the year after he returns to Cambridge, and takes a

degree in Civil Law; during that interval he cor-

responds with Mr. West. 240.-Letter i. From Mr.

WEST. His spirits not as yet improved by country

air. Has begun to read Tacitus, but not to relish

him. 242.-Letter ii. To Mr. WEST. Earnest hopes

for his friend's better health, as the warm weather

comes on. Defence of Tacitus, and his character.

Of the new Dunciad. Sends him a speech from

the first scene of his Agrippina. 243. - The Plan,

Dramatis Personæ, and all the speeches which Mr.

Gray wrote of that Tragedy inserted. 244.-Letter

iii. From Mr. WEST. Criticisms on his friend's

tragick style. Latin Hexameters on his own cough.
-255.-Letter iv. To Mr. WEST. Thanks for his
verses. On Joseph Andrews. Defence of old
words in Tragedy. 257.-Letter v. From Mr. WEST.
Answer to the former, on the subject of antiquated
expressions. 261.-Letter vi. To Mr. WEST. Has
laid aside his Tragedy. Difficulty of translating
Tacitus. 263. -Letter vii. From Mr. WEST. With
an English Ode on the approach of May. 264.-
Letter viii. To Mr. WEST. Criticises his Ode. Of

his own classical studies. 266. - Letter ix. From

Mr. WEST. Answer to the foregoing. 268. Letter

x. To Mr. WEST. Of his own peculiar species of

Melancholy. Inscription for a wood in Greek Hex-

ameters. Argument and exordium of a Latin

Heroick Epistle from Sophonisba to Massinissa. 268.
-Account of Mr. WEST's death. Of Mr. Gray's
English Poetry, written about this time, with the
general plan, argument of the first book, and all the
parts which the Author finished of a Latin Didac-
tick Poem, "De Principiis Cogitandi." 273.

SECTION IV.

Prefatory narrative. Mr. Gray takes his degree

in Civil Law, and makes Cambridge his principal

residence for the rest of his life. The Editor of

these Memoirs becomes acquainted with him in the

year 1747. He corresponds with Dr. Wharton

and several other persons till the year 1768, when

he is appointed Professor of Modern History. 286.--

Letter i. To Dr. WHARTON, on taking his degree of

Bachelor of Civil Law. 289. -Fragment of an Hymn

to Ignorance. 291.-Letter ii. To Dr. WHARTON.

Ridicule on University laziness. Of Dr. Akenside's

Poem on the Pleasures of Imagination. 292. -Letter

iii. To Dr. WHARTON. His amusements in Town.

Reflections on riches. Character of Aristotle. 294.
-Letter iv. To Mr. WALPOLE. Ridicule on Cibber's
Observations on Cicero. On the modern Platonick
Dialogue. Account of his own and Mr. West's
poetical compositions. 296.-Letter v. To Mr. WAL-
POLE. Criticisms on Mr. Spence's Polymetis. 299.-
Letter vi. To Mr. WALPOLE. Ludicrous compliment of condolence on the death of his favourite Cat, enclosing an Ode on that subject. 301.-Letter vii. To Dr. WHARTON. Loss by fire of a house in Cornhill. On Diodorus Siculus. M. Gresset's Poems. Thomson's Castle of Indolence. Ode to a Water Nymph, with a character of its Author. 302. - Letter viii. To Dr. WHARTON. More on M. Gresset. Account of his own projected Poem on the alliance between government and education. 304.-Fragment of that Poem, with a commentary, notes, and detached sentiments relative to it. 305.- Letter ix. To Dr. WHARTON. Character of M. de Montesquieu's L'Esprit des Loix. 314. Letter x. To Dr. WHARTON. Account of Books continued. Crebillon's Catalina. Birch's State Papers. Of his own studies, and a Table of Greek Chronology which he was then forming. 316. Letter xi. To Dr. WHARTON. Ludicrous account of the Duke of Newcastle's Installation at Cambridge. On the Ode then performed, and more concerning the Author of it. 318.--Letter xii. To his МоTHER. Consolatory on the death of her sister. 319. - Letter xiii. To Dr. WHARTON. Wishes to be able to pay him a visit at Durham. On Dr. Middleton's death. Some account of the first volumes of Buffon's Histoire Naturelle. 320.Narrative of the incident which led Mr. Gray to write his Long Story. That Poem inserted, with

Notes by the Editor (Mr. Mason), and prefaced
with his idea of Mr. Gray's peculiar vein of humour.
322.-Letter xiv. To Dr. WHARTON. On the ill
reception which the foregoing Poem met with in
town when handed about in manuscript, and how
much his Elegy in a Country Church-Yard was ap-
plauded. 331. Letter xv. To Mr. WALPOLE. De-
sires him to give his Elegy to Mr. Dodsley to be
printed immediately, in order to prevent its publi-
cation in a magazine. 332. Letter xvi. To Dr.
WHARTON. Of Madame Maintenon's Character and
Letters. His high opinion of M. Racine. Of Bishop
Hall's Satires, and of a few of Plato's Dialogues. 333.
-Letter xvii. To Mr. WALPOLE. Concerning the
intention of publishing Mr. Bentley's designs for
his Poems. Refuses to have his own Portrait pre-
fixed to that work. 335. Further account of those
designs, with stanzas which Mr. Gray wrote to Mr.
Bentley on that occasion. 336.-Epitaph on Mr.
Gray's Aunt and Mother in the church-yard of
Stoke-Pogis. 339.-Letter xviii. To Mr. MASON. On
the death of his Father. ib.-Letter xix. To Dr.
WHARTON. On Strawberry-Hill. Occasional re-
marks on Gothick Architecture. 340. - Letter xx.
To Dr. WHARTON. Objection to publishing his
Ode on the Progress of Poetry singly. Hint of his
having other lyrical ideas by him unfinished. 342.-
Explanation of that hint, and a fragment of one of
those lyrical pieces inserted. 343.-Letter xxi. To Mr. STONHEWER. Of Monsignor Baiardi's book concerning Herculaneum. A Poem of Voltaire. Incloses a part of his Ode entitled the Bard. 349.Letter xxii. To Dr. WHARTON. On his removing from Peter-House to Pembroke-Hall. His notion of a London Hospital. Of Sully's Memoirs. Mr. Mason's four Odes. 350.-Letter xxiii. To Dr. WHARTON. Of his own indolence. Memoirs of M. de la Porte and of Madame Stael. Intention of coming to town. 352.-Letter xxiv. To Mr. MASON. Of his Reviewers. Offers to send him Druidical anecdotes for his projected drama of Caractacus. 354.-Letter xxv. To Mr. MASON. On hearing Parry play on the Welsh Harp, and finishing his Ode after it. Account of the Old Ballad on which the Tragedy of Douglas was founded. 356.-Letter xxvi. To Mr. HURD. On the ill reception his two Pindarick Odes met with on their publication. 357. -Letter xxvii. To Mr. MASON. His opinion of the dramatick part of Caractacus. 359.-Letter xxviii. To Mr. MASON. Dissuading him from retirement. Advice concerning Caractacus. Criticisms on his Elegy written in the garden of a friend. Refusal of the office of Poet Laureat. 363. - Letter xxix. Το Dr. WHARTON. Account of his present employment in making out a list of places in England worth seeing. 366.-Letter xxx. To Dr. WHARTON. On the