107 . Love and Friendship, or the Story of Alcan- der aud Septimius, taken from a Byzan. On the Policy of concealing our Wants or Po. On the Versatility of Popular Favour Specimen of a Magazine in Miniature On the Increased love of Life with Age On the Ladies' Passion for levelling all Dis- Asem, an Eastern Tale; or, the Wisdom of Providence in the Moral Government On the English Clergy, and Popular Preachers 188 On the Advantages to be derived from send ing a Judicions Traveller into Asia 193 A Reverie at the Boar's Head Tavern, in Adventures of a Strolling Player Rules enjoined to be observed at a Russian The Genius of Love: an Eastern Apologue 230 History of the Distresses of an English dis- On the Frailty of Man: supposed to be written Folly of Attempting to learn Wisdom in Re- Letter supposed to be written by a Common Councilman, at the time of the Corona. A second Letter supposed to be written by a . ADVERTISEMENT, ON presenting to the public a new edition of works so well known and so highly celebrated, it may appear necessary to offer some reason for the undertaking. The productions of Goldsmith, though written so very recently, have gone through innumerable editions; but it has happened, that each succeeding editor has copied from the last publication, especially if it were issued on fine paper and beautifully hot-pressed; and he also added his own suggestions in the way of amendations, till the result has been a very considerable deviation, in many passages, from the text of the author. Many and glaring instances of this kind might be pointed out; but it is not necessary, and it would be truly invidious, wbile such copies are yet unsold. It is sufficient for the present editor, that he has succeeded, after much minute labour, in detecting those interpolations and deviations, and that he can now confidently present to the friends of elegant literature, a correct and pure edition of the Poems and Essays of the amiable and deservedly esteemed Dr. Oliver Goldsmith. |