1791 LITERARY INTELLIGENCER. tS'J 



To the Editor of the Bee. 

 Sir, 

 Though you have pointed out many innportant bene- 

 fits that may be derived fronri periodical perfornnances, 

 yet there is one which has always appeared to me of 

 the greateft confequences, that you have neither fully 

 developed in your profpeftus, nor in the eflay you 

 gave ou this fubjeft in the firft number of your 

 work. 1 now {hall endeavcur to fupbly that defect ; 

 and if you think the following obfervarions deferving 

 a place iii your repofitory, they are muc'i at your fer- 

 vice. 



Farther remcirls on the utility cf Periodical Perform- 

 ances. 



>V^i acquaintance of mine ufed to f?.y, " that all bov--, 

 ought to be tauglit to draw, were it only to accuilcm 

 thcni to obfervs with accuracy and difcernment the ob- 

 jects that canne in their way. Natural objefts certain] v 

 appear in a very dlilerent light to a painter, from what 

 they do to an ordinary perfon. The one, little accuf- 

 tomed to difcriminatG particulars, views them fliffhily 

 as tliey pafs in a rapid and uninterelting fucceliior. 

 The other marks them with precifion, diftinguifties 

 beauties from defects, and is able to recolleft the par- 

 ticulars with great accuracy, long after every trace of 

 them is effaced from the mind of the other. 



I think this remark might with great juftice be ex- 

 tended to other objecEts. In particular, I, on my pari, 

 would recommend to every perfon who intends to pro- 

 fecute a courfe of literature, earlj^ to habituate them- 

 f.-lves to the art of writing and liteiary compofiition, 

 •were it with no ether view than to enable them to pro- 

 fit by what thev fhoa!d read ani hear in the courfe of 



