Mr. Stearne.

108 The celebrated Poems and Works of Mr. Iohn Pomfret.

109 La Belle Assemblee, a curious Collection of remark|able Incidents, relative to the first Quality in France, 4 Vols. with Cuts, by Madam De Gomez.

110 The Belles Letters, or an Introduction to Lan|guages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Philosophy, &c. 4 Vols. by Mr. Rollin.

111 The Novels of Cervantes, the celebrated Author of Don Quixote.

112 A Companion to the Theatre, or a History of the Plots, with a Character of most of the English Plays, 2 Vols.

113 The Sopha, a Novel, by Mr. Crebillon, 2 Vols.

114 Memoirs of a Man of Quality, one Vol.

115 The young Ladies Magazine, written by the Princess De Beaumont, who wrote the young Misse's Maga|zine; this Work is adapted to young Ladies of a more advanced Age than the former, and is an incomparable Performance.

116 The History ••f Marianne, a fortunate Country Girl, 2 Vols. written by Mr. Mariveux,

117 Lord Orrery's Translation of Pliny's Letters.

118 Lord Orrery's Life of Dean Swift.

119 Gil Blass, 4 Vols. with Cuts, translated by Dr. Smollet.

120 The British Apollo▪ a Collection of well written Pieces, 3 Vols.

121 Angloni's Letters upon the Manners and Customs 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the English Nation, 2 Vols. by Dr. Shebeau.

122 ••••dia, or ••ilial Piety, a Novel, 4 Vols.

123 ••he Monitor, or British Freeholder, 3 Vols. a Work that has occasioned great Conversation in London,

upon the undaunted Spirit and Freedom of its Authors; many of them are supposed to be written by Mr. Charles Townsend, Mr. Alderman Beck|ford, &c.

No. 124 Hudibrass, by Butler, with Cuts.

125 The Letters of Felicia to Charlotte. 2 Vols. by Mr. Collyer.

126 Ward's London Spy, a very comical Performance.

127 The Fortunate Country Maid, 2 Vols. by Mr. Mohuy.

128 Letters on the English Nation, by Voltaire.

129 The Beauties of the Spectators, 2 Vols.—Admo|nitions from the Dead.—The Tell Tale, a Col|lection of lively entertaining Pieces, 2 Vols.— Halifax's familiar Letters, by the celebrated Mr. Iohn Hill.

130 Boyle's Voyages.—Vaughan's Voyages, 2 Vols. by Mr. Chetwo••d.

131 Robinson Crusoe, 2 Vols.—The Family Instructor, —The Religious Courtship, by Daniel Defoe.

132 The History of Iames Ramble, 2 Vols.

133 The Adventures of Ioe Thompson, 2 Vols. by Mr. Kimber.

134 Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison, all abridg'd, and collected into the small Compass of a single Volume, under Title of the Path of Vir|tue delineated.

135 The Husband, one Vol.

136 The Wife, one Vol.

137 The Life of Mr. Cleveland, Natural Son of Oliver Cromwell, a Work full of entertaining Incidents▪ 4 Vols.

138 The Bulfinch, a very good Collection of the latest and best Songs.

139 The Brothers, 2 Vols.

140 The Sisters, 2 Vols.

141 The Beauties of the English Stage, 3 Vols.

No. 142 The Union, a Collection of elegant Moder•• English and Scotch Poems, by the best Authors.

143 Welsh Travels, a Collection of them with a Wel•• Preachment, by Dean Swift.

144 Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence, exhibiting som•• Humerous Singularities of some odd Scoteh Minis|ters, with a Specimen of their Style and Manner of addresing their Audiences.

145 Emblems of Love, with Cuts.

146 The entertaining Correspondant.

147 A Journey to Mequinez.

148 The indiscre••t Toys, 2 Vols.

149 The Persian Tales.

150 The Virgin Unmask'd, published by Mandeville, Author of the Fable of the Bees.

151 The Iewish Spy, a Collection of Letters, somewhat in the Manner of the Turkish Spy, 5 Vols. by Mr. D••rgens.

152 The Works of Rabelais, a very celebrated Wit of France, with Cuts, 5 Vols.

153 The new Atalantis, or the secret History of several Persons, written with vast Freedom, which occa|sioned the Author to be imprisoned; written by Mrs. Manley.

154 The Turkish Spy, 8 Vols. written by Sir Roger Manley, Father of the above Mrs. Manley and others.

155 Cleopatra, a celebrated Romance, 8 Vols.

156 Don Quixote, by Cervantes, 4 Vols. with most elegant Cuts, by Smollet.

157 Roxana, or the fortunate Mistress.

158 The Political Life and History of Oliver Cromwell, by Mr. Bankes.

159 The English Hermit, or the Adventures of Philip Quarles, with Cuts.

160 Ioe Miller's Iests, a Collection of entertaining Tales, Puns, &c.

161 Ben Johnson's Jests.

162 The 〈◊〉〈◊〉 C••quet, or the Advent••••es of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by Mr. Davi••••.

No. 163 Prior's Poems, 2 Vols.

164 Dr. Fuller's Councils and Maxims for forming the Mind, and Conduct of Man, 2 Vols.

165 Letters of Lady Iuliana Catesby, to Lady Henriet••a Ca••pley, upon the Subject of the brave Lord Ossorys Love, a beautiful Performance just published.

166 The Sentiments of Pamela, Clarissa, &c. collected by Mr. Richardson.

167 The Amours of Cleopatra and Octavia.

168 The Tartars Tales.

169 The Prince of Abyssinia, by the celebrated Mr. Samuel Iohnson, A••thor of the Dictionary, the Ram••ler, &c.

170 The Adventures of a•• Bracelet, 2 Vols▪

171 The Campaign, 2 Vols.

172 The Narrative Companion, a Collecton of the very best Pieces from the World, Connoisseur, Adven|turer, &c.

173 The Moral Miscellany, a Work of the same Kind.

174 The Freethinkers, a Collection of Essays, 3 Vols.

175 Chaucers Tales, by Mr. Ogle, 3 Vols.

176 The Life and surprizing Adventures of Mr. Pellow.

177 A new Edition of Esop's Fables, with Cuts, by Mr. Draper.

178 A new History of the Cruelties and Persecution•• of the Protestants, by the French, Spanish and Portuguese Roman Catholicks, very necessary fo•• young Persons.

179 Theodosia's Poems, 2 Vols.

180 The comical Works of Scarron, with Cuts, 2 Vols.

181 The Tour through Great-Britain, with Maps 〈◊〉〈◊〉 each Country, describing the several Citie▪ Towns, Trade, Manufactures, &c. of England and Scotland••▪ published by Mr. Richardson, Auth•••• of C••••rissa▪ 〈◊〉〈◊〉.

182 The Work•• of M••••iere, containing all his Play &c. in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and English.

No. 183 The Stage Coach, a Novel, by Dr. Hill, 2 Vols.

184 The Winters Evenings Entertainment, a Collection of agreeable Histories calculated to divert on Win|ters Evenings, 3 Vols.

185 An Account of the extraordinary Manners and Customs of the Mahometans, by Mr. Pitt.

186 The Lives of the most famous Pyrates, with Cuts, 2 Vols. by Captain Iohn••••••.

187 Mrs. Behn's Novels, with the famous one called Oron••ko, or the Royal Slave, 2 Vols.

188 The Gentleman instructed in the Conduct of a virtuous and happy Life, written for the Instruction of a young Nobleman; to which is added, a Word to the Ladies, by Dr. George Hickes, 2 Vols.

189 The Arabian Nights Entertainment.

190 Fables for the Female Sex, by Mr. Moore.

191 The Beauties of the English Stage, 3 Vols.

192 The Lives of the most celebrated English Poets, by Mr. Cibber, 5 Vols.

193 The History of Iack Connor, alias Conyers, 2 Vols.

194 Le Blanc's Letters upon the English Nation, 2 Vols.

195 The Letters of A••elard to Eloise.

196 The Letters of a Peruvian Princess, very elegant.

197 Select Trials, of the many Criminals and Rascals, that have been executed within 30 or 40 Years.

198 Dr. Parnell's Poems.

199 The Life of Count Hamilton, 2 Vols.

200 Clarissa, 8 Vols.—Sir Charles Grandison, 7 Vols. Pamela, 4 Vols. by Mr. Samuel Richardson.

201 The Life of the Duke of Grillon, published and recommended by the same Mr. Richardson.

202 Ioseph Andrews, 2 Vols.—Tom Iones, 4 Vols.—Amelia, 4 Vols.—A Voyage to Lisbon. A Col|lection of Entertaining Miscellanies, 2 Vols.—A Collection of sundry Plays, 3 Vols. by Mr. Fielding.

No. 204 The Seasons. And, The Whole Works, in 4 Vols. of Iames Thomson.

205 The Female Quixote, 2 Vols.—The History of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 2 Vols. by Mrs. Charlotte Lenox.

206 The whole Works of the Divine Dr. Young, in 4 Vols. including the celebrated Poem on the Last Day, Paraphrase of the Book of Iob, Love of Fame, &c.

207 The History of Ophelia, just printed, 2 Vols.—The Governess, or Female Academy, by Mrs. Fiel••ing, Sister to the Genius.

208 The Essays and Miscellaneous Works of the in|genious Mr. David Hume.

209 The whole Works of Mr. Iohn Hume, Author of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, including his last Play Aquileia, just prin••ed.

210 The Tea Table Miscellany, a Collection of the best Scotch Songs.—The whole Poetical Works, in 2 Vols. including the gentle Shepherd, Patie and Roger, &c. by Allan Ramsey.

211 The Works of Horace, most elegantly translated into English, in 4 Vols. by the Revd. Mr. Philip Francis.

212 The Works of Tibullus, translated into English, in 2 Vols. by Dr. Grainger, Physician in London.

213 The Spectat••r, 8 Vols. with Cuts, printed on a very large Letter for aged Persons and those who cannot read the small Editions of this Work, written by the elegant and truly Hon. Mr. Addi|son. — His whole Works, including his Travels into Italy, &c.

N. B. There are two smaller Editions of the Spec|tator, besides the above, both of which have ele|gant Cuts.

214 The Freeholder.

215 Ovid's Epistles.—Ovid's Art of Love.—Ovid's Metamorphose••, 2 Vols. by Sir Samuel Garth.

No. 216 The Works of the immortal Shakespear, in English, 8 Vols. with elegant Cuts, by Theobald.

