THE BEE.................. page 139

No I. Introduction - ................

On a beautiful Youth struck blind by Lightning - 146

Remarks on our Theatres - .......... ib.

The Story of Alcander and Septimius ---- 150

A Letter from a Traveller - ......... 155

Account of Mr. Maupertuis - .......

II. On Dress .................. 160

Some Particulars relative to Charles XII. - . - 165

Happiness dependant on Constitution - -.-. 171

On our Theatres - .............. 175

III. On the Use of Language - -

The History of Hypasia - ..... ..... 184

On Justice and Generosity -- .......

Some Particulars relative to Father Freijo - - . 193

IV. Miscellaneous ............... 195

A Flemish Tradition - ............ 200

The Sagacity of some Insects - ...

203

The Characteristics of Greatness - -

209

Conclusion of a City Night-piece -...

V. Upon Political Frugality : .......... 213

A Reverie ................. 224

A Word or Two upon High Life below Stairs -

Upon Unfortunate Merit ........... 232

VI. On Education ............. - 236

On the Instability of Worldly Grandeur . . .. 248

Some Account of the Academies of Italy ol... 252

N

- 212

N° VIL Of Eloquence ........... - page 255

Custom and Laws compared ........ - 264

On the Pride and Luxury of the Middling

Class of People - ............ - 268

Sabinus and Olinda - ............ 270

The Sentiments of a Frenchman on the Tem-

per of the English - .......

..... 273

VIII. On Deceit and Falshood ........ - 277

An Account of the Augustan Age of England - 283

Of the Opera in England - ......... 292

Preface to the ESSAYS - ..............

1. Description of various Clubs -..-.-.--. 302

II. Specimen of a Magazine in Miniature -... 311

III. Asem, an Eastern Tale; or Vindication of the

Wisdom of PROVIDENCE in the Moral Govern-

ment of the World - ............. 315

IV. On the English Clergy, and popular Preachers - 324

V. A Reverie at the Boar's Head Tavern, East- .

Cheap. --------........... 329

VI. Adventures of a Strolling Player ....... 344

VII. Rules enjoined to be observed at a Russian

Assembly ...... ........... 355

VIII. Biographical Memoir supposed to be written

by the Ordinary of Newgate - ...one. 357

A 3 . IX.
IX. National Concord -

X. Female Warriors ..... ......... 363

XI. National Prejudices .... ...... 368

XII. Taste ..........

XIII. Cultivation of Taste ... ...... 381

XIV. Origin of Poetry .............. 392

XV. Poetry distinguished from other Writing

XVI. Metaphors - .............

XVII. Hyperboles ..... .-.-.-.:.... 434

XVIII. Versification - ..

XIX. Schools of Music, Objections thereto, and

Answers -- ............

XX. Carolan the Irish Bard ..... ..... 449

XXI. On the Tenants of the Leasowes - ...

XXII. Sentimental Comedy -......

XXIII. Scotch Marriages - ......

.-.-. 461

XXIV. Dignity of Human Nature ....