BOOKS PUBLISHED,

BY THE SAME AUTHOR,

AND SOLD BY MESSRS. RIVINGTONS, &c.

1. A COLLECTION OF SONGS, Moral, Sentimental, Instructive, and Amusing, in One Volume, small 4to. containing upwards of ninety Songs (many of them Original) with the Music. The words selected and altered by Mr. Plumptre; the music with a Treble and Bass, adapted and composed by CHARLES HAGUE, Mus. Doc. and Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge. With an Introductory Letter and Postscript, and Notes. Price, on large paper 16s. on com

mon 12s.

2. A COLLECTION OF SONGS, containing the words only of upwards of eight hundred Songs, some of them original, but principally selected from the Works of the most approved Writers, divested of every thing which has any tendency to Indecency and Profaneness; with the Introductory Letter and Postscript revised, and a New Preface. Elegantly printed in Three large Volumes 12mo. Price £1. 1s. in boards

The First Volume, which contains chiefly the Rural, Naval, and Military Songs, &c. may be had separately, Printed on an inferior Paper, and with a shorter preface, Price, in boards, 4s. 6d. for those who may wish to purchase it as a present to the lower classes.

3. Agreeably to an intention of the Editor, expressed in the Preface to the above Collection (p. xci.—p. vii. of the shorter Preface,) small TRACTS of Songs, adapted to the lowest Classes, under the general title of The VOCAL REPOSITORY, are now publishing. Each Tract has some separate Popular Title, and is ornamented with a wood cut. The Voice of the Nation,―The Friendly Society Songster,-A Word for the Dumb,―The Honest Farmer, -The Whistling Ploughman,-Rural Melody,-The Shepherd's Pipe,—The Sheep-shearer's Garland, -The Hop picker's Garland, The Harvest Songster, -Music for the Winter Fire-side, The Gallant Soldier, Part I.-Do. Part II. The Cheerful Sailor,-The True Lovers' Knot,-A Song and a Laugh, and Christmas Carols,-are already published. These will be followed by Valentine Airs,-The Rural Poet's Garland,―The Friendly Society Songster, Part II.-Domestic Harmony, - The Village Songster, -The Festive Songster,-The Cheerful Sailor, Part II.-&c. &c. Printed and Sold by J. PITTS, No. 14, Great St. Andrew's Street, Seven Dials; Price One Penny each, or Six Shillings per Hundred, with a greater allowance to Shopkeepers and Hawkers.

It is hoped that they who reflect with concern that so much indecency and impiety is circulated about the country in the form of Ballads and Song-Books, will distribute the above Tracts, and recommend them to the Shopkeepers and Hawkers in their neighbourhood.

4. THE FARMER'S, AND COTTAGER'S GARDEN CALENDAR, Part I. shewing what is to be done in the Garden in each Month in the Year: with some Re

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marks on Soils and Manures; on a broad sheet, price 3d.

N. B. This has been abridged on half a sheet of Fool's-cap Paper by The Society for bellering the Condition and increasing the Comforts of the Poor, and may be had at the very low price of 30 for 1s. at Mr. Hatchard's, No. 190, Piccadilly, London.

Ditto, Part II. closely printed in columns on one broad sheet, containing, in alphabetical order, an Account of the most useful Things cultivated in a Garden or Orchard, with the time and manner of cultivation, and some account of their uses and medical properties. Sold by J. Nicholson, Cambridge: Price 4d. each-or 2 for 6d.-5 for 1s.-or 13 for 2s. 6d. The above are recommended to the Clergy and Gentry to distribute among the Cottagers and Labourers, to encourage Gardening in their parishes.

5. OBSERVATIONS ON HAMLET, being an attempt to prove that Shakspeare designed that Tragedy as an indirect censure on MARY QUEEN OF Scors. With an Appendix. Price 3s. 6d.

6. THE HOUSE OF MOURNING AND THE HOUSE OF FEASTING A Sermon, preached before The Hinxton Friendly Society, on Sunday, September the 30th, 1804, being the Anniversary. To which are added, Psalm cxxxiii. and Hymns to be sung at the Funerals of deceased Members. Price 1s.

7. THE PLAGUE STAYED: A Scriptural view of Pestilence, particularly of that dreadful Pestilence The Small Pox; with considerations on The Cow Pock; in Two Sermons, the one preached before The University

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of Cambridge, Feb. the 24th, the other in The Parish Church of Hinxton, March the 3d, 1805, with copious Notes and Illustrations. Price 2s. 6d.

8. THE WATER OF BETHESDA, A Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of St. John, Margate, in the Isle of Thanet, on Sunday, August the 30th, 1807; for the General Sea-bathing Infirmary at Margate. Price 1s.

9. JOSEPH'S CONSIDERATION: A Sermon on Genesis xxxix. 9. preached in Clare-Hall Chapel, on Monday, Feb. the 29th, 1808, being the day of Administering the Holy Sacrament of The Lord's Supper, at the division of the Term. Price Is.

10. THE WAY IN WHICH WE SHOULD GO: A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of St. Botolph, Cambridge, on Sunday, December the 11th, 1808, for the benefit of The New School, established on Dr. Bell's and Mr. Lancaster's Plan of Education. Price Is.

11. FOUR DISCOURSES ON SUBJECTS relating to the AMUSEMENT of the STAGE. Preached at Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday, September 25, and on Sunday, October 2, 1808. In One Volume, Octavo, price in boards, 7s.

To these Discourses are annexed very COPIOUS NOTES, illustrative of the principles contained in them; shewing, by instances drawn from our dramatic and other poets, and prose writers, the objectionable manner in which our works of taste and amusement are too generally written; and proving, likewise, from some of our most popular Dramas, the possibility of constructing Plays upon such principles, as shall exhibit instructive and moral lessons, according to the sentiments of several learned and pious writers of the present and former times.

PROPOSALS

FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION,

A WORK TO BE ENTITLED

THE ENGLISH DRAMA PURIFIED:

BEING A SPECIMEN OF

ENGLISH PLAYS,

IN WHICH ALL THE PASSAGES OBJECTIONABLE IN POINT OF MORALITY, ARE OMITTED OR ALTERED.

IT is the intention of the Editor to publish Three Volumes in 12mo, price One Guinea. The money to be paid on the delivery of the work.

These volumes will contain the following Plays :TRAGEDIES: The Gamester, Jane Shore, George Barnwell, Douglas, Lady Jane Gray.-COMEDIES: The Provok'd Husband, The Conscious Lovers, A Word to the Wise, The Goodnatur'd Man, The Clandestine Marriage.-OPERA AND AFTER-PIECES: Lionel and Clarissa, The King and Miller of Mansfield, The Toy-shop, Barataria, and Rosina.

WITH PREFACES AND NOTES

By JAMES PLUMPTRE, B. D.

FELLOW OF CLARE HALL, CAMBRIDGE.

The work will be sent to the press as soon as the names of 200 Subscribers are obtained.

Subscribers' names are received by J. Deighton, aud J. Nicholson, booksellers, Cambridge; Messrs. Rivingtons, St. Paul's Church Yard; and J. Hatchard, No. 190, Piccadilly, London.

CLARE HALL, March 13, 1811.