CHAPTER XII.

NEWS FOR THE CLUB OF VARIOUS KINDS AND FROM VARIOUS PLACES,

17654766.

THE literary engagements of Doctor Oliver Goldsmith
were meanwhile going on with Newbery; and towards the
close of the year he appears to have completed a compilation
of a kind somewhat novel to him, induced in all probability
by his concurrent professional attempts. It was " A Survey
" of Experimental Philosophy, considered in its present state
" of improvement;" and Newbery paid him sixty guineas for
it.* He also took great interest at this time in the proceed-
ings of the Society of Arts; and is supposed, from the many
small advances entered in Newbery's memoranda as made in
connection with that Society,-)- to have contributed sundry
reports and disquisitions on its proceedings and affairs, to a

* I give the memorandum (Newbery MSS. Prior, ii. 102-8) of hooks lout to
Goldsmith for the purpose of this compilation. "Sent to Dr. Goldsmith, Sept. llth,
" 1765, from Oanhery (Canonbury) House the copy of tho Philosophy to bo revised,
"with the Abbe" Nollet's Philosophy, and to have an account added of Halo's
"Ventilation, together with, the following books, 1. Pomborton's Newton, 4to.
"2. Two pamphlets of Mr. Franklin's on Electricity. 3. 1 of Ferguson's Astro-
"nomy, 4to. 4. D'Alembert's Treatise of Fluids, 4to. 5, Martin's Philosophy,
"3 vols. 8vo. 6. Ferguson's Lectures, ditto. 7. Helshani's ditto. 8. Kiel's
" Introduction, ditto. 9. Kiel's Astronomy, ditto. 10. Nature Displayed, 7 vols.
" 12mo. 11. Nollet's Philosophy, 3 vols. 12mo."

f See ante, 302, note. Besides the entries there given, others exist having
reference to 1765, as for example : "Lent Dr. Goldsmith, at tho Society of Arts,
"and to pay arrears, 3Z 3s." " Do so,