TO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PATRONS OF ENTERTAINING LITERATURE.
THE great encouragement and support our Plan of a LITERARY MUSEUM, or NOVEL → REPOSITORY, has received from a generous public, demands the utmost tribute of gratitude; and it is with pleasure announced, that since its commencement Manuscripts have been introduced receiving general approbation. The manner in which we have printed Works committed to our care will better speak our attention and praise than any eulogium of language.
Ladies and Gentlemen, from this specimen of our conduct, will be sure to have the efforts of their genius and productions of their pen introduced to the world in a style of superiority: the printing will be executed with expedition, correctness, accuracy and elegance, and the paper equally correspondent; and we presume to assert that no pains, care, assiduity, or expence, shall be spared to merit the continuance of the approbation we have obtained; and we also affirm, that we have never introduced

any subjects but such as are founded on the basis of Virtue, and have tended to improve the understanding and to amend the heart.—Our study shall be to please; as this will equally add to our interest as reflect to our honor.
In addition to this proposal, Authors who wish to derive emolument from their studies, are informed, that five hundred pounds is placed at an eminent bankers, for the sole purpose of purchasing literary productions; and notwithstanding we are now unrivalled in the public estimation, for Novels, Tales, Romances, Adventures, &c. yet, in this undertaking, works of a general nature, whether Originals, Translations, or Compilations, which can entertain or improve the mind, elucidate the sciences, or be of any utility, will here find an asylum.
From the great encrease and general encouragement CIRCULATING LIBRARIES have received, and which are now established in all parts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, (an employ both respectable and lucrative,) such as are desirous of embarking in that line of business are informed that books suitable for that purpose are kept ready bound, in History, Voyages, Novels, Plays, &c. containing from One Hundred to Five Thousand Volumes, which may he had at a few days notice, with a catalogue for their subscribers, and instructions and directions how to plan, systemize, and conduct the same.

Such are the general outlines of this spirited undertaking: a plan founded on propriety, and sanctioned by the liberal approbation of the public; and we shall be happy farther to improve the same, so as to render it the Museum of Entertainment, and a Repository of Sciences,