Just Published, No. I, 8vo (pp. 104), Price 2s. 6d., to be
continued Quarterly,

THE

RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.

UPWARDS of thirty years ago a Retrospective Review was established, which had, for some time, great success. Since it was discontinued, the want of a Publication of this kind has been much felt and often complained of, and these complaints partly have led to the present attempt. If, indeed, the passing literature of the day can furnish materials for so many Reviews as are now established, one surely may be dedicated to the vast field of the literature of the Past. It is our design to select from this field subjects which are most likely to interest modern readers; we shall lay before them, from time to time, Essays on various branches of the literature of former days, English or Foreign; we shall give accounts of rare and curious Books; point out and bring forward beauties from forgotten writers; and tell the knowledge and the opinions of other days. It is, in fact, intended to comprise copious Critical Analyses of whatever Old Books seem to possess sufficient interest under any of these heads; (the Works of Living Authors will be excluded). In addition to these, one Division of each Part under the head Anecdota Literaria, will be devoted to the Printing, (for the first time) of Short Pieces from inedited Manuscripts, of different periods, preserved in the British Museum, the Bodleian, and other Public or Private Libraries; and another Division will be open to Correspondence on Literary Subjects.

CONTENTS OF No. I.

1. Mrs. Behn's Dramatic Writings.

2. Bishop Berkeley on Tar-Water.

3. French Pictures of the English in the last Century.

4. Eburne's "Plaine Pathway to Plantations;" on Population and Emigration at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century.

5. Increase Mather's Remarkable Providences.

6. The Travels of Boullaye-le-Gouz.

7. The First Edition of Shakespeare.

ANECDOTA LITERARIA :-Diary of John Richards, a Dorsetshire Gentleman. Household Inventory of the Fifteenth Century.-(From a MS. in private hands.)

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