217 A smaller Edition of Shakespear, in 9 Vols. each the length of a reasonable Finger, by Sir Thomas Hamner.

218 Paradise Lost, with fine Cuts, Paradise Regained, with fine Cuts, by Milton.

289 Paradise lost and Regained, with Notes Ex|planations, and fine Cuts, in 4 Vols. by Dr. Newton.

290 The whole Works, including all the Plays, and Opera••▪ 3 Vols. with fine Cuts, by Congreve.

291 The Guardian, 2 Vols.—The Tatler, 4 Vols.—The Ladies Library, 3 Vols.—The Christian Hero.—A Collection of Plays including the Con|scious Lover••, &c. by Sir Richard Steel.

292 A Collection of Plays, including Iane Shore, the the Fair Penitent, &c. in 2 Vols. by Rowe.

293 An elegant translation of Virgil, 3 Vols. with Cuts.—All the Plays, in 6 Vols. with Cuts.—All the Poems, in 2 Vols.—The Fables.—Translation of Juvenal.—A Collection of Miscellanies with elegant Cuts, and Heads of ••llustrious Men, now first collected, and just published in London, in 4 handsome Vols. written by Iohn Dryden.

294 Esop's Fables, with Cuts, by Dr. Croxal.

295 The whole Works of Voltaire, including the Age of Lewis the 14th, the Universal History, of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, in 6 Vols.

296 The Fables, with Cuts.—The Poems:—The Beggar's Opera, with Musick.—The distressed Wife, by Mr. Iohn Gay.

297 Table Talk, by Mr. Sel••en.

298 The Grecian History, by Mr. Stanyan.

299 The Plays, including the Country Wi••e, Relapse, &c. written by Sir Iohn Vanburgh, with Cuts.

300 Leisure Hours Amusement, a pretty Collection of Novels, 2 Vols. by Mr. Robert Dodsley.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 Pompey the Little, a Novel, by the Honourable Mr. Coventry.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 Sir Thomas Fitz••sborn••'s Letters.—The Letters of Pli••y.— The Letters of Cicero, by the admired Mr. Melmoth.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 The Pleasures of the Imagination, by Dr. Aken|side.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 A Voyage to Senegal and Gor••e, by Mr. Andanson; this Book faithfully describes the present State, Customs, Dress, Habitations, Superstitions, and Poverty of the Negroes, and is universally allowed to be a most entertaining and ingenious Performance.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 The whole Works of Sir William Temple, a new Edition with Aditions, which renders it preferable to any that has preceeded it, in 4 Vols.

306 The present State of Europe, explaining the Interests, Connections, Political and Commercial Views of its several Powers, comprehending also, a clear and concise History of each Country, so far as to shew the Nature of their present Constitutions, by Iohn Campbell, Esq Author of the Lives of the Admirals, the fifth Edition.

307 Reflections on the Rise and Fall of antient Republicks adapted to the present State of Great-Britain, finely written by E. Wortley Montagu, Esq

308 The History of the Conquest of Mexico, by the Spaniards, in 2 Vols.

309 The Genine Works, in Prose and Verse, of But+ler, the Author of Hudibrass, lately published fro•• Original Manuscripts, in 2 Vols.

310 The History of the five Indian Nations of Canada, dependant on the Province of New-York, with particular Accounts of their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Governments, their Battles and Treaties with European Powers, their Wars with other Indians, and a true State of our Trade with

Accounts of the several other Nations of Indians in North-America, their Numbers, Strength, &c. &c. The Treaties which have been lately been made with them, written by the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New-York.

No. 311 Travels thro▪ Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorraln, giving a true and just Description of the present State of those Coun|ries (a great Part of which are the Seat of War in Europe) their Natural Literal and Political History, their Manners, Laws, Commerce, Manufactures, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Curiosities in Art and Nature, &c. Illustrated with fine Copper Plates, engraved from Drawings taken on the Spot, by the celebrated Iohn George Keys••er, Fellow of the Royal Society in London, in 4 Vols.

312 A new History of Canada and Louisiana, Martinico, Hispaniola, Grena••es, the Netural Islands, and all the French Settlements in the West-Indies, with good Maps, Folio. A Work that contains the Marrow of Charlevoix, and most of the Modern Writ••rs on these Subjects.

313 Rapin and Tindal's History of England, with Cuts.

314 The History of the Turks with the Emperors Heads, curiously engraven.

315 The King of Pr••ssia's History of the House of Brandenburg.

317 The Annual Register of all the Events Historical, Political, Literary, Miscellaneous, &c. that happen in each Year, commencing in 1758, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a very well connected History of the present Wars in America and Europe.

Those Persons who are inclined to purchase this valuable annual Per|formance, are desired to send their Orders to me, and they shall be constantly supplied, as soon as the Volumes are finished.

No. 318 A Dictionary of the Lives of all those Persons of both Sexes, who have distinguished themselves by their Virtues and Exploits, including many Hundred British Worthies; a Work calculated to inform, entertain and improve. It is an entire new Composition, and lately published.

319 Dr. Echard's Roman History, from the Foundation to the taking of Constatinople by the Turks.

320 Livy's Roman History, 6 Vols.

321 A C••••lection of Voyages, 7 Vols. Twelves, with Copper Plates, pu••••ished by Dr. Smollet and others.

322 Lord Anson's Voyage round the World, with Cuts.

323 Howel's History of England, with Cuts.

324 Kimber's History of England, with Cuts.

325 ••olaire's History of Charles the 12th of Sweden.

326 The Life of the great Duke of Marlborough.

327 The Life of Prince Eugene.

328 The Life of the famous Peter the Great, Czar of Mus••ovy.

329 The Life of Oliver Cromwell.

330 The Life of Kouli Kan.

331 An Account of the European Settlements in America, containing a History of the Discovery of the Country, with the Manners and Customs of the Original Inhabitants, and an accurate Description of the Spanish, Portugueze, French, Dutch, Danish and English Settlements in it, their Extent, Climate, Productions, Trade, Genius and Dispositions of their Inhabitants: The Interests of the several Powers of Europe, with respect to them, and their Political and Com|merciai Views, with Regard to each other.

332 A new and complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, comprehending all the Branches of use|ful Knowledge, with accurate Descriptions of the various Machines, Instruments, Tools, Figures and Schemes necessary for illustrating them, ad|dorn'd with above 300 Copper Plates; extracted

from Harris's Lexicon, Chamber's Dictionary, the best Mathematical writters, &c. and is greatly esteemed; it may be had bound either in 4 or 8 Volumes, Octavo. This Work is comipled by Mr. Wishart, with the Assistance of several Gentleman, well skilled in the various Subjects, and which has been so well received, that four Thousand sets has been sold in six Years.

No. 333 Rownings's compendious System of Natural Philosophy, with Notes, containing the Mathema|tical Demonstrations and occasional Remarks. This is the best System extant, and is prefered to all others at Oxford and Cambridge.

334 Stone's Euclid's Elements of Geometry, the 1st, 6th, 11th and 12th Books, from Dr. Gregory's Edition, with Additions and excellent Notes, for the Use of the British Youth.

335 Keil's Euclids Elements, published by Cunn.

336 Stone's Mathematical Dictionary, explaining not only the Terms used in the Mathematics, but like|wise an History of the Rise, Progress, State, Pro|perties, &c. of Things both in pure Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.

337 Bion's Construction and principal Uses of Mathemati|cal Instruments, a new Edition, with great Impro|vements and 30 Copper Plates. A further Account of some of the most useful Mathematical Instru|ments as now improved, is added to this Edition: published by E. Stone.

338 Robertson's Treatise of such Mathematical Instru|ments as are usually put into a portable Case, con|taining their various Uses in Arithmetic, Geome|try, Trigonometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gunnery, &c. with a Description and Use of the Gunner's Callipers.

339 Ward's Young Mathematicians Guide.

340 Potter's System of practical 〈◊〉〈◊〉. This Book is written ••n a plain and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 M••nner, and

designed for the Use of Schools, and for the Benefit of Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers, and other A••tificers, to whom the practical Mathematics are of great and immediate Use, and it is recommended as the most useful Book of the Kind; by Mr. Ham|mond, Author of the Book upon Algebra.

No. 341 The Elements of Natural Philosophy, deli|nated, from the German of Professor Winkler.

342 Ferguson's Astronomy, explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics.

343 Ferguson's Lectures on Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics and Optics, with the Use of the Globes, the Art of Dialing, and the Calculation of the mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses. The Works of this Author are universally read and admired in the Universities, and by the Ma|thematicians of Europe.

344 Emmerson's Principles of Mechanics, explaining and demonstrating the general Laws of Motion, the Laws of Gravity, Motion of descending Bodies, Projectiles, Mechanic Powers, Pendulums, Cen|tres of Gravity, &c. Strength and Stress of Tim|ber, Hydrostatics, and Construction of Machines. A Work very necessary to Architects, Engineers, Shipwrights, Millwrights, Watchmakers, and any that Work in a Mechanical Way, with 43 Copper Plates.

345 Emmerson's new Treatise of Trigonometry.

346 Emmerson's Doctrine of Fluxions, not only explain|ing the Elements, but their Application and Use in the several Parts of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, with Twelve Copper Plates.

347 Emmerson's Navigation, or the Art of Sailing upon the Sea, containing the fundamental Principles of this Art, with all the practical Rules of computing a Ship's Way, by plain Sailing, Mercator, and middle Latitude, with many other useful Things thereto belonging, and several necessary Tables.

No. 348 Emmerson on Trigonometry.

349 Love's Art of Surveying and Measuring, shewing by practical Rules how to Survey, Protract, cast up, reduce or divide any Piece of Land whatsoe|ver, with new Tables for the Use of the Surveyor, in reducing the Measures of Land, with the easiest Method of Surveying by the Chain, as also how to lay out new Land in America, and to make a perfect Map of a River's Mouth or Harbour.

350 Wylde's Surveyor, possessed of the same Requisites as Love's.

351 Wilson's Surveying improved.

352 Hill's Arithmetick.

353 Wingate's Arithmetick.

354 Fisher's Arithmetick.

355 Fenning's Arithmetick.

356 Fenning's young Algebraist's Companion, or a new and easy Guide to Algebra, introduced by the Doctrine of Vulgar Fluxions; designed for the Use of Schools, and such who by their own Ap|plication only, would become acquainted with this noble Science.

