ica
known to the Ancients--Collar of SS.--Martello
Towers--"A Frog he would a-wooing go"--William
of Wykeham--Execution of Charles I.--Swords--The
Low Window--Brasichelli's Expurgatory Index--Discursus
Modestus--Melancthon's Epigram. 106

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 111
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 111
Notices to Correspondents. 111
Advertisements. 112

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NOTES

THE AUTHOR OF THE "CHARACTERISTICS."

Lord Shaftesbury's _Letters to a young Man at the University_, on which
Mr. SINGER has addressed to you an interesting communication (Vol. ii.,
p. 33.), were reprinted in 1746 in a collection of his letters,
"_Letters of the Earl of Shaftesbury, author of the Characteristicks,
collected into one volume_: printed MDCCXLVI." 18mo. This volume
contains also Lord Shaftesbury's letters to Lord Molesworth, originally
published by Toland, with an introduction which is not reprinted; a
"Letter sent from Italy, with the notion of the Judgment of Hercules,
&c., to my Lord ----"; and three letters reprinted from Lord
Shaftesbury's life in the _General Dicionary_, which was prepared by Dr.
Kippis, under the superintendence of Lord Shaftesbury's son, the fourth
earl.

In my copy of the original edition of the _Letters to a young Man at the
University_, two letters have been transcribed by an unknown previous
possessor. One is to Bishop Burnet, recommending young Ainsworth when
about to be ordained deacon:--

"To the Bishop of Sarum.

"Reigate, May 23. 1710.

"My Lord,--The young man who delivers this to your Lordship, is
one who for several years has been preparing himself for the
ministry, and in order to it has, I think, completed his time at
the university. The occasion of his applying this way was purely
from his own inclination. I took him a child from his poor
parents, out of a numerous and necessitous family, into my own,
employing him in nothing servile; and finding his ingenuity, put
him abroad to the best schools to qualify him for preferment in
a peculiar way. But the serious temper of the lad disposing him,
as I found, to the ministry preferably to other advantages, I
could not be his hindrance; though till very lately I gave him
no prospect of any encouragement through my interest. But having
been at last convinced, by his sober and religious cou