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....

COL. & THORN.

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,

a Lion, and other Animals...

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-

......

UNKNOWN

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No.

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..

....

EARL OF CORK

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..

COL. & THORN.

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

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obliged to undergo on account of Elec-

tion Matters....

Reflections on the dangerous Conse-

....

No.

quences of Ladies interfering in Elec-

tions; with a Proposal to prevent

them...

COL. & THORN.

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.....