Sandgate.
_A Hint to Publishers._--The present period is remarkable for its numerous
reprints of our poets and standard writers. However excellent these may be,
there is often a great drawback, viz. that one must purchase an author's
entire works, and cannot get a favourite poem or treatise separately.
What I would suggest is, that a separate title-page be prefixed to every
poem or treatise in an {147} author's works, and that they be sold
collectively or separately at the purchaser's option. Thus few would
encumber themselves with the entire works of Dryden, but many would gladly
purchase some of his poems if they could be had separately.
These remarks are still more applicable to encyclopædias. The _Encycl.
Metropol._ was a step in the right direction; and henceforth we may hope to
have each article sold separately in _octavo_ volumes. Is there no chance,
amid all these reprints, of our seeing Heywood, Crashaw, Southwell,
Habington, Daniel, or Drummond of Hawthornden?