THE

GLEANER:

A SERIES OF

PERIODICAL ESSAYS;

SELECTED AND ARRANGED FROM

SCARCE OR NEGLECTED VOLUMES,

WITH

AN INTRODUCTION, AND NOTES,

BY

NATHAN DRAKE, M. D.

AUTHOR OF "LITERARY HOURS," AND OF "6
PERIODICAL LITERATURE."

ESSAYS ON

PRINTED FOR SUTTABY, EVÁNCE, AND CO. STATIONERS' COURT; AND

ROBERT BALDWIN, PATER-NOSTER ROW; ALSO FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD,
EDINBURGH, AND MICHAEL KEENE, DUBLIN.

ADVERTISEMENT

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VOL. III. AND IV.

THE periodical papers which have contributed to form this and the succeeding volume of THE GLEANER, are, in number, twenty-two; the third volume including papers selected from

From these works, many of which possess considerable merit, though not more than two or three of them have been reprinted, I trust that the selection has been such, as to render this portion of THE GLEANER peculiarly interesting and instructive.

Hadleigh, Suffolk, Jan. 1811.