1740.

the Stage from the malicious and scandalous aspersions of Mr. Brooke, authour of Gustavus Vasa, acknowl. Marmor Norfolciense: or an Essay on an ancient prophetical inscription in monkish rhyme, lately discovered near Lyme in Norfolk, by PROBUS BRITANNICUS, acknow!.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.
Life of Boerhaave, acknowl.

Address to the Reader, intern. evid.
Appeal to the Publick in behalf of the
Editor, intern. evid.

Considerations on the case of Dr. Trapp's
Sermons; a plausible attempt to prove
that an authour's work may be abridged
without injuring his property, acknowl.
1* Address to the Reader in May.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.
Preface, intern. evid.

Life of Admiral Drake, acknowl.
Life of Admiral Blake, acknowl.
Life of Philip Barretier, acknowl.
Essay on Epitaphs, acknowl.

1741. FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.
Preface, intern. evid.

A free translation of the Jests of Hiero-
cles, with an introduction, intern. evid.
Debate on the Humble Petition and Ad-
vice of the Rump Parliament to Crom-
well, in 1657, to assume the title of
King; abridged, methodized, and di-
gested, intern. evid.

Translation of Abbé Guyon's Dissertation
on the Amazons, intern. evid.
Translation of Fontenelle's Panegyrick on
Dr. Morin, intern. evid.

1742. FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.
Preface, intern. evid.

Essay on the Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marlborough, acknowl. An Account of the Life of Peter Burman, acknowl.

The Life of Sydenham, afterwards prefixed to Dr. Swan's edition of his works, acknowl.

Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana, or a Catalogue of the Library of the Earl of Oxford, afterwards prefixed to the first volume of that catalogue, in which the Latin accounts of the books were written by him, acknowl. Abridgement, entitled Foreign History, intern. evid.

Essay on the Description of China from the French of Du Halde, intern. evid.

173. Dedication to Dr. Mead of Dr. James's Medicinal Dictionary, intern. evid.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.
Preface, intern. evid.

Parliamentary Debates under the name of
Debates in the Senate of Lilliput from

1 [These and several other articles, which are marked with an asterisk, were suggested to Mr. Malone by Mr. Chalmers as probably written by Dr. Johnson; they are, therefore, placed in this general list.-ED.]

535

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. 1748. Life of Roscommon, acknowl.

1749.

1750.

1751.

Foreign History, November, intern. evid.

FOR MR. DODSLEY'S PRECEPTOR.
Preface, acknowl.

Vision of Theodore the Hermit, acknowl.
FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.
*Letter on Fire Works.

The RAMBLER, the first paper of which was published 20th of March this year, and the last 17th of March, 1752, the day on which Mrs. Johnson died 2, acknowl.

Letter in the General Advertiser to excite the attention of the publick to the performance of Comus, which was next day to be acted at Drury-lane playhouse for the benefit of Milton's grand-daughter, acknowl.

Preface and Postscript to Lauder's Pam

phlet, entitled "An Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in hi Paradise Lost," acknowl

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Address to the Publick concerning Miss Williams's Miscellanies.

Life of Cheynel, in the Miscellany called "The Student," acknowl.

Letter for Lauder, addressed to the Reverend Dr. John Douglas, acknowledging

2 This is a mistake. The last number of the Rambler appeared on the 14th of March, three days before Mrs. Johnson died. See vol. i. p. 89.-MALONE.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.
* Preface.

*Criticism on Moore's Gil Blas.

1753 Dedication to John, Earl of Orrery, of Shakspeare illustrated, by Mrs. Charlotte Lennox, acknowl.

During this and the following year he wrote and gave to his much loved friend, Dr. Bathurst, the papers in the Adventurer, signed T., acknowl.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. * Preface.

*Notice of Mr. Edward Cave's death, inserted in the last page of the index.

1754. Life of Edward Cave in the Gentleman's Magazine, acknowl.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. *Preface.

1755. A DICTIONARY, with a Grammar and History of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE, acknowl.

An account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude at Sea, by an exact Theory of the Variations of the Magnetical Needle, with a Table of the Variations at the most remarkable cities in Europe, from the year 1660 to 1780, acknowl. This he wrote for Mr. Zachariah Williams, an ingenious ancient Welsh gentleman, father of Mrs. Anna Williams, whom he for many years kindly lodged in his house. It was published with a translation into Italian by Signor Baretti. In a copy of it, which he presented to the Bodleian Library at Oxford, is pasted a character of the late Mr. Zachariah Williams, plainly written by Johnson, intern. evid.

1756. An Abridgement of his Dictionary, ackn. Several Essays in the Universal Visitor,

which there is some difficulty in ascer-
taining. All that are marked with two
asterisks have been ascribed to him, al
though I am confident, from internal
evidence, that we should except from
these "The Life of Chaucer," "Re-
flections on the State of Portugal," and
"An Essay on Architecture." And
from the same evidence I am confident
that he wrote "Further Thoughts on
Agriculture" and "A Dissertation on
the State of Literature and Authours."
The Dissertation on the Epitaphs, writ-
ten by Pope, he afterwards acknowl-
edged, and added to his "Idler."
Life of Sir Thomas Browne, prefixed to a
new edition of his Christian Morals, ac-
knowl.

