......... No. spondents; Letters from a Lover UNKNOWN. ADDISON. on Planting .................. BYROM. .... UNKNOWN. ..... GROVE. ........................ UNKNOWN. ADDISON. ADDISON. ..... UNKNOWN. ........ tleman ........... ADDISON. 597. The Dreams of various Correspon. dents Temper ADDISON. GROVE. ................ UNKNOWN. ....... BYROM. ...... UNKNOWN. .......... 606. Embroidery recommended to the 607. Qualities necessary to make Mar- riage happy—the Flitch of Bacon 608. List of Persons who demanded the 609. Letters, on the improper Dress of young Clergymen-On Antipa- thies Against Embroidery ..... 610. Applause of Men not to be re- 611. Letter from a Lady insulted by her Seducer-Reflections on the Sub- ject 612. On the Pride of Genealogy 613. Letters, on Ambition-Eloquence 614. Questions on Widows, answered by 615. On Fear -Specimen 619. Answers to various Correspondents ......... UNKNOWN. tleman 623. Account of the Custom of Enborne 624. Division of Mankind into Classes- Pursuits of Avarice, Ambition, &c. TICKELL. ...... BLAND. No. GROVE. ....... UNKNOWN Translation of Cato's Soliloquy ......... UNKNOWN, proper Behaviour in Church -Verses on a Grotto.............. Advantages from PEARCE. GROVE, ..... UNKNOWN. THE SPECTATOR. N° 567. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1714. Inceptus clamor frustrutur hiantes. VIRG. Æn. vi. 493. The weak voice deceives their gasping throats. DRYDEN. I HAVE received private advice from some of my correspondents, that if I would give my 'paper a general run, I should take care to season it with scandal. I have indeed observed of late, that few writings sell which are not filled with great names and illustrious titles. The reader generally casts his eye upon a new book, and if he finds several letters separated from one another by a dash, he up peruses it with great satisfaction. An M and an h, a T and an r,with a short line buys it • Mand h means Marlborough, and T and an r means Treasurer. -S. n between them, has sold many an insipid pamphlet. Nay, I have known a whole edition go off by virtue of two or three well-written &c A sprinkling of the words “ faction, Frenchman, papist, plunderer,' and the like significant terms, in an Italic character, have also a very good effect upon the eye of the purchaser; not to mention scribbler, liar, rogue, rascal, knave, and villain,' without which it is impossible to carry on a modern controversy. Our party writers are so sensible of the secret virtue of an inuendo to recommend their productions, that of late they never mention the Qor P-t at length, though the speak of them with honour, and with that deference which is due to hem from every private person. It gives a secret satisfaction to a peruser of these mysterious works, that he is able to decypher them without help, and, by the strength of his own natural parts, to fill up a blank space, or make out a word that has only the first or last letter to it. Some of our authors indeed, when they would be more satirical than ordinary, omit only the vowels of a great man's name, and fall most unmercifully upon all the consonants. of writing was first of all introduced by T-m Br—wn,* of facetious memory, who, after having gutted a proper name of all its intermediate vowels, used to plant it in his works, and make as free with it as he pleased, without any danger of the statute. That I may imitate these celebrated authors, and publish a paper which shall be more taking than ordinary, I have here drawn up a very curious libel, in which a reader of penetration will find a great ieal of concealed satire, and, if he be acquainted This way * Tom Brown, |