"If ever a work met with great applause and deserved still more, it was certainly Mr. Hogarth's _Analysis of Beauty_. The literary journals and newspapers have amply and handsomely noticed it. The author made the beauty of forms, which was the object of his art, at the same time the subject of his philosophical meditations, and fell at last upon a system which was meant to ascertain in some degree the various conceptions of mankind concerning the agreeable, and to banish from the learned as well as the vulgar the absurd proverb, that men neither can nor ought to dispute about Taste. 'Tis therefore to him we are indebted if the word beautiful, to which people daily fix a thousand different ideas, becomes for the future as much an object of reflection as it has hitherto been of sensation. Yet this work does not contain empty and fruitless speculations, which, when they are not of practical use, justly merit the name of whim and chimera; but its utility is equally extensive with its subject, viz. the beauty of forms, and all arts and sciences that have a relation to it will borrow new light from the performance. The philosopher, the naturalist, the antiquarian, the orator (both in the pulpit and on the stage), the painter, the statuary, the dancing-master, must consider it as a book essentially necessary to them; and not only to them, but also to those persons who are vain of being thought connoisseurs, yet often form such contradictory and inadequate judgment of what relates to the imitation of natural beauty, that they but too plainly betray their want of fixed and determinate ideas. One may venture to affirm that the utility of Mr. Hogarth's system will soon extend itself into the empire of fashion; for even there, where nothing reigned but occasional caprice, now something of certainty may take its place by the assistance of this theory. "Mr. Mylins when in England translated it into German, under the author's inspection; his translation was printed in London, and contains only twenty-two sheets in quarto, and the two prints, yet was it sold for five dollars." Mr. Vok proposes taking subscriptions of one dollar for his edition, which is not to be sold under two dollars to non-subscribers. He further promises to annex a short description of Mr. Hogarth's prints, translated from the French, and engages that the work shall be ready in six weeks from the time of his proposals, which he dates from Berlin, 1st July 1754. _Mr. Reiffsten's Letter to Mr. Hogarth._