of military preparations and exertions, and the dependence of their the divine favour, which he recommends the people to seek by forsaking their sins. "It is not," he justly observes, “the pliance with the outward forms of a religious appointment; mere technical display of momentary repentance, which can nts of God, or conciliate his favour. These sanctimonious on which the prevailing and fashionable hypocrisy of the urage, so far from having a tendency to expiate our guilt, he load of its enormity." ems of Thomas Romney Robinson, to which is prehe Author, by a Member of the Belfast Literary ndon, re-printed. 8vo. pp. 112. Johnson. 1807. this book will suffice to acquaint the reader with notice. The author is now 15 years of age; he was pril 23, 1792; his father, who studied nnder Romney, is an it painter at Belfast. The volume contains specimens of young ..s poetry from the age of five to that of thirteen. the poems, like all precocious fruits, are more interesting from the mar vellous earliness of their production, than the excellence, of their quality, we shall copy his Lines on seeing a picture of Mount Vesuvius, written in his eighth year. • Here Torrè rose; here villas once were seen, And this delightful spot was cloth'd in green; Now heaps of cinders on the ground are spread,. And show'rs of ashes through the air are shed; Far off the flame refulgent darts its rays, The undulating sea reflects the blaze;" The sulphur'd rock from Earth with fury flung, Aloft in air seems like a meteor hung: The fiery torrent rushing down the steep, Bears herds, and trees, and cities to the deep; Italia trembles at the dreadful roar, And weeping Naples mourns her ruin'd shore.' p. 5. The following account is given of his childhood. . While yet in his nurse's arms there appeared to be something extraordinary in the tone of the infant's feelings and the structure of his nerves: this appeared particularly in the effect of music on his animal frame, the notes of an ill-tuned instrument raising in him sensations of sickness and disgust, while harmonious sounds affected him with evident delight. When his son was about two years old, Mr. Robinson having drawn two pictures from the Hermit of Warkworth, was in the habit of reading aloud some pathetic passages of that beautiful poem. The child used to listen with fixed attention, watch with anxiety the variations of expression in his father's countenance, and shed tears as he observed him affected. Mr. Robinson conceived the attention of the infant an indication of something extraordinary, and delighted to it to the trial; so that the child would frequently sit with patience listening put to the Hermit of Warkworth: it soothed his infant pains, and formed the prin cipal source of his infant pleasures. From the frequent inspection of his favourite piece, he learned to read, which, as well as to recite several passages of the poem, he was able to do before he attained his third year. As soon as he had learned to read, he devoured, with insatiable avidity, all the poetry he could meet with.' Having pas sed with surprising rapidity through the classes at Belfast Academy, he has been placed at Trinity College, Dublin. suspect that we should like it still less if it were. The young people over whose destiny we have any influence, will be committed to the care of instructors who are not quite so indifferent as Mr. G. to" tenets deemed essential by particular sects and denominations," and who will not confine their religious instructions to a metaphysical demonstration of a First Cause and his necessary attributes, and a calm investigation of the evidence for admitting the authenticity of Scripture. The letters are Art. XXVI. Letters on Affliction, by various Christians; intended as a suitable Present to Individuals or Families in Affliction. Collected by John Campbell. 18mo. pp. 150. Price bound 1s. 6d. fine 2s. Burditt. 1808. THE plan of this useful collection seems to have been suggested by Dr. Erskine's publication on the death of children. thirty-five in number, and, for the most part, have not hitherto been published. The authors whose names are given, stand high in the public esteem; the writings of Newton, Cadogan, and Cowper, could not be indebted to our praise. The exquisite poetical Epistle by the latter, to a Protestant Lady in France, is an ornament to the volume. Some of the anonymous letters, we have reason to think, are the production of living writers who occupy no inferior rank in the Christian world. The work is neat and convenient; it may doubtless find access to those who are most absorbed in sorrow and unwilling to be