cquet, for the Entertainment of Gentlemen and
Ladies. Containing I. Verses to Mr. Campbell, Occasioned by the History
of his Life and Adventures. By Mrs. Fowke, Mr. Philips, &c. II. The
Parallel, a Poem. Comparing the Poetical Productions of Mr. Pope, with
the Prophetical Predictions of Mr. Campbell. By Capt. Stanhope_, [i. e.
W. Bond.] _III. An Account of a most surprizing Apparition; sent from
Launceston in Cornwall. Attested by the Rev. Mr. Ruddie, Minister
there._ London: For T. Bickerton. 1720. See W. Lee, _Daniel Defoe_,
322-8.

[5]
_Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell_, 171.

[5a]
This volume was announced in the _British Journal_ as early as Dec. 15,
1722.

[6]
She or Bond may have inserted the passage to advertise a projected work.
Mr. Spectator had already remarked of the letters that came to his
office: "I know some Authors, who would pick up a _Secret History_ out
of such materials, and make a Bookseller an Alderman by the Copy." (No.
619.)

[7]
Defoe's _Life and Adventures_ is mentioned on pp. 17 (with a quotation),
61, 111, 246, 257.

[8]
Part II. Being a Collection of Letters found in Mr. Campbell's Closet.
By the Lady who wrote the foregoing sheets. Part III. Containing some
Letters from Persons of Mr. Campbell's more particular Acquaintance.

[9]
"The Pleasure with which you received my _Spy_ on the Conjurer,
encourages me to offer you a little Supplement to it, having since my
finishing that Book, had the opportunity of discovering something
concerning Mr. Campbell, which I believe your Lordship will allow to be
infinitely more surprizing than any Thing I have yet related." _The Dumb
Projector_, 5. Mr. G. A. Aitken, in his introduction to Defoe's _Life
and Adventures_, gives the two pieces unhesitatingly to Mrs. Haywood,
while other students of Defoe,--Leslie Stephen, Lee, Wright, and
Professor Trent,--are unanimous in their opinion that the first
exploiter of the dumb wizard could have had no hand in the writing of
these amplifications. The latest bibliographer of romances and tales,
Mr. Arundell Esdaile, however, follows the B.M. catalogue in listing
_The Dumb Projector_ under the convenient name of Defoe.

[10]
No. 125, Saturday. 23 November, 1728.

[11]
_The Female Spectator_, 1745, II, 246.

[11a]
In 1734 appeared a compilation of tables for computing Easter, etc.,
entitled _Time's Telescope Universal and Perpetual, Fitted for all
Countries and Capacities_ ... By _Dunca