that the prefent map must be confidered rather as a monument of the delineator's malignity, than of his wit.-His perfonalities seem to indicate perfonal provocation; though perhaps it may be all pure nationality.

Art. 39. Remarks on Dr. Johnfon's Life, and critical Obfervations on the Works of Mr. Gray. 8vo. 15. 6d Fielding. 1782. The partial and uncandid mode of criticifm adopted by Dr. Johnfon in his Remarks on Gray, feems to have given general, and indeed, jutt offence to the numerous admirers of that exquifite poet. It is not long fince there appeared an ingenious vindication of the progress of poetry and the Bard, intitled, "A curfory Examination of Dr. Johnton's Strictures on the lyric Performances of Gray." The prefent Writer has taken a larger field his critical Ægis extends its protection to every part of his admired Hero. And it is but justice to fay that he has ably defended him.

Art. 40. Remarks on Doctor Johnfon's Lives of the most eminent English Poets. By a Yorkshire Freeholder. 4to. 1 s. 6d. Bald. win. 1782.

Our Yorkshire, Freeholder's Remarks are chiefly confined to the Doctor's political mifreprefentations. He is a ftrenuous affertor of the Whig principle, which he vindicates against the Tory Doctor, with that honeft kind of fpirit which animates a combatant who is firmly perfuaded that he has truth on his fide.

Art. 41. Advice to the Officers of the British Army. Small 8vo.

2 S. Richardfon.

The Author difclofes a rich vein of wit. His advice, though clothed in the lighter form of irony, discovers a folid and penetrating judgment: and, while he holds a mirror up, that reflects the true features of vice and folly, he attempts to make ingenuous shame atcomplish the work of rational conviction.

Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne,

Yet touch'd and mov'd by ridicule alone.

For there are thofe who may be laughed out of vice and folly, when all the powers of argument, and all the fanctions of religion, prove ineffectual to reclaim them.

It appears to be the with of this truly ingenious Writer, to contribute his part towards restoring the credit of the army, by checking the ftill farther progrefs of thofe abufes and irregularities that have of late fo much fullied its honour, and diminished its import- ance, in the view of other countries, as well as in the estimation of the wifer part of our own; and by infpiring every officer with fentinents worthy of the duty and character of British foldiers. Art. 42. Obfervations on the three firft Volumes of the History of English Poetry, in a familiar Letter to the Author. 4to. 25.6 d. Stockdale. 1782.

Familiar enough with a witnefs! Becaufe, truly, the hiftory of English Poetry contains, befide a few mistakes and inaccuracies, fome harmless opinions to which this Wiiter chufes not to affent, he thinks himself privileged to pour upon its Author the groffelt

Rev. March 1782, Art. 27. of the Catalogue.

abufe,

abufe, and the most illiberal invective. If the affertions and infinuations contained in this publication are to be credited, Mr. Warton poffeffes neither knowledge nor integrity fufficient to qualify him for the lowest departments of literature!-When a man fuffers the intemperance of his rage to tranfport him fo far beyond the limits of decency as this Writer has done, the most charitable fuppofition is, that he fat down to compofe during a paroxyfm of infanity. We anticipate the Reader's indignation and aftonishment, when he is told that this work, which it is impoffible any gentleman can avow, is, flebile diau! the production of a scholar, and would have done credit, had it been conducted with candour and good manners, to the critical acumen and knowledge of its Author.

Art. 43. Capt. Inglefield's Narrative, concerning the Lofs of his Majesty's Ship the Centaur, of 74 Guns; and the miraculous Prefervation of the Pinnace, with the Captain, Mailer, and ten of the Crew, in a Traverfe of near 300 Leagues on the Great Western Ocean. 8vo. 18. Murray, 1783.

An authentic recital of the circumstances of diftrefs preceding the lofs of the ship; with the fubfequent and extreme hardihips endured by the miferable few, Capt. Inglefield included, who escaped in the boat, during the fifteen days, in which they were driven about at the mercy of the winds and waves, without fail or compass, and almoft wholly without provisions, 'till their arrival at Fayall. This is, indeed, a most affecting account of one of thofe fatal and horrid difafters which fo frequently happen on the boisterous and all-devouring element.

Art. 44. The Feftival of Wit; or, the Small Talker: confifting of Flights of Humour and Genius. Selected from a voluminous Work in the Poffeffion of G***** K***, Summer Refident at W. With the Life of the Author and Compiler. Writ ten by himself. 12mo. 3 s. fewed. Smith. 1783.

Impudent Rogues! To reduce a great King to the contemptible employment of compiling a jest book. Mr. Walpole has given the world a catalogue of princely writers, in which due honour is rendered to royal authorship; but this publication appears to have no fuch view, if we may judge from the many fcurvy, and fome indecent, things which are introduced into this motley collection of Small talk, and flights of humour and genius.'