comforted, when a visitor would not be endured, nor a large volume read. It will also be a good companion in benevolent visits to the sick, and a suitable present to the poor. An elegant letter of condolence by Sir W. Temple, and a very meagre one by Dr. Reid, are subjoined by the editor, as impressive contrasts to the rest of the work; and they cannot fail to answer his intention, by exhibiting the futility of all consolations in distress but those which are supplied by genuine Christianity. Art. XXVII. Lessons for Young Persons in Humble Life, calculated to promote their Improvement in the Art of Reading; in Virtue and Piety and particularly in the Knowledge of the Duties peculiar to their Station. 8vo. pp. 326. Price 3s. 6d. boards. York, Wilson and Spence; Longman and Co. 1808. IN appearance, cheapness, and moral tendency, this compilation resembles those of the excellent Lindley Murray. It includes Sentences and Paragraphs, authentic Narratives, Descriptions (of character,) Dialogues, and Miscellaneous Pieces, both in Prose and Verse. It inculcates the most useful sentiments in a very suitable form, and well deserves patronage. If the author were to introduce rather more freely, in another edition, approved extracts, developing the essential principles, as well as the duties and spirit of Christianity, we think the utility of the book would be much mcreased. The Cheap and Religious Tracts would afford unexceptionable materials. Art. XXVIII. A Sermon, preached at the Spring-Garden Chapel, Feb. 17, 1808, being the day appointed for a General Fast. Published at the Request of the Congregation. By Edmund Cartwright, D. D. Rector of Goadby Murwood, Leicestershire; and Prebendary of Lincoln. pp. 16. Price 1s. Longman and Co.. 1808. TH HIS Sermon is a collection of just and profitable, but not striking re- marks. propriety of military preparations and exertions, and the dependence of their success on the divine favour, which he e recommends the people to seek by repenting and forsaking their sins. "It is not," he justly observes, “the superficial compliance with the outward forms of a religious appointment; neither is it the mere technical display of momentary repentance, which can avert the judgements of God, or conciliate his favour. These sanctimonious mockeries of devotion which the prevailing and fashionable hypocrisy of the day may possibly encourage, so far from having a tendency to expiate our guilt, serve only to aggravate the load of its enormity." Art. XXIX. Juvenile Poems of Thomas Romney Robinson, to which is prefixed a short Account of the Author, by a Member of the Belfast Literary Society. Belfast printed. London, re-printed. 8vo. pp. 112. Johnson. 1807. A VERY short account of this book will suffice to acquaint the reader with its claims to general notice. The author is now 15 years of age; he was born at Dublin, April 23, 1792; his father, who studied nnder Romney, is an eminent portrait painter at Belfast. The volume contains specimens of young Robinson's poetry from the age of five to that of thirteen. As the poems, like all precocious fruits, are more interesting from the mar The sulphur'd rock from Earth with fury flung, Italia trembles at the dreadful roar, And weeping Naples mourns her ruin'd shore.' p. 5.. The following account is given of his childhood. • While yet in his nurse's arms there appeared to be something extraordinary in the tone of the infant's feelings and the structure of his nerves: this appeared particularly in the effect of music on his animal frame, the notes of an ill-tuned instrument raising in him sensations of sickness and disgust, while harmonious sounds affected him with evident delight. . When his son was about two years old, Mr. Robinson having drawn twą pictures from the Hermit of Warkworth, was in the habit of reading aloud some pathetic passages of that beautiful poem. The child used to listen with fixed attention, watch with anxiety the variations of expression in his father's countenance, and shed tears as he observed him affected. Mr. Robinson conceived the attention of the infant an indication of something extraordinary, and delighted to put it to the trial; so that the child would frequently sit with patience listening to the Hermit of Warkworth: it soothed his infant pains, and formed the principal source of his infant pleasures. From the frequent inspection of his favourite piece, he learned to read, which, as well as to recite several passages of the poem, he was able to do before he attained his third year. As soon as he had learned to read, he devoured, with insatiable avidity, all the poetry he could meet with.' Having pas sed with surprising rapidity through the classes at Belfast Academy, he has been placed at Trinity College, Dublin. Art. XXX. