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CONTENTS.
VOL. XXX.
NO HISTORICAL and Biographical Preface.
1. Survey of the Town. Characters at Gar-
raway's, Batson's, St. Paul's, and the
Chapter Coffee Houses; at the Tem-
ple, the Bedford Coffee House, White's,
and other Places.-Mr. Town's De-
sign in these Papers....
COL. & THORN.
2. On the different Branches of Virtu. Let-
ter, containing a Catalogue of Pictures
collected abroad by an eminent Jew.
Letter from a Gamester, advising the
Author to undertake a Defence of
Gaming.
3. The Ocean of Ink, a Dream..
4. Account of a new Order of Females,
called Demi-Reps....
5. Letter from a Physician, with the Account
of a Plague newly broke out in Lon-
don. Different Appearances and Ef-
fects of it on a Great Man; on Mem-
bers of Parliament; on Land and Sea
Officers; on a Common Councilman,
and an Alderman of the City; on the
Club at White's; on the Ladies, particu-
larly a Maid of Honour; and others.
6. Education of the Muses, a Fable; with
No.
it's Application to Authors. Progress
of an Author exmplified in Mr. Town's
own Life...
7. Letter, on Married People fondling before
Company. Behaviour of a loving Cou-
ple at Dinner. Indecency of modern
Plays censured.
8. On the External Ornaments used by Wri-
ters. Advantages arising to them from
the Arts used in Printing..
9. On Free-thinking. Abuses committed by
the Vulgar in this Point. Free-thinking
Debates at the Robin Hood Society.
The Unbeliever's Creed.-Mr. Town's
Address to both Houses of Parliament.
10. On the Want of Learning in Land-Officers.
11. On the Excursions of young Academics
to London. Steele's Character of young
Bookwit, an Oxonian. Conversation
between two in the Bedford Coffee
House, and a Set of them at the Shaks-
peare. Journal of a Week's Trans-
actions of an Oxonian in Town. Ode,
imitated from Horace, sent by a fellow
Collegian to one of these Academical
Rakes..
12. Absurdity of Lord Bolingbroke represent-
ing Moses as making Beasts account-
able for Crimes. Trial of Beasts, a
Vision. Indictments against an Hog, a
Cat, Parrot, a Milch Ass, a Monkey,
UNKNOWN
a Lion, and other Animals...... COL. & THORN.
13. Letter from Mr. Village, concerning
Elections. Account of a Borough
Town divided into two Parties, Chris-
tians and Jews. An Anti-Judaic En-
tertainment. Character of a Country
Knight, a violent Enemy to the Jews.
14. Letter, complaining of the Whisperers
and Giglers among the Fair Sex. In-
stance of their rude Behaviour during
a Visit. Whispering and Gigling im-
proper at Church, in the Play House,
and other Places..
EARL OF CORK
15. On Bets: particularly, on the Custom of
Pitting, as practised at White's; i. e.
staking one Man's Life against another.
Character of Montano a noble Game-
ster..
COL. & THORN
16. Letter from Oxford, on the Story of Shaks-
peare's Merchant of Venice. Copy of
an original Ballad, (preserved in the
Ashmolean Museum) from which
Shakspeare is supposed to have bor-
rowed Part of his Plot...
17. Letter, proving the City of London to be
an University. Arts and Sciences taught
there in greater Perfection than at Öx-
ford or Cambridge..
18. On the Dishonesty of Connoisseurs. In-
stances of it, and Punishment proposed
for it. Story of a Virtuoso's Design
to rob a Church...
19. Letter, on the different Tastes in Eating.
Luxury at White's. Difference between
the Taverns about St. James's and the
'Change. Of the Taverns about Co-
vent Garden. Story of a Cook at one
of them, tossing up the Shoe of a
Fille de Joye in a Ragout. Charac-
ters to be met with at Chop Houses,
&c.- -Letter from Goliah English,
remonstrating against the fashionable
Neglect shewn to Roast Beef..... EARL OF CORK
20. Letter from a Lady of Quality in the
Country, describing the Miseries she is
obliged to undergo on account of Elec-
tion Matters....
Reflections on the dangerous Conse-
quences
of Ladies interfering in Elec-
tions; with a Proposal to prevent
them...
21. Tquassouw and Knonmquaiha, an Hot-
tentot Story..
....
22. Letter, on the modern Method of Educa-
tion. Characters of Lady Belle Modely
and the Colonel her Husband. Con-
sequences of the fashionable Education
of their Son and Daughter...
23. Letter from Mr. Village, with a Descrip-
tion of a Quack Doctor, and a Com-
pany of Strolling Players in a Country
Town..
24. On the Learning of the Polite World.
Proper Studies for Persons of Fashion.
Letter containing a Scheme for a Po-
lite Circulating Library; with a Speci-
men of the Books..
25. On the Vanity of People making an Ap-
pearance above their Circumstances.
Pride and Poverty of a little Frenchman,
known by the name of Count. Artifices
in Dress made Use of by the Shabby
Genteel. Second Hand Gentry among
the Women. Instances of this Vanity
in several Families:-And in the Men
of Pleasure without Fortunes. Story
of an Economist, who kept a Mistress.
26. On the Amusements of Sunday. Beha-
viour of Citizens, and Diary of a Cit's
Transactions, on that Day. Proposal
for Abolishing Christianity, and turn-
ing the Churches into Free-thinking
Meeting Houses...
27. On Hard Words. Affected Use of them censured—In Abstract Speculations- In Voyage Writers-In the Pulpit- In Essays, and other Familiar Writings -And in Common Conversation.....