Art. 45. The Baratarian Inquest, a Fragment of the Works of the celebrated Author of Don Quixote. Prefented by the Duc de Crillon to the Tranflator, and dedicated to Sir William Draper. Svo. Part I. 36. Part II. 2s. 6d, Debrett, Becket, &c. 1783, Some perfon who probably had very little ferious bufinefs upon his bands, except the interest he took in a late conrt-martial (if it can be called a ferious bufinefs to endeavour to burlesque a fubject), has been hardy enough to take up, if not the pen, the name of Cervantes, and to convert the fiege of Minorca, and the profecution that folJowed its furrender, into occurrences happening under Sancho Panza's government over the island of Barataria. But though the Writer is not deftitute of a capacity for humour, and has given as much of honeft Sancho, as perhaps his fituation might afford, yet these was little capability of humour in fo ferious a bufinefs; the

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narrative of which must be fuppofed to be undertaken with the twofold view of fupplying the deficiency of information occafioned by ftopping the daily publication of proceedings, and to expofe S. W. D. to ridicule. In the fecond part, the Writer has furnished a key to his Inquest, which every one will not know the full use of: and, upon the whole, we cannot but join in the proverbial opinion he caufes Sancho to deliver, that there is no making a filk purje of a fw's

car.

Art. 46. A Letter from Cardinal Bathiani, Primate of Hungary, to the Emperor Jofeph II. Tranflated from the Original. 8vo. I S. Wilkie. 1782.

The Cardinal, with perfect modefty and refpect, propofes to this truly great Emperor feveral objections to thofe alterations he was about to make in the ecclefiaftical affairs of his dominions. He writes as a zealous Roman Catholic, high in power, might be supposed to do; but he forgets, that the principles on which he founds the claims of the church have long been difputed, and fully proved to be unfatisfactory and delufive. Jofeph II. has, notwithstanding, proceeded in the changes and innovations here alluded to; and we hope, while guided by the spirit of moderation and wisdom, he will proceed farther. Proteftants, though they never can favour the mere exertions of arbitrary power, do, if they are confiftent, behold with pleasure whatever is favourable to the cause of liberty, civil or religious: they may refpect the accomplishments of Cardinal Bathiani, as a fcholar and a gentleman, but they cannot approve his ecclefiaftical tenets. SCHOOL-BOOK S.

Art. 47. The new Latin and English Dictionary, containing all the Words and Phrafes proper for reading the Claffics in both Languages, accurately collected from the most approved Latin Authors. To which is prefixed, a new English Latin Dictionary, carefully compiled from the most celebrated English Writers, rendered in claffical Latin. Both parts comprising all that is most valuable in former Dictionaries. By John Entick, M. A. A new Edition. Large 12mo. 5s. bound. Dilly. 1783.

We mention this new edition of a useful School Book (useful too in private education) on account of the numerous improvements and corrections which the Editor profeffes to have made in it, particu larly in the English Latin part. This part being by much the largest, and most generally useful, is fold separately, price 38. 6d. From its portable fize, as well as on other accounts, it is peculiarly useful to boys who are learning Latin.

Art. 48. Chambaud Improved; or, French and English Exercises, with their respective Grammar Rules at the Head of each Chapter and Exercife. By James Nicholson, Matter of Languages. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Murray. 1782.

The reputation of Chambaud's Crammar and Exercises is fuffici. ently established: yet they will be allowed fometimes to be tedious in the Exceptions and Examples. The chief improvement in this

This, indeed, is obvious from the greatly increased fize of the volume.

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new edition, is the placing the Rules immediately before the Exercises which relate to them, and shortening them as far as is confiftent with perfpicuity. Our Author, who informs us, that he was educated at the univerfity of Paris, from his infancy, and has taught the French and Latin languages many years paft in fome of the capital fchools of this kingdom,' appears to have executed his talk with judgment and propriety. This improvement on Chambaud hath already received the recommendation of fome eminent schoolmasters; and we have little doubt but it will be very generally adopted. Art. 49. A Radical Vocabulary of the French Language. Printed for John Murdoch, Teacher of French, &c. in Staples-inn Buildings. 12mo, 2s. 6d. 1782.

