Pickering 5-18-29 241248 1800l. ADVERTISEMENT OF THE EDITOR. THE idea of this compilation was fuggefted by the great value that has frequently been fet upon collections of fcraps cut out of newfpapers-the title, by that of a French book*, of a nature fomewhat fimilar. In making the felection, recourfe has feldom been had to publications of earlier date than the year 1793; a period when the collifion of political parties, and the momentous incidents of the war, and of the French revolution, began to clicit ftronger flashes of wit and fatire, from the mind of genius, than had been produced for a long time before. By far the greater part of the Effays and Jeux d'Esprit thus rescued from oblivion, are of an *L'Esprit des Journaux. A 2 anti SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS FOR 1797. BEING AN IMPARTIAL SELECTION OF THE MOST EXQUISITE ESSAYS AND JEUX D'ESPRITS, PRINCIPALLY PROSE, THAT APPEAR IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS. WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES AND ANECDOTES OF MANY OF THE PERSONS ALLUDED TO. VOL. I. THE THIRD EDITION. To be continued Annually. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JAMES RIDGWAY, YORK STREET, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE. |