which are not in strict conformity with it, or to do violence to his own inclination by omitting them entirely. The Editor has endeavoured to steer a middle course, and whilst Bibliographical amusement has been his principal aim he has been studious of blending with it Literary information; and though the Veteran will easily recognize many of the anecdotes and memoranda contained in this little volume, yet if he meet with any circumstance which may have escaped his researches, he will not, it is hoped, be fastidious, but please to recollect, that to the Tyro and the younger branch of Booksellers, for whose use it is principally intended, much of the information will be entirely novel, and if he does not meet with the original remarks he may expect, the Compiler has only to reply in the words of Dr. Franklin, that "Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore" A TABLE Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.. King Charles' the First's Works.. Voyage du Duc du Chatelet en Portugal. Chrysal, (Key to the Characters in). Cole's Notes on Bentham's Ely Cathedral.. De Foe's Life of Robinson Crusoe.. Destruction of Libraries, temp Henry VIII. Dr. Franklin... Gacon, Le Poete sans fard.. Gage's Survey of the West Indies. Glarean's seat in the College of Bâle... 101 80 24 7 56 Granger's Biographical History of England........ 36 7 22 Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland 73 Norman's (Robert) Newe Attractiue.. ... Notitia respecting Sterne and his Valet La Fleur... Pascal, Lettres écrites a un Provincial. Philidor on Chess. The Rambler.. Robert Recorde... Rehearsal Transprosed, (Extract from). Stevens' (Geo. Alexander) Lecture ou Heads. Vox Piscis, or the Book Fish... Whole Duty of Man..... Wood's Athena Oxoniensis. .107 93 85 6 61 102 23 23 74 25 51 48 49 54 34 47 11 8 98 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY ANECDOTES. Voyage round the World in the years 1740, 1, 2, 3 and 4, by George Anson, Esq. compiled by Richard Walter, M. A. 4to 1748. MR. WALTER, Chaplain of the Centurion, has been generally considered as the author of this Work, by having his name affixed as such to the title page, and has in consequence received in various literary journals as well foreign as domestic, praise to which he is not justly entitled. The real author was Benjamin Robins, the champion of Newton's Fluxions, in opposition to Bishop Berkeley's Analysis, and author of New Principles of Gunnery. Walter's manuscript, which B was at first intended to have been printed, being little more than a transcript from the ship's journals; Mr. Robins was recommended as a proper person to revise it, and it was then determined that the whole should be written by him, the transcript of the journals, serving as materials only; and what with the introduction and many dissertations in the body of the Book, of which, not the least hint had been given by Walter; he extended the account, in his own peculiar style and manner, to nearly twice its original size. From the ensuing letter it appears that if Mr. Robins had remained in England, he designed to have composed a second part of the Voyage round the World. Dear Sir, When I last saw you in Town, I forgot to ask you, whether you intended to publish the second volume of my Voyage before you leave us, which I confess I am very sorry for. If you should have laid aside all thoughts of favoring the world with more of your works, it |