Art. 15. The Mineralogy of Derbyshire, with a Description of the most interesting Mines, in the North of England, in Scotland, and in Wales.-Subjoined is a Glossary of the Terms and Phrases used by Miners in Derbyshire. By John Mawe. 8vo. pp. 211. 6. Boards. W. Phillips, &c. 1802.

This work contains a short account of the mines in Derbyshire and in some parts of Scotland, as well as of the salt mine at Northwich, and of the Parrys copper mine. Although it displays but little Mineralogical Science, it may certainly be consulted with advantage by those who intend to visit the mines and the natural curiosities of Derbyshire.

MEDICAL, &c.

Art. 16. Cases of Phthisis Pulmonalis, successfully treated, upon the Tonic Plan; with introductory Observations. By Charles Pears, F. M. S. F.L.S. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Murray and Highley.

1801.

This writer is extremely sanguine in his expectations from the use of tonics and nourishing diet, in pulmonary consumption. He has not, however, discriminated that species of the disease, in which many eminent physicians have already advised this practice, from the florid consumption, in which it is allowed to be prejudicial. Yet, from Mr. Pears's description of the pulse which characterizes phthisis, it is evident that his observations have been confined to the scrophulous species; and it is equally obvious that he is not acquainted with the writings of Dr. Read, and others, who have of late years recome mended the very plan adopted by Mr. Pears.

In truth, Mr. Pears's essay shews that he is a very young writer; an observer excessively sanguine; and that he must have mistaken catarrhal complaints, in many instances, for phthisis. In order to convince experienced practitioners of the truth of these remarks, we need only quote Mr. Pears's canons respecting the disease:

The amendment in this disease, under the treatment recom. mended, generally begins about the third or fourth day its progress is usually regular and uniform; but sometimes it proceeds by alternate days of progression and sameness of station. A very rapid amendment seldom continues, and is dangerous.

Thus idiopathic phthisis is cureable in almost every stage. Ine cipient cases are hardly dangerous. Relief is always attainable. The following pages evince these facts.'

Happy would it be for mankind, if these comfortable assertions could be realized! but the experience of all physicians stands in direct contradiction to them.

So little preparatory knowlege has Mr. P. brought to this important discussion, that he takes no notice of the very common practice of exhibiting Dr. Griffiths's mixture, or some equivalent remedy.

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It is painful but necessary to observe, also, that the formule in troduced in the cases betray a surprising deficiency in the knowlege of Latin. When we first met with this direction, Cap. quando tussi urgenti, p. 18, we concluded that here must be an error of the press: but we find this ridiculous blunder in so many of the REV. MAY, 1802.

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pages, and with such strange adjuncts, that we can impute the fault only to the author himself.

Mr. Pears professes to have no object in view but truth; and we are fully disposed to believe him. We fear that he will therefore be convinced, in a short time, that he has been too much elated by some illusory cases, and that he will find himself baffed by genuine pulmonary consumption, in common with the most eminent practitioners of all countries and times.

Art. 17. New Progress of Surgery in France; or Phænomena in the Animal Kingdom. Published by Command of the French Government. Translated from the French of Imbert Delonnes, M. D. By T. Chavernac, Surgeon. Embellished with very curi ous Plates by W. Nutter. 4to. 45. Kay. 1801.

The first fact contained in this essay, which opens with an unnecessary pomp of pretension, is the removal of a very large sarcocele by the knife. M. Delonnes had the merit of determining on the operation, and of performing it with success, in opposition to the sentiments of a numerous consultation of surgeons.-The second fact relates to the removal of a very large excresence from the nose; which was also performed by the knife. These cases are remarkable, and deserve to be recorded, on account of the enormous progress which the diseases had made in them: but they will scarcely be regarded as conveying much novelty, either in doctrine or practice, by professional men in this country. Similar masses of diseased parts have been removed by English surgeons, who have not arrogated the title of discoverers, which M, Delonnes has assured on this occasion. The untoward events of late years have unhappily interrupted the communication between men of science in both countries: but, since the halcyon days of peace are at length restored, we may hope that the improvements of surgery, as well as of other branches of knowlege, will be more readily interchanged. It may then be found that similar trains of reasoning have been adopted, under similar circumstances, by men who had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with each others' opinion; and a satisfactory corroboration may thus be obtained.