357 Fenning's easy Introduction to the Use of the Globes. These Works of Fenning are much used by all the Teachers of the Mathematics and used in all the Schools in Europe.

358 The Young Man's Companion, by Mather.

359 The Young Man's best Companion, by Fisher.

360 The Laboratory, or School of Arts, in which are faithfully exhibited and explained a Variety of Experiments in Refining, Calcining, Melting, Assa••ing, Casting, Allaving and toughening Gold; choice Secrets for Jewellers in Manage|ment of Gold, in Enameling and porparing En|amel Colours, several curi••us Experiments for casting in Silver, Copper, Bra••••, Tin, Steel and other Metals, likewise in Wax, Pla••ster of Paris, Wood, Horn, &c. with the Management of the

respective Moulds; the Art of making and Paint|ing Glass, preparing Colours for Potters Work, a Collection of valuable Directions for Cutlers, Pewterers, Brasiers, Joyners, Turners, Japaners, Bookbinders, Distillers, Lapidaries, and Limners; the Art of making Rockets, Crackers, Fireworks of all Sorts, and of dying Silks, Worsteds, Cot|tons, &c. the Art of Drawing, of Painting in Oil, Optical Experiments, exhibiting the most surprizing Performances, illustrated with a Va|riety of Copper Plates.

No. 561 Halliday's easy Introduction to the Art of Gunnery, and Engineering, illustrated with Copper Plates.

362 Keil's Introduction to Astronomy.

363 Keil's Introduction to Natural Philosophy.

364 Dr. Gregory's Astronomy.

365 Whiston's Astronomical Lectures.

366 Mair's Book-keeping Methodised.

367 Webster's Book-keeping.

368 Webster's Arithmetick.

369 Webster's Introduction to the Mathematics.

370 Dr. Edmund Halley's Astronomical Tables, with Precepts for computing the Places of the Sun, Moon, Planets and Comets; the Precepts writ|ten by himself.

371 Simpson's Essays on several curious and useful Subjects, in Speculative and mixed Mathematics, illustrated by a Variety of Examples, particularly 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the apparent Place of the Stars, arising from the progressive Motion of Light, and of the Earth in its Orbit, the Motion of Bodies affected by Projectile and Centripetal Forces; the mean Anomaly of a Planet given to find the true Place in its Orbit, the Motion and Paths of Projectiles in resisting Mediums, the Resistances, Velocities and Times of Vibratien of Pendulous Bodies in Mediums, &c. &c.

No. 372 Simpson's Miscellaneous Tracts in Mathematics wherein the Precession of the Equinox, the Muta|tion of the Earth's Axis, and the Motion of the Moon in her Orbit, are determined.

373 Simpson's admired Treatise of Algebra.

374 Simpson's Fluxions.

375 Simpson's Trignomotry.

376 Simpson's Geometry.

377 Mac Laurin's Fluxions.

378 Mac Laurin's Algebra.

379 Mac Laurin's Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Phi|losophical Discoveries.

380 M••ss••henbrock's Elements of Natural Philosophy, chiefly intended for the Use of Students in the Uni|versities, with many Cuts.

381 The Elaboratory laid open, or the Secrets of Modern Chymistry and Pharmacy revealed, by Mr. Dossie, Author of the new and best Dispen|satory.

382 The Handmaid to the Arts, teaching a perfect Knowledge of the Nature, Use, Preparation and Composition of all the Materials used in Painting, as well Vehicles, Dryers, as Colours, the Art of designing from Nature, the Preparation of Inks, Cements and Sailing Wax of all Kinds, the Art of Engraving, Etching and Scraping Metzotintos, the Art of making Glass, China, &c. &c. Cal|culated to convey accurate and extensive Know|ledge to Artists.

383 The H••••lo•• and M••••••irs of the Royal Academy of S••iences a•• Paris, being a Collection of the most curious Papers relating to Mathematical Learning and Natural Philosophy, that have been published by that Illustrious Body, translated by Mr. Cham|bers, Author of the ••••lebrated Dictionary, assisted by Dr. Martyn, with Copper Plates.

384 〈◊〉〈◊〉 new and excellent Treatise of Navi|gation.

No. 385 Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, with a Supplement to it, entitled, An Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, a very ingenious Work, and very necessary to the Readers of Mr. Locke. The Supplement is a late Piece.

386 Helshom's excellent Lectures in Natural Philo|sophy.

387 Burnet's Theory of the Earth, containing an Ac|count of its Original Creation, and of all the ge|neral Changes it has undergone, or is to undergo until the Consumation of all Things. The De|luge, Paradise, the Conflagration and the new H••avens and new Earth, compose the Subject of this Work.

388 The celebrated History of the Pyrites, the Principal Body in the Mineral Kingdom, in which is con|sidered its Names, Species, Beds, and Origin, its Iron, Copper, unm••tallic Earth, Sulpher, A••senic, Silver, Gold, Original Particles, Vit••iol and Use in Smel••ing, c••mpiled from a Collection of Samples, visiting Mines, Intercourse with Miners and Naturalis••s, and from Chymical Enquities, with the Advantages arising from Mine Workers in general, by Henkel.

389 A Collection of valuable Tracts, upon Metals, Mines and Minerals, essential to all who read upon the Subject of Mining.

390 Harris's Directions for the Use of the Globes.

391 Ienning's, on d••tto.

392 Robertson's Astronomy.

393 Martin's Philosophical Grammar.

394 Martin's young Trigonometer's compleat Guide.

395 Martin's Newtonian Philosophy, for the Use of Academies.

396 Martin'•• Introduction to the English Language and Learning, ••ontaining a Sp••lling Book of Arts and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with the true Pronouncation; the Rules of Grammar; Lessons on all Mathematical and

Philosophical Sciences, with a particular Descrip|tion of each, by way of Exercise, to enable the Scholar to read justly and judiciously on any Sub|ject whatsoever, and a Catalogue of such Books in the English Language as are proper to be read on the Liberal Arts and Sciences. This little Book has had a very rapid Sale in England, and is very useful.

No. 397 The Works of the Immortal Francis Lord Bacon, Baron of Verulam.

398 Gravesande's Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy, confirmed by Experiments, being an In|troduction to Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy, pub|lished by Dr. Desaguliers, with 127 Copper Plates.

399 The Microscope made Easy and Delightful, or the Nature, Uses and Magnifying Powers of the best Kinds of Microsopes, described and explained for the Instruction of such as desire to search into the Wonders of the Creation, with Copper Plates, also, Employment for the Microscope, written by Mr. Baker, Fellow of the Royal Society; these are the best ever published upon the Microscope.

400 Patoun's practical Treatise of Navigation.

401 Wilson's Navigation, new Modelled.

402 Atkinson's Epitome of Navigation.

403 Mr. FRANKLIN's very celebrated Experiments it Electricity.

404 Saund•••••••••• Algebra.

405 Hayes's Neg••ciat•••• Magazine, the most authenti•• Account yet published, of the Monies, Weight and Measures of all the Places of Trade in the World, the Exchanges in general, the Customs of Merchants relating thereto, and Examples to cast them u•• by, with curious Calculations of great Use in the West 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and American Trades, and Tables of the intrinsick Value of any Foreign Gold or Silver Coin, highly necessary to all who would understand Merchant's Ac••••••pts.

No. 406 Mair's celebrated Treatise of Book-keeping.

407 Martin's Library of Arts and Sciences.

408 Hawney's Practical Measurer.

409 Keay's Art of Measuring.

410 Rowland's Tables of Measuring.

411 Sher••••in's Mathematical Tables.

412 Rollin's History of Arts and Sciences.

413 Iack••s Conic Sections.

414 Euclid's Elements, by Dr. Isaac Barr••••.

415 ••arennius's Geography.

416 Salmon's Geographical Grammar.

417 Gordon's Geographical Grammar.

418 Salmon's Modern Gazetteer.

419 Salmon's Universal Traveller, or a complete Des|cription o' the present State of all Nations of the World, brought down to the present Time, with 223 Copper Plate Cuts, describing the Habits, Customs and Manners of the several Nations.

420 Hederici Lexicon, a new Edition, corrected by the Revd. Mr. Young.

421 Sch••ev••lius's Lexicon.

422 Ai••swerth's Latin and English Dictionary.

423 Young's Latin and English Dictionary.

424 Cole's Latin and English Dictionary.

425 Bailey's English Dictionary.

426 Martin's English Dictionary.

427 Dyche's English Dictionary.

428 Boyer's Royal French and English Dictionary, Quarts.

429 B••yer's common French Dictionary, Octavo.

430 The Pocket Dictionary, or complete Exp••sitor, shew|ing the Part of Speech to which each Word be|longs, its true Meaning, its various S••nses, placed in proper Order, and the Language from whence it is derived, explaining the Technical Terms the Words are so Accented that there can be 〈◊〉〈◊〉

Uncertainty as to the Pronounciation. A Wor•• entirely new, designed for both Sexes.

No. 431 Dyche's Spelling Dictionary, a Collection o•• all the common Words, proper Names of Person•• and Places, their Derivations, and Marked a•• they are to be Pronounced, by which Persons o•• the meanest Capacities may attain to Spell and Write English truly and correctly.

432 A Spelling Dictionary so small as to be contained in a Watch Pocket, designed more immediately for the Ladies.

433 Virgil, with Notes in Usum Delphini.

434 Virgil, Latin and English, translated by the late Mr. Iameson.

435 Horace, Latin and English, translated by the same Hand.

436 Ovid's Metamorphoses, Latin and English, by the same.

437 Ovid's Epistles, Latin and English. by the same. N. B. These Translations of Iameson have been hitherto distinguished by the Title of Davidson the Bookseller, who printed them.

438 The Works of Horace, translated literally into English Prose, for the Use of those who are de|sirous of acquiring or recovering a competent Knowledge of the Latin Language, by the very Ingenious Mr. Christopher Smart, in two very little Pocket Volumes.

439 Horace, Latin and English, translated by Watson.

440 Terence's Comedies, Latin and English, translated by Mr. Cooke, in two Pocket Volumes.

441 Terence in Latin and English, translated by Dr. Patrick, late Master of the Charter-House-School.

442 Terence Delphini.

443 Horace Delphini.

444 Cicero's Orations, Delphini.

445 Cicero's Orations, his Orator, his Offices, on the End of Things, all translated by Guth••ri••.

No. 446 Dr. Cockman's celebrated Translation of Tully'•• Offices.