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION. The Rev. Wm. Bennet, author of "Re- of the Poet, will shortly be ready for pu marks on a recent Hypothesis respecting lication. the Origin of Moral Evil," is transcribing for the press, Thoughts on the primary Condition of intelligent accountable Creatures; deduced from Principles of right Reason, compared with the Testimony of Inspiration, and corroborated by References to approved Calvinistic Writers. A new edition of Swift's works, in nineteen volumes, 8vo. will speedily appear. The Rev. W. Newman, of Old Ford, is preparing for the press, Part the First of a "Reply to Two Queries 1. What has the Gospel done for Females? 2. What have Christian Females done for the Gospel? A fourth edition, corrected, of Montgomery's Wanderer of Switzerland and other Poems, will appear without delay. In the press, The Comet, a mock Newspaper, by the author of All the Talents. Mr. Walter Wilson has in the press, the History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches, Chapels, and Meeting Houses in and about London; including a chronological Series of Ministers at each place, with biographical anecdotes of their Lives and Characters. The work has occupied his attention for many years, and is to be accompanied with portraits from original paintings. In the press, Emancipation, or, Peter, Martin, and the Squire, a Tale in Rhyme, with Notes, satirical and explanatory. The Rev. Johnson Grant, A. M. is preparing for publication, a Summary of the History of the English Church, with an Account of the Sects which have separated from it, and answers to the tenets of each. To this work the premium given by the Society of St. David's, for promoting Christian knowledge and Church Union was adjudged, The Correspondence between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, and a Series of Letters from Mrs. Carter to Mrs. Vesey, in two quarto volumes, will appear in the course of the present month. The sixteenth edition of Dr. Vicesimus Knox's Essays, Moral and Literary, is in the press. Mr. Renney, author of the work, intitled A Demonstration of the Necessity of a Free Trade to the East Indies, has now in the press another performance on the State of the East India Company, which will speedily be published. Dr. Maltby is preparing a new edition of Morell's Thesaurus. A Translation of the Satires of Boileau, with some Account of the Life and Writings Nearly ready for publication, by subscription, for the benefit of Mr. Cowper's Orphan God-son, in royal 4to. Price 21. 2s. in boards, The Latin and Italian Poems of Milton, translated into English Verse, with the Originals and a Fragment of a Commentary on Paradise Lost. By the late William Cowper, Esq. With a Preface and Notes from various Authors, by the Editor, and three Designs by John Flaxman, Esq. Mr. Wordsworth will shortly put to press a new Poem, under the title of the White Doe, or the Fate of the Nortons. Mr. Robert Walker, of Oxford, will shortly publish Experiments and Observations on the production of artificial cold, a new edition with considerable additions. The Barrister, the first part of whose Hints on Evangelical Preaching has been so ably answered by several writers, has the second part in a yery forward state for publication. Mr.HughMurray will publish in a few days, a work intitled, Enquiries, Historical and Moral, respecting the Character of Nations and the Progress of Society. In this work it will be Mr. Murray's object to exhibit a view of the moral history of Man; of the manners and characters of Nations, and the circumstances on which they are dependant. After endeavouring to ascertain the general principles by which they are regulated, he proceeds to give a view of society, as it exists in the earlier stages of its progress. Mr. Murray has some intention of hereafter extending a similar survey to subsequent periods in the History of Man. Mr. Thomas Mc Gill has in the press, Travels in Turkey, Italy, and Russia, during the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806, with an account of the new settlement of Odessa, in the Black Sea, and of the Trade of Turkey. Mr. Bisset, of the Museum, Birmingham, will shortly publish a Magnificent Guide, or Grand Copper-plate Directory to the Town of Birmingham, in which the addresses of the most eminent professional Gentlemen, Bankers, Merchants, Tradesmen, and Manufacturers, will be elegantly engraved in superb and emblematic Plates. Mr. William Savage proposes to