


No. X1V.—Fo 
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MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 
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FEBRUARY, 


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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
To the Editor of ihe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
yo correfpondent, Oup Litry, 
has very agreeably difplayed his 
talent at prediction, and I doubt not, 
that the clofe of the year will give him 
the credit of more accomplifhed prophe- 
cies, than ever could be exhibited by his 
name-fake, with thofe renowned feers, 
Wing and Partridge; to boot. I do not 
pretend to fee farther than he into the 
general -fcene of human affairs; but 
there is one particular department which 
he has but flightly touched upon, in 
which I prefume to think myfelf quali- 
fied to make fome addition to the 
hiftory of the coming year. ‘This is the 
ftate of literary occurrences which are to 
take place during its courfe ; and if you, 
fir, will indulge me with a place in your 
next Magazine, I hope to convince your 
readers, that Ofd Li/ly is not the only 
prophet in the prefent age, out of a 
mad-boufe. I fhall«imitate him in 
ntterng my prediétions with a clearnets 
of language, that fhall leave no doubt, 
after the event, whether they are really 
- accomplifhed or not. 
LITERARY PROPHECIES FOR 1797. 
I difcern in embryo three new tra-’ 
gedies, five comedies, and fix mufical 
entertainments, for the London Thea- 
tres. The tragedies will be f{plendid, 
ftately, and abundantly loyal—they will 
be praifed in the pavers till nobody goes 
to fee them. The comedies will be 
partly fentiment, partly farce ; and two 
of them, at leat, by the efforts of the | 
actors for whom they are written, will 
be-preferved from oblivion till the year 
1798. The mufical pieces will certainly 
expire with the almanacs. | 
Anew impofition will be praétifed on 
the black-letter gentlemen with fome 
fuccefs; but the hero, this year, will 
hot be Shakipeare, nor will a fix fhil- 
: Be Peak be written, after its deteftion, 
wMontTHLY Mac. No. RIV. - 
to prove that it ought to have been 
believed. 
The controverfy about the talents of . 
women, which you, Mr. Editor, after 
fetting on foot, fo cruelly left in the lurch, 
will give birth to two bulky volumes, 
from a female pen; which will, at leaft, 
prove that lightnefs and vivacity are not, 
as has been fuppofed, characteriftic of 
the writers of that fex. 
The Oxford Univerfity prefs will 
this year be chiefly employed in printing 
catechifms for the ufe of French emi- 
grants and their converts ; yet fome pro 
grefs will be made in re-editing a 
German edition of a forgotten claflic, 
N.B. Dr. Bradley’s aftronomical papers 
will zof appear this year. 
The alliance of church and ftate, and 
the confanguinity of al/ religions, will be 
ably fupported by an eminent divine, 
in full profpeét of a feat on the epifcopal 
bench. 
The political world will be thrown 
into a ftrange ferment towards the end 
of autumn, by an extraordinary publica- 
tion of an extraordinary character, con~ 
taining a renunciation of all former prin- 
ciples. I am forry that the delicate 
nature of ‘the fubjeét obliges me, in 
this inftance, to adopt fomewhat of the 
ambiguous language of other prophets. 
The elegant prefs of Bulmer will, 
this year, fend forth a Colleétion of. tbe 
Pucrile Poetry of England, wherein the 
‘popular compofitions: of ‘ Hey .my 
kitten, my kitten;? “ Jack and Gill 
went up. the hill;’’ ‘¢ There were three 
crows they fat on a ftone ;” and a variety 
of the like kind, will be carefully edited 
and illuftrated with hiftorical and critical 
notes, by a learned member of the Society 
of Antiguaries., Vignettes, head and 
tail pieces, and defigns, by a lady of qua=- 
Pp g ¥ roa Ss 
lity, as ufual, 
Tyo Pindaric Odes, by a hackney 
-coachman ; a Colleétion of Sentimental - 
Sonnets, by a wafher-woman; and an 
Epic Poem, in twenty books, by a prins 
ter’s 
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