ADVERTISEMENT TO THIS VOLUME. THE text of the Citizen of the World' here given is mainly that of the third edition, 1774, the latest that Goldsmith could have had any hand in. To it is now added in footnotes, and for the first time, the dates and varying readings of the Letters as they first appeared in the Public Ledger of 1760-61. These dates and variations often throw light not only upon the subject matter of the essays, but upon the life, works, and times of the author. The Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning' is from the author's second edition, 1774. But so much of the first edition having been omitted from the second, and these omitted portions being now generally thought to be at least as interesting as the rest-especially as elucidating the story of Goldsmith's earliest struggles-the rejected portions are reprinted partly in the form of foot-notes and partly in an Appendix. These omitted portions have been given only in part by previous editors. The present edition is the first to give the whole. LONDON, 1885. |