447 Clarke's Ovid's Metamorphoses, Latin and Eng|lish.—Justin.—Sallust—Suetonius.—Cornelius Nepos.—Eutropius.—Lucins Florus.—Erasmus.—Aesop's Fables.—Corderius's Colloquies.—Latin Grammar.—Essay upon Study.—Treatise on Education.—Introduction to making Latin.

448 Caesar's Commentaries, Latin and English, in the Manner of Clarke's Edition, for Schools, by Mr. Towers, a British School Master.

449 Selectae é Prophanis Historibus.

450 Selectae é Vetri Testamento.

451 The London Vocabulary.

452 Greek Sentences.

453 Holmes's Latin Grammar.

454 Holmes's Rhetorick.

455 Holmes's Greek Grammar.

456 Holmes's Grammarian's Geography, with a Set of Maps.

457 Salmon's Geographical Grammar.

458 Gordon's Geographical Grammar.

459 French Grammars, Vocabularies, Dialogues, Spelling Books, Arts and Sciences, French and English Fables, Idoms, Exercises. &c.

460 Grammars and Vocabularies, by which a French|man may easily acquire a perfect Knowledge of the English Language.

461 Portroyal's Greek Grammar.

462 Portroyal's Latin Grammar.

463 Portroyal's Italian Grammar.

464 Portroyal's Rational Grammar.—These Work•• are in the highest Esteem in Europe.

French and English Editions of the following Books, calculated to teach the French Language.

465 Gilblass.

466 The Devil on two Sticks.

467 Telemachus.

No. 568 The Epistolary Correspondance, a Collection of Letters in French and English.

569 Voltaire's Candid, French; ditto in English.

570 The History of the Bible, French and English.

571 The History of Marianne, the fortunate Country Girl, French, ditto in English.

572 The New Testament, with and without Psalms.

573 French Common Prayers.

574 Emblems of Love, in English, French, and Italian.

575 Maittaire's Greek Testament.

576 Leusden's Greek and Latin Testament.

577 The Greek Grammar, by Wittenhall.

578 The Greek Grammar for the Use of Westminster School.

579 Hutchinson's Zenophon.

580 Battie Isocratis Orationes.

581 Pindar.

582 West's Translation of Pindar.

583 Demosthenes Or••tiones Mounteney.

584 Epictetus.

585 Tacitus Latin, ditto in English, by Gordon.

586 Juvenal, Notis Delphini.

587 Justin, Notis Delphini.

588 Hutcheson's Natural Philosophy.

589 Hutcheson's Metaphysicae.

590 Sophoclis Trajediae, Iohnson.

591 Ciceronis Orationes, Notis Delphini.

592 Leusden Compendium Novi Testamenti.

593 Ovid's Metamorphoses, Notis Delphini.

594 Ovid's Epistles, Notis Delphini.

595 Terence, Notis Delphini.

596 Rudiman's Rudiments of the Latin Tongue.

597 Bailey's English and Latin Exercises.

598 Kent's Lucian.

599 Castalio's and Beza's Latin Testaments.

600 Cocker's Arithmetick.

601 Mother Goose's Tales for Children, with Cuts.

No. 602 Bailey's Ovid's Metamorphoses, with English Notes.

603 Kennet's Roman Antiquities.

604 Pott••••'s Greek Antiquities.

605 Dr. Croxal's Aesop's Fables, with Cuts.

606 A new Translation of Aesop's Fa••les, with Cuts▪ published by Mr. Draper, for 〈…〉〈…〉 of Schools

607 The Minor Poets, Greek and Latin.

608 Johnson's Greek ••pigrams.

609 Martial Epigrammatum Delectus.

610 Barclay's Greek Rudiments, much esteemed.

611 Crucius's Lives of the Roman Poet••, 2 Vols.

612 Biographia Classica, the Lives of all the Classic Authors, the Greek and Roman Poets, Historians. Biographers and Orators, with an Historical Ac|count of them and their Writings.

613 The Roman History.—The History of England.—The Grecian History.—The History of France, by Question and Answer, for the Use of School••.

614 Dawson's Lexicon.—Novi Testamenti, Alpha|beticum nunc primum plené Editum. Omnes Voces tam primativas tam Derivativas Anomalas atque Communes in sacro Textu occurentes▪ cum earum resolutione Gramatic••a complectens.

615 Observations on the Classics.

616 Stirling's Pantheon.

617 The Preceptor, by Duncan, Fordyce, &c. &c.

618 Melmoth's Epistles of Cicero and Pliny.

619 Duncan's Logic.

620 Greenwood's English Grammar.

621 Greenwood's larger English Grammar.

622 Sir Richard Steel's English Grammar, commonly called Brightland's Grammar.

623 Dilworth's Spelling Book.

624 Dilworth's School-Master's Assistant, an excel|lent and easy Introduction to the Learning Arithmetic.

625 Lusus Westmonasterienses sive Epigrammatum et Po••matus Minorum Delectus quibus adjicictur Solitudo Regia.

No. 626 Grotius de Veritate Religion is Christian••••.

627 Memoria Technica, or a new Method of Artificial Memory, applied to and examplified in Chrono|logy, History, Geography and Astronomy, by Dr. Richard Grey, Author of the System of E••••lesiastical Law.

628 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Antient History, Sacred and Profane, containing the most material Translations which have been recorded for the first four Thousand Years from the Creation of the World, to the ••irth of Christ, by Question and Answer, calcu|lated for Schools, and may be extremely useful to all who have not Ability to purchase or consult the Original, from which these excellent Rudi|ments are taken, by Edward Button.

629 The Church Catechism explained by way of Question and Answer, and confirmed by Scrip|ture Proofs, divided into five Parts, wherein a Brief and plain Account is given of the Christian Covenant, the Christian Faith, the Christian Obedience, the Christian Prayer, the Christian Sacrament, by Iohn Lewis.

630 Dr. Hildrop's lively Writings, esteemed very near equal to Dean Swift.

631 Reflections on Learning, a Book much read at the Universities, an excellent Performance, writ|ten by Mr. Baker.

632 Fowler's Nature and Design of Christianity.

633 Bo••ce's Pantheon.

634 King's Heathen Gods.

635 The Circle of the Sciences.

636 A little Collection of Maps for the Pocket, called Atlas Minimu••.

637 The World Dispay'd, a curious Collection of Voy|ages and Travels, selected from the best Writers of all Nations, in which the Conjectures of all Nations, and Inter••olations of several vain 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and Translators are ••••punged, every Rela|tion

is made plain and concise, and the Division of Countries and Kingdoms are clearly and dis|tinctly Noted.

To the PUBLIC.

Curiosity is seldom so powerfully excited, or so amply gratified as by faithful Relations of Voyages and Travels. The different Appearances of Nature, and the various Customs of Men, the gradual Discovery of the World, and the Accidents and Hardships of a naval Life, all concur to fill the Mind with Expectation and with Wonder▪ and as Science, when it can be connected with Events, is always more easily learned, and more certainly remembered, the History of a Voyage may be considered as the most useful Treatise on Geo|graphy; since the Student follows the Traveller from Country to Country, and retains the Situa|tion of Places by recounting his Adventures. It is hoped that this Collection will be favourably received, as none has been offered so cheap or so commodious; it consist•• of Twenty Volum••s, is adorned with a great Number of beautiful Cuts, and contains Voyages and Travels to every Pa•••• of the Globe.

No. 638 The Art of Measuring by the sliding Rule, by G. Thomson.

639 The Gentleman's and Trader's Pocket Library.

640 Plaisted's Journey to Calcutta in the East-Indies.

641 Cicero de Natura Deorum, Notis Davisii.

642 Puffendorff de Officio Hominis & Civis, Iohnson,

643 Dr. Milner's Practical Greek Grammar.

644 Dr. Milner's Practical Latin Grammar.

645 The New-England Accidence, by Chevers, with other sorts of Accidences and Grammars.

646 Rudiman's Rudiments of the Latin Tongu••, with a great Variety of other School Book•• i•• in Hebrew, Greek and Latin.

No. 647 A Present for an Apprentice, or a sure Guide to gain both Esteem and Estate, with Rules for his Conduct to his Master, and in the World. Written by the Lord Mayor of London.

648 A Present for a Servant Maid, or the sure Mean•• of gaining Love and Esteem, with Directions for going to Market, for dressing Dishes of Flesh, Fish or Fowl, and some Rules for Washing; cal|culated for making the Mistress and Maid happy.

649 A new Critical Review of the publick Buildings in London and Westminster.

650 The complete Letter Writer, or polite English Secre|tary, containing Letters on the most common Occasions of Life, particularly on Business, Duty, Amusement, Affection, Courtship, Love, Mar|riage, Friendship, &c. with a Grammar, Ins|tructions how to address Persons of all Ranks, either in Wrighting or Discourse, and various forms of polite Messages for Cards.

651 Sheridan's British Education, or an Essay towards proving that the Immorality, Ignorance and false Taste which so generally prevails, are the natu|ral and necessary Consequences of the present defective System of Education, with an Attempt to sh••w that a Revival of the Art of Speaking, and the Study of our own Language might con|tribute in a great Measure to the Cure of those Evils; a Work as well executed as it is noble in the Design, which is to connect, ascer••ain and affix the English Language, and to revive the long lost Art of Oratory.

652 The ••lements of Logick, by the late ingenious Mr. Professor Duncan.

653 The general History of Polybius, inimitably we••l translated from the Greek, by Mr. Hampton.

654 Hitt's Treatise on the whole Management 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Fruit Trees, both ••ld and young, with the Nature of Planting and o••dering them, ad••pted ••o every Capacity.

No. 655 The Athenian Oracle, an entire Collecton of all the valuable Questions and Answers in the old Atheni••n Mercuries, intermixed with many Cases in Divinity, History, Philosophy, Mathe|matics, Love, Poetry; a Work containing an un|common Variety of delightful Entertainments.

656 The Beauty of Holiness in the Common Prayer, or Liturgy of the Church of England, shewing the great Perfection, Uses and Advantages of it.

657 The Works of the most Reverend and Pious Dr. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Synge.

658 King's excellent Essay on the Origin of Evil, with many invaluable Notes of Dr. Law.

659 The Life of Mahomet, of great Entertainment, abounding with the most refined Sentiments, and excellent Documents.

660 The Art of Painting, with the Lives of 300 of the most eminent Painters, by Depiles, containing a complete Treatise of Painting, Designing, and the Use of Prints.

