The _Wedding Day_ was issued separately in February 1743. It must therefore be assumed that the three volumes of _Miscellanies_, by Henry Fielding, Esq., in which it was reprinted, and to which reference has so often been made in these pages, did not appear until later. [Footnote: By advertisement in the _London Daily Post and General Advertiser_, they would seem to have been published early in April 1743.] They were published by subscription; and the list, in addition to a large number of aristocratic and legal names, contains some of more permanent interest. Side by side with the Chesterfields and Marlboroughs and Burlingtons and Denbighs, come William Pitt and Henry Fox, Esqs., with Dodington and Winnington and Hanbury Williams. The theatrical world is well represented by Garrick and Mrs. Woffington and Mrs. Clive. Literature has no names of any eminence except that of Young; for Savage and Whitehead, Mallet and Benjamin Hoadly, are certainly _ignes minores_. Pope is conspicuous for his absence; so also are Horace Walpole and Gray, while Richardson, of course, is wanting. Johnson, as yet only the author of _London_, and journeyman to Cave, could scarcely be expected in the roll; and, in any case, his friendship for the author of _Pamela_ would probably have kept him away. Among some other well- known eighteenth century names are those of Dodsley and Millar the booksellers, and the famous Vauxhall _impresario_ Jonathan Tyers. The first volume of the _Miscellanies_, besides a lengthy Preface, includes the author's poems, essays _On Conversation_, _On the Knowledge of the Characters of Men_, _On Nothing_, a squib upon the transactions of the Royal Society, a translation from Demosthenes, and one or two minor pieces. Much of the biographical material contained in the Preface has already been made use of, as well as those verses which can be definitely dated, or which relate to the author's love-affairs. The hitherto unnoticed portions of the volume consist chiefly of Epistles, in the orthodox eighteenth century fashion. One--already referred to--is headed _Of True Greatness_; another, inscribed to the Duke of Richmond, _Of Good-nature_; while a third is addressed to a friend _On the Choice of a Wife_. This last contains some sensible lines, but although Roscoe has managed to extract two quotable passages, it is needless to imitate him here. These productions show no trace of the authentic Fielding. The essays are more remarkable, although, like Montaigne's, they are scarcely described by their titles. That on _Conversation_ is really a little treatise on good breeding; that on the _Characters of Men_, a lay sermon against Fielding's pet antipathy--hypocrisy. Nothing can well be wiser, even now, than some of the counsels in the former of these papers on such themes as the limits of raillery, the duties of hospitality, and the choice of subject in general conversation. Nor, however threadbare