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MAGAZINE: ; 
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, 1806. [No! 6,’ of Vor. 21, 
The ufual SUPPLEMENTARY NuMBER will be pullifbed om the 25th of Fuly, Sela 
Retrofped?s of Enciisu, Frencu, GerMan,, and AMERICAN Literature. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
To the Editor of the Munibly Magazine. 
SIR, 
DESTGN has Seen entertained to 
—N eftadlith in .chis neighbourhood a 
Book Secigery, onthe pian of fome of 
thale to which f have often obferved'a re- 
ference in the Monthly Magazine. 
Thofe who are defirous of giving birth 
to it with, however, to avail themfelves 
of tae experience of fome long-ettablithed 
fecieties of the fame kind ; and would be 
glad to receive tiréugh your mifcellany 
the ru'es’and regulations of any flourifh- 
ing and harmonious infitution. 
Their defign does not extend beyond 
the creation of a fund, to be augmented 
by annual fubfeription, for the purchale. 
of books and periodical works, which are 
to be circulated among the members, and 
fold by auction every year, or every two 
years. . 
Probably, from twenty to forty fub- 
{cribers might be united, and be willing 
to pay a guinea or a guinea and a half per 
annum; befides an extra guinea cr two 
guineas each, on admiffion, to meke the 
fir purchafes. 
We have heard of fubfcriptions at fo. 
low a rate as half-a- guinea per annum; but 
we fear the neceffary advances in the price 
of books, in common with every other 
article cf luxury: or neceflity, muf render» 
fuch fubfcriptions very ineffectual to the 
purpofe, and unfatisfactory to’ the fub- 
icribers. | 
We do not afpire to the dignity of a 
permanent library, fearing that our num- 
bers are infufficient to effeét fuch an eft 
tablifhment: the hiftorv, however, .of 
what has been dove by others may proba- 
bly fimulate us in time to entertain high- 
er views. 
As T believe that no periodical work is 
fo generally adopted in Book-Svcieties of 
every deicription as the Monthly Maga. 
zine, I confider it the moft proper vehicle 
through which to circulate this enquiry. 
Some of the intelligent members of thofe 
Societies may be induced, not only to fend 
to youa copy of the regulations which 
they have found by experience to recencile 
Montary Mac.; No. 144. 
plated, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
every jarring interet, but they may alfo 
perhaps, add fuch practical obfervations 
as are applicable to the formation of new 
focieties, in all the variety of circum- 
ftance in which they may arife. 
T am convinced that if the fuccefsful 
plans of various Book-Societies were ex- 
hibited to the public, through the medi= 
um of your widely circulated Mifcellany, 
they would not enly inftruét and direét 
me and my neighbours in the formation 
of the fociety which we have contem- 
but the Monthly Magazine 
would, in that way, be the means of giv. 
ing exiftence to innumerable other literary 
and reading inftitutions, in every part of | 
the United Kingdom. 
The obligations of the public would 
thus be encreafed towards a work which 
has been fo Jong confpicuous for its utility, 
and which will doubtlefs long continue to 
be the focus of communication among 
the lovers of truth, {cience, and litera- 
ture. / 
Newsport, 
Sune 6, 1806. 
J. R. Simpson, M. D. 
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BPS 5 
if WAS highly gratified by an article in 
your laf number with the fignature of 
Mr. Pytches, member for Sudbury, an- 
nouncing the writer to have been ff 
leen years engaged in the compilation of 
a New Dictiosary of the Englifh Lan- 
guage,” and explaining a few of the pe- 
culiarities which the plan of his under- 
taking will embrace. It is to be regretted. 
that that gentleman bas not entered a lit- 
tle more detailedly into his defign, but I 
fhall beg leave to trouble you with thort 
Temarks on fome of the heads which he 
has touched upon, 
With regard to the final éafter c, which 
has long been-a moot peiagt in orthography, 
I confefs that the cafe has, in, its smerzts, 
always appeared.to me to be the mot fimple 
in the world. In polyfyliables, doubling a 
confonant is the effeétual way ot throw- 
ing the accent upon the preceding vowel ; 
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