THE OBSERVER: BEING A COLLECTION OF MORAL, LITERARY AND FAMILIAR ESSAY S. MULTORUM PROVIDUS URBES ET MORES HOMINUM INSPEXIT. (HORAT.) THE SECOND EDITION. VOL. III. LOND ON: PRINTED FOR C. DILLY IN THE POULTRY. M.DCC.LXXXVIII. CONTENT S OF THE THIRD VOLUME. NUMBER. LXI. UPON pleasure, as pursued by fyftem; a meditation upon this purfuit, intitled The Voluptuary's Solilo quy Page I LXII. The advantages of public education exemplified in the ftory of Geminus and Gemellus 9 LXIII. The ftory of Geminus and Gemellus concluded 17 LXIV. The cafe of the Jews confidered; their method of fecreting their religion, in countries where the Inquifition is in force. Letter to the author from Abraham Abrahams a Jew; obfervations on this A 2 NUMBER. LXV. Dialogue between two Jews, extracted from an old novel written by Thomas Nafhe in 1594; defcriptions of French, LXVII. The first library in Egypt founded by Ofymanduas: The infcription upon the front of that library confidered and ap- plied: Account of the public libraries in LXVIII. Remarks on the paffions. Cafes of Pal- 70 1 NUMBER. fable: Vanella's remarks thereupon Page 84 LXXI. Account of a ghost, from the narrative of a clergyman, to whom it appeared 92 LXXII. Of the Greek comedy; of Aristotle's definition and chronology of the first comedy. Of Epicharmus confidered as the first writer of comedy LXXIII. Fragments of Epicharmus: Account of Phormis, Chionides, Magnes and Dinolochus, the founders of comedy III LXXIV. Of Cratinus and his comedy, in reply to the fatire of Aristophanes: Of Eupolis, his fragments compared with certain paffages in Ben Jonson' 119 LXXV. Of Aristophanes; his history, character and works 135 LXXVI. Aristophanes defended from the criticisms of Plutarch; alfo from the account which Elian gives of his attack upon Socrates. 145 LXXVII. The |