661 The Constitution of the Free Masons, with their History, Charges, Regulations, &c. for the Use of Lodges.

662 The British Housewife, or the Cook, Housekeeper and Gardiner's Companion, directing what is necessary to be done in Providing for, Conduc|ting and Managing a Family throughout the Year; with Abundance of Cuts, by Martha Bradley.

663 The complete Housewife, an excellent Book of Cookery.

664 The Lady's Companion, another good Cookery Book.

665 Mrs. Harrison's Housekeeper's Pocket Book, a very useful Piece on Cookery.

666 Mason on Self Knowledge.

667 The History of Cape Br••ton and St. Iohn••s, from the first Settlement of them to the taking of Loucis|bourg

in 1758, exhi••••ting a Description of the Country, and Utility of its Productions, the Manners, Inclinations and Prejudices of the In|dians, and such Reflections as may be of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 great U••e to those who shall have Occasion to deal with those People.

No. 668 The Travels of Cyrus, by the Chevalier Ramsay.

669 Brown's Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times.

670 Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, an useful Pros|pect of the Felicities and Discomforts of a Mar|ried Life, incident to all Degrees from the Throne to the Cottage, relating the fantastical Humours of Fops, Coquets, Bullies, Jilts, fond Fools and Wantons, old Fumblers, Barren Ladies, Misers, Parsimonious Wives, Ninies, Sluts and Terma|gants, Drunken Husbands, Toping Gossips, &c. ••••gested into Serious, Merry and Satyrical Poems, wherein both Sexes, in all Stations, are reminded 〈◊〉〈◊〉 their Duty, and taught how to be happy in the Matrimonial State, by Ned Ward, the facetious Author of the London Spy.

671 The Temple of the Muses, or the principal Histories of the great Heroes of Antiquity, very necessary to those who read Classic Authors.

672 Dr. Felton's excellent Dissertation of the Classics.

673 The Beauties of the Spectator, Tatler and Guardian, containing the Marrow of those several Volumes, upon the most interesting and entertaining Subjects.

674 The Animal World display'd, or an entertaining Description of Birds, Beasts, Fishes and Serpents▪ a Work of Information, adorned with a great Number of Figures well engraven.

676 The Beauties of England, a comprehensive View of the public Structures, the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, the Universities, Cities, Market Town, Antiquities and Curiosities, with a cir|cumstantial

Account of the Cities of London and Westminster, pointing out whatever merits the A••••ention of a Stranger to England.

No. ••••8 The whole Works of Iohn Locke, Esq;

679 The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Non|conformists, from the Reformation, with an Account of their Principles, their Attempts for a further Reformation in the Church, and the Lives and Characters of their most considerable Divines.

680 Modern Europe, or a Compendious History of the Kingdoms and States of England, France, Russia, Turkey, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Prus|sia, Poland, Naples and Sicily, Portugal, Sardinia, Holland, Switzerland, Venice, Genoa, and the Ecclesiastical State, containing what is remarkable relating to their respective Governments, Land a••d Sea Forces, Capital Cities, Universities, Number of Inhabitants, Trade, Religion, Genius, Language, Interests and Views, with a clear and concise History of the House of Bourbon, in France, its Views, Intrigues, and Influence; with a Map of Europe, Dedicated to Mr. PITT, and printed in a Pocket Volume.

681 Mont••squis Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, translated from a new and much improved Edition of the valuable original.

682 The Old Practice of Piety.

683 The New Practice of Piety.

684 The New Week's Preparation.

685 Spencer's Remarks on Mr. Pope's Odysl••y.

686 The Family Library, containing a Variety of enter|taining and instructing Writings.

687 Dr. Thomson's Anatomy of the Bones.

688 The Rudiments of Physick, by Groenvelt.

689 Mission's celebrated Voyage to Italy, recommend|ed by Mr. Addison.

No. 690 Iacob's Complete Court-Keeper.

691 Iacob's Statute Law, common placed.

692 Gregory's Astronomy.

693 The World in Miniture, an entertaining Descrip|tion of every Country under the Sun.

694 The Annals of Tacitus, an Author of singular Wis|dom and Energy, elegantly Translated, by Mr. Gordon, the Author of Cato's Letters, and the Independant Whig.

695 A new Treatise on Ship Building and Navigation, wherein the Theory, Practice and Application of the necessary Instruments are judiciously handled, with the Construction and Use of a new invented Shipwright's Sector, for readily laying down and delineating Ships of all Forms, with Tables of the Sun's Declination, of Meridional Parts, of dif|ference of Latitude and Departure, of Logarithms, Sines, Tangents and Secants, by Mungo Murr••y, Shipwright in the King's Yard at Deptford; this is the last and best Work ever published on Ship Building.

696 The Oceana, and all the other Political Writings of Iames Harrington, with an exact Account of the Life of this very extraordinary Writer, by Iohn Toland.

697 The Maxims of the Duke de Rochefaucanlt.

698 The Military Engineer, or an excellent Treatise of Attack and Defence of all Kinds of Fortified Places, from the French of Le Blond.

699 Vauban's Treatise of Fortifications.

700 Mons. Saxe's famous Reveries and Memoirs upon the Art of War.

701 The Partisan, or Art of War in Detachment.

702 Gibson's excellent Treatise upon the Disease, of Horses, with Directions for the Cure of them.

703 Human Prudence, or the Art by which a Man may raise himself and his Fortune to Grandeur.

No. 704 Two Discourses, Preached at Boston, by Dr. Ionathan Mayhew, upon the Conquest of Qu••bee, with an Appendix giving an Account of three former unsuccessful Expeditions against that Place.

705 Ulloa's Voyage to South America, describing at large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, &c. on that vast Continent, with the Genius, Customs, Trade of the Inhabitants, and an Account of their Gold and Silver Mines; the most Accurate, En|tertaining and useful Performance of the Kind ever published.

706 Hume's History of Britain, a Work of the first Class.

707 Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments; this Author's Discourse animated by the Sentiments of Virtue, flows long, like a full and rapid Stream, and car|ries the Reader through many entertaining Scenes of common Life, and many curious Disquisitions of Litterature; and it is universal••y allowed to be the best Composition of the Kind that ever appeared.

708 The Peerage, or the present State of every Noble Family of England, Scotland and Ireland, in three Pocket Vols. by Salmon.

709 Naval Evolutions, or a System of Sea-Discipline: Extracted from the celebrated Treatise of P. L'Host••, Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Seminary of T••ulon; confirmed by Experience, illustrated by Examples from the most remark|able Sea Engagements between England and Hol|land, embellished with Eighteen Copper-plates, and adapted to the Use of the British Navy. To which are added, an Abstract of the Theory of Ship-building; an Essay on Naval Discipline, by a late experienced Sea Commander; a general Idea of the Armament of the French Navy, with some practicable Observations, by Christopher O'Bryen, Esq; Lieutenant of his Majesty's Navy.

This Work is highly necessary to all Persons who use the Sea as Captains or Masters of Ves|sels, as well as Entertaining to Readers in general.

No. 710 The Essays of Michael M••ntagine, a Work adorned with fine Sentments, Turns of Wit, and Historical Facts, universally read, quoted, recom|mended and referred to by Addison, Steele, Swift, Pope, and other Authors of the first Class.

711 The Preceptor, containing a general Course of Education, wherein the first Principles of Polite Learning are laid down in a Wa•• most suitable for advancing the Instruction of Young Persons; Dedicated to the King when a Youth, and read by His Majesty in the Course of his Education: This Book is universally introduced in the Schools of Great-Britain and America; the following Subjects are treated of, viz. Reading, Speaking, Letter Writting, Arithmetic, Geometry, Archi|tecture, Geography, Astronomy, Chronology, History, Rhetorick; Poetry, Drawing, Logick, Natural History, Morality, Trade and Com|merce, Laws, Government, Human Life and Manners.

712 Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses, in 4 Vo••s.

713 Sherlock's Sermons. The Stile is animated, Ner|vous and Pathetic, the Arguments irrisistible, the Eloquence to the last degree persuasive, and it may most justly be added, that all is Plain, Simple and Manly, like the Religion the Author explains, and the Faith he professeth.

714 The Dictionary of the Holy Bible, containing at. Account of the Persons, Places, and Descriptions of other Objects mentioned in the Holy Bible, the New Testament and Apocrypha; the Meani•••••• of all obscure Passages are cleared up and the seeming Inconsistancies explained; the whole forming a complete Body of Scripture History and Divinity, and serving as a Concordance to the Bible.

No. 715 Dr. Newton's Dissertations on the Prophecies which have been remarkably fulfilled, and are at this Time fulfilling in the World; the most learned and ingenious Work upon the Subject.

716 A Course of Meditations on the Scenes of Nature, namely, Sleep, Darkness, the Starry Firmament, the Moon, the Morning, and the Sun, written by the Reverend Mr. Lee, and executed with a fine picturesque Imagination, and a fervent De|votion, conveying humbling Ideas of Man, and elevated Conceptions of the Divine Being.

717 Yoric••'s Sermons. The ingenious Author, the Revd. Mr. Stearne, aims at mending the Heart; inculcating every moral Virtue by Precepts, de|duced from Reason, and the sacred Oracles; these Discourses are universally read and admired, they are Elegant without the Affectation of ap|pearing so, and Familiar without Meanness.

718 The Young Gentleman and Lady instructed in such Principles of Politness, Prudence and Virtue, as will lay a sure Foundation for gaining Respect, Esteem, and Satifaction in this Life, and Eternal Happiness in a future State, interspersed with such Observations and Maxims as demonstrate the Danger and Folly of Vice, and the Advantage and Wisdom of Virtue: The main Purpose of this Work is to countenance the Modest and the Industrious, to celebrate the Wise and the Valiant, to encourage the Good and the Pious, to con|front the Impudent and Idle▪ and to contemn the Vain and Cowardly; the Author has marked out the several Shoals and Quick-sands of Li••e, on which the Young of both Sexes too often Split; has treated on Matters which relate to the Ladies, as they are concerned to approach or fly from the other Sex, or as they are tied to them by Blood, Interest, or Affection; the Young Gentleman is furnished with Rules, Cautions Counsels and Maxims, tending to instruct, im|pove

and to render an amiable and an excellent Man.

No. 719 A complete Body of Gardening, or plain Direc|tions for raising all the Products of a Garden, Fruits, Roots and Herbage from the Result of a a long Experience with the Culture of all Sorts of Flowers, illustrated with Pictures of above 600 Plants, Flowers, &c. &c.

