Of the book, which is upon the foregoing easy terms offered to the publick, the value is sufficiently shewn by the multitude of its editions. It is too late now to tell the excellence of a work which has been almost universally read for more than seventy years, and of which it may, perhaps, be said with truth, that no well disposed mind ever departed from its perusal without general resolutions of a good life, however some particular opinions of the author might be doubted or censured. The allegory is so happily pursued, and doctrine so well interwoven with narrative, that the book is read with pleasure, even by those to whom pleasure is the end of reading; and the sentiments are so striking, and the description so just, that the doctrine is not weaken’d by the fiction.