687, 4to. Five years afterwards came
forth _The Young Student's Library_, by the Athenian
Society, 1692, folio, "a kind of common theatre where every
person may act, or take such part as pleases him best, and
what he does not like he may pass over, assuring himself
that, every one's judgment not being like his, another may
chuse what he mislikes, and so every one may be pleased in
their turns." Pref. A six weeks' frost is said to have
materially delayed the publication. After these, in the
subsequent century, appeared the _Old and New Memoirs of
Literature_; then, the _Works of the Learned_; upon which
was built, eclipsing every one that had preceeded it, and
not excelled by any subsequent similar critical journal,
_The Monthly Review_.]

[Footnote 90: After all, said the reviewing Doctor, we are
of opinion, with the author himself, that this publication
contains 'the sentiments of one who has seen but little:'
meaning, thereby, that the book was hardly worth perusal!
What has become of the said Dr. Kenrick now? We will not ask
the same question about the said DR. JOHNSON; whose works
are upon the shelf of every reading man of sense and
virtue.]

"It is certainly," pursued Lysander, "a very prolific age of
knowledge. There never was, at any one period of the world, so much
general understanding abroad. The common receptacles of the lower
orders of people present, in some degree, intellectual scenes. I mean,
that collision of logic, and corruscation of wit, which arise from the
perusal of a newspaper; a production, by-the-bye, upon which Cowper
has conferred immortality.[91] You may remember, when we were driven
by a sharp tempest of hail into the small public-house which stands at
the corner of the heath--what a _logomachy_--what a _war of words_ did
we hear! and all about sending troops to the north or south of Spain,
and the justice or injustice of the newly-raised prices of admission
to Covent Garden theatre!![92] The stage-coach, if you recollect,
passed by quickly after our having drunk a tumbler of warm brandy and
water to preserve ourselves from catching cold; and into it glad
enough we were to tumble! We had no sooner begun to be tolerably
comfortable and composed than a grave old gentleman commenced a most
furious Philippic against the prevailing studies, politics, and
religion of the day--and, in truth,