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CONTENTS.
The First English Catalogue-On the Compilation of English Catalogues in general
Earliest English Medical Work; "Breviary of Practice"-"Breviary of Health
Penny less Parliament of Threadbare Poets; a curious Black-letter Tract
The Choice of Change; singular Address to the Reader
Madrigal, by Lodge; not in Ellis's Specimens
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Massinger, Field, and Daborne
Original Story of King Lear
A Melancholy Fancy, by Dr. Sineroes; from the Lansdown MSS.
Extempore Lines to a Pint Pot; from the Lansdown MSS.
Supplement to Gray's Elegy in a Church-yard
Bull against Wigs
Commissions for the Trials of Henry VI. and the Duke of Clarence
Knights of the Post; their Antiquity and Characteristics
Naturalization of the Scots
"We have a Douglas yet;" a Scottish Dialogue
Marriage Vow; Variations it has undergone
Monopoly of the Lions
Whittington and his Cat; a Fable borrowed from the East
The " Desatir;" or, "Sacred Writings of the Persian Prophets"
L'Erzom Vedam; a literary Fabrication
Fable in Milton's Life refuted
Return to Savage Life (an Indian Story)
The Rights of Waters, an Apologue; after the manner of Paine's "Rights of Man" 42
Letters of the Earl and Countess of Rochester, and Duke of Buckingham
Rochester and Charles the Second (Letter from Waller to St. Evremond)
Epitaph for Rare Ben; by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmoreland.
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52
On the Miseries of Royalty, by the Daughter of Louis XIV.
The Snow Spirit; written in Bermuda
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72
Miss Edgeworth and the Jews
Commonwealth Purity-Election Harangues
Tributes to the Memory of Churchill
Singular Instance of a Man selling his Body
Independent Letter of British Sailors
Corporation Eloquence in the Reign of Charles II.
Poetical Coincidences and Quotations
The Lady Buried Alive; a romantic Story
List of Sir Isaac Newton's unpublished Works
Indian Eloquence
The Plague of Riches; by the Rev. M. Pilkington
Political Mystery Unravelled
Steele's Domestic Life, as pourtrayed in his Letters
The Golden Tooth; a Legend
False Metaphor in the Pantheon at Paris
Lines on a Breach of Promise of Marriage
Philological Law Plea
Roger Payne, the eccentric Bookbinder
Singular Dedications
Eccentric Advertisements
A Claimant to "The Man of Feeling"
The Wirtemberg Biblical Library
Parker's; or the Bishop's Bible
Death of King James the First
Speech of Queen Elizabeth to the Polish Ambassador
Ancient Value of Books
Romantic Highwayman