The Marquis is easy in his Stile, delicate in his Sentiments, and not at all tedious in his Narration.  In the following Piece we find Nothing heavy or insipid, he dwells not too long upon any Adventure, nor does he burthen the Memory, or clog the Attention with Reflections intended, too often more for the Bookseller’s Emolument, in swelling the Bulk of the Performance, than the Service of the Reader, on whom he knew it to be otherwise an Imposition; since, by long-winded wearisome Comments upon every Passage (a Fault too frequent in many Writers) he takes from him an Opportunity of exercising his reflective Abilities, seeming thereby to doubt them.

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

FIRST YEAR (1946-47)

Numbers 1-4 out of print.

5.  Samuel Wesley’s Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and Essay on Heroic Poetry (1693).

6. Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage (1704) and Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage (1704).

SECOND YEAR (1947-1948)

7.  John Gay’s The Present State of Wit (1711); and a section on Wit from The English Theophrastus (1702).

8.  Rapin’s De Carmine Pastorali, translated by Creech (1684).

9.  T. Hanmer’s (?) Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet (1736).

10.  Corbyn Morris’ Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc. (1744).

11.  Thomas Purney’s Discourse on the Pastoral (1717).

12.  Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.

THIRD YEAR (1948-1949)

13.  Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), The Theatre (1720).

14.  Edward Moore’s The Gamester (1753).

15.  John Oldmixon’s Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter to Harley (1712); and Arthur Mainwaring’s The British Academy (1712).

16.  Nevil Payne’s Fatal Jealousy (1673).

17.  Nicholas Rowe’s Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare (1709).

18.  “Of Genius,” in The Occasional Paper, Vol.  III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hill’s Preface to The Creation (1720).

FOURTH YEAR (1949-1950)

19.  Susanna Centlivre’s The Busie Body (1709).

20.  Lewis Theobold’s Preface to The Works of Shakespeare (1734).

21. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754).

22.  Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750).

23.  John Dryden’s His Majesties Declaration Defended (1681).

24.  Pierre Nicole’s An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams, translated by J.V.  Cunningham.