INDEX. 297 



On the Origin of Alphabetical Characters. By Gilbert Wakefield, B.A., 

 late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. II. 294. 



On the comparative Excellence of the Sciences and the Arts. By Mr. 

 William Roscoe. Communicated by Mr. M. Nicholson. IIL 241. 



Essay on the Dramatic Writings of Massioger. By John Ferriar, M D. 



in. 128. 



Of Popular Delusions, and particularly of Medical Demonology. By John 

 Ferriar, M.D. III. 81. 



On the uses of Classical Learning. By the Rev. George Gregory, D.D., 

 Prebendary of Chiswick, and Domestic Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Landaff. 

 Addressed to Dr. Percival. IV. (Part 1) 109. 



Comments on Sterne. By John Ferriar, M.D. IV. (Part 1) 4.'i. 



Hints on the Establishment of an Universal Written Character. In a 

 Letter to the Rev. Dr. John Kemp. By William Brown, M.D. Communi- 

 cated by Dr. Holme. V. (Part 1) 275. 



On the Universal Character: in a Letter from James Anderson, L.L.D., 

 F.R.S., F.A.S.S., &c., to Edward Holme, M.D. V. (Part 1) 89. 



On the Benefits and Duties resulting from the Institution of Societies for 

 the Advancement of Literature and Philosophy. By the Rev. Thomas Gis- 

 borne, M.A. Communicated by Dr. Percival- V. (Part 1) 70. 



List of Books presented to the Society. V. (Part 2) 681. 



A Defence of Learning and the Arts, against some Charges of Rousseau. 

 In two Essays. By the Rev. G. Walker, F.R.S. Essay I., V. (Part 2) 438. 

 Essay II., V. (Part 2) 46'\. 



On Tragedy and the Interest in Tragical Representations- An Essay. 

 By the Rev. George Walker, F.R.S. , and Professor of Theology in the New 

 College, Manchester. V. (Part 2) 319. 



Reflections on History and on Historians, Ancient and Modern. By John 

 Holland. I. (Second Series) 859. 



Reverie, considered as connected with Literature. An Essay. By the 

 Rev. Johnson Grant, A.B., of St. John's College, Oxon. I. (Second Series) 

 213. 



On the Machinery of the Ancient Epic Poem. By the Rev. George 

 Walker, F.R.S. I. (Second Series) 98. 



On National Character. By Thomas Jarrold, M.D. II. (Second Series) 

 328. 



Remarks on the Use and Origin of Figurative Language. By the Rer. 

 William Johns. II. (Second Series) 74. 



On the Possibility of reconciling the Scriptural and Profane Accounts of 

 the Assyrian Monarchy. By the Rev. John Kenrick, M.A. HI. (Second 

 Series) '298. 



An Essay on the Origin of Alphabetical Characters. By the Rev. William 

 Turner, Jun., A.M. IH. (Second Series) 77. 



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