USEFUL PROJECTS, &c.

An improved Method of tanning Leather; by David Macbride. M. D. 117

Account of the Method of salting and drying Cod in Newfoundland....124

Mr. Mudge's Cure for a recent catarrhous Cough.....

.127

Anecdotes against the Poisonous Effects of corrosive Sublimate, Verdigrise,

and Lead.

.130

Short Account of the Process used at Paris for making Nitre........131

Description of a Glass Apparatus for making artificial Mineral Waters;

also the Processes used therein..

ANTIQUITIES.

Account of the first Insitution of Poet Laureat...

..132

...139

Order and Manner of creating Knights of the Bath in time of Peace..141

The Origin of Lotteries in England.

.145

Account of some remarkable ancient Ruins, lately discovered in the High-

lands and Northern Parts of Scotland .....
.146

Further Remarks on the supposed ancient Poems ascribed to Rowlie....153

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS.

The Origin of Knighthood and the Judical Combat of Torneaments and Bla-

the Sources of Chivalry....

zonry:

..160

Of Manners and Refinement; the dissolute Conduct of the Women amidst the

Decline and Oppressions of Fiefs; the general Corruption which invades

Society....

....165

On the Prevalence of the Feudal System in the East in early Times....168

Observations on an equal Land-Tax, by Dr. Burn....

.174

Two Letters written by Mr. Addison, in 1708, to the young Earl of War-

wick.....

.175

..179

...

Account of the Reception of King James at Cambridge, in 1614.....177

On Wit and Raillery; from Lord Chesterfield's Letters..

Extracts from a Letter of Mr. Horne to John Dunning, Esq. on the Con-

struction of certain English Particles.

Various Epitaphs..

POETRY.

Ode for the New Year, 1778....

Ode for his Majesty's Birth-day, June 4, 1778...

The Contest of the Seasons, or Winter Triumphant..

Epilogue to the Tragedy of Alfred; written by Mr. Garrick....

..183

..189

...

....

.197

.194

...199

Prologue to the Battle of Hastings; written by R. Cumberland, Esq. 196,

Prologue to the new Comedy of the Suicide..

Epilogue to the same; written by Mr. Garrick.

Prologue to Bonduca; written by Mr. Garrick.

Prologue and Epilogue to the new Comedy of The Fathers; both written by

Mr. Garrick.

Prologue and Epilogue to the new Comedy of the Sleep Walker......203

Verses by the late Earl of Chatham to David Garrick, Esq. and Mr.

Garrick's Answer

..200, 201

.203

...206

.207

.208

A Poetical Epistle to Dr. Goldsmith; or, the Supplement to his Retaliation,

a Poem

Verses by Sir John Denham, not printed in his Works.

Extracts from a " Poetical Epistle to an Eminent Painter”.

Sentimental Poetry, extracted from “The Wreath of Fashion”.

A Description of Tyme; from "Harington's Remains"

The Visit; by Theophilus Swift, Esq...

Verses to a Lady; by the same...

210

.211

.214

.214

Verses written by a Gentleman at the Leasowes, Aug. 20, 1778....216

On seeing Mrs. Crewe at Drury-Lane Theatre...

ACCOUNT of BOOKS for 1778.

.218

The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Com-

mencement of the Eighteenth Century. To which are prefixed Two Disser

tations: 1. On the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe. 2. On the

·Introduction of Learning into, England. Volumes 1st and 2d. By Tho-

mas Warton, B. D. Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and of the Society

of Antiquaries. Quarto...

...219

Miscellaneous State Papers. From 1501 to 1726. 2 vol. 4to.....234