BY ISAAC CHAUNCY, OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, LONDON. It is right to praise virtuous women, 340. Virtue in man and woman is the same, 340; even as the poetic art in man and woman is the same, 341. There may be variety, yet unity, 341. Virtue of the Trojan women after landing in Italy, 342. Of the Phocian women in the war with the Thessalians, 343. Of the women of Chios, 344. Of the Argive women and their repulse of the Spartan army, 346. Of the Persian women, 347. Of the Celtic women, 347. Of the Melian women, 348. Of the Tyrrhene women, 349. Of the Lycian women, 351. Of the women of Salmantica in Spain, 352. Of the maidens of Miletus, bent on self-murder, and how this was prevented, 354. Of the maids of Cios, 354. Of the women of Phocis during the Sacred War, 355. Of the Roman Lucretia, Valeria, and Cloelia, 355-357. Of Micca and Megisto, and other women of Elis, during the tyranny of Aristotimus, 357-363. Of Pieria and other women of Myus, at Miletus, 363, 364. Of Polycrita in the war between Naxos and Miletus, 364-366. Of Lampsace, 366. Of Aretaphila, and how she delivered Cyrene from tyranny, 367-371. Of Camma the Galatian, 372. Of Stratonica of Galatia, 373. Of Chiomara of Galatia, 374. Of the women of Pergamus, 374. Of Timoclea at the taking of Thebes, 376. Of Eryxo of Cyrene, 378. Of Xenocrita of Cumae, 380. Of Pythes the Lydian and his wife, 382. LACONIC APOPHTHEGMS; OR, REMARKABLE SAYINGS OF THE SPARTANS. BY THOMAS CREECH, A.M., OF WADHAM COLLEGE IN OXFORD. OF HEARING. BY THOMAS HOY, FELLOW OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE IN OXFORD. Introduction, addressed to Nicander, a young man, 441. Remarks on hearing in general, 442. Of the sense of hearing, as an inlet of thought and feeling, 442. A guard to be placed over it, 443. How to hear with benefit, 443. Faults to be avoided, 444. In hearing a discourse, hear with attention to the close, 445. Guard against envy and ill-nature, 445, 446. Hear with calmness and candor, 446. Endeavor to reap advantage from the speaker’s faults, 447. Yield not to undue admiration, 448. Examine the argument of the speaker apart from his expression, 449. Separate the substance of a discourse from its accessories, 450, 451. Interrupt not the speaker with trifling questions, 452. Propose no impertinent questions, 453. Wait till the proper time for asking, 453. Withhold not praise when it is due, 454. Yet bestow not inordinate praise, 455. Something worthy of praise may be found in every discourse, 456. The hearer owes a duty to the speaker no less than the speaker to the hearer, 457. Be not indiscriminate in your praises, 458. Bear admonition in a proper spirit, 459. If you find difficulties in the lecturer’s instructions, ask him to explain, 460, 461. Concluding exhortation, 462, 463. OF LARGE ACQUAINTANCE: OR, AN ESSAY TO PROVE THE FOLLY OF SEEKING MANY FRIENDS. BY W. G.