This Day was published, handsomely printed in Ten large Volumes, O&avo,
Price Three Pounds in Boards,

THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE,

WITH THE CORRECTIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF

To which are added NOTES by SAMUEL JOHNSON and
GEORGE STEEVENS, together with the Prefaces of former
Editors; a Portrait of the Author, finely engraved by HALL,
from a Painting in the Poffeffion of his Grace the Duke of
CHANDOS; alfo Two other Portraits of the Author, a Fac-
fimile of his Hand-writing; and a Plate representing the
Figures of ancient Morrice-Dancers, &c.

The THIRD Edition, revised and augmented by the
EDITOR OF DODSLEY'S Old Plays.

Printed for G. G. J. and J. ROBINSON, Pater-nofter-Row;
and for the rest of the Proprietors; where may be also had,
HERON'S LETTERS on LITERATURE.

BOOKS written by the Author of this FRAGMENT;

and fold by G. G. J. and J. ROBINSON.

I. LETTERS from an ENGLISH TRAVELLER [MARTIN SHERLOCK, Efq.] Tranflated from the French Original, printed at Geneva and Paris, with Notes. A new Edition, revised and corrected. Price 2s. 6d. fewed.

"To this new edition is prefixed (in French) a letter with which Mr. Sherlock was honoured by the King of Pruffia, in return for his book, which he fent to his Majesty as he was paffing (a second time) through Pottsdam.

Mr. Sherlock, I thank you for the book which you have just sent me. It has met with the reception that it deferves. I defire to fee its author, and you will come to me for that purpose to-morrow about eleven in the forenoon. My Major-General, Count de Goërtz, has orders to conduct you thither, and to present you. I pray God to have you Mr. Sherlock, in his holy and worthy protection. "Pottsdam, July 19, 1779.

FREDERICK."

Without this proof, few would suspect that this Royal Author ever prayed. From Mr. Sherlock's Nouvelles Lettres, we learn that "his Majefty received him graciously, and faid to him things too flattering for him to repeat." The editor, confidering his author "as a kind of literary phenomenon, as he travels through Italy, and publishes a book in Rome in Italian, and another in French at Paris," has also annexed" accounts of his merits given by the Journalists and Reviewers of France and Italy." Thefe reviews relate to his three works, viz. his two volumes of letters, and his Configlio ad un Giovane Poeta. The profits of this work were directed by the author to be distributed to poor diftreffed widows, the marquis of Maccarani undertaking the receipt and diftribution." Gent. Mag. 1780, p. 475. II. NEW LETTERS from an ENGLISH TRAVELLER. Written originally in French, by the Rev. MARTIN SHERLOCK, A. M. Chaplain to the Earl of Bristol. And now tranflated into English by the Author. Price 2s. 6d. fewed.

"This lively Traveller was introduced to our readers more than once in the courfe of the last year, though in the disguise of an Efquire by our mistake. The present collection contains forty-four

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more Letters, which have been as well received by all the foreign journals as the author seems to have been in all the foreign courts. Lord Bristol is ftill his Mæcenas, and in abilities he is indeed nulli fecundus. "Italy occupy fifteen of these letters. Of these the fubjects are, its beauties, natural, artificial, and historical, the women, the chevaliere fervants, or cicifbeos, &c. &c. The other letters are dated from Geneva, Laufanne, Strafburgh, Berlin, Germany, Senlis, and Paris. In fome of the latter he defends his justly ad mired Shakspeare from the attacks of M. de Voltaire; and if this work fucceeds, intends in his next to engage M. de la Harpe.

“Our author's dialogue with a young Ruffian at Senlis, who had been fleeced at Paris, is truly original." Gent. Mag. 1781, p. 30.

III. Configlio ad un Giovane Poeta del Sig. SHERLOCK. Edizione Quarta. Price 2s. 6d. fewed.

IV. Letters on feveral Subjects. By the Rev. MARTIN SHERLOCK, A. M. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bristol [and Vicar of Caftleconner and Kilglass, in the County of Kilkenny]. Volume the First.

Thefe Thirty Letters are not a translation: they are originally printed in England; and display that happy union of taste and erudition, that knowledge of men and of books, which we had occafion to admire, with a few grains of allowance, in the former foreign productions of this writer. The chief fubjects are, the King of Pruffia, Genius, Wit, Tafte, Judgement, Delicacy, Voltaire, Shakfpeare, Richardfon (to whofe Clariffa, he afferts, there is not an equal in the universe for wit, fentiment, and fenfe), La Fontaine, the French, Women, the pious Æneas, and Mr. SHERLOCK." Ibid p. 132.

V. Letters on feveral Subjects. By the Rev. MARTIN SHERLOCK, A. M. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bristol. Volume the Second.

"The pen of this ready writer produces volumes faster than we can review them. The prefent confifts of XXXIII Letters, in which he harangues, with his wonted fpirit, on the King and Queen of England, London, Love, Shakspeare, Taite, Mufic, Lord Chefterfield's Letters, Lord Lucan and Mr. and Mrs. Vefey, the Englifh and French, the Vapours, French and English Women, Mr. SHERLOCK, and Travelling. Ibid. p. 230.

The Original Letters are entered at Stationers Hall
Either of the Volumes may be had separately.