POETRY, $3c.

Aft. 18. A Translation of Geddes's Ode to Peace. By John Ring. 4to. Is. 6d. Johnson, &c.

As we do not recollect to have seen the printed original of this pocin, we cannot satisfactorily judge of the merit of the performance before us as a translation. On the whole, however, we may venture to say that the work reflects no disgrace on the memory of the lately deceased author; who was not permitted long to enjoy the blessings thish are here so feelingly and poetically displayed.The learned Doctor was fond of occasionally relieving the severity of his more serious studies, by softer and sweeter converse with the Tuneful Nine ; and they were not always unfavourable to his devoirs, Mr. Ring

* For example, Cap. cum tussi urgenti-Capt. u tussi urgenti. In p. 81, we find, Tinct. opii. gutt. x. în Vinum 3j—!,

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informs us, in his prefatory advertisement, that as the original was the last poetical production of a Geddes, it will not prove unacceptable to such as regret his loss, and revere his memory We may add, that the number of the worthy author's admirers does not appear to be small. He had, indeed, some characteristic peculiarities: but we, who had the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with him, cannot refuse our assent to the truth and justice of the praises which Mr. R. bestows on him, in the following words, extracted from the advertisement already quoted; The name of the reverend author of the Ode to Peace will never be pronounced without respect, while civil and religious liberty are deemed worthy of regard; or, while genius, learning, and liberality of sentiment, are held in honour.'-We shall give a short specimen of the Ode, in which the social and friendly disposition of the ingenious and good-humoured author are pleasingly manifested. The lines are copied from his well imagined enumeration of the expected happy consequences of the peace:

We now discern the sullen brow no more,
Nor meet the frowning visage as before;
On PEACE the people ev'ry thought employ,
And wear a smile of universal joy.

No more suspicion lurks within the breast,
But open arms receive the welcome guest,
Each Briton now his fellow Briton greets,
And meets new joys in ev'ry friend he meets.'

Art. 19.
An Elegy to the Memory of the late Duke of Bedford.
Written on the Evening of his Interment. By Mrs. Opie. 4to.
18. Longman and Rees.

This ingenious lady's feelings, on the mournful subject which here employs the Muse of woe, are generally expressed in warm and harmonious numbers; for instance,

To thee, lamented shade, the Muse shall raise
The ardent song of unsuspected praise;
Hers the soft pensive pleasure to impart,
The genuine feelings of no venal heart,
And with the honours that bedeck thy bier
Mix the pure incense of a soul sincere.
Yet hard the task :--While busy memory flies
To the great day when first thou mett'st my eyes,
Oh! dreadful contrast! fancy's restless power
That moment paints thee in thy dying hour,
Tili the sad scene my shuddering soul appalls,
And from my grasp the Muse's pencil falls.'

The poem, however, does not thus conclude, for it is here only just begun. The rest of the Elegy is employed in celebrating the truly noble and illustrious House of Russel.

Art. 20.

An Elegy on his Grace Francis the late Duke of Bedford.
By Thomas Rodd. 4to. Is. Ridgway.

Had Mr. Radd been as happy in the execution of his design of telebrating the merits of the Bedford family, as he was in his choice

of a subject for panegyric, we should have gladly paid him our tribute of praise for his performance. His zeal, however, is to be commended, because it seems to be purely patriotic.

Art. 21. Ode to Peace; to which is added, The Negro's Appeal. By John Henry Colls. 4tc. 18. Longman.

The blessings of peace are here sung in no mean nor inelegant strains, and men and things are generally described and enumerated as partaking of those enjoyments;-thus, for example,

Lo! Science plumes her drooping wing,

And all the Arts their treasures bring,

To grace Britannia's throne ;

The flag of commerce flies unfurl'd,
And half the riches of the world

Already seem her own!'

The Negro's Appeal to justice and humanity involves the piteous tale of a once happy African, who was kidnapped and enslaved by European avarice and treachery. The distressing particulars of the injury, and its consequent miseries, are recited in numbers which are not destitute of either pathos or elegance.

