CONTENTS TO VOL. XL.

No.

109. SKETCHES of various Characters in a populous

Country Town.

110. Remarks upon Anger.

111. Upon the Effects of Jealousy.

112. The Author's Explanation of his Motives in an

Address to his Readers upon the Conclusion of

this Volume.

113. The Story of Adelisa and Leander.

114. Abstract of the History of Athens from its

Origin to the time of Erecthonius, Founder of the

Eleusynian Mysteries and Panathenæa.

115. Short Account of the Mysteries-Athenian

History continued.

116. The Iliad of Homer described-Athenian His-

tory continued.

117. Remarks upon the Laws of Draco-Life and

Actions of Solon.

118. The Death and Character of Solon.

119. Of the public Library founded at Athens by

Pisistratus, and of the Alexandrian Libraries.

120. Athenian subject continued.

121. Of the early Greek Poets of the Names of Or-

pheus and Musæus-Of Thamyris and others-Of

Hesiod and the Sibyls.

122. Of Homer and his Works.

123. Of the Originality of Homer's Epic, and of his

Translator Mr. Pope-A Sample of Translation

in Heroic Metre.

124. Of Hesiod as compared with Homer-The

Causes of his Popularity-More particular Ac-

count of the Bards of the Name of Musæus-Of

No,

Archilochus, Stesichorus, Epimenides, Aristeas,

Simonides, Alcæus, and others.

125. Fragment of Hermesianax of Colophon, ad-

dressed to his Mistress Leontium, describing the

Amours of the Greek Poets-Of the Seven Wise

Men-Of the Calendar of the Greeks and other

Nations Of Thales-A Letter from Pherecydes

to that Philosopher.

126. Of the Origin and Introduction of the Drama—

Of Thespis's Pretensions to be considered as the

Father of Tragedy.

127. Of the Nature and Character of the first Drama.

128. Athenian History resumed, and continued from

the Death of Pisistratus to that of Hipparchus.

129. The same continued, to the Expulsion of

Hippias.

130. Concluded with the Battle of Marathon.

131. The subject of the Drama resumed-Of the

old Tragic Poets Pratinas and Phrynichus.

132. Of the Poet Eschylus.

133. Of Eschylus as compared with Sophocles and

Euripides.

134. Of the Tragedies of Eschylus.

135. Of the Greek Comedy-Of Aristotle's Defi-

nition and Chronology of the first Comedy-Of

Epicharmus, considered as the first Writer of

Comedy.

136. Fragments of Epicharmus-Account of Phor-

mis, Chionides, Magnes, and Dinolochus, the

Founders of Comedy.

137. Of Cratinas and his Comedy in Reply to the

Satire of Aristophanes-Of Eupolis; his Frag-

ments compared with certain Passages in Ben

Jonson.

138. Of Aristophanes; his History, Character, and

Works.

No.

13. Aristophanes defended from the Criticisms of

Plutarch, also from the Account which Elian

gives of his Attack upon Socrates..

140. The Motives and Grounds for Aristophanes'

Attack upon Socrates more fully considered, with

some Anecdotes of that Philosopher's School and

private Character-The Dates of the eleven sur-

viving Plays of Aristophanes ascertained.

141. On the remaining Writers of the old Comedy;

viz. Amipsias, Plato, Crates, Phrynichus, Phere-

crates, Amphis, Hermippus, Hipparchus, Philo-

nides, and Theopompus, with their Fragments

translated.

142. Of the middle Comedy of the Greeks-Anec-

dotes of Alexis: Fragments of that Dramatic Poet

collected.

143. The same Collection continued and concluded

-Anecdotes of Antiphanes.

144. Collection of Fragments from the Comedies

of Antiphanes.

145. Of Anaxandrides-Of Aristophon, with Frag-

ments of that Poet-Of Axionicus, Bathon, Cha-

remon, Clearchus, Criton, Crobylus, Demoxenus,

Demetrius, and Diodorus, with Fragments of the

latter Of Dionysius and Ephippus.

146. Fragment of Epicrates-Of Eriphus and Eu-

bulus, with Fragments of the latter-Of Euphron,

Heniochus, Mnesimachus, and Fragments of each.

147. Fragments of the Poet Moschion-Of Nicos-

tratus, Philippus, Phænicides, Sotades, and Stra-

ton, with various Fragments of their respective

Comedies.

148. Fragments of Theophilus, Timocles, and Xe-

narchus-Conclusion of the Catalogue of Writers

of the middle Comedy-General Observation upon

No.

these Poets, and the Author's Address to his

Readers upon this portion of his Work.

149. Account of the new Comedy of the Greeks,
and of the several Writers of that era-Anecdotes

of Menander.

150. Various Fragments of Menander translated.

151. Anecdotes of the Poet Philemon, and a Selec-

tion of his Fragments.

152. Anecdotes and Fragments of Diphilus, of Apol-

lodorus Gelous, of Philippidas, and of Posidip-

pus-General Remarks upon the Conclusion of

the Subject-The Author defends himself against

the Charge of having attacked the moral Doc-

trines of Socrates.

THE

OBSERVER.

NUMBER CIX.

Οὐδὲν γὰρ οὕτως ἡδὺ ἀνθρώποις ἔφυ,
Ως τὸ λαλέειν τ ̓ ἀλλότρια.—MENANDER.
Still to be tattling, still to prate,
No luxury in life so great.

THE humours and characters of a populous county town at a distance from the capital, furnish matter of much amusement to a curious observer. I have now been some weeks resident in a place of this description, where I have been continually treated with the private lives and little scandalizing anecdotes of almost every person of any note in it. Having passed most of my days in the capital, I could not but remark the striking difference between it and these subordinate capitals in this particular: in London we are in the habit of looking to our own affairs, and caring little about those with whom we have no dealings: here every body's business seems to be no less his neighbour's concerns than his own: a set of tattling gossips (including all the idlers in the place, male as well as female) seem to have no other employment for their time or tongue, but to run from house to house, and circulate their silly stories up and down. A few of these contemptible impertinents I shall now describe.