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reputation, will be published in any part of Europe, but we 

 shall immediately give an account of it. The extracts we shall 

 make will enal?le such persons as have not much time upon 

 their hands, to treasure up a great number of excellent observa 

 tions, in the various branches of literature ; and at the same 

 time acquaint them with whatever is worthy observation in the 

 works of those writers who are the ornament of the age." 



II. " Our Journal will include all subjects ; nor will Disser- 

 tations on Medals, Inscriptions, and other valuable remains of 

 antiquity be omitted." 



" This Journal will always consist of Five sheets and a half, 

 and be published regularly at the beginning of every month, 

 Six numbers will make a volume, to which will be annexed a 

 Catalogue of the Authors from whom the Extracts are made, 

 together with an Index. At the end of each Journal will be in- 

 serted the freshest accounts of all Works just published, and of 

 all Old Authors reprinted in any part of Europe, as soon 

 as our Correspondents shall transmit us such accounts. And 

 lastly, we shall add a Catalogue of New Books imported 

 monthly." 



As an Editor, Mr. Bower was indefatigable ; and the manner 

 in which he executed the Historia Literaria exalted his re- 

 putation considerably. His intimacy with Lord Lyttelton and 

 other persons of eminent learning, together with his residence 

 in the family of Lord Aylmer, occasioned him to be still more 

 known to the public ; and while busily employed in conducting 

 the Historia Literaria the Proprietors of the Universal History 

 applied to him to engage him in that undertaking *. Some very 

 advantageous offers were made to him, but so attached was he 

 to the employment in which he was then occupied and so de- 

 sirous to render the Historia Literaria deserving of the patron- 

 age of the public, that he declined listening to their proposals 

 until the year 1734, when the publication of the Historia Lite- 

 raria was relinquished. It may be added that in the following 

 year, Mr. Bower did agree with the proprietors of the Universal 



* Chahncrs, Vol. VL jiagcSiS. 



