1754. American fable. Collected by a learned and ingenious gentleman in the province of Pensylvania. 8vo. London. "The same book appears to have been published with a somewhat different title, viz. The speech of a Creek Indian against the immoderate use of spirituous liquors," &c. M. R. x. p. 285. 3 *A MEMORIAL of the case of the German emigrants settled in the British colonies of Pennsylvania, and in the back parts of Maryland, Virginia, &c. Quarto. Col. Aspinwall and British Museum. London. 4 *THE CONDUCT of the French with regard to Nova Scotia, from its first settlement to the present time. In which are exposed, the falsehood and absurdity of their arguments to elude the treaty of Utrecht, and support their unjust proceedings. In a letter to a Member of Parliament. London. 8vo. "Our author has given a regular, and as it appears to us an authentic, account of the several proprietors of these countries, from their first settlement by Europeans, as well as of the treaties that have been concluded relative thereto. Both the quantity and quality prove its coming from the hand of no common catchpenny writer." M. R. xi. p. 472. 5 SERIOUS CONSIDERATIONS on the present state of the affairs in the northern colonies. By Archibald Kennedy, esq. London. 8vo. 6 A LETTER FROM A RUSSIAN SEA-OFFICER to a person of distinction at the court of Petersburgh. Containing his remarks on Mr. de l'Isle's chart and memoir, relative to the new discoveries northward and eastward from Kampschatka. Together with some observations on that letter. By Arthur Dobbs, esq. governor of North Carolina. To which is added, Mr. de l'Isle's explanatory memoir on his chart, published at Paris, and now translated from the original French. London. 8vo. pp. 83. "This pamphlet relates chiefly to the attempts that have been so worthily made by Mr. Dobbs and other gentlemen, associated for the patriot purpose of discovering a N. W. passage to the South Seas." Monthly Review, x. p. 320. 7 THE NATURAL HISTORY of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama 1754. Islands, with figures coloured after the life. By Mark Catesby. The second edition. London. Folio, 2 vols. 220 plates. See 1731 and 1771. 8 DE MODO PROBABILIORI, quo primæ in Americam Septentrionalem immigrationes sunt factæ. Ottonis Christi. de Lohenschiold. Quarto. Meusel, iii. 2. p. 92. Tubinga. 9 ARTE DE LA LENGUA MEXICANA, dispuesto por D. Joseph Augustin de Aldáma y Guevára, presbytero de el Arzobispado de Mexico. Small 8vo. Mexico. 10 ARTE Y VOCABULARIO DE LA LENGUA QUICHA, general de los Indios de el Peru. Que compuso el Padre Diego de Torres Rubio de la Compania de Jesus, y añadio el P. Juan de Figueredo de la misma Compañia. Ahora nuevamente aumentado, &c. por un Religioso, &c. Small 8vo. Lima. 11 HISTORIA DE LA COMPANIA DE JESUS de la provincia del Escrita por el Padre Pedro Lozano de la misma Madrid. Paraguay. Compania. Folio, 2 vols. The second volume has the date of 1755. The author was many years a missionary in Paraguay. He published in 1733 an interesting account of the Great Chaco, in the interior of South America. The present work, which appears to be very little known, contains the history of the acts of the Jesuits in Paraguay, and, notwithstanding a large portion of “ 'jesuitical chaff," is an important addition to the history of that country. These two volumes appear to be only a part of what the work was intended to be. Funes, in his Historia Civil del Paraguay (1816), speaks highly of Father Lozano, and mentions a civil history of the same country being extant in manuscript by him. He says that his esprit de corps sometimes causes him to fall into illusions, and that his style is redundant and heavy; but that, in other respects, no writer is more diligent, more exact, and more sincere. 12 CONSTITUCIONES SYNODALES del Arçobispado de los Reyes en Hechas y ordenadas por el Ill. y Rev. S. D. el Peru. Bartholomé Lobo Guerrero, y publicadas en la Synodo Dio- 1754. Folio. First printed in Lima in 1614. This volume contains also a reprint of the Synod of 1636; and various edicts of the Archbishop of Lima, issued in the same year in which the volume was printed. 