ADVERTISEMENT.

ERIODICAL PÚBLICATION, at firſt contrivéd to diſſeminate the news

reſs of Literature, Artz

of Wars, embalſliès, and treaties, has, in the pr

pily applied to a wide diverſity of other important uſes:

and Sciencé, been hap The FRENCH were the inventors of the periodical criticiſm of the REVIEW- The MacazINEF*, that entertaining farrago of every thing, owes its origin td the Exc LIsA. Since the days of STEELE, W ho is, 1n truth, to be confidered as the proper Father of Magazine-writing; competitions of trade, rivalſhips in literature, the growing appetite of the public for the luxuries of know- ledge, and thé IMmperious neceſſities of‘civil lifè, have multiplied our pe! ¡od- ¡cal miſcellanies to a number, which STEELE himſelf could not ſurvey but with aſtoniſhment, ſhould he now riſe nking, or the eating of opium. Thé more you

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knowledge, as with dram-dri know, ſo muth the more you deſire to increaſe your knowledge: the moré generally people are inſkruêted in Letters, ſo much the ſtronger is the call for farther inſtruétion: the more that MAGAZINES Aar& multiplied, ſo much the wider will the ſcope fill become for their augmented publication. Hence», thoſe books ſubdivided for periodical diſtribution,—thoſe MAGAZINES, 8Ò€- of Árt, of almoſt every

neral and particular, of Literature, of Science, or imaginable namé, and every poſſible modification of the affairs of life,—which meet us in every place and in every form, frequent as the frogs of Egypt, and ſurely, not in every inſtance, more diſguſting.

But it is with MAGAZINES AS with Medicines. The undiſtinguiſhing f the public demand, too often enables the quack to ſnatch for po1-

human

eagerneſs 0 ſon, or aí beſt, for inſipid ſtuff without one healing Virtue, thoſe gains which ought to be reſerved to the regular practitioner, and to be beſtowed only for You ſhall ſeea MAGAZINE-MAKER, who can ſcarcely read,

genuine remedies. by low artifices, on the-one hand, and by inconſide-

ewrite, or ſpell, to obtain, rate miſtakes or partialities on the other, a reception—for his tabac de mille fleurs, made up of a pinch begged from the box of every paſſenger,—for thoſe h ſcavenger-dexterity, from the privy of the Muſes—

cates which he rakes, wit e, from under the table of the

or thoſe ofals which he ſteals, as a cur does a bon Sciences and Arts,—a reception,—in conſequence of which, the diffuſion of knowledge is hindered, the taſte and intelligence of the Public are diſguſted, vitiated, benumbed, the enthuſñam of genius is diſcouráged, the rewards due only to ardent, ingenuous, literary exertion, are feloniouſly intercepted by idle neſs, ſtupidity, and ignorance, And, whenaMAGÁZINE€VEn of this ſort, has once obtained a genéral reception it commonly happens,—ſuch is the timid patience of the Public, the ſubjugating

power of a weakly 1mproper aſſociation of ideas;¡—that, no dereliction of no perverſion of that which 1s called a

influence of cuſtom and habit, the

principles once oſtentatiouſly profeſſed; channel for the ſtreams of ſcience,—to be a ſquirt for foul malignity; nojBaby- toniſh confuſion of ſenſe and language 3 n0 negligence of compilation, however

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