"Mr. Hadcock flatters himself the Androides will be found more curious than anything of the kind ever before offered to the Public, as the principles of Action are entirely new. The Theatre is neatly fitted up, and everything calculated to give satisfaction to a polite and discerning Audience. "Boxes 4s., Gallery 2s. Admittance, after the Two First Parts, Half Price. Exhibition lasts nearly Two hours."--(_Times, Jany. 15, 1796._) If there was little mention of "Art," in the old newspapers, there was still less of "Literature," except in the advertisement of new books. "What is Jemmy Boswell about? where is his Life and Adventures of the _great Lexicographer_, the Atlas of obscure sentiment, and pompous phraseology? Mrs. Piozzi's last work hath been read, and re-read, with avidity, and admiration. If the men doth not look sharp, the women will run off with all the biographic laurels."--(_Morning Post, June 12, 1788._) Mrs. Thrale's book, "Letters to and from S. Johnson," was published in 1788, and her "Anecdotes of S. Johnson, during the last twenty years of his life," in 1786. Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson," &c., was published in 1791. "The last exit of the celebrated Mr. Gibbon, was attended with some very extraordinary circumstances. He was sitting with an intimate friend, on the evening of his death, and remarking of himself, that he thought there was a probability of his enjoying thirteen, or fourteen, more years of life. He had not been long in bed, before he was seized with excruciating pains. He endeavoured to swallow some brandy, but in vain. He then made a signal to his valet to leave the room, and in a few minutes expired. He has left everything indiscriminately to a young Swiss gentleman, to whom he was attached, and who accompanied him last year to this country."--(_Times, Jany. 27, 1794._) * * * * * "Four thousand and seventy three Novels are now in the Press, from the pens of young Ladies of Fashion. At Mrs. D----'s School all the young Ladies write Novels, in the fourth class!! and those whose parents are rich, or honourable, are at the expense of printing them. Lady L. G. and Lady C. C. are busily employed upon two rival Novels, which are the favourite work for Young Ladies at present: and the lawful successors of bell-ropes, coronet cushions, and painted flower-pots. Lady G.'s is entitled--'Duke or no Duke,' Lady Charlotte's 'All for Nothing.' Those who have seen the latter, are loud in the praise of its beauties: the plot of the former is not thought to have been _well laid_."--(_Times, April 18, 1796._) MONETARY.