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SECOND VOLUME.

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XXXVI. ON DRESS. Fashions in queen Elizabeth's
days compared with the present. Revolu
tions in the Female dress. Dress the study
of the Male part of the world. Birth and
Secret History of Fashions.

XXXVII. Panegyric on the Clare-Market Orator. Sub-

jects of his lectures. Elegance of his ad-

vertisements. Original letter from the

Orator to Mr. Town. Letter from James

Wait; to prove that gentlemen come to the

Robin Hood Society.

XXXVIII. On Courtship. Marriages between persons

of quality not founded on love. Plan of a

Repository for males and females, to be

disposed of in marriage to the best bidder;

with a specimen.

XXXIX. On the vanity of pompous funerals. Of

the hearse and mourning-coach.

Of the

atchievement; and other formalities in

mourning.

XL. Letter, describing two characters among

Gamesters; the Dupe; and the Sharper.

XLI. Letter from Mr. Village, with the copy of a

letter from a young Cantab, to his friend

in town, giving an account of his exploits

at New-market races......New-market con-

sidered as a supplement to the University

of Cambridge.

XLII. Study of the English language recommend-

ed. Neglect of it owing to the pride of

Men of Learning, and the affectation of

Fine Gentlemen.

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XLIII. Survey of the audience at the play-houses.

Behaviour of persons on the Stage; in the

Boxes; in the Flesh Market; in the Pit;

in the Court of Criticism; in the Middle

and Upper Galleries. Distribution of the

theatre into pit, box and gallery, account-

ed for in the tale of a tub.

XLIV. The Female World made up almost entirely

of ladies. Distribution of them into Mar-

ried Ladies, Maiden or Young Ladies, La-

dies of Quality, Fine Ladies, and Ladies

of Pleasure.

XLV. On news-papers.

Their articles of news.

Subjects of their advertisements. Intrigues

carried on by them. Want of news-papers

among the ancients regretted. Specimen

of curious advertisements in the daily pa-

pers.

XLVI. Letter from a country gentleman, concern-

ing the practice of face-painting among

the ladies in town.

XLVII. On Macklin's British Inquisition. Speech

on the question: Whether the Stage might

not be made more conducive to Virtue ?

XLVIII. On Christmas. Celebration of it in town and

country. On Christmas boxes. This sea-

son disagreeable to persons of fashion.

XLIX. Letter containing a scheme for a Female

Parliament. Usefulness of it, and objec-

tions against it. Account of the Covent.

Garden Society, consisting of certain Good-

natured Females, divided into Ladies and

Commons.

L. On Suicide. Account of the Last Guinea
Club. Assembly at White's, a kind of
Last Guinea Club. Different ways of Sui-
cide between vulgar persons and persons
of fashion. Punishment for Suicides
proposed. Frequency of self-murders
England falsely imputed to the climate.
Despair, brought on by extravagance and
debauchery, a cause of Suicide. Free-
thinking another. Specimen of a bill of

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Suicide after the manner of, but distinct-
from, the common bills of mortality.
LI. On Kept-mistresses and Keepers. Character
of an hen-pecked keeper....of a keeper, a
married man....of a keeper, an old man.
Shifts of persons in middling or low life,
who take girls into keeping.

LII. Two letters, from a pretty miss in breeches,
and from a blood in petticoats.

LIII. On Dram-drinking. Rich cordials (howe-
ever recommended by their specious fo-
reign names) no less pernicious than com-
mon gin. Letter from an husband, com-
plaining of his wife, who has taken to
drinking by way of medicine.

LIV. On frolicks. Instances among the bucks,

&c. and among the ladies.

LV. On a new sect among the ladies, called Evites. 105

LVI. On superstitions in love. Letter from a coun-

try girl, enumerating the several tricks
which she had tried, in order to know who
was to be her husband.

LVII. On the import and extent of the phrase Good

Company.

LVIII. Proposal for pressing all the useless and detri-

mental members of the community, such

as country squires, town squires, bloods,

duellists, fortune-hunters, gamesters, and

Free thinkers.

LIX. Superstitions observed in the country.

LX. Proposal to erect a school for whist for the

instruction of young ladies.

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LXI. On Sectaries and enthusiasts. Sects found-

ed by the lowest mechanics-History of

Religion, Superstition and Atheism.

134

LXII. Debates in the Female Parliament, in the

committee of Religion. Speech of Miss

Grave-airs, setting forth that the female

dress inclined to popery. Resolutions

proposed to prevent it, Debates upon them. 140

LXII. On Race-horses. Panegyric on White-nose.
Pedigree of race-horses carefully preserv-

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150

ed. Praises of the jockey. Proposed to

preserve his breed, Genealogy of a jockey. 145

LXIV. Petition of the dogs, a dream. Speeches of
a greyhound, a pointer, a lap-dog and o-

thers.

LXV. Letter, remonstrating against the use of paint

among the men. Description of a male

toilet....Characters of John Hardman and

Mr. Jessamy.

LXVI. On Masquerades....Fantastic dresses there....

Plan for a naked masquerade.

LXVII. On Imitation. Our present writers only co-

piers of others. Verses on imitation.

LXVIII. On the public Gardens. Dearness of the pro-

visions there. Description and conversa-

tion of a citizen, with his wife and two

daughters at Vauxhall.

LXIX. Female poets riding Pegasus, a vision.

LXX. Letters.... from an author to Mr. Town, with

a proffer of his assistance.... from another

author, complaining of the custom of giv-

ing money to servants....from a methodist

teacher....Letter on the wonderful encrease

in the order of gentlemen.

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THE

CONNOISSEUR.

BY MR. TOWN,

CRITIC AND CENSOR-GENERAL.

No. XXXVI. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1754.

Non sic incerto mutantur flamine Syrtes,
Nec folia hyberno jam tremefacta Noto.

Our dress, still varying, nor to forms confin'd,
Shifts like the sands, the sport of ev'ry wind.

PROPERT.

I HAVE somewhere seen a picture, representEng a man and woman of every nation in the world, dressed according to the mode of their respective countries. I could not help reflecting at the time, that the fashions, which prevail in England for the space of a century, would enable any of our painters to fill a piece with as great a variety of habits; and that an Englishman or Englishwoman in one part of t, would be no more like an Englishman or Englishwoman in the other, than a Frenchman resembles a Chinese. Very extraordinary revolutions have already happened in the habits of this kingdom; and as ress is subject to unaccountable changes, posterity may perhaps see without surprise, our ladies strut

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