THE WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. EDITED BY PETER CUNNINGHAM, F.S.A. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. II. ENQUIRY INTO THE PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. ADVERTISEMENT. THIS Volume contains the Enquiry into the State of Polite Literature in Europe, published in 1759, when Goldsmith was young and unknown; and the series of Letters, entitled "The Citizen of the World," written for the columns of a newspaper-afterwards collected by the Author himself, and esteemed among the most delightful of his works. -8 In this volume, as in the preceding one, I have been careful to mark all Goldsmith's own notes with his name,- duty which no other Editor has deemed it worth while to perform. It is true that, in some instances, the Author's notes have been retained by his Editors, who have in such cases, however, invariably adopted them as their own, or have at least omitted all indication that they are his. Other notes, and those at times curiously illustrative of the text, have been most unaccountably omitted. I have restored all. PETER CUNNINGHAM. January, 1854. |