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ERRATA. 27 for wasted, rest, Page. 272 279 7 587 14 read washed. next. complaisance. dignitaries. graver. *** We beg leave to inform our readers, that arrangements have been made for publishing the future numbers of this Journal with greater typographical neatness and accuracy. -The General Index to vol. viii. which, from circumstances of e peculiar and urgent nature, has been hitherto delayed, will be found (together. with that for the present volume) at the close of the ensuing number for July: and that number will form the first of a new volume, the increased quantity of letterpress rendering the division into parts inconvenient. those persons who have discontinued the Review, the gratis, by applying to the publishers. For the accommodation of Index to vol. viii. may be had GENERAL VOL. IX. INDEX. Affliction, sources of consolation in, 297 the professor's prospectus 370; outfit Anecdotes, Nichols's Literary, of the Apuleius remarks on his golden ass, Campeggio Cardinal, description of his en- Caslon and Jackson, the letter founders, Charlemont, Lord, Hardy's memoirs of, Christ, Belsham's calm inquiry into the the author of spirituul life, 295; Comedy, rise and progress of, 263 Crabbe, Mr., objections to his minute 77 Hexham Bridge-cause of its demoli- Horace, B. I. Ode 19 and 22 translation Horsley, Bishop, Sermons, Vol. III. 86 et seq. Hymus, origina! for Sunday Schools, 84 Imitations of popular contemporary trade and government are regulated, India, Hall's address to the public on , the importance of propagat- Wakefield's Statistical and 252. Isle of Palms, Wilson's, and other Poems, 23 ct seq.; unfortunate di- Junius, Woodfall's edition of, 113 et Knox, M'Crie's life of, 350 et seq.; causes |