publish by subscription, a View of the elegant Gothic Remains of the East End of Howden Church, in the East Riding of the County of York, the Drawing by Webster, from a Sketch made in 1796. It will be engraved in aquatinta by Lewis, and coloured to imitate the Drawing. The size will be 18 inches by 14. Mr. T. C. Williams, of Reading, Chemist, is printing at his own private press, a Catalogue of British Plants, particularly pointing out their medical and œconomical uses. In the press and speedily will be published, in two volumes duodecimo, price 13s. in' boards, or 14s. bound, Letters on Literature and Composition, addressed to his Son, by George Gregory, D. D. late Vicar of Westham. The Life of Alexander Nowell, Dean of St. Pauls, by Mr. Cheerton, is nearly ready for the press in one large volume 8vo. to be embellished with three Portraits from originals never before engraved. A Translation of Richard of Cirencester, on the ancient state of Britain, with Notes; a Commentary on the Roman Itinerary, and Remarks on the British Roads and Antiquities; accompanied by the original Treatise De situ Britanniæ, from the scarce work published by Professor Bertram at Copenhagen, is in the press, and will speedily be published. Mr. Arthur Young having, by desire of the Board of Agriculture, delivered two very interesting Lectures on Agriculture, at the House of the Board in Sackville-street, the first Lectures which have ever been delivered on this subject in England, has been requested to publish them, and they will be put to press without loss of time. This institution proceeds with increased zeal and activity in the preparation of the County Reports, twenty-eight of which have already appeared, and that of Oxfordshire by Mr. Young, and of Bedfordshire by Mr. Bachelor, are ready to be put to press. New Editions of Lancashire, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire, are also in forwardness. The Survey of Invernesshire, by Dr. Robertson of Callander, has been delayed a few weeks, owing to the preparation' of a new Map, which is to delineate the situation of the different soils, and the lines of roads, as ordered by Parliament. The work itself itself will also contain a topographical description of the different districts, specifying not only the means of cultivating the soil, but the propriety of establishing villages for improving the fisheries and the woollen manufactures, as a great fund of subsistence, employment and wealth to the people, which may effectually prevent emigration; with extracts of letters from Mr. Dempster of Dumchan, on that desolating evil; and an Appendix, containing Direc tions for the cultivation of Peat Moss, by Sir John Sinclair; Letters on the compararative value of different Breeds of Sheep, and a short Account of the British and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Country. Mr. Robert Backwell, of Wakefield, has prepared for the press, a work on a subject of considerable importance to Woollen Manufacturers, and Wool-growers. Its chief object is to demonstrate the possibility of improving the quality, and increasing the value of Clothing Wool, by means the most simple and easy, but which have hitherto been neglected, from an ignorance of the real structure and nature of Wool, and of the effects which difference of soil and cli mate produce on the growing fleece. ART. XXXI. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED. BIOGRAPHY. Memoirs of Marmontel. Written by himself including anecdotes of the principal Characters of the eighteenth century. A new translation, with notes and illustrations. By the Author of the Swiss Emigrants, 4 vol. 12mo. 11. 1s. The Naval Heroes of Great-Britain; or, Accounts of the Lives and Actions of the distinguished Admirals and Commanders who have contributed to confer on Great-Britain the empire of the ocean, from Sir Francis Drake,to Lord Nelson. By William Burney, A. M.Master of the Naval Academy at Gosport, &c. embellished with twenty-four portraits and six charts, 7s.6d. bound. (A few copies taken on fine paper, 10s. 6d. elegantly bound.) Memoirs of Josias Rogers, Esq.Commander of his Majesty's ship Quebec. By the late William Gilpin, A. M. Prebendary of Salisbury, and Vicar of Boldre, in New Forest. Published by his Trustees for the benefit of his school at Boldre. An Essay on the Life and Writings of Mr. Abraham Booth, late pastor of the Baptist Church in Little Prescot-street, Goodman'sFields. By W. Jones, 8vo, 4s, Public Spirit illustrated, in the Life and Designs of the Rev. Thomas Bray, D. D. formerly minister of St. Botolph, without Aldgate, London. To which are added, the |