302 Mr. Parkes's History of 



Literary Journal for January, February, Marcli, 1745. Vol. I. 

 Part II. Dublin printed by S. Powell for the Author 1745." As 

 this is the only Literary Journal that I am acquainted with, 

 which was published in Ireland, during the whole of the period 

 from the printing of the first British Journal in the year 1681 to 

 the middle of the last Century ; and as the work has for many 

 years been very rare in England, I conceive that those persons 

 who can read this article with any degree of interest, will be 

 glad to have a more particular account of this Periodical Dub- 

 lin Journal, than has been given of some of the works that pre- 

 ceded it. 



The principal design of the Editor of the Dublin Journal was 

 to give an account of the best Foreign books, published in the 

 various languages of Europe; with such extracts from each as 

 were most likely to interest the English reader. It commenced 

 at the latter end of the year 1744, and was intended to be pub- 

 lished quarterly, at the price of one shilling and sixpence for 

 each part. The work is now complete in Five volumes Octavo, 

 two Quarterly Numbers forming each of the three first volumes, 

 as is the case with the " Quarterly Journal of Science, Litera- 

 ture and the Arts," now edited at the Royal Institution of Great 

 Britain; but on account of a delay in the publication which was 

 occasioned by the ill state of health of tlie editor, the fourth 

 volume is made to consist of two half yearly numbers from 

 March 1746 to March 1747; and in consequence of continued 

 illness the 1st part of "Vol. V. extends from March 1747 to 

 March 1748, and the last number includes the literature of Eu- 

 rope from March 1748 to the middle of the year 1749. 



From the manner in which the editor of the Dublin Journal 

 executed his task, the work must, as I conceive, have fully an- 

 swered the expectations of those literary persons who had 

 patronised the undertaking; but whether the number of general 

 readers in Ireland was insufficient in the middle of the eigh- 

 teenth century to support such a periodical work, or whether it 

 was owing to the continued ill health of the editor, I know not; 

 but it appears that the publication was entirely discontinued in 

 the month of June 1749, which was only one month after the 



