TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Proposals for subscription to a
book......152

Appointed medical officer at
CoTomandel . • - .153

CHAPTBB IV.
1758.

ESCi-PB PEETENTBD.

1758. Describes the appointment to

Mb. 30. Hodson..... 154

Hue words for Irish, bearing . 155
Grand style of the Marquis of

Griffiths..... 156

A. hopeful group of friends . . 157
Smollett and the " Old Gentle-
woman " of the Monthly Review 157
Hamilton's Critical Review . . 158
Reviews for Hamilton . 158
Traducersof Ovid . . . . 159
A thought of Dryden . . 160
Speaking oat for the Author's

profession . . . . . 161
Interlopers in literature . , 162
Green-Arbour Court . . . 162
The flute still ia tune . . 163
(November) Coromandel ap-
pointment lost . . . . 164
Resolves to be a hospital mate . 165
Griffiths and the tailor . . 165
Four articles for the MvnXKLy

Hmeui..... 166

(December) Examined and re-
jected at Surgeons' Hall . . 166
The virtue of necessity . . 167
Driven back to Literature . . 167

. CHAPTER V.
1758—1759.

DISCIM.INB OF SOBEOW.

1758. Pawns his new clothes for his

£&. 30. landlady..... 168

Griffiths demands payment for

. them . . . . . . 169

Letter in possession of the bio-
grapher . . . . . 169

Griffiths calls names . . . 170

Which is the sharper and villain? 171

The gain in sorrow . . . 171

Beams of morning . . . 172

Writing a Life of Voltaire . . 173
(February) Letter to Henry
Goldsmith. . . . .173

- Self-painted portraiture . . 174
A poor wandering uncle's ex-

. 175

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1750.

Heroi-eomical verses
Poetry and prose
The ale-house hero

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1759. Voltaire' aaad- Ned. Purdon
JEt. 31. Introduced- "to Mr. IPercy
Johnson's opinion, of

lector of "fctie Rebiques
Mr. Percy's visit to the
Reviewing1 *£? Smollett
A Newgate Biography
Laughing' a* elegies
Forecasting? wie future
Brandelliu-S and. Mogusitis
Another selieme for travel
A reverend and. irritable

matist - . •

Unpublished, letter to Gari-lclt
Jemima and- Louisa . -

The fashionable family novel
Adieu to "both. Reviews -
Close of nls account witla ±l

.owl and. tlie ass . -

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VII.
1759.

AN APPEAL FOR -AtFTHOItS BY PB.O-IM38SION1,

1759. (April) Ptiblication. of tlie JSVi-
2Bt. 31. gulry into Polite Learning

Bad critics and. sordid "book-
sellers . ... •
Truths of a liard. experiences
Reviews and. Magazines assailed
A frightful raonosyllaole

- On style, -with, a z-eference, to

Johnson. ....
Smollett's ariswez-., andGrifla-fclin's
• insult ....

Dirt flung: £•-* Grold.sm.ith
What WVulpole and lEEixmo
though.ii of Grub-street cfiaar-
rels .....
Evil influences on literature
Right encouragements "to au-
thors . - . . -
Suggestions of tne EMTi
Review - . . .
Grants of money aiot required.
The days of patronage
Lord Mnncm on "writers
ministers . ' . .

• "Wit and its disadvantages .
Genius and. its rewards .
Collins and. Goldsmith.
Compensations . „
"Warnings ....

What has "been done for Litera-
ture . .*•'.. .
What Literature may do . .

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