WORLD:

A PERIODICAL PAPER.

A NEW EDITION, IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

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1. History of Gonzales de Castro - Mo-

desty of young men of fashion-of

quacks the author's advertisement

Design of the paper

2. Bashfulness of the moderns-Fable of

modesty and assurance

3. Inconveniences of borrowing money

4. Story of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson

5. The same concluded

6. Progress made towards nature in the

theatres

7. Offensive manners of whist-players

Fretters and growlers

Moore

. Walpole

Moore

8. Recommendation of Theodore, King of

Corsica, to the liberality of the public Walpole

9. Personal satire Progress of wit

Pantomimes

10. On the change of the style

11. Happiness, an allegory

12. On the taste or whim for Chinese ar-

chitecture and furniture

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13. Letters of advice to the author

14. On the composition of letters

15. Absurd taste in gardening

Mushroom's villa

16. Scene of domestic happiness

17. Account of the races and manner of

Newmarket

18. A country gentleman's tour to Paris

with his family

19. On the ignorance and indecency of mo-

dern romance writers

20. Uses of learning

Coventrye

Moore

Earl of Bath

. Chesterfield

W.Whitehead

21. Letters on the WORLD -a London Sun-

day-Fashionable undress

22. School discipline recommended as a

cure for rambling

23. Shameful practice of exhibiting lunatics

in Bedlam-Proposals for a new Bed-

lam for men of spirit about town

24. On nostrums and specifics

writing

25. Danger of reading romances

26. On simplicity in taste

Short

27. Account of the erection of three great

monasteries in London

28. Old women most proper objects for

love

29. On the little benefit accruing to English-

men from their travels

30. Impropriety of wearing a hat in church

Moore

Unknown

. Moore

. Chesterfield

Cruelty of seducing the affections. Moore

31. Distresses of a credulous clergyman

32. Criticism treated as a species of disease. Dodsley

33. Remarks on the author's correspondents

- Letter from a disappointed bride . Moore

54. On the danger of repealing the witch

act

56. On misspending the summer in cards and
drinking

37. Mary Truman's account of the miseries

of dependence

38. On an expensive taste in furniture

Moore

.J. Duncombe

. Sir C. H. Williams

39. Substance of Nic Limbertongue's letters

Letter from an undressed lady

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40. Infelicities of marriage, owing to the hus-

band's not giving way to the wife

41. Letter from an old maid· -on the mise-

ries of a woman of fashion in the

43. Punning letter on the Jew bill-In-

delicacy of pantomimes

44. Pride, the source of every guilt and

misery

45. Essay on posts

Parratt

Moore

Unknown

. Roberts

46. Letters on the art of not knowing people Moore

47. Courage of Sir Josiah Pumpkin -re-

markable duel in Moorfields

50. Various reasons for coming to London

anecdotes of Pope

51. On variety of acquaintances

tion to their qualifications

52. Amanda's story of her seduction