# The Gentleman's Magazine/Volume 1/Issue 2

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THE Gentleman's Magazine: Or, TRADER's Monthly Intelligencer.
Number II. for FEBRUARY, 1731.
CONTAINING,
I. A VIEW of the Weekly Essays and Controversies, viz. Of Fashions, Eating, Luxury, Organists, Criticism, Taste, Logic, Manners, Celebacy, Marriage, Poor, Beggers, Justices, Informing Constables, National Customs, Grubstreet and Political Writers; and penal Laws against Jews.
II. Poetry, &c. A New Session of the Poets. A Winter's Thought. The Midsummer's Wish, by Mr. Duck. The Gossip's Tale. The Lady's Delight, a Riddle. The Gentleman's Aversion, another. Ralpho and Robin, a Dialogue. The House-keeper, a Tale.
III. Domestick Occurrences, &c. Births, Deaths, Marriages, Preferments, Casualties, Burials and Christenings in London.
IV. Prices of Goods, Stocks, Grain, Course of Exchange, and a List of Bankrupts.
V. Foreign Affairs.
VI. Books, &c. publish'd.
VII. Observations in Gardening and a List of Fairs for the Season.
With a TABLE of Contents.
By SYLVANUS URBAN of Aldermanbury, Gent.
Prodesse & Delectare.
The Third Edition.
CONTENTS of No. II. for FEBRUARY.
| OF Almanack-makers, | 51 |
| Church-musick | ibid. |
| The Templer, a new Paper, | 52 |
| Liberty of the Press, | 52, 53, 70 |
| Remarks on Q. Eliz. Reign | 53 |
| —On the Hessian Troops, | ib. |
| Of National Controversies | 54 |
| Thales' rational Philosophy | ib. |
| Criticisms on Milton | 55 |
| Of Taste, Conversation | 55, 56 |
| Of Dress and Fashions | 56, 57 |
| Poetical Disputations | 57, 58 |
| Prevailing Humour, a Characteristick of the Times | 58, 59 |
| Advice to an Author | ib. |
| Of Beggers | 59, 60 |
| Matrimony, and Celebacy | 60 |
| Reforming Constables | 61 |
| Customs of the Hottentots | 62 |
| Libels, Politeness in eating | 63 |
| Former Accomplishments | ib. |
| Remarks on the Reign of K. James I. | 64 |
| Of modern Productions, Education, Sir Isaac Newton, and popular Discontents | 64 |
| Justices, political Hypocrisy | 65 |
| Emp. Maximilian, his usage of Peucer | ib. |
| Comparison between English Politicians and Turkish | 66 |
| Animadversions on a Book call'd Harlequin Horace | 68 |
| Relation between the King's German Dominions, and his British Interests | 67 |
| Characteristick of the Authors of the Grubstreet Journal | 68 |
| Happiness, how obtain'd | 68 |
| Of Government | 69 |
| An old Lecher and a young Prostitute describ'd | ib. |
| Faction and Defamation | 69, 70 |
| Poetry, viz. Session of the Poets | 71 |
| The Gentleman's Aversion, | 72 |
| A Winter's Thought. An Ode | 73 |
| The Midsummer Wish | 74 |
| The Gossip's Tale | ibid. |
| Lady's Delight, a Riddle | 75 |
| A Bacchanalian Flight | ib. |
| The House-keeper | 76 |
| Ralpho and Robin, a Dialogue | ib. |
| Of Jews, and Judaism | 77 |
| Domestick Occurrences | 78 |
| Ships lost, and Casualties | 81 |
| Deaths of eminent Persons | 82 |
| Marriages and Promotions | 84 |
| Ecclesiastical Preferments | 85 |
| Bankrupts, and Monthly Bill of Mortality | 86 |
| Foreign Affairs | 87 |
| Substance of the Marquess de Castellar's Declaration | ib. |
| Of Gov. Belcher's Speech | ib. |
| Of Gov. Worsley's Speech to the Assembly of Barbadoes, and their Address | 87, 88 |
| Account of a new Colony to be establish'd in America | 88 |
| Fairs in March and April | 89 |
| Books publish'd | 90, 91, 92 |
| Observations in Gardening | 93 |
| Course of Exchange, Prices of Goods and Stocks | 94 |
Note. This Index, not being Printed to the first Edition, is given away to those who may have bought it.