add that we shall be glad to promote, in
every way, the good work proposed by our correspondent.--ED. N. AND Q.]
_Dutch Versions of English Essayists._--How much the works of the British
Essayists were appreciated by my Dutch ancestors, the following plain facts
may show. I have now before me
A translation of the Tatler:
"De Snapper, of de Britsche Tuchtmeester. Door den Ridder Richard
Steele. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door P. le Clerc. t'Amsterdam, by
Hendrik Vieroot, 1733, iv. vol. in 12
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