Transcriber’s note Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. A list of the changes made can be found at the end of the book. Formatting and special characters are indicated as follows: _italic_ MODERN LITERATURE: _A NOVEL._ VOL. III. Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street. MODERN LITERATURE: _A NOVEL_, IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. By ROBERT BISSET, L.L.D. Non ignota loquor. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1804. CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. CHAP. I. _Excursion of Hamilton with his Wife and Sister. Approaches to Windsor. Prospect from the Keep. Ideas suggested by Association. Apartments of the Castle. Paintings. The Terrace. Royal Family. The King on his own private Grounds. Combination of Objects that render this Scene interesting and impressive. Approach to Oxford in the Dusk of the Evening. Full View of this City and its Colleges. Blenheim. Bybury. Fair Maid of the Inn. Strolling Players. Our Hero learns that Hamlet had been performed by the Preacher O’Rourke. His Conversation with Ophelia. More Insight into Methodistical Itinerancy. They proceed to Tetbury. O’Rourke preaches from an inverted Tub. Affinity between the Doctrines of Methodism and Mahomedism. The Preacher announces a Collection. He solves Cases of Conscience. Motives and Modes of Solution. Fees to the Ghostly Monitor. For want of them a poor inoffensive Creature driven to despair. A Stranger arrives in pursuit of the Preacher, who had converted and seduced his Wife. An Account of the Love Lectures of Itinerant Methodism. The Devotions of the Preacher interrupted by the Constable. Ophelia enraged at his Inconstancy, unfolds the Proceedings of the Preacher. His Box is searched. The Watch is found close by a Book of spiritual Hymns. The Preacher escapes from Custody, and with him a silver Tankard._ Page 1 CHAP. II.