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CONTENTS.
VOL. XXIII.
1
No. HISTORICAL and Biogra-
phical Preface.
1. Courage, why honoured as a
virtue. Adventurer cha-
racterized, and his Achiev-
ments projected........ HAWKESWORTH
2. Intellectual and Corporal La-
bour compared
3. Project for a new Pantomime ,
Entertainment ••••••• BATHURST
4. Of the different kinds of Nare
rative, and why they are,
universally read., haWKESWOPTX
5. Remark on Dreaming. Va-
rious Transmigrations re-
lated by a Flea
5. Project for an Auction of
Manuscripts, by Timothy
Spinbrain, Author
BATHURST
7. Distress encouraged to hope:
the History of Melissa. • HAWKESWORTH
8. The History of Melissa con-
cluded..... 9. Impropriety of Signs ...... BATHURST
No.
10. Happiness and Misery, how far the
necessary effects of Virtue and
Vice
HAWKES,
11. An allegorical Letter from To-Day
12. The Influence of Infidelity upon
Moral Conduct: Story of Opsi-
nous ••••
13. The Story of Opsinous continued
14. The Story of Opsinous concluded
15. The Insolence and Absurdity of Ad-
vertisements by Quacks, Per-
nicious consequences of granting
them patents
16. Of instructing by Fiction ....
17. Curiosity necessary to entertain-
ment and knowledge. Story of
Mr. Friendly and his nephew..
18. Critical remarks upon Fahles. Fable
of the dog and shadow upon a
new plan
19. Proposals to improve the Dramatic
Entertainment of the Animal
Consedians :
20. Imperceptible Deviation to Vice.
Moral Use of punishment. Re-
monštrances of conscience uni-
versal. Anurath, an eastern
Story
21. Eastern Story continued.....
22. Eastern Story concluded...
23. Scheme of a new Memorandum-
Book for the Use of the Ladies,
with a specimen
24. A parallel between an evening
spent at the playhouse, and the
several stages of Life......
•••••••• HAWKES.
HAWKES.
an
25. Infelicities of Matrimony produced
by an imprudent Choice: ex-
emplified in many characters.. BATHURST
26. Right of the Town to suppress
Dramatic Performances ;
Allegory
II AWKES,
27. An Allegorical Letter from Night,
Anon.-Requisites to the suc-
cessful Practice of Physic....
28. The practice of the positive Duties
of Religion influence moral
conduct
29. The Character of a Gamester de-
fended....
30. The ladies directed in the Choice
of a husband. Good nature
described.....
31. The Origin of Cunning; an Alle-
gory :
32. Religion the only foundation of
Content, an Eastern Story....
33. Indirect quarreling in Company
censured ..
34. Folly of extravagance. The Story
of Misargyrus ..
JOHNSON
35. Plan of a new Paper called the
Beau Monde
36. Directions to the Ladies, for their
Conduct to a Husband ... HAWKES.
37. Happiness properly estimated by
its degree in whatever subject,
Remarkable Instances of Cruel-
ty to Brutes
Elegy on a Blackbird
JAGO.
38. No life pleasing to God, that is
not useful to Man; an Eastern
Stury ..