PRINTED TOR BELL & BRADFUTE, JAMES M'CLIESH, AND

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD;
GILBERT & HODGES, DUBLIN; AND S. CAMPBELL,

NEW YORK.

ALLDEN LIBRARA

1895

G. Caw, Printer,

Edinburgh.

CONTENTS

1

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

PHILOLOGICAL TRACTS.

Page

THE Plan of an English Dictionary

3

Preface to the English Dictionary

31

Proposals for printing the Works of Shake-

speare

68

Preface to Ditto

77

General Observations on Shakespeare's Plays 141

Account of the Harleian Library

171

Essay on the Origin and Importance of Fugi-

tive Pieces

184

Account of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini 194

View of the Controversy between Crousaz

and Warburton

198

Preliminary Discourse to the London Chro.

nicle, 1757

203

.