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To the Editor of the Montily Magazine. 
SIR; 
CORRESPONDENT fining him-_ 
felf IN. in a letter inferted in the 
Monthly Magazine for October laf, re- 
quefted an expianation of that article of 
our cféed, ‘‘txe Communion of Saints’ — 
He wil! find, I think, a very fatisfactory 
one :m archbifhop Secker’s rath Leéture 
on the Catechifm of the Church of Eng- 
land, wherein he conceives it to mean that 
communion of benevolence, kind offices, 
inftruction and edification, which fhouid be 
among all good Chriftians. B,;.G: 
ee Ae ee = . 
To ibe Editor of the Monthly Magaziie. 
SIR, 
© ¢XREAT wits jump” fays the old 
proverb; now, Mr, Editor, were 
you and I to fet down in our refpective 
clofets (quere garrets ?) with an intention 
of favouring the world with our compoti- 
tions on the fame given fubjeét; and lup- 
poling, after publication, it fhould be dif- 
coverea that, not only an identity of re- 
fieétions, but an identity of exprefiing 
thofe reflections, pervaded the whole— 
what would the world fay ?—Whar, but 
that E-had pillaged from you—or you from 
me-—or that we were two “ compofite 
knaves ?”’-~—Granted! well then, to my 
fubje&t : amonett the numerous works: of 
Oliver Goldfmith, his Hiftory of England 
in three vols. 8vo. was efeemed one of his 
beft publications, and the fale was in pro- 
portion to the eftimation : during his iife- 
time, was publihed an abridgement of the 
fame, confeflediy by. himfeif. Some years 
afterwards, 1 believe,appeared another hif- 
tory, ‘In a Series of Letters from a No- 
bleman to his Son,” which has vulgarly 
been afcribed to Lord Lyttelton ! 
On perofing thefe twe abridgments (for 
the “ Letters” are nothing more) the moft 
glaring famenefs is difcoverable through 
the whole: the fame refieétions, and the 
very fame exprefiion of them, every where 
occur: the only difference, where there 
is any, is merely occafioned by the ufe of 
the fecond perfon, as is ufual in an epifto- 
lary form, or the fame fentiment fometimes 
-thinly gauzed over by a variation of the 
expreflion. To feleét infances would be 
neediefs—a ready exemple will be found 
throughout the whole.—From hence it 
appears that the ‘¢ Letters” are merely 
Goidfmith’s “Hiftory, put into that form 
by fome needy bookfeller, or more needy 
author. ‘ dngent largitor venter !’ {ays 
¢ ‘eet Dre’ PANGLOSS, 
Jover of literary purfuits. 
in 
Plagiarifm deteéted....Unnecefary Expence in Printing. [Jan 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
sIR, J 
| HE very high fate of improvement 
~ to which the art of printing has ar- 
rived, mutt give great pleafure to every 
He reads 
with peculiar delight, a book printed with 
a clear type and on good-paper; and en- 
Joys a-high luxury when moft beautiful 
typography is imprefled upon /arge, thick 
cream-coioured, wire-wove paper, bot- 
preffed. . ; . 
But men in the middling rank of life 
cannot afford to indulge in luxuries of the 
table, neitner can they afford luxuries in 
books ; plain ‘well-drefled meat is better 
diet for them than turtle-foup, and plain 
weil-printed books are more proper for 
them than /arge cream- coloured, WITE-WUUE, 
bot-prefed, ones. Occafionally, they may 
{pare a guinea to purchafe a luxury, but 
they muft more commonly content thems 
felves with humble neceffaries. 
Tt is to be wifhed that authors would 
take this into coniideration; their vanity 
may be increafed by the appearance of 
their writings on a glofly, thick cream- 
coloured paper, © aud occafionally this 
mode of publication may be indulged in, 
and approved cf; but when an author > 
publithes an interefting work, of general 
utility, he ought to confider that many 
perfons might obtain bene&t and inftrus- 
tion from his book, if they could purchafe 
it at a moderate price, but they cannot 
afford to buy large eveane-Colouréd, wire- 
wove paper, bot -preffed. 
I am induced to addrefs this letter to 
you, from having feen a late publication 
of Dr. Rollo, on Diabetes Mellitus, in 
z vols. 8vo. beautifully printed on hot- 
prefied paper, price twelve fhillings in 
boards. Thefé volumes contain much 
intereiting information for medical prac- 
titioners, concerning a difeafe hitherto 
almoft conftantly incurable, but which 
this work profefies to point out a mode 
of curing. If this publication was in- 
tended to prove ferviceable to mankind, 
oy giving new light refpe€ting this dif- 
trefing difrafe, if ought to have been 
publithed at fuch a price, as to have becn 
within the reach of the generality of 
practitioners, and- this it might eafily 
have been, had it been printed in a lefs 
fplendid manner. I think it might have 
been publithed in one 8vo. volume, fuf- 
ficiently well printed for all ufeful pur- 
pofes, for fix or feven fhillings, and this 
would have been more _ particularly 
proper, becaufe it feems probable, from 
aia Sal the 
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