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CONTENTS
OF
VOLUME I.
.
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 .
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
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
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
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-
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
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
21. Danger of young ladies being intro-
duced into a society and style of
eater
manners above their natural situation
in life; in a letter from A. G. : · Craig
22. Account of a little speaking automaton,
the Poupée parlante, and of some
incidents which happened during the
author's visit to her
23. Vindication of that sort of preference
which women are supposed to show
to men of inferior talents . . Abercromby
24. Letter from Jeremiah Dy-soon, a vale-
tudinarian, giving an account of the
grievances he suffers from his wife. Fraser Tytler.
25. Critical examination of the tragedy of
the Fair Penitent-Some remarks on
Mrs. Siddons's performance of the
character of Calista .
D. Hume
26. Insignificance and unhappiness of a cer-
tain species of bachelor-lounger
27. An examination of the moral effects of
tragedy
28. The same subject continued .
29. Some account of the late Mr. William
Strahan
30. Letter from a member of the Mirror
Club, relating some particulars of that
society
31. On rural pleasures and rural contempla-
tion-A visit of the author to the
country dwelling of Col. Caustic Mackenzie
32. Account of the colonel's family and occu-
pation in the country-Sketch of the
character of his sister
33. Relation of a visit to the house of Lord
Grubwell, a neighbour of Col. Caustic's
36. Importance of feelings accommodated to.
happiness, illustrated in the characters
of Clitander and Eudocius
35. Fallaciousness of that generosity and
friendship which are supposed to re-
side in the society of men of pleasure
and dissipation. Character and story
of Flavillus
36. Narrative of a country family raised to
sudden affluence by the arrival of a
son from India, and of the taxes to
which the enjoyment of its wealth
is subject; in a letter from Marjory
Mushroom
37. Effects of the introduction of ancient
mythology into the poetry of modern
times
38. Dream of a court instituted for the disso-
lution of marriages, on the ground of
a deception in some of the parties Mackenzie
39. High and brilliant talents not the most
conducive to eminence or success in
the departments of business and ambi-
tion
MʻLeod Bannatyn
40. Qualifications required in a country cler-
gyman by his patron or his patron's
family-Amiable picture of the cler-
gyman of Colonel Caustic's parish Mackenzie
41. Arguments for the existence of sorcery
in the present times-Enumeration of
various kinds of modern witchcraft
42. On the poems of Hamilton of Bangour
Prof. Richardson
43. The evils of a good neighbourhood Craig
44. Narrative of the happiness of a virtuous
and benevolent East Indian; in a
letter from John Truman
45. Second letter from Jeremiah Dy-soon,
containing a narrative of his expedi-
tion to England for the benefit of his
health
46. The power of fashion in regulating the
deportment of men towards the other
sex ; in a letter from Almeria . Anonymous
47. Law of Amasis, for every Egyptian to
give an account of his manner of live-
lihood-Dream of such an institution
in Britain
48. The sentiment and moral of time-Reflec-
tions occasioned by the beginning of
49. Observations on comedy
50. The same subject continued-Moral ef-
fects of comedy
51. Senex on our neglect of the improvement
and of the progress of time-Proposal
by Memory Modish for a new sort of
memorandum-book of things to be
forgotten
another year