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  _Publications in Print_

  1948-1949

  16. Nevil Payne's _Fatal Jealousy_ (1673).

  17. Nicholas Rowe's _Some Account of the Life of Mr. WilliamShakespeare_ (1709).

  18. "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); andAaron Hill's Preface to _The Creation_ (1720).

  1949-1950

  22. Samuel Johnson's _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two Ramblerpapers (1750).

  23. John Dryden's _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681).

  1950-1951

  26. Charles Macklin's _The Man of the World_ (1792).

  1951-1952

  31. Thomas Gray's _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751); and_The Eton College Manuscript_.

  1952-1953

  41. Bernard Mandeville's _A Letter to Dion_ (1732).

  1953-1954

  45. John Robert Scott's _Dissertation on the Progress of the FineArts_.

  1954-1955

  49. Two St. Cecilia's Day Sermons (1696-1697).

  51. Lewis Maidwell's _An Essay upon the Necessity and Excellency ofEducation_ (1705).

  52. Pappity Stampoy's _A Collection of Scotch Proverbs_ (1663).

  1958-1959

  75. John Joyne, _A Journal_ (1679).

  76. Andre Dacier, _Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry_ (1705).

  1959-1960

  80. [P. Whalley's] _An Essay on the Manner of Writing History_ (1746).

  83. _Sawney and Colley (1742) and other Pope Pamphlets._

  84. Richard Savage's _An Author to be lett_ (1729).

  1960-1961

  85-6. _Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals._

  87. Daniel Defoe, _Of Captain Mission and his Crew_ (1728).

  90. Henry Needler, _Works_ (1728).

  1961-1962

  93. John Norris, _Cursory Reflections Upon a Book Call'd. An EssayConcerning Human Understanding_ (1690).

  94. An Collins, _Divine Songs and Meditacions_ (1653).

  95. _An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding_(1751).

  96. _Hanoverian Ballads._

  1962-1963

  97. Myles Davies, _Athenae Britannicae_ (1716-1719).

  98. _Select Hymns Taken Out of Mr. Herbert's Temple_ (1697).

  99. Thomas Augustine Arne, _Artaxerxes_ (1761).

  100. Simon Patrick, _A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude-Men_(1662).

  101-2. Richard Hurd, _Letters on Chivalry and Romance_ (1762).

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  Publications for 1963-1964

  SAMUEL RICHARDSON, _Clarissa_: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, andPostscript. Introduction by R. F. Brissenden.

  THOMAS D'URFEY, _Wonders in the Sun, or the Kingdom of the Birds_(1706). Introduction by William W. Appleton.

  DANIEL DEFOE, _A Brief History of the Poor Palatine Refugees_ (1709).Introduction by John Robert Moore.

  BERNARD MANDEVILLE, _An Enquiry into the Causes of the FrequentExecutions at Tyburn_ (1725). Introduction by Malvin R. Zirker, Jr.

  JOHN OLDMIXON, _An Essay on Criticism_ (1728). Introduction by R. J.Madden, C.S.B.

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  Transcriber's Notes:

  Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_.

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  Overstruck passages are indicated by ~overstrike~.

  Long "s" has been modernized.

  The following misprints have been corrected: "Postcsript" corrected to "Postscript" (page iv) "1947" corrected to "1747" (page x) "were were" corrected to "were" (page 14)

  The original text includes several blank spaces. These are represented by_____ in this text version.

  Additional spacing after some of the quotes is intentional to indicateboth the end of a quotation and the beginning of a new paragraph aspresented in the original text.