720 Du Hamel's practical Treatise of Husbandry; con|taining many useful and valuable Experiments and Observations in modern Husbandry, includ|ing the most approved Practice of the best English Farmers.

With His Majesty's Roval Licence and Authority.

721 A complete Body of Husbandry; containing Rules for performing, in the most profitable Manner, the whole Business of the Farmer, in Cultivat|ing, Planting, and Stocking of Land, in judging of the several Kinds of Seeds, and of Manures; and in the Management of Arable and Pasture Grounds: Together with the most approved Me|thods of Practice in the several Branches of Hus|bandry, and in Breeding and Preserving Cattle, and Curing their Diseases: To which is annexed, The whole Management of the Orchard, the Brewhouse, and the Dairy. Compiled from the Original Papers of the late Thomas Hale, Esq and enlarged by many new and useful Communica|tions on Practical Subjects; from the Collections of Col. Stevenson, Mr. Randolph. Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Storey, Mr. Os••orne, the Revd. Mr. Turner, and others. A Work founded on Experience; and calculated for general Benefit; consisting chiefly of Improvements made by modern Pract••|tioners in Farming; and containing many valu|able and useful Discover••••es, never before publish|ed, illustrted with a great Number of Cuts, con+taining Figures of the Instruments of Husbandry

of useful and poisonous Plants, and various other Subjects, engraved from Original Drawings.

The Proprietors of the Complete Body of Husbandry, esteem it a Duty equally to the Public a••a themselves, to insert the following, received from the Country.

ORDERED, THAT the Churchwardens and Overseers, do forth|with apply to Mr. Rivington, for the Complete Body of HUSBANDRY.

Published by the KING's Authority.

And that the same be chained in the Vestry-Room, for the Publick Use of the Parishioners, to be consul|ted by them on all Occasions, in that Place, and not elsewhere: And that the Name of the Parish be set on the Book, to prevent its being stolen.

By the Vestry.

Lanteglos, juxta Camelford, Cornwall, March 6, 1757.

SIR,

WE desire you to execute the above Order, and we wish our Example may be followed by every Parish in the Kingdom, who are

Your Humble Servants,

Churchwardens.

• Iohn Barnes,
• Iohn Seccombe,

Overseers.

• Ionathan Rundell,
• Ioseph Tingcombe,

☞Note, any Nobleman, or Gentleman, desirous to make a Present of this Book of Agriculture and Farming to his Parish, may, by applying to Iames Rivington asorementioned, be supplied with it.

722 Macquer's Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry; a Work heartily recommended to the Perusal of every one whose Taste and Profession leads him to the Study of Chymistry.

723 Gouch's Cases and Practical Remarks in Surgery, with Plates describing Machines of easy Application

and approved Use; these Cases are the mature Result of long and judicious Remark.

No. 724 The Chymical Works of Dr. Neuman, abounding with useful practical Remarks and Experiments. 〈◊〉〈◊〉,

725 Burlamaquis natural and political Law; a Work which relates to the moral Duties of Life, and the Foundation of Human Contentment and Hap|piness, containing noble Maxims of true Christian Policy and excellent Rules for the Government of our Lives; the Authors is of a noble Family of Lncca, which removed to Geneva, there to be sheltered from Popish Persecution.

726 Hutcheson's Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue; treating of the various Pleasures Human Nature is capable of receiving.

727 Hutcheson's Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the moral Sense; an ingenious Work connected with the Inquiry into the Ideas of Beauty and Virtue.

728 Ferguson's Lectures on Mechanics, Hydrostaties, Pnemuatics and Optics, with the Use of the Globes, the Art of Dialing, and the Calculation of the mean Times of New and Full Moons and Eclipses; a more useful and entertaining Com|pendium of experimental Philosophy, never was published; and this may be read without almost any previous Knowledge of Geometry, and with little more Assistance than the Rules of common Arithmetic.

729 The Lawyer's Magazine; containing whatever is useful, instructive or entertaining, in the Theory and Practice of the Law of England; illustrated with Observations and Notes; a Work very necessary to Members of the Councils and Assem|blies, Lawyers, Attornies, Gentlemen of Estates▪ and Tradesmen of all Denominations. Amongst others, the following particulars are here teated

of; how the Laws of England regard Life, Sex, Age, Liberty, Health and Reputation; the Law con|cerning Merchants, Husband and Wife, Parent and Child, Ancestor and Heir, Guardian and Minor, the Nature of Estates, real and personal, how holden, how acquired, and forfeited; con|veyancing, and the various Forms of Deeds made use of therein, &c. &c. &c. To which is added, an impartial Review of all the new Law Books, as they are published, and of all those which have been printed since December, 1760.

No. 730 The Statutes at Large, from the Magana Charta to the End of the last Parliament, 1761, in eight Vols. Quarto.

731 An Analysis of the Laws of England, with a spirited manly Exhortation to the Study of the Law; a Work that merits the Attention of every Person possessing a Fo•••• of Property in the Kingdoms and Provinces o, England.

732 Historical Law Tracts; the Author, the Hon. Mr. Home, possesses in a high Degree all the Tal|ents requisite for Writing upon the Subject of Law, in the most rational and instructive Man|neer; and with a remarkable Perspicuity, a Sub|ject seemingly dry and abstruse becomes in his Hands not only Instructive but Amusing.

733 The Law of Bills of Exchange, promissory Notes and Insurances; containing all the Statutes, Cases at large, Arguments, Resolutions, Judgments, Decrees and Customs of Merchants, concerning them; methodically digested by Mr. Cunningham, who has collected into one Body, all the Laws and Cases relating to the foregoing Subjects, which are dispersed up and down in the huge unweldy and expensive Volumes of the Law, and by this means has done an eminent Service to Merchants, Tradesmen▪ and others concerned in these Mat|ters.

No. 734 The Practice of a Iustice of Peace; concerning the Statutes which give Jurisdiction to that Magis|trate; with a greater Variety of Precedents form|ed upon the Words of the Acts of Parliament than in any other Book extant. Compiled and pub|lished under the Direction of the Right Hon. Lord Ward, by T. Cunningham, Esq

735 Post••ctwhaite's grand Dictionary of Trade and Com|merce, which is of itself a complete Library, being a Work absolutely necessary for every Merchant and Tradesman, illustrated with many excellent Maps which form a complete Atlas.

736 The Theory and Practice of Commerce and Maritime Affairs, from the Spanish of Uzstariz, a Book of excellent Character.

737 A Plan of the English Trade and Commerce, a well written Piece, by the celebrated Daniel Defo••. This Work exhibits a complete Prospect of the Trade of England at Home and Abroad.

738 The Laws, Ordinances and Institutions of the Admiralty of Great-Britain.

739 The artificial Clock-maker.

740 Select Essays on Commerce, Agriculture, Mines and ••isheries, containing some very curious Disquisi|tions on the Nature of Commerce and Manufac|tures, and many solid Reflections and sagacious Observations upon Agriculture.

741 The Complete Tradesman, directing him in the seve|ral Parts and Progressions of Trade, from his first Entrance upon Business, to his leaving off, par|ticularly with regard to Diligence. Over-••••••ding, Diversions, expensive Living, Surety ship, early Marrving, Compositions, Partnership, Credit Punctuality, borrowing Money, Discounting Book-keeping, Projects, &c. calculated for the Use of all our Tradesmen as well in the City a Country; this excellent Treatise is written by th•• Ingenious Daniel Desoe, it has not only save

Thousands of young Tradesmen from Destruction, but (by an inflexible adherance to its Dictates) a••••isted them in accumlating large Fortunes.

No. 742 A general Treatise of Naval Trade and Com|merce, a Work of great Character.

743 The British Cu••ioms, containing an Historical and practical Account of each Branch of that Revenue, the Rates of Merchandize as settled by the Laws of England, with the nett Duties payable in all Circumstances of Goods imported, exported or brought Coastwise, and the nett Drawbacks to be repaid on due Exportation, as also the Bounties payable out of Customs. This is the last and by much the best Treatise on this Subject, is written by Hen•••• Saxly, Esq and old and excellent Officer of the Custom-House in London, its Merit and Utility is such that no Merchant whether in Europe or America can Act Correctly and with Precision without it.

744 Halspenny's new and complete System of Archi|tecture.

745 Halspenny's 12 beautiful Designs for Farm Houses.

746 Garr••••t's Designs for Farm Houses, by which a Per|son may be his own Judge before he begins to build, what sort of a House will best suit the Farm he intends it for without leaving it to unskilful Workmen, calculated to serve any Country.

747 A ne•••• Book of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Work, containing a great Variety of Designs, useful for Painters, Cabinet Makers, Carvers, Smiths with Gates of various Sorts; P••laste••, Fences for Beaufets, Tables, Rails, Stair-Cases, Galleries, Balconies, Sign and Lamp Irons, Door Lights, Gratings, Brackets, Pedes|t••ls, Weather-Cocks, Spindier, &c. on Twenty Copper Plates, by I. Iones.

748 Gibbs's Architecture.

749 Gibbs's R••••••es for Drawing.

750 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Builder's Treasury, designs for Builders and other Artists.

No. 751 Langley's Builder's Chest Book.

752 Langley's Builder's Jewel.

753 Langley's Builder's Golden Rule.

754 Ware's Palladio's System of Architecture.

755 Swann's Architecture.

756 Salmon's London new Art of Building.

757 Salmon's Builder's Guide.

758 Salmon's Builder's Vade-mecum.

759 Salmon's Builder's Estimater.

760 Hoppus's Builder's Repository.

761 The Builder's Companion or Workman's general Assistant, demonstrating all the principal Rules of Architecture, from the Plan to the Finish of the Work, with clear Instructions annexed to each Subject, useful to all Masons, Bricklayers, Plais|terers, Carpenters, Jayners, and all concerned in the various Branches of Building, with 77 Copper Plates. By William Pain.

762 The Modern Builder's Assistant, or a concise Epitome of the whole System of Architecture, by Halspenny, Morris, &c.—Morris's se••ect Architecture, being regular Designs for Town and Country Houses.

763 Houshold Furniture for the Year 1760, by a So|ciety of Cabinet makers and other Artists, with 183 Designs for all Sorts of Workmen.

764 Morris's Architecture improv••••, being a Collection of Modern and useful Designs.

765 Hal••penny's Country Gentleman's and Builder's Pocket Companion, containing Designs, &c. for Lodges, Huts. Summer-Houses, ••••ottos, &c.

