For pieces complete in one or two issues, sources are given in [[double brackets]] at the end of the last installment. Sources of longer pieces, including serialized novels, are given at the end of the e-text, after the Errata. Except for the serials, these annotations are not intended to be complete. Links, where given, are valid at the time of e-text preparation (Spring 2011).] [Illustration: Youth, accompanied by Virtue, and directed by Experience, approaching the Temple of happiness.] The NEW-YORK WEEKLY MAGAZINE; or, MISCELLANEOUS REPOSITORY: Forming an Interesting Collection of Original and Select LITERARY PRODUCTIONS, _In Prose and Verse:_ Calculated for Instruction and rational Entertainment--the Promotion of moral and useful Knowledge--and to enlarge and correct the Understandings of Youth. VOLUME II. “----Touch, with a surprising delicacy, “The sweetest movement of the mind.“ [Decoration] _NEW-YORK:_ +Printed for the PROPRIETORS, at Homer’s-Head, No. 358, Pearl-Street.+ 1797. ADDRESS. _The very flattering patronage with which this work, for two years, has been kindly favoured, demands the warmest acknowledgments of the Editors. Since its commencement, it has witnessed the demise of other periodical publications; some established long before it, others that have taken their rise at a later period; while the particular distinction honorably awarded the WEEKLY MAGAZINE, has marked it an object of public favor, and denoted the estimation in which it has ever been considered; not as matter of exultation do the Editors make this remark; but it gives their friends stronger claims on their gratitude, and acts as a momentum to impel them to exertions which in some degree might enable them to merit such attention. Strongly impressed with a sense of their duties as conductors of a work so universally read, they have, with the utmost solicitude, guarded against the intrusion of any thing, in the smallest degree, injurious to the feelings of the religionist. Their selection has uniformly tended either to inform and enlighten the understanding, to inculcate the purest lessons of morality, or to unbend the mind with innocent levities. To effect those primary objects, they have studiously endeavored to make the work abound with curious investigations, elegant descriptions, historical narrations, biographical sketches, well-chosen tales, essays, anecdotes, observations, maxims, poetical effusions, &c. &c., all contributing in the highest degree to mend the heart, to improve the head, and to form the taste. In order more fully to designate the properties of this work in the title, it is intended to commence the third volume under that of