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RNYG.778.052
13 Jun 1778:44 (178)
To be had of the Printer. The Election Ball, in letters
from Mr. Inkle at Bath, to his wife at Gloucester; a
pleasant production of the much esteemed Mr. Anstey, author
of the Bath Guide, than whom, none has appeared equally
delectable in this class of writers, since the days of
Master Matthew Prior.
The Englishman's Fortnight at Paris, or the art of ruining
himself there in a few days, said to be written by a Mr.
Rutledge, who really there dissipated twelve thousand pounds
in that short space. A piece full of amusing incidents, and
displaying the knavery of many of the most notorious
characters of the age.
The Pupil of Pleasure, by Courtney Melmoth, in 2 vols. a
novel, replete with incident and terminating in most
pathetic catastrophe, it is much read, and has lately passed
through many editions.
A Monstrous Good Lounge. addressed to the first man who
purchases the book, together with Yorick's Skull, or College
Yawnings, and a specimen of the Shandean stile.
Letters from Mr. Washington to his wife, his Son-in-law,
and Mr. Lund Washington; in which are set forth a fairer
and fuller view of American politicks, than ever transpired,
or the public could be made acquainted with through any
other channel, together with the Revd. Mr. Jacob Duche's
(late Chaplain to the Continental Congress) letter to Mr.
Washington, entreating him to relinquish his command, and an
answer to Mr. Duche, by Mr. John Parks, now a Lieutenant
Colonel in Mr. Washington's army.
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