766 Halspenny's Useful Architecture, consisting of De|signs and full Instruction for erecting Farm-Houses, Inns, Parsonage-Houses, &c. with their several Offices, &c. of various 〈…〉〈…〉 highest Expence of Building which 〈…〉〈…〉 ••. 500, and the smallest under 〈…〉〈…〉▪

No. 767 Over's Ornamental Architecture, in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste.

768 Price's British Carpenter, or a Concise and easy Treatise on Carpentry, in a more practical Me|thod than has hitherto been made Use of, recom|mended to the perusal of all Artizans, by the celebrated Hawksm••or, Iames and Gibbs.

769 The Builder's Dictionary, or Architect's Com|panion, explaining the Theory and Practice of the various Branches, of Masons, Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Painters, Gla|zers. Smiths, Turners, Carvers, Plumbers, with the Quantities and Proportions of all Kinds of Materials used in Building, Directions for chusing, preparing and using them, with Rules for the Valuation of Houses, &c. Illustrated with 200 Copper Plates.

770 Lex Mer••••teria Rediviva, or the Merchants Directory, being a Complete Guide to all Men in Business, whether as Traders, Remitters, Owners of Ships, Freighters, Captains, Insurers, Brokers, Factors, Supercargoes, Agents; con|taining an Account of the Trade of our American Colonie••••: Particularly, of Hudson's Bov, Virginia, Mar••land. New York, Pennsylvania, Iersey, New|England, connecticut, Nava-Scotia, Georgia, Bar|••••d••••, St. Kits, Nevis, and all the Caribbee I••lands, the Ba••amas and Bermuda, Newseuadland, and of the Trade and Connections between Great Britain and all other States in the World; and a View of the general Traffic of Foreign Nations, describing the Manufactures and Products of each. Published with a View of being servicable to many who need Assistance upon their entering upo•• Business, and as a Remembrancer to those of longer Practice in Trade, who may want a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 any difficulty in the Course of their 〈◊〉〈◊〉.

No. 771 The Court and City Register, for the Year 1762. Containing, 1. New and correct Lists of the Lords and Commons, &c. 2. The Court and City Register 3. New Lists of the Army and Navy, with the Addition of some Lists never yet printed, the Whole carefully corrected at the Publick and Offices, to the Time of Publication.

772 Henrietta, written by Mrs. Lenox, one of the most pleasing Novels that has appeared for some Years.

773 The History of Madam Pompadour, Mistress of the present King of France. Whoever is desirous of attaining a just Idea of the French Court, must peruse this spirited entertaining Performance.

774 The Prince of A••••••inia, a Tale written by the Celebrated Mr. Samuel Iohnson, and filled with the most judicious observations upon Life, the nicest Distinctions upon Conduct, and in every respect worthy of the learned and sensible Author of the Rambler.

775 The History of Ophelia, a Novel, my Mrs. Fielding, which preserves that Delicacy peculiar to Female Writers, and affords as much Entertainment and Recreation, as most Productions of this kind.

776 The Memoirs of Nin••n de L'Enclos, with her Le|ters to Mons. d•• St. Evermont, and to the Marqui•• de Sevigne, collected and translated from the French, by a Lady.

777 H••u Kiou Choaan: Or, the Pleasing History; a Translation from the Chinese Language; to which is added, 1. The Argument, or Story of a Chines▪ Play. 2. A Collection of Chinese Proverbs. An•• 3. Fragments of Chinese Poetry, with Notes, &c

778 The Compleat Housewife, or Accomplish'd Gentle woman's Companion, being a Collection of upward of Six Hundred of the most approved Receipt in Cookery, Pastry, Consectionar••, Pr••serving Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wine

Cordials, with Copper Plates, curiously engraven, for the regular Disposition or Placing of the various Dishes and Courses, and also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, a Collection of above Three Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines, viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. particularly Mrs. Stephens's Medicine for the Cure of the Stone and Gravel, and Dr. Mead's famous Receipt for the Cure of a Bite of a mad Dog; with several other excellent Receipts for the same, which have cured when the Persons where disordered, and the salt Water ••ail'd; never before made publick; sit either for private Families, or such publick|spirited Gentlewomen as would be benefi••ient to their poor Neighbours; with Directions for Marketing, by E. Smith.

No. 779 The Art of Cookery, by Mrs. Glass, esteemed a great Improvement on all the Books on thi•• Subject ever yet published.

780 The Director: Or, Young Woman's best Companion, being the plainest and cheapest of the Kind ever published. The Whole makes a Complete Family Cook and Physician. Containing above Three Hundred easy Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Pre|serving, Candying, Pickling, Colla••ing, Physick, and Surgery. To which are added, plain and easy Instructions for chusing Beef, Mutton, Veal, F••••h, Fowl, and other Eatables. Directions for Carving, and to make Wines. Likewise Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year, with a com|plete Index to the Whole. A Book necessary for all Families; by Sarah Iackson, collected for the Use of her own Family, and printed at the Request of her Friends. The Third Edition, corrected and greatly improv'd by the Author:

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781 The new Heloise, or the Letters of two Lovers, living in a Village at the foot of the Alps; written by the Celebrated Mr. Rousseau of Geneva, who hath published the following Apology; by way of Preface to that Work, in a Dialogue between himself and his Friend. The following Extract from this Piece will serve to convey a just Idea of this much admired Novel.

Roussea••.

Without complaining of Injustice, I will tell you, in my turn, in what light these Letters appear to me; not so much to excuse their defects, as to discover their source. The perceptions of Persons in Retirement are very different from those of People in the great World; their Passions being differently modified, are dif|ferently exprest; their imaginations constantly imprest by the same Objects, are more violently affected. The same small number of Images constantly return, mix with every Idea, and create these strange and false notions so Re|markable in People who spend their Lives in soli|tude; but does it follow that their Language is Energi••? No; 'tis only Extraordinary: It is in our Conversation with the World that we learn to speak with Energy; first, because we must spea•• differently and better than others, and then, 〈◊〉〈◊〉

every Moment obliged to affirm what may not be believed, and to express Sentiments which we do not Feel, we endeavour at a persuasive manner which supplies the place of interior persuasion. Do you believe that People of real Sensibility ex|press themselves with that Vivacity, Energy, and Ardour, which you so much Admire in our Drama and Romances? No; true Passion, full of itself, is rather Diffusive than Emphatical; it does not even think of persuasion, as it never supposes that its Existence can be doubtful. In Expressing its feelings it speaks rather for the Sake of its own Ease, than to I••form others. Love is painted with more Vivacity in large Cities, but is it in the Village therefore less Violent?

Friend.

So that the weakness of the Expression is a Proof of the strength of their passion.

〈◊〉〈◊〉.

Sometimes, at least, it is an Indica|tion of its Reality. Read but a Love-Letter written by an Author who Endeavours to Shine as a Man of Wit: If he has any Warmth in his Brain, his Words will set Fire to the Paper; but the Flame will spread no farther: You may be charmed, and perhaps a little moved, but it will be a fleeting Agitation which will leave nothing except the Remembrance of Words. On the contrary, a Letter really directed by Love, written by a Lover influenced by a real Passion, will be Tame, Diffuse, Prolix, Unconnected, and full of Repetitions; his Heart overf••owing with the same Sentiment, constantly returns to the same Expressions, and like a natural Fountain flows continually without being exhausted. Nothing Brilliant, nothing Remarkable; one Remembers neither Words nor Phrases; there is nothing to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 admired, nothing striking; yet we are moved without knowing why. Though we are not struck 〈…〉〈…〉 of Sentiment, we 〈◊〉〈◊〉 touched with

its Truth; and our Hearts, in spite of us, sym|pathize with the Writer. But Men of no sensi|bility, who know nothing more than the Flowery Jargon of the Passions, are ignorant of those Beauties and despise them.

Friend.

I am all Attention.

Rousseau.

Very well, I say, that in real Love-Letters, the Thoughts are common, yet the Stile is not Familiar. Love is nothing more than an Illusion; it creates for itself another Universe; it is surrounded with objects which have no Exis|tence but in Imagination, and its Language is always Figurative; but its Figures are neither just nor regular; its Eloquence consists in its disorder; and when it reasons least, it is most convincing. Enthusi••sm is the last degree of this Passion. When it is arrived at its greatest height, its object appears in a state of Perfection; it then becomes its Idol; it is placed in Heaven; and as the Enthu|siasm of Devotion borrows the Language of Love, the Enthusiasm of Love also barrows the Language of Devotion. Its Ideas present nothing but Para|dise, Angels, the virtue of Saints, and the delights of Heaven. In such Transport, surrounded by such Images, is it not natural to expect sublime Language? Can it possibly debase its Ideas by vulgar Expressions? Will it not, on the contrary, raise its Style, and speak with adequate Dignity? What then becomes of your Epistolary Style? It would do mighty well, to be sure, in writing to the object of one's adoration: in that case they are not letters, but hymns.

Friend.

We shall see what the world will say.

Rousseau.

No; rather see the winter on my head. There is an age for experience, and ano|ther for recollection. Our sensibility may be extinguished by time; but the soul, which was once capable of that sensibility, remains. But to

return to our letters: If you read them as the work of an author who endeavours to please, or piques himself on his writing, they are certainly detestable. But take them for what they are, and judge of them in their kind. Two or three young people, simple, if you will, but sensible, who mutually express the real sentiments of their hearts, without an intention to display their wit. They know and love each other too well, for self-admiration to have any influence among them. They are young, and therefore think like young people. They are not natives of France, how then can they be supposed to write correctly? They lived in solitude, and therefore could know but little of the world. Entirely filled with one single sentiment, they are in a constant delirium, and yet presume to philosophise. Would you have them know how to observe, to judge, and to reflect? No; of these they are ignorant; but they are versed in the art of love, and all their words and actions are connected with that passion. Their ideas are extravagant, but is not the im|portance which they give to these romantic notions more amusing, than all the wit they could have displayed. They speak of every thing; they are constantly mistaken; they teach us nothing, ex|cept the knowlege of themselves; but in making themselves known, they gain our affection. Their errors are more engaging, than the wisdom of the wise. Their honest hearts, even in their trans|gressions, bear still the prejudice of virtue, always confident, and always betrayed. Nothing answers their expectations; every event serves to undeceive them. They are deaf to the voice of discouraging truth: They find nothing correspond with their own feelings, and therefore, detaching themselves from the rest of the universe, they create, in their

separate society, a little world of their own, which presents an entire new scene.

