text:  I have no doubt that in your earlier years instead of courting your fair friends as Burns appears to have done with copies of your own works you used to present unto them the "_Legacy of Dr Gregory to his Daughters_"--or "_Mrs Chapone's Letters_ " or Miss Bowdler's or Mrs Trimmer's appropriately bound and gilt; and thus apprized of the superabundance of prose provided for their edification are prepared to feel with me that if they have not Mrs Barbauld and the prophets neither will they be persuaded by the frippery tomes which load the counters of our bazars