Excerpt from The Ladies Monitor: A Poem The principal topics'of the following poem have exercised the ingenuity, and employed the pens of many able European writers, for more than two centuries past. But they do not appear to have obtained that degree of consideration in the American Commonwealth of Letters, which is claimed by their paramount importance to the we] fare of every well regulated community. This is the more to be regretted when we reflect on the following important and undeniable truths. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.