Part 3 — THE NEWSPAPER:
Reading edition
A Poem.
ARGUMENT.
This not a Time favourable to Poetical Composition: and why.—Newspapers enemies to Literature, and their general Influence:—their Numbers.—The Sunday Monitor.—Their general Character.—Their Effect upon Individuals;—upon Society,—in the Country.—The Village-Freeholder.—What kind of Composition a Newspaper is; and the Amusement it affords.—Of what Parts it is chiefly composed.—Articles of Intelligence:—Advertisements:—The Stage:—Quacks:—Puffing.—The Correspondents to a Newspaper, Political and Poetical:—Advice to the latter.—Conclusion.