Friend.

I confess, that a young fellow of twenty, and girls of eighteen, though not uninstructed, ought not to talk like philosophers, even though they may suppose themselves such. I own also, for this distinction has not escaped me, that these girls became wives of merit, and the young man a better observer. I make no comparison between the beginning and the end of the work. The detail of domestic occurrences may efface, in some measure, the faults of their younger years: The chaste and sensible wife, the worthy matron, may obliterate the remembrance of former weakness. But even this is a subject for criticism: The con|clusion of the work renders the beginning repre|hensible: One would imagine them to be two different books, which ought not to be read by the same people. If you intended to exhibit ra|tional personages, why would you expose them before they were become so? Our attention to the lessons of wisdom is destroyed by the child's play, by which they are preceeded: We are scan|dalized at the bad, before the good can edify us. In short, the reader is offended, and throws the book aside in the very moment when it might become serviceable.

Rousseau.

One the contrary, I am of opinion, that to those who are disgusted with the beginning, the end would be entirely super••luous; and that the beginning will be agreeable to those readers to whom the conclusion can be useful. So that those who do not read to the end will have lost nothing, because it was an improper book for them; and those to whom it may be of service would never have read it, if it had begun with more gravity. Our lessons can never be useful, unless they are so

written as to catch the attention of those for whose benefit they were calculated.

I may have changed the means, and not the object. When I endeavoured to speak to men, I was not heard; perhaps in speaking to children I shall gain more attention; and children would have no more relish for naked reason, than for medicines ill disguised.

Friend.

Here again I am afraid you are de|ceived; they will sip on the edge of the Vessel, but will not drink the liquor.

Rousseau.

Be it so; it will not be my fault; I shall have done all in my power to make it palat|able. My young folks are amiable; but to love them at thirty, it is necessary to have kown them have when they were ten years younger. One must lived with them a long time to be pleased with their company; and to taste their pegins, it is necessary we should first have deplored their sail|ings. Their letters are not interesting at first; but we grow attached by degrees, and can neither continue nor quit them. They are neither elegant easy, rational, sensible, nor eloquent; but there is sensibility which gradually communicates itself to our hearts, and which at last is found to supply the place of all the rest. It is a long romance, of which no one part has proper effect. At least, such were its effects upon power to move us, and yet the whole produces a me; pray were not you touched in reading it?

F••iend.

No; yet I can easily conceive your being affected; if you are the author, nothing can be more natural; and if not, I can still account for it. A man of the world can have no taste for the extravagant ideas, the affected pathos, and false reasoning of your good folks; but they will suit a recluse, for the reason which you have given; now, before you determine to publish the manuscript, you would do well to remember that

the world is not composed of hermits. All you can expect is that your young gentleman will be taken for a Celadon, your Lord B. for a Don Quixote, your young damsels for two Astreas, and that the world will laugh at them for a com|pany of fools. But a continued folly cannot be entertaining.

Rousseau.

The very reason which would make you suppress this work, will induce me to print it.

Friend.

What! the certainty of its not being read?

Rousseau.

A little patience, and you will un|derstand me. As to morals, I believe that all kinds of reading are useless to people of the world; first, because the number of new books which they run through, so generally contradict each other, that their effect is reciprocally destroyed. The few choice books which deserve a second perusal, are equally ineffectual; for, if they are written in support of received opinions, they are superfluous; and if in opposition, they are of no use; they are too weak to break the chain which attaches the reader to the vices of society. A man of the world may possibly, for a moment, be led from his wonted path by the dictates of morality; but he will find so many obstacles in the way, that he will speedily return to his former course. I am persuaded there are few people, who have had a tolerable education, that have not made this essay, at least once in their lives; but, finding their efforts vain, they are discouraged from any future attempt, and consider the morality of books as a jargon of idleness. The farther we retreat from business, great cities, and numerous societies, the more the obstacles to morality di|minish. There is a certain point of distance where these obstacles cease to be in••urmountable, and there it is that books may be of use. When we

live in solitude, as we do not then read with a design to display our reading, we are less anxious to change our books, and bestow on them more reflection; and as their principles find less opposi|tion from without, their internal impression is effectual. In retirement, the want of occupation obliges those, who have no resource in themselves, to have recourse to books of amusement. Ro|mances are more read in the provincial towns than at Paris, in towns less than in the country, and there they make the deepest impression; the reason is plain.

Now it happens unfortunately that the books which might amuse, instruct, and console the people in retirement, who are unhappy only in their own imagination, are generally calculated to make them still more dissatisfied with their situation. People of rank and fashion are the sole personages of all our romances. The refined taste of great cities, court maxims, the splendour of luxury, and epicurean morality; these are their precepts, these their lessons of instruction. The colouring of their false virtues tanishes their real ones. Polite manners are substituted for real duties, fine sentiments for good actions, and vir|tuous simplicity is deemed want of breeding.

What effect must such representation produce in the mind of a country gentleman, in which his freedom and hospitality is turned into ridicule, and the joy which he spreads through his neigh|bourhood is pronounced to be a low and contemp|tible amusement? What influence must they not have upon his wife, when she is taught, that the care of her family is beneath a lady of her rank; and on his daughter, who being instructed in the jargon and affectation of the city, disdains for his clownish behaviour, the honest neighbour whom she would otherwise have married. With one

consent, ashamed of their rusticity, and disgusted with their village, they leave their antient man|sion, which soon becomes a ruin, to reside in the metropolis; where the father, with his cross of St. Lewis, from a gentleman becomes a sharper; the mother keeps a gaming-house; the daughter amuses herself with a circle of gamesters; and frequently all three, after having led a life of infamy, die in misery and dishonour.

All our productions verge to the same goal. Tales, romances, comedies, all are levelled at the country; all conspire to ridicule rustic simpli|city; they all display and extol the pleasures of the great world; it is a shame not to know them; and not to enjoy them, a misfortune. How many of those sharpers and prostitutes, with which Paris is so amply provided, were first seduced by the expectation of these imaginary pleasures? Thus prejudice and opinion contribute to effect the political system by attracting the inhabitants of each country to a single point of territory, leaving all the rest a desert; thus nations are depopulated, that their capitals may flourish; and this frivolous splendor with which fools are captivated, makes Europe verge with celerity towards its ruin. The happiness of mankind requires that we should endeavour to stop this torrent of pernicious maxims. It is the business of the clergy to tell us that we must be good and wise, without con|cerning themselves about the success of their dis|courses; but a good citizen, who is really anxious to promote virtue, should not only tell us to be good, but endeavour to make the path to happi|ness agreeable.

Friend.

Pray, my good friend, take breath for a moment. I am no enemy to useful designs; and I have been so attentive to your reasoning, that I believe it will be in my power to continue

your argument. You are clearly of opinion, that to give to works of imagination the only utility of which they are capable, they must have an effect diametrically opposite to that which their authors generally propose; they must combat every hu|man institution, reduce all things to a state of nature, make mankind in love with a life of peace and simplicity, destroy their prejudices aud opinions, inspire them with a taste for true plea|sure, keep them distant from each other, and in|stead of exciting people to crowd into large cities, persuade them to spread themselves all over the kingdom, that every part may be equally en|livened. I also comprehend, that it is not your intention to create a world of Arcadian shepherds, of illustrious peasants labouring on their own acres, and philosophising on the works of nature, nor any other romantic beings which exist only in books; but to convince mankind that in rural life there are many pleasures which they know not how to enjoy; that these pleasures are neither so insipid nor so gross as they imagine; that they are susceptible of taste and delicacy; that a sensible man, who should retire with his family into the country, and become his own farmer, might enjoy more rational felicity, than in the midst of the amusements of a great city; that a good housewife may be a most agreeable woman, that she may be as graceful and as charming as any town coquet of them all: in short, that the most tender sentiments of the heart will more effectually animate society, than the artificial language of polite circles, where the ill-natured laugh of satyre is the pitiful substitute of that real mirth which no longer exists. Have I not hit the mark?

Rousseau.

'Tis the very thing; to which I will add but one reflection. We are told that romances disturb the brain: I believe it true. In continually

displaying to the reader the ideal charms of a ••tituation very different from his own, he becomes dissatisfied, and makes an imaginary exchange for that which he is taugh: to admire. Desiring to be that which he is not, he soon believes himself actually metamorphosed, and so becomes a fool. If, on the contrary, romances were only to ex|hibit the pictures of real objects, of virtues and pleasures within our reach, they would then make us wiser and better. Books which are designed to be read in solitude, should be written in the lan|guage of retirement; if they are meant to in|struct; they should make us in love with our situa|tion; they should combat and destroy the maxima of the great world, by shewing them to be false and despicable, as they really are.

Those who aspire to same must calculate their works for the meridian of Paris; but those who write with a view to do good, must write for the country. How many worthy people are there who pass their lives in cultivating a few paternal acres, far distant from the metropolis, and who think themselves exiled by the partiality of fortune? During the long winter even|ings, deprived of society, they pass the time in reading such books of amusement as happen to fall into their hands. In their rustic simplicity, they do not pride themselves on their wit or learn|ing, they read for entertainment rather than in|struction; books of morality and philosophy are entirely unknown to them. As to your romances, they are so far from being adapted to their situa|tion, that they serve only to render it insupporta|ble. Their retreat is represented to be a desert, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that whilst they afford a few hours amusement, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 prepare for them whole months of regret 〈…〉〈…〉 Why may I not suppose that, 〈…〉〈…〉 this ••ook, like many 〈…〉〈…〉 into the hands

of those inhabitants of the fields, and that the pleasing picture of a life exactly resembling theirs will render it more tolerable? I have great pleasure in the idea of a married couple reading this novel together, imbibing fresh courage to support their common labours, and perhaps new designs to render them useful. How can they possibly con|template the representation of a happy family without attempting to imitate the pleasing model? How can they be affected with the charms of conjugal union, even where love is wanting, without increasing and confirming their own at|tachment? In quitting their book, they will nei|ther be discontented with their situation, nor dis|gusted at their labour: on the contrary, every 〈◊〉〈◊〉 around them will assume a more delightful aspect, their duties will seem ennobled, their taste ••or the pleasures of nature will revive; her genuine sensations will be rekindled in their hearts, and per••••iving happiness within their reach, they will learn to taste it as they ought: they will perform the same functions, but with another soul; and what they did before as persants only, they will now transact as real patriarohs.

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