The Gentleman's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 2

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THE
Gentleman's Magazine:
Or, TRADER's
Monthly Intelligencer.

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Number II. for FEBRUARY, 1731.

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CONTAINING,

I. A VIEW of the Weekly Essays and Controversies, viz. Of Fashions, Eating, Luxury, Organists, Criticism, Taste, Logic, Manners, Celebacy, Marriage, Poor, Beggers, Justices, Informing Constables, National Customs, Grubstreet and Political Writers; and penal Laws against Jews.

II. Poetry, &c. A New Session of the Poets. A Winter's Thought. The Midsummer's Wish, by Mr. Duck. The Gossip's Tale. The Lady's Delight, a Riddle. The Gentleman's Aversion, another. Ralpho and Robin, a Dialogue. The House-keeper, a Tale.

III. Domestick Occurrences, &c. Births, Deaths, Marriages, Preferments, Casualties, Burials and Christenings in London.

IV. Prices of Goods, Stocks, Grain, Course of Exchange, and a List of Bankrupts.

V. Foreign Affairs.

VI. Books, &c. publish'd.

VII. Observations in Gardening and a List of Fairs for the Season.

With a TABLE of Contents.

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By SYLVANUS URBAN of Aldermanbury, Gent.

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Prodesse & Delectare.

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The Third Edition.

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CONTENTS of No. II.
for FEBRUARY.

OF Almanack-makers,	51
Church-musick	ibid.
The Templer, a new Paper,	52
Liberty of the Press,	52, 53, 70
Remarks on Q. Eliz. Reign	53
—On the Hessian Troops,	ib.
Of National Controversies	54
Thales' rational Philosophy	ib.
Criticisms on Milton	55
Of Taste, Conversation	55, 56
Of Dress and Fashions	56, 57
Poetical Disputations	57, 58
Prevailing Humour, a Characteristick of the Times	58, 59
Advice to an Author	ib.
Of Beggers	59, 60
Matrimony, and Celebacy	60
Reforming Constables	61
Customs of the Hottentots	62
Libels, Politeness in eating	63
Former Accomplishments	ib.
Remarks on the Reign of K. James I.	64
Of modern Productions, Education, Sir Isaac Newton, and popular Discontents	64
Justices, political Hypocrisy	65
Emp. Maximilian, his usage of Peucer	ib.
Comparison between English Politicians and Turkish	66
Animadversions on a Book call'd Harlequin Horace	68
Relation between the King's German Dominions, and his British Interests	67
Characteristick of the Authors of the Grubstreet Journal	68
Happiness, how obtain'd	68
Of Government	69
An old Lecher and a young Prostitute describ'd	ib.
Faction and Defamation	69, 70
Poetry, viz. Session of the Poets	71
The Gentleman's Aversion,	72
A Winter's Thought. An Ode	73
The Midsummer Wish	74
The Gossip's Tale	ibid.
Lady's Delight, a Riddle	75
A Bacchanalian Flight	ib.
The House-keeper	76
Ralpho and Robin, a Dialogue	ib.
Of Jews, and Judaism	77
Domestick Occurrences	78
Ships lost, and Casualties	81
Deaths of eminent Persons	82
Marriages and Promotions	84
Ecclesiastical Preferments	85
Bankrupts, and Monthly Bill of Mortality	86
Foreign Affairs	87
Substance of the Marquess de Castellar's Declaration	ib.
Of Gov. Belcher's Speech	ib.
Of Gov. Worsley's Speech to the Assembly of Barbadoes, and their Address	87, 88
Account of a new Colony to be establish'd in America	88
Fairs in March and April	89
Books publish'd	90, 91, 92
Observations in Gardening	93
Course of Exchange, Prices of Goods and Stocks	94

Note. This Index, not being Printed to the first Edition, is given away to those who may have bought it.

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