THE LITERATURE, HISTORY, POLITICS, ARTS, MANNERS, and AMUSEMENTS of the AGE. By the PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY of LONDON. Embellished with the following elegant Copper-Plates: 1. A beautiful engraved Frontifpiece.-2. An elegant Vignette.-3. A correct Likenefs of Silas Dean, Efq; and 4. A Map of Turkey in Europe and the ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Perdita's Advertisement is inadmiffible. Country Curate came to late for infertion this Month. Candidus is received, we thank him for his Communications, fome of which would have appeared, bad they been received in time. Sedley Indiana-and others of our Correfpondents shall be inferted as fast as poffible. Crocus- -J.— M R.. -and other favours are G. F.. P. under confideration. This Day was published, Price One Shilling, fewed in Marble Paper, [Embellished with an picturesque Frontispiece of the Ice Islands ] VOLUME the SIXTH of The POLITE TRAVELLER, And BRITISH NAVIGATOR; Being the fecond Volume of the Nautical Part of this very entertaining Work. Containing Captain Cook's three Voyages round the World, the first in the Endeavour, begun in the Year 1768, and finished in 1771; the fecond in the Refolution, accompanied by the Adventure, commanded by Capt. Furneaux, begun in 1772, and finished in 1775; and the third in the Refolution and Difcovery, the latter being commanded by Capt. Clerke, begun in 1776, and finished in 1780. Including, every interesting Particular in the Course of those Voyages, and an Account of the Death of the unfortunate Capt. Cook. Printed for JOHN FIELDING, No. 23, Pater-nofter-row. The Editor of this Work returns his moft grateful Thanks to the Public, for the very favourable Reception they have given the first Part of The POLITE TRAVELLER; which, being how finished, may be had in feparate Volumes, Price 1s. each fewed, or the Four Volumes neatly bound in Two, and lettered, Price 6s. The Remainder of this Work, containing a concife Detail of the Voyages of our Modern Navigators, and including the most remarkable Shipwrecks, will be completed i 1 Two Volumes; one of which, embellithed with an elegant Frontispiece, will be regularly published on the first Day of the two fucceeding Months: Both Works forming an entertaining Pocket Companion, comprising a concife Detail of interefting Voyages and Travels. This Work is calculated to initiate younger Minds into a View of thofe ftupendous Works of Nature and Art, which are fo confpicuous in every Part of the World, and may be efteemed a valuable Prefent for them in their present Recefs from Academical Intruction. INTRODUCTIO N. TH HE celebrity of our three first volumes, joined to the liberal patronage of a difcerning Public, has ftimulated the PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY to open new fources of information and entertainment. This mifcellaneous Repofitory has even gone beyond its gencral epithet European, fince it has its readers and admirers in every quarter of the globe: and of course, tends to the diffufing not only the English language, but alfo fhews the ftate and progrefs of Learning, in this happy æra of philofophy, fcience, and polite literature. In order to gratify the various taftes of our numerous readers, we have been peculiarly affiduous in admitting fuch fubjects as have variety, novelty, usefulness, or have been popular in the first circles of the beau monde. Befides thefe, we have paid the strictest attention to the choice and mafterly style of our valuable engravings; and at the requeft of many of our moft refpectable fubfcribers and correfpondents, the Review of FOREIGN ARTICLES will extend in future to every material publication that shall appear in France, Germany, or Italy. THIS truly popular Work can boaft, among many other characteristic excellencies, that of rendering INSTRUCTION agreeable to the votaries of Pleafure; by which means the gay, the diffipated, and the fupinely indolent, have been roufed into a laudable defire of exercifing their refpective talents for the general good. Our study, therefore, has been, and will be, to call forth all the powers of the mind, and, at the fame time, to amuse and delight the imagination. This is the enviable trait that diftinguishes the EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, from among the dull and unmeaning efforts of our humble plagiarists; and it is now become the principal ftorehouse from whence the public prints derive their anecdotes, and other topics of literary information, although they want the candour of acknowledging from whence they have been purloined. Suce then the leading features of our Magazine and Review; and, therefore, we flatter ourselves, that without the imputation of arrogance, we may boldly affert, that our FOURTH VOLUME will not disappoint either the fair reader, the scholar, or the gentleman. Auguft 1, 1783. THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY. |