With respect to the general plan of the Miscellany, they consider it as sufficiently sanctioned by the public approbation to preclude any material change. They will, however, always pay due attention to hints for its improvement; and although they wish to avoid embracing such a multiplicity of objects as must necessarily produce a very superficial survey of each, they would unwillingly reject any promising source of additional entertain ment. Animated by past favours, and happy in the prospect of increased resources for their future exertions, they close their first half-year's labour, and chearfully prepare for its renewal. London, May 30th, 1807. CONTENTS General Correspondence. Comparison of Manners inTwo Cen- turies. View of the Ely Fens. The Contrast, or Peace and War. On Scotch Marriages. Curious Letter. Correction of Gif- fard's Massinger. On a Passage in Horace. On Reprisals by Land.' Equivocal Marks of Insanity. Literary Disquisitions. Sketch of the Literary History of Greece. On the Elysian Fields of Antiquity. Accounts of, and Extracts from, Rare and Curious Books. Maunsell's English Catalogue. Killing, no Murder. Me- moirs of Distinguished Persons. Memoirs of the Life and Works of M. de Villoison. Original Poetry. Retrospect of Public Affairs. Literary and Miscellaneous Information. List of New Publications. Meteorological Register. Discoveries and Improvements in Arts and General Correspondence. Certain French and English Words compared. Comparison of Manners in Two Centuries, (con- cluded.) On obsolete Charity Societies. On the Effects of Tax- ation on the Morals of the People. (2) Original Poetry. Retrospect of Public Affairs. Literary and No. III. General Correspondence. View of the Changes effected in Russia under the Reign of the Emperor Alexander. On the Caroccio. An Excursion to Farnham. Parallel of Dr. Priestley and Dr, Beattie. Poetical Use of the Scottish Dialect. On a Simile of Andrew Marvell. Scotch Marriages and Foreign Governesses. On a Passage in Horace. Mode of softening Controversy. On Seymour's Remark on Shakespeare. Letter from Mr. Cogan. Some Account of the Library of the British Museum. Mr. Rutt on Wakefield's Memoir. Literary Disquisitions. On the Poems of Homer. On the Elysian Fields of Antiquity, concluded. Accounts of, and Extracts from, Rare and Curious Books. Analysis of the Amadigi of Bernardo Tasso. Memoirs of Distinguished Persons. Memoir of the Life of Dona Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza. Original Poetry, Retrospect of Public Affairs. Literary and Miscellaneous Information, List of New Publications. Meteorological Register. Discoveries and Improvements in Arts and Manufactures. Obituary of Remarkable characters.-General Paoli. Mr. Taplin. Mr. Crowe. Domestic Occurrences. Bankrupts. Foreign Occurrences. Commercial Report. Price of Stocks. Agricultural Report. Prices of Grain. No. IV. General Correspondence. On Reviews. View of the Changes ffected in Russia under the Reign of the Emperor Alexander, (concluded.) concluded.) On Bottles launched in the Sea. Spanish Dirge on Trafalgar. Translation of Two Letters of Leonardo Aretino. Anecdotes respecting the Spectator. Mr. Walker's Address to Patentees, &c. On a Passage in Livy. On Seduction of Females. Omniana. The dead Men of Pest, a Hungarian legend. Moral Purpose of "The Miseries of Human Life," Classical Disquisitions, On the Poems of Homer, (continued.). Translation of Greek Monumental Inscriptions from the Anthologia. Accounts of, and Extracts from, Rare and Curious Books. L'Amadigi di M. Bernardo Tasso, (continued.) The Passions of the Minde. Description of the Race of Stewarts. Memoirs of Distinguished Persons. Memoir of the Life of Dona Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (continued.) Original Poetry. Literary and Miscellaneous Information. List of New Publications. Meteorological Register. Discoveries and Improvements in Arts and Manufactures. Domestic Occurrences. Bankrupts. Foreign Occurcences. Retrospect of Public Affairs. Commercial Report. Price of Stocks. Agricultural Report. Prices of Grain. Notice to Correspondents. No. V. General Correspondence. On State Lotteries. On Scotch Marriages, On the State of the Peasantry in Devonshire. Mr. Seymour's Reply. Letter from a late Critical Reviewer. Translation of a Text in Scripture. Account of the Cork Institution. On GramOn the Culture of Carrots. Irish and English Bulls. matical Inaccuracy. On a Passage in Milton. On French Metre. Remarkable Religious Controversy. Hawkins's Voyage to Guinea. A Peculiarity in Herodotus. Classical Disquisitions. On the 1 Register. |