A TALE OF A TUB. WRITTEN FOR THE UNIVERSAL IMPROVEMENT OF MANKIND. Diu multumque desideratum. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN ACCOUNT OF A BATTLE BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN BOOKS IN ST. JAMES'S LIBRARY. WITH THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY. Basyma cacabassa eanaa, irraumista diaraba caëota bafobor camelanthi. -Juvatque novos decerpere flores, Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam, Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat ? IREN. lib. i. c. 18. LUCRET. HORACE. HE Tale approved of by a great majority among the men of taste. Some treatises written expressly against it; but not one syllable in its defence. The greatest part of it finished in 1696, eight years before it was published. The author's intention when he began it. No irreligious or immoral opinion can fairly be deduced from the book. The clergy have no reason to dislike it. The author's intention not having met with a candid interpretation, he declined engaging in a task he had proposed to himself. of examining some publications that were intended against all religion. Unfair to fix a name upon an author who had so industriously concealed himself. The letter on Enthusiasm,* ascribed by several to * This celebrated Letter, which was generally supposed to have been written by Dr. Swift; and by him, with as little foundation, ascribed to his friend Colonel Hunter; was the production of the noble author of the "Characteristics;" in which |