in Blank Verse the Jests and Repartees of all the Attendants in a funeral Procession. But there is one Argument in Favour of Sentimental Comedy which will keep it on the Stage in spite of all that can be said against it. It is, of all others, the most easily written. Those abilities that can hammer out a Novel, are fully sufficient for the production of a sentimental Comedy. It is only sufficient to raise the Characters a little, to deck out the Hero with a Ribbon, or give the Heroine a Title; then to put an Insipid Dialogue, without Character or Humour, into their mouths, give them mighty good hearts, very fine clothes, furnish a new set of Scenes, make a Pathetic Scene or two, with a sprinkling of tender Melancholy Conversation through the whole, and there is no doubt but all the Ladies will cry, and all the Gentlemen applaud. Humour at present seems to be departing from the Stage, and it will soon happen, that our Comic Players will have nothing left for it but a fine Coat and a Song. It depends upon the Audience whether they will actually drive those poor Merry Creatures from the Stage or sit at a Play as gloomy as at the Tabernacle. It is not easy to recover an art when once lost; and it would be but a just punishment - that when, by our being too fastidious, we have banished Humour from the Stage, we should ourselves be deprived of the art of Laughing. A LIST OF THE 983 VOLUMES Anonymous works are given under titles. nthologies, Dictionaries, etc., are arranged at the end of the list. Inglo-Saxon Chronicle, 624 inson's Voyages, 510 Mexico, 664 Aristophanes Acharnians, etc., 344 Bates's Naturalist on the Amazon, Frogs, etc., 516 Aristotle's Ethics, 547 Politics, 605 Poetics, and Demetrius Arnold's (Matthew) Essays, 115 Study of Celtic Literature, Aucassin and Nicolette, 497 Pride and Prejudice, 22 Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, 25 Bacon's Essays, 10 446 Baxter's (Richard) Autobiography, Beaumont and Fletcher's Selected Beaumont's (Mary) Joan Seaton, 597 Belt's Naturalist in Nicaragua, 561 Human Knowledge, New Theory Berlioz (Hector), Life of, 602 Björnson's Plays, 625, 696 Advancement of Learning, Ballantyne's Coral Island, 245 " Borrow's Bible in Spain, 151 Gypsies in Spain, 697 Tour to the Hebrides, 387 689 99 Villette, 351 The Professor, 417 Grannie's Won- Browning's Poems, 1833-44, 41 1844-64, 42 Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 201 " Burke's American Speeches Letters, 340 and and Reflections on the French Butler's Analogy of Religion, 90 Cox's Tales of Ancient Greece, 721 Craik (Mrs.). See Mulock Curtis's Prue and I, and Lotus, 418 of Dana's Two Years before the Mast, and Butler's The Way of All Flesh, 895 Poetical and Letters, 931 Dante's Divine Comedy, 308 Captain Singleton, 74 Moll Flanders, 837 de la Mare's Stories and Poems, 940 De Quincey's Lake Poets, 163 Opium-Eater, 223 De Retz (Cardinal), Memoirs of, 735, 736 N W Joseph Andrews, 467 Finlay's Byzantine Empire, 33 [185 Ford's Gatherings from Spain, 152 Fox's (Charles James) Selected Fox's (George) Journal, 754 Francis' (Saint) The Little Flowers, [447 French Mediaeval Romances 557 Froude's Short Studies, 13, 705 Edward VI, 375 History of Queen Eliza- Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Galsworthy's Country House, 917 Gaskell's Cranford, 83 |