13 AMERICANISCHES ACKERWERK GOTTES: oder zuverlässige nachrichten den zustand der Americanisch, Englischen, und von Salzburgischen Emigranten erbauten Pflantzstadt Ebenezer in Georgien betreffend aus dorther eingeschickten glaubwurdigen Diarien genommen, und mit Briefen der dasigen herren Prediger noch weiter bestattiget. Herausgegeben von Samuel Urlsperger. Augsburg. Small 4to. Vol. 1. The second volume of this work, which is a continuation of the Ausführliche Nachrichten, 1735, was published in 1755; the third, in 1756, with a supplement in 1760. A fourth volume, apparently unknown to Meusel, was published by Johann August Urlsperger in 1767. The honest Saltzburgers, who formed the settlement of Ebenezer, on the Savannah river, appear to have been as industrious with their pens as with their ploughs: the printed books relating to their little colony would form a small library. MDCCLV. 1 THE PRESENT STATE of North America. Part I. Quarto. 66 London. 'This first part contains only three chapters, of eight, which, we are told, 2 A CONCISE DESCRIPTION of the English and French possessions Printed at the same time in French. London. 3 STATE OF THE BRITISH AND FRENCH COLONIES in North America, with respect to number of people, forces, forts, Indians, trade, and other advantages. In which are considered: 1. The defenceless condition of our plantations, and to what 1755. 8vo. "The defenceless condition of our plantations is by this author ascribed to a disunion among our colonies in North America, an abuse of power in former governors, and the defection of our Indian allies; which last he imputes to our ill treatment of those allies. The second letter is intended to give a general view of the British colonies, and the number of inhabitants, which, our author thinks, ought to be placed at about 900,000. We must remark that this gentleman does not pretend to any personal knowledge of the countries he treats of, nor have we any assurance of the authenticity of his relations or computations: however, 'tis certain he has made some very pertinent reflections." M. R. xii. p. 483. 4 OBSERVATIONS on the late and present conduct of the French, with regard to their encroachments, upon the British colonies in North America: together with remarks on the importance of those colonies to Great Britain. By William Clarke, M.D. of Boston, in New England. To which is added, wrote by another hand, observations concerning the increase of mankind, peopling of countries, &c. London. 8vo. This pamphlet, which was first printed at Boston, is commended in the 5 THE FRENCH ENCROACHMENT EXPOSED; or, Britain's original 8vo. "The author's zeal for his country is expressed in furious declamation against its enemies, and in these declamations his merit, as a writer, seems chiefly to consist." M. R. xiii. p. 508. 6 Two LETTERS to a friend on the present critical conjuncture of By affairs in North America. 8vo. Charles London. Ch. 1755. Reprinted from the New England edition. The first of these letters is only a new edition of the following article: 7 A LETTER TO A FRIEND: giving a concise, but just account, according to the advices hitherto received, of the Ohio defeat; pointing out the many good ends this inglorious event is naturally adapted to promote, &c. London. 8vo. This tract was first printed in Boston, N.E. 8 SECOND LETTER to a friend, giving a more particular narrative of the defeat of the French army at Lake George. Quarto. Harvard College Cat. Boston, N. E. 9 LETTER from a West India Merchant concerning that part of the French proposals which relates to North America, and particularly Newfoundland. Quarto. Harvard College Cat.-No place or date, but probably printed about this time. 10 THE EXPEDITION of Major General Braddock to Virginia, with the two regiments of Halket and Dunbar, being extracts of letters from an officer in one of those regiments, to his friend in London, describing the march and engagement in the woods, London. &c. 8vo. "A vile misrepresentation of every thing that the worthless, unknown scribbler, undertakes to describe." M. R. xiii. p. 306. 11 AN ACCURATE description of Cape Breton. 8vo. ? Gent.'s Mag. 1755. London. 12 THE WISDOM AND POLICY of the French, in the construction of their great offices, so as best to answer the purposes of extending their trade and commerce, and enlarging their foreign settlements. With some observations in relation to the disputes now subsisting between the English and French colonies in America. London. 8vo. This performance seems more especially intended as an introduction to the following: 13 A MISCELLANEOUS ESSAY, Concerning the courses pursued by Great Britain, in the affairs of her colonies. With some ob |