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Oldys has reviewed in ihe British Librarian, as it could not fail 

 to create a desire in many readers to possess the volume, but I 

 thought the catalogue might be deemed too long for the Jour- 

 nal of Science, Literature, and the Arts. There are few books 

 whose value might not be enhanced by a good Index: the Bri- 

 tish Librarian, which requires such an appendage as much as 

 most books, is terminated by an alphabetical Index of 52 co- 

 lumns closely printed. 



XXIX. 1737. " The History of the Works of the 

 Learned, giving a general view of the state of Learning 

 throughout Europe, and containing an impartial account and 

 accurate Abstracts of the most valuable Books published in 

 Great Britain and Foreign parts." 



" Interspersed with Dissertations on several curious and en- 

 tertaining subjects, critical Reflections, and Memoirs of the most 

 eminent Writers in all branches of polite Literature. London, 

 printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Paternoster-Row, S^c. 

 1737." 



Tliis work commenced in January 1737, and was regularly 

 published in Monthly Numbers, six of which formed a volume; 

 but there was no regular series of progressive numbers, as is 

 usual in works of this nature, the volumes in each year 

 being marked I and II. This Journal met with so much encou- 

 ragement that it was published without intermission until the 

 end of the year 1743, when the last Number was printed, which 

 completed the fourteenth volume. The plan of the Editor is 

 suflBciently explained in a copious Preface prefixed to the first 

 volume, but I have not bpen able to ascertain by whom the work 

 was written or edited. Each volume contains a review of about 

 40 or 50 distinct articles, and an alphabetical Index to every 

 six numbers adds very much to the value of the work. 



XXX. 1744. " A Literary Journal." The following 

 is a copy of the Title pages of the first Volume. " A Literary 

 Journal for October, November, December, 1744. Vol. I. Part I. 

 Dublin, Printed by S. Powell, for the Author, 1744." " A 



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