1796: | 
this was fubmitted to the confideration 
of 2 club, confifting, for the moft part, 
of men of letters, who met as well for 
the purpofes cf literature and benevo- 
lence, as of conviviality ; the other gens 
tlemen who more particularly exerted 
themlfelves ‘on this occafion, were the 
elder Captain Morris, Mr. Deputy 
Nichols, and Dr. Dale. . 
From the lif of cafes brought be- 
fore the lait committee, it appears, that 
forty-one literary perfons, fome of very. 
great charcter, have obtained timely 
relief *, 
The gentlemen who compofe the 
committee, occafionally dine together ; 
and there is, befides, an annual meeting 
of all the fubfcribers, of fuch, at leaft, as 
choofe to attend: but no dinners, or any 
occafional recreations, are paid for out 
of the funds of the inflitution; nor are 
any falaries given to officers. 
‘The following extraét is made from 
the latt report of the committee : 

Baaneeimmand, April zi,  £. ss d. 
We Needs 55) 8829.3 
Subfcriptions received from 
April 21, 1794, to April 
21, 1795 = CHIE) Gb io Maes as 
: 199 43 
Sums paid by order of the 
committee, for relief, with- 
in the fame time abe BO 1770 
Balance, April2z1,1795, 112 7 3 
The fubfcribers as yet do not amount 
‘to one hundred and fifty; but in the 
fmall lik, appear the names of many 
perfons eminent for their literary cha- 
racters, and beloved for their benevo- 
lent difpofitions. Y 
This fhort account is not fent you, 
‘fir, either as curious or any way firik- 
ing, but in order to forward the defign 
ef the Literary Fund, ‘and to intereft 
your readers in its fuccefs. 
Such perfons as, defirous of becoming 
ubfcribers, with to be better acquainted 
with the nature and prefent ftate of the 
inftitution, are referred to Mr. E. 
Brooke, booktfeller, Betl-yard, Femple- 

* This lift of cafes, though lately printed 
for the firft tinse, for the ufe of fubfcribers, has 
never been publifhed at large; nor from the 
hit can the name of zeny individual be traced 
out, thought futiicient information is conveyed, 
to how, that the funds of the fociety are pros 
perly applied. 
MonTaLy Mac, No. I. 
Obfervatioas on Wakefield's Pope. 
9 
bar; with whom is lodged the ac~ 
count of the Literary Fund, together 
with Poems on the Anniverfary, &c. juit 
printed by order of the Society. 
Jam, in behalf of the new Magazine, 
Your fincere well-wifher, 
A Fiiend io the Literary Fund. 

REMARKS ON Mr. WAKEFIELD’S 
EpITION OF PopE’s WoRKS. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I HAVE metwith few books that offer 
a more agreeable treat to the lover of 
poetry, than Mr. Wakefield’s Edition 
of part of Pope’s Works, and his Ob- 
fervations on'the whole. The refined 
tafte with which the critic enters into all 
the beauties of the poet, and the elegant 
copioufnefs of his illuftrative and com- 
parative quotations, afford a very pleaf- 
ing exercife toa mind practifed in fimi- 
lar ftudies. It is impoffible, however, 
that, in a long feries of particular obfer- 
vajions, many things fhould not oceur, 
which ftrike different perfons different- 
ly ; and no reader, probably, who was 
capable. of judging for himfelf at all, 
ever perfectly acquiefced in the remarks 
of any critical writer. In going over 
the firft of Mr. W.’s volumes, I noted 
various paffages, in which my opie 
nion fomewhat varied from his; and it 
may, perhaps, afford no unentertaining 
macter for fpeculation to your readers, if 
I lay fome of thefe before them. I fhall 
juft premife, that had I not a fincere 
refpect for Mr. Wakefield’s tafte and 
learning, with a general approbation of 
>? : 
what he has done in this very work, I 
-fhould not have troubled you or mytelf 
with thefe remaks. 
In Paftoral 1ft, the line 
And fwelling cluiters bend the curling vines, 
was fir written, 
_ And clufters wrk beneath the curling vines. 
Mr. W. approves the alteration, and 
fuppofes Pope to have been difpleafed 
with the vulgarity of the word /urk. 1 
think the word fuficiently poetical, and 
the image beautiful; but fuppofe his ob- 
jeCtion was, that “arking clufters could 
not he well exprefled \in carving. . Per- 
haps, too, he thought the founds Jurk 
and cur/ too near each other. 
Inthe fame Paftoral, at 
wa The vales fall every note rebound, 
M-, 
