an elementary tract, in the hands of Thoughts on the Employment and En-practised villains, by which to initiate young beginners in deceit and crime.'

joyment of Leisure Time; in a Letter addressed to the Clerks of Gentlemen at the Bar. By William Ablett