OBSERVER. -Multorum providus urbes Et mores hominum inspexit -HORAT. BY RICHARD CUMBERLAND, ESQ. N° 1-51. VOL. XXXVIII. No. 1. INTRODUCTORY paper. Some description of the present work, particularly of the literary anecdotes of Greece. 2. Sect of the Dampers described. Quotation from Pliny's letters. 3. Love of praise. Instances of flattery in the dedication of Sepulveda to the king of Spain, also in Ben Jonson's masques in the court of James I. That poet an imitator of Aristophanes. Vanity of authors in prefixing their prints to their works. Portrait of a citizen on horseback. Anecdote of a dancing-master and his scholar. 4. Visit to Sir Theodore and Lady Thimble. Their country house and family described. 5. Visit continued. Calliope reads part of an epic poem. Doctor Mac Infidel discourses against Christ's mira cles. 6. Conversation with Calliope subsequent to Dr. Mac In fidel's discourse. Two letters from Captain Henry Constant to that young lady. 7. Calliope's interview and reconciliation with Captain Constant described in a letter from that young lady. 8. History of Pythagoras. 9. The same continued to his death. 10. Pythagoras compared with Christ; the heathen argument against revealed religion. 11. Defence of Christ's miracles against modern cavils, par ticularly of the supernatural darkness at the passion. 12. Danger of sudden elevation. Quotation from Ben Jon son's Sir Epicure Mammon. Letters from Pisistratus to Solon, and Solon to Pisistratus, in answer. Anecdotes of the latter. 13. On the subject of divorces, with ironical rules for their further propagation and encouragement. 14. Tragic story of Abdullah and Quarima. 15. Upon resignation to Providence. Diary of Chaubert the misanthrope. 16. Chaubert's diary concluded. Translation of a fragment of Philemon. No. 17. Character of Vanessa. Visit to that lady, with a con- 18. Character of Leontine. Remarks upon duelling. Pre- 19. Tragic story of a Portuguese gentleman, who died by 20. On the practice of puffing. Enumeration of persons ad- 21. Remarks on the state of society in France, Spain, and 26. History and account of Mr. Jedediah Fish, a teacher of 27. Remarks upon novels; particularly of Richardson's Cla- 28. Upon modern marriages. Several instances adduced. 29. Of actors; their merit and importance. Advice to that 30. Of prejudice; its various descriptions. 31. Account of magic from the old Christian writers, with several anecdotes of magicians, &c. 32. Continuation of the above. The forms and ceremonies used by sorcerers, collected from the above writers. 33. A visit to Vanessa. An old gentleman silences a talkative person by a fable. Vanessa's remarks thereupon. 34. Letter from Mr. Jedediah Fish, with the cases of several persons brought to their hearing by his process. Re- flections thereupon, and a hint to parents. 35. Upon pleasure as pursued by system. A meditation upon this pursuit, entitled the Voluptuary's Soliloquy. 36. The advantages of public education exemplified in the story of Geminus and Gemellus. 37. The story of Geminus and Gemellus concluded. 38. The case of the Jews considered. Their method of se- creting their religion in countries where the inquisition is in force. Letter from Abraham Abrahams, a Jew. Observations on this letter. Some hints as a general 39. Dialogue between two Jews, extracted from an old novel written by Thomas Naish in 1594. Descriptions of |