^4 i^ARft BOOKS. Sept. 21 



from fcnrce Scottilli books of the fixteenth century, to i 

 make fuch ule of as you think proper. If you find the 

 hifertion of them an advantage to your mifcellr.ny I 

 lliall reckon my time well employed in gontributing to 

 a work, which, I obferve M:ith pleofure, differs front j 

 fome other periodical publications by rifing in meritj 

 inftead of falling off, and may perhaps fend you a fur-t 

 ther fupply. 



Wifhing you al] manner of fuccefs in your laudable 

 undertaking. 1 remain, 



Your niofl. obedient Servant, 



PHILALBAN. 



1 

 Accounts of nondefcvipt places in Scotland will,,| 

 dare fay, prove agreeable to every clafb of your readers* 

 Jean de Beaugue is another French writer, whofc 

 little work, entitled, '< H'ljlo'ire de la guen-e d'Epifcoffey' 

 ought to be better known in Scotland than it is. He 

 ferved under Mr Defle, and was an actor and eye-wifa. 

 nefs of what he relates. 



Detached Obfervat'wus, 



To accufe one of being unpolite is one of the mofl 

 dillrefilng reproaches that can be made to perfons of 

 a certain calt. A man who has a certain portion 

 of genius, a reafonable character, who has been well 

 educated, and who has feen good company, cannot be 

 what is properly called unpolite- — he can only be lefs 

 polite than another. Hence, unpolitenefs properly io 

 called fuppofes certain things- very degradingi 



After poverty, fays the author of the Spirift of Laws, 

 nothing vilifies more in France than the want of po- 

 lite nefs. 



Politenefs is perhaps in one fenfe even more Im- 

 portant than the qualities of the heart. One can ab- 

 lolutely difpenfe with friendfliip and friends — but it is 

 impoffible to live without fociety — and there can be 

 nc fociety without politenefs. 



