I have a little deviated from my Subject, in pursuing the Rules and Advantages of Education, which I take to be of that universal good Tendency, that they are acceptable in any Performance whatsoever: I shall offer nothing farther, but conclude this Essay with the following Particulars; that besides the Qualifications already mention'd, it is as necessary for a fine Writer to be endued with Modesty as for a beautiful Lady; that good Sense is of equal Consequence to an Author, as a good Soil for the Culture of the most noble Plants; that a Person writing a great deal on various Subjects, should be as cautious in owning all his Performances, as in revealing the Secrets of his most intimate Friend; and in respect to those Gentlemen, who have made no scruple to prostitute their Names, the following Similie may be judg'd well adapted: _As Musick soft, by constant use is forc'd Grows harsh, and cloys, becomes at length the worst, The Harmony amidst Confusion lost: So finest Pens, employ'd in Writing still Lose Strength and Beauty as the Folio's fill._ _FINIS._ William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: University of California THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY _General Editors_ H. Richard Archer William Andrews Clark Memorial Library R.C. Boys University of Michigan E.N. Hooker University of California, Los Angeles John Loftis University of California, Los Angeles The society exists to make available inexpensive reprints (usually facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century works. The editorial policy of the Society continues unchanged. As in the past, the editors welcome suggestions concerning publications. All correspondence concerning subscriptions in the United States and Canada should be addressed to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2205 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles 18, California. Correspondence concerning editorial matters may be addressed to any of the general editors. Membership fee continues $2.50 per year. British and European subscribers should address B.H. Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England. Publications for the fifth year [1950-1951] _(At least six items, most of them from the following list, will be reprinted)_ FRANCES REYNOLDS (?): _An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, &c._ (1785). Introduction by James L. Clifford. THOMAS BAKER: _The Fine Lady's Airs_ (1709). Introduction by John Harrington Smith. DANIEL DEFOE: _Vindication of the Press_ (1718). Introduction by Otho Clinton Williams. JOHN EVELYN: _An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); _A Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661). Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes. CHARLES MACKLIN: _Man of the World_ (1781). Introduction by Dougald MacMillan. _Prefaces to Fiction_. Selected and with an Introduction by Benjamin Boyce. THOMAS SPRAT: _Poems._