THE AUTHOR OF THE "CHARACTERISTICS."

Lord Shaftesbury's *Letters to a young Man at the University*, on which Mr. SINGER has addressed to you an interesting communication (Vol. ii., p. 33.), were reprinted in 1746 in a collection of his letters, "*Letters of the Earl of Shaftesbury, author of the Characteristicks, collected into one volume*: printed MDCCXLVI." 18mo. This volume contains also Lord Shaftesbury's letters to Lord Molesworth, originally published by Toland, with an introduction which is not reprinted; a "Letter sent from Italy, with the notion of the Judgment of Hercules, &c., to my Lord ——"; and three letters reprinte…