When this little book was ready for the press, I found, in one of our public libraries, an ancient work, in three volumes, on the same subject, with a formidable Greek title, as follows: "Thelyphthora; or, a Treatise on Female Ruin, in its Causes, Effects, Consequences, Prevention, and Remedy," &c. Published by J. Dodsley. London, 1781. The work is learned and heavy, yet it passed through several editions, and had evidently attracted attention. The author's name does not appear; but it is well known to have been written by Rev. Martin Madan, D.D., Chaplain of the Lock Hospital, London; to the wardens and patrons of which the work is dedicated. I have read it with much interest, and find it to contain abundant confirmation of the views expressed in the foregoing pages. In the preface to the second edition, the author says, "I now conclude this preface with the contents of a paper received from a very respectable clergyman, who was candid enough to let his prejudices submit to his judgement, and had honesty enough to own it." I transcribe the greater part of that "paper," omitting such parts as apply to England only, and not to America. "As the subject of a late publication entitled Thelyphthora, or a Treatise on Female Ruin, &c., is much misunderstood and misrepresented by many people, who have, some of them, never read it all, and the rest but partially, and not without prejudice, and therefore oppose it, 'tis judged best to send its opposers the following questions for them to answer. the doing of this, 'tis thought, will bring the matter to a point, enter upon particulars, and be a means to discover where and with whom truth is, and where and with whom error is.