A new attempt to teach the French language, by making the scholar learn the radical words. In this Vocabulary we have above 3,coo words which will require a long time to learn, and an uncommon memory to retain: in their detached, or, if we may fo express it, infulated fate. All this while too, the understanding is not fharpened, or improved; and memory acts, as it were, by itself. It is certain that these words must be known before the scholar can be faid to have acquired the language, in whatever way a mafter may teach it. But, independent of the knowledge of idiom, inflection, &c. &c. which he acquires by the authors he reads, he is amused, and, perhaps, inftructed too. He fees the words in their proper connection, which imprints their fignification more strongly than by learning their meaning in their primitive and unconnected state. They coalefce with others; and the affociation of ideas makes the impreffion of them deeper and more lafting.

Mr. Murdoch is, however, confident of the fuccefs of his plan under his own fuperintendence. We cannot difpute this point with him, because we are not acquainted with his pupils, nor have we feen the refult of his experiment. If any have a better opinion of it than we have, they are at liberty to make the trial; and we wish it may aníwer.

RELIGIOUS.

Art. 50. An Entrance into the Sacred Language; containing the neceffary Rules of Hebrew Grammar in English: with the original Text of feveral Chapters, felect Verfes, and useful Hittories, tranflated Verbatim, and analysed. Likewife fome fele&t Pieces of Hebrew Poetry. By the Rev. C. Bayley, of Trin. Coll. Camb. 8vo. 5 s. fewed. Longman. 1782.

We think the Author promifes too much, when he fays, that the whole is digested in fo eafy a manner, that a child of feven years old may arrive at a competent knowledge of the Hebrew fcriptures, with very little affiftance.'-The admiffion of the Majoretic points will neceffarily create fome degree of perplexity to the ftudent in Hebrew, even though he may be paffed the days of childhood. Mr. Bayley is, however, a very zealous advocate for the utility, and even the neceflity of the points. He thinks they are an effential part of the facred language: they determine the pronunciation, and not only fo, but they define the exact meaning of the words.Without them there will be too much left to wild conjecture, and how hazardous it would be to leave any part of the facred records

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to fo vague and precarious a guide, must be obvious to every perfon The Author fays, that Elias Levita, a German Jew, who lived in the 15th century, was the first that afferted that the points were a late innovation on the Hebrew Language. This affertion is combated in the preface with much hrewdnefs.-The Grammar may be very ufeful. Its rules, though concife, are perfpicuous: the analyfis, and the examples, illustrate their principles, and tend to facilitate the study of the Hebrew.

Art. 51. A full Detection of Popery, and Defence of a Proteftant Barrier, to be preferved by a more general Affociation of Proteftantsa 8vo. 18. 6d. Durham. 1783.

Down with Antichrift! Down with the old whore--even the scarlet whore, the whore of Babylon! Make war-make war againft the Beat-the great red Dragon, having feven heads and ten horns. Go up-go up against the city of the feven hills: raze her, raze her even to the foundation thereof: and happy fhall he be that taketh and dasheth her little ones against the ftones. But curfe ye Meroz; curfe him bitterly, because he came not to help against the mighty.

All this rushed upon us, and the ghost of old Knox was conjured up, while we were reading this pamphlet: and yet the writer hath the affurance to begin one of the fections of this tumid and incoherent effufion of zeal and frenzy with the words—' Mercy and huma→ nity. Was ever mercy more infuited? Was ever a greater mockery offered to humanity?

Art. 52. The Seventeenth Article of the Church of England paraphrased and explained. 8vo. 6d. Evans. 1782.

An attempt to rescue the church from the charge of Calvinifm in the article of predeftination, by interpreting it on the more free and liberal ground adopted by those who call themselves moderate men, and who are called by their enemies Pelagians. As the doctrine of reprobation is not once mentioned in the difputed article, and as univerfal redemption is clearly a principle of the church, from the general tenor of its fervice, the Author of this little tra&t maintains, that predeftination is to be underflood in a qualified fenfe, and that the Articles (when confidered in conjunction) neither teach nor hold any fuch doctrine as abfolute and irrefpective decrees with regard to the final mifery or happiness of individuals.-This performance contains nothing new or ftriking.

Art. 53. Letters from the late Rev. James Hervey, A. M. Rector of Welton Favell, to the Kight Hon. Lady Frances Shirley. 8vo. 3 s. fewed. Rivington. 1782.

These letters carry with them the moft indubitable evidences of their authenticity. We fee the pious, ingenious and fanciful Mr. Hervey in every page. We fee, as in all his other works, the dark and fombrous vifage of Calvinism, fet off with the gaudy treffes of rhetoric-all befpangled and bedizened with tropes and metaphors, and all the figures of glittering fpeech!

The Author, as ufual, plays on the found of words: but the word he most plays on, and to a lefs account in the ear of fober fenfe than any other, is CHRIST! Then we look unto Christ as the needle points to the north. Then we cleave unto Chrift, as the girdle of a man cleaveth to his loins. Then we count all things

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