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first and ending with the eighty-first volume. This third volume 

 is compiled on the same plan as the former, and by the same 

 Gentleman. The eighty-one volumes from the year 1749 to 

 the end of the year 1789, together with the three volumes of 

 Indexes, form a complete and highly useful set of books which 

 are now known by the name of the first series of the Monthly 

 Review. 



The New Series commenced in the Month of January 1790. 

 The first four months of the year, and an Appendix, formed the 

 first volume ; the title of which is as follows. " The Monthly 



Review ; or Literary Journal, enlarged : From January to 



April inclusive, 1790. With an Appendix." 



Major rerum niihi nascitur ordo. 



Majus opus tnoveo." Virg. JEn, VI I. 44. 



" But you who seek to give and merit fame, 

 .\nd justly bear a Critic's noble name — 

 Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; 

 Those best can bear reproof, who merit prause." 



"London: Printed for R. Griffiths; and sold by T. Becket' 

 in Pali-Mall. 1790." 



The New series of the Monthly Review, altho' it has been in- 

 debted to a long line of writers of various talents and acquire- 

 ments for the character which it has supported and for the rank 

 which it now holds among the literary productions of the pre- 

 sent day, seems at no time to have forfeited the good opinion of 

 the public ; for it has been regularly published every month, 

 v^ithout intermission ; and has very ably supported its credit 

 amidst numerous competitors. In the month of May last, the 

 97th volume of this series was completed. Both the Series 

 therefore now form 178 volumes, besides the General Indexes. 



It may here be remarked that while Mr. Griffiths was engaged 

 in forming the plan of the Monthly Review, the learned and 

 accomplished Dr. Matthew Maty *, who was afterwards ap- 



* Dr. Matthew Maty was the Father of the Rev. Paul Henry Maty, the 

 author of a learned Journal in 10 volumes Octavo which commenced in 

 JISS under the Title of the " New Review with Literary Curiosities and 



