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72 PRIVATE PRESSES IN SUSSEX. On Saturday, February 18, 1797, will be published (printed at the Author's own press) Number i of Lec- tures pointing out the several sources of that pleasure which the human mind receives from poetry. The title, it will be noticed, was slightly amended on publication by the substitution of the word c shewing ' for ' pointing out.' The ' Lectures ' was evidently intended at first to be issued complete, but from the same advertisement we take the following interesting notice : The Number of Subscribers to this work, not being sufficient to indemnify the author in committing it all at once to the press, he has taken the liberty of somewhat deranging his plan, that the demands of those who have done him the honour to subscribe, may no longer remain unsatisfied. The work will be published in Numbers, as fast as they can with convenience be produced. These the Subscriber will receive as soon as they are published, without any advance. To the Non-subscriber they will bear each the price of two shillings and sixpence (being somewhat dearer than to the Subscriber) because his support is precarious. N.B. No one will be admitted as a Subscriber, after the publication of the sixth Number. I have been unable to find out in how many parts this work was published, or at what price it was issued to subscribers. In the same year, 1797, Hurdis probably printed one of his sermons, entitled : ' A sermon on the proper method of studying the Scriptures, preached before the University of Oxford, on Act Sunday, 1797. Bishopstone, Sussex. Printed at the author's own press.' It consists of ten pages, and is not dated, but the author would most likely