Art. 22.
The Island of Innocence; a Poetical Epistle to a Friend.
By Peter Pindar, Esq. Part the First. 4to. 1s. 6d. Dean.

1802.

We hope that Peter will not insert us in his catalogue of Brutes,' if we intimate to him that neither much originality nor any great brilliancy of genius is displayed in this poem. conceived exactly on the plan of Juvenal's second Satire, which Dr. Johnson imitated in his "London." The poet first describes the perfect happiness of a friend, who had betaken himself with his family to a little island in the gulf of Mexico; where squirrels and hares live in fearless security; and where man must subsist entirely on vegetables, since neither the beasts of the wood nor the birds of the air, nor the inhabitants of the stream, are to be robbed of life or disturbed in their enjoyments. He then contrasts this scene of trans-atlantic rural pleasure with the vices, cruelties, and miseries of the London world.We shall place together his delincation of the Island of Innocence in the Gulf of Mexico, and his Picture of moder London:

To thee, my FRIEND, amid that peaceful ISLE

Where bounteous NATURE blooms with sweetest smile;
Where never WINTER, on his northern blast,
Howls on the hill, and lays the valley waste;

O'er a pale sun, the cloud of horror throws,
And buries NATURE in his vast of snows:
Ah, no! where endless SUMMER, ever gay,
Opes a pure ether to the ORs of Day;
That gilds the tree, and flower, and grassy blade,
And works his threads of gold in ev'ry glade :
TO THEE, my FRIEND, where shrubs of incense rise,
And pour their grateful fragrance to the skies;

Where

Where rills, in wanton mazes, wird away,
Diffusing health and plenty, as they play;
Where the rich treasures of the pine reside,
And orange-branches bend with golden pride;
Where from the boughs of odour, mingled notes.
Of rapture warble from a thousand throats;
And blest, from vale to vale the cooing dove"
Wings with his mate, and teaches Man to love i
To THEE I yield the MUSE's artless line,
And envy all the blessings that are thine.

Oh! paint our Dungeons, where, with putrid breath,
The wretch desponding pants, and sighs for Death:
Paint the poor Felon, doom'd, ah! doom'd to die,
Wan the pale cheek, and horror-struck the eye;
With languid limbs that droop to earth in pain,
Press'd, loaded, lab'ring with a clanking chain;
While, on the stillness of the midnight air,
Sad moans the voice of Mis'RY and DESPAIR:
Paint all the horrors of the midnight shade,
THEFT's iron crow, and MURDER's reeking blade.
Paint the poor objects that we hourly meet,
The wrecks of BEAUTY crowding ev'ry street;
DAUGHTERS OF INNOCENCE, ere Demon Art
Won on the weakness of too soft a heart;
And doom'd to infamy the tender kiss,
Due to pure Love alone and wedded bliss:
Paint COURTS, whose sorceries, too seducing, bind
In chains, in shameful slavish chains, the mind;

COURTS, where unblushing FLATT'RY finds the way,

And casts a cloud o'er TRUTH's eternal ray :

And quote the SAGE, who COURTS had serv'd and known:"O CRASSUS, let me fly, and live alone :

Though much I love thee, let our commerce end,

Nor from his solitude recall thy Friend.

Thanks to the Gods, my servile hours are o'er,

And, oh! let MEM'RY mention Courts no more!"

Had P. P. given us an Argument in his usual manner, he would probably have told us that the author piously concludes with comparing himself to St. Paul; for know, gentle reader, that he informs us that, as the Apostle fought with beasts at Ephesus, so he (Peter) has encountered the brutes of Paternoster Row.-As Milton calls his antagonists" owls and cuckows, asses, apes and dogs," Peter, in imitation of such poetical politeness, denominates his opposers

'-Lions, monkeys, bulls, and bears.'

After a conflict with such formidable beasts, we congratulate him on being alive to tell the wonderous tale.

In general, we have seen little reason for complaining of incongruous epithets in this writer's effusions: but we cannot admit the crawling of a willow,' unless he will allow of the critical acumen of a po

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