DRYDEN'S "ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL."

In my small library I have neither Malone's *Life of Dryden*, nor that of more recent date by Sir Walter Scott; and, possibly, either of those works would render my present Query needless. It relates to a copy of *Absalom and Achitophel* now lying before me, which is a mere chap-book, printed on bad paper, in the most economical manner, and obviously intended to be sold at a very reasonable rate: indeed, at the bottom of the title-page, which is dated "1708," we are told that it was "Printed and sold by H. Hills, in Black-fryars, near the Water-side, *for the Benefit of the Poor*." It consists…