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OF

VOL. I.

No. I.

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

Manufactures. Domestic Occurrences. Foreign Occurrences,

Agricultural Report.

Commercial Report.

Prices of Grain.

Price of Stocks.

No. II.

Sketch

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. Mr. Cogan on Homer's

Hymns. On the Enigmatic Style. Omniana, containing nineteen

articles of Remark and Anecdote. Literary Information.

of the Literary History of Greece, concluded. On the Elysian

Fields of Antiquity, continued. Accounts of, and Extracts from, Rare

and Curious Books. Maunsell's English Catalogue, Second Part.

Choise of Change. L'Amadigi di M. Bernardo Tasso. Memoirs of

Distinguished Persons. Memoir of the Rev. Thomas Wakefield.

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