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CONTENTS

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VOLUME I.

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No.

1. INTRODUCTION--Character of the author,

indolent with feeling, and vacant with

observation

Mackenzie

2. Importance of the duty of manners

3. The vanity of skill in what we do not

know, and the pedantry of valuing

ourselves on those branches of know-

ledge which we possess

Abercromby

4. The author becomes acquainted with Col.

Caustic, a fine gentleman of the last

age, somewhat severe in his remarks

on the present .

Mackenzie

3. On the writing of history-Ancient hi-

story compared with modern Cullen

6. The author attends Col. Caustic to a

play-Remarks of the colonel on the

entertainment and the audience Mackenzie

7. The regrets of him who has thrown away

domestic happiness in frivolous dissi-

pation; in a letter from Lucilius Anonymous

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8. M. Carefulon female loungers—Proposal

of an hospital for the idle

Anonymous

9. Ill effects of disgust with the world in

minds of sensibility, in a history of

himself by Hortensius

Craig

10. On party dress, by Neuter-Censure of

political violence, especially in the

ladies

Abercromby

11. Life of Sir Thomas Lounger, busy in

prospect, and doing nothing

Anonymous

12. Trifling circumstances often form the

criterion of character-Judgment of

a company drawn from the different

appearance of their hats

Cullen

13. The consequences of a town education and

society to the family of a country gen-

tleman; in a letter from Agrestis M Leod Bannatyn

14. Narrative of a modern dinner in company

with Col. Caustic

Abercromby

15. Description of a new variety of the hu.

man race, the Phusalophagos, or Toad-

Mackenzie

16. Defects of modern female education in

teaching the duties of a wife, exempli-

fied in the narrative of Horatius Tytler

17. Influence of the neighbourhood of a rich

Asiatic, in a letter from John Home-

spun

Mackenzie

18. Injustice of the world in forming an esti-

mate of character and conduct-Con-

trasts of those of Cleora and Aurelia Craig

19. Comparison of ancient with modern

times, much to the advantage of the

latter, by Paul Pasquin

Fraser Tytler

20. On novel-writing

Mackenzie

21. Danger of young ladies being intro-

eater

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