In the LITERARY MAGAZINE, or UNI-
VERSAL REVIEW, which began in

January, 1756, his ORIGINAL ESSAYS

are,

The Preliminary Address, intern. evid.
An Introduction to the Political State of
Great Britain, intern. evid.

Remarks on the Militia Bill, intern. evid.
Observations on his Britannick Majesty's

Treaties with the Empress of Russia and the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, intern, evid.

Observations on the Present State of Affairs, intern. evid.

Memoirs of Frederick III., King of Prus sia, intern. evid.

ca;

In the same MAGAZINE his REVIEWS are of the following books: "Birch's History of the Royal Society;" "Browne's Christian Morals ;" "Warton's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope," vol. i.; "Hampton's Translation of Polybius;" "Sir Isaac Newton's Arguments in proof of a Deity;" "Borlase's History of the Isles of Scilly;" "Home's Experiments on Bleaching;" ;" "Browne's History of Jamai" "Hales on Distilling Sea-Waters, Ventilators in Ships, and curing an ill taste in Milk;" "Lucas's Essay on Waters; " "Keith's Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops ;" Philosophical Transactions," vol. xlix.; "Miscellanies by Elizabeth Harrison;""Evans's Map and Account of the Middle Colonies in America; " "The Cadet, a Military Treatise;" "The Conduct of the Ministry relating to the present War, impartiality examined," intern. evid. "Mrs. Lennox's Translation of Sully's Memoirs;" "Letter on the Case of Admiral Byng; Appeal to the People concerning Admiral Byng;" "Hanway's Eight Days' Journey and Essay on Tea;" "Some further particulars in Relation to the Case of Admiral Byng, by a gentleman of Oxford,” acknowl. Mr. Jonas Hanway having written an angry Answer to the Review of his Essay on Tea, Johnson, in the same collection, made a reply to it, acknowl. This is the only instance, it is believed, when he condescended to take notice of any thing that had been written against him; and here his chief intention seems to have been to make sport.

Dedication to the Earl of Rochford of, and Preface to, Mr. Payne's Introduction to the Game of Draughts, acknowl. Introduction to the London Chronicle, an Evening Paper, which still subsists with deserved credit, acknowl.

* "Observations on the Foregoing Letter," i. e. A Letter on the American Colonies.

1757. Speech on the Subject of an Address to the Throne after the Expedition to Rochefort; delivered by one of his friends in some publick meeting: it is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for October, 1785. intern. evid.

and printed in the Gentleman's Maga zine for December, this year, acknowl.

1781. Prefaces, biographical and critical, to the Works of the most eminent English Poets; afterwards published with the Title of the Lives of the English Poets, acknowl.

Argument on the importance of the Regis-
tration of Deeds; dictated to me for an
Election Committee of the House of
Commons, acknowl.

On the Distinction between TORY and
WHIG; dictated to me, acknowl.
On Vicarious Punishments, and the great
Propitiation for the Sins of the World by
JESUS CHRIST; dictated to me, acknowl.
Argument in favour of Joseph Knight, an
African Negro, who claimed his Liberty
in the Court of Session in Scotland, and
obtained it; dictated to me, acknowl.
Defence of Mr. Robertson, Printer of the
Caledonian Mercury, against the Society
of Procurators in Edinburgh, for having
inserted in his paper a ludicrous para-
graph against them; demonstrating that
it was not an injurious Libel; dictated
to me, acknowl.

.782. The greatest [part], if not the whole, of a Reply, by the Reverend Mr. Shaw, to a person at Edinburgh, of the name of Clarke, refuting his arguments for the authenticity of the Poems published by Mr. James Macpherson as Translations from Ossian, intern. evid.

1781. List of the Authors of the Universal History, deposited in the British Museum,

VARIOUS YEARS.

Letters to Mrs. Thrale, acknowl.
Prayers and Meditations, which he deliver-
ed to the Rev. Mr. Strahan, enjoining
him to publish them, acknowl.
Sermons, left for publication by John
Taylor; LL. D. Prebendary of West-
minster, and given to the World by the
Reverend Samuel Hayes, A. M. intern
evid.

Such was the number and variety of the prose works of this extraordinary man, which I have been able to discover, and am at liberty to mention 1; but we ought to keep in mind, that there must undoubtedly have been many more which are yet concealed; and we may add to the account, the numerous letters which he wrote, of which a considerable part are yet unpublished. It is hoped that those persons, in whose possession they are, will favour the world with them. JAMES BOSWELL.

1 [This is a strange phrase. What work could it have been that Mr. Boswell was not at liberty to mention? That there was some peculiar meaning here can hardly be doubted. It perhaps may allude to some publications of a jacobite tendency, written in Johnson's earlier days, and which may have been acknowledged in confidence to Boswell; but this is a mere conjecture. Many of the articles inserted in the foregoing list on internal evidence (particularly those from the magazines) are of very little importance and of very doubtful authenticity.-ED.]