Origin of the Materials of Writing - Minute Writing - Titles of Books - Literary Labour and Perseverance - Curious Account of the Scarcity of Books - Celebrated Libraries - Book of Blunders - Curious Account of the Means of Intellectual Improvement in London.

" Of all the pleasures, noble and refin'd, Which form the taste and cultivate the mind; In ev'ry realm where science darts its beam, From Zembla's ice to Afric's golden stream; From climes where Phoebus pours his orient ray, To the fair regions of declining day: The ' feast of reason' which from reading springs, To reas'ning man the highest solace brings. Tis books a lasting pleasure can supply, Charm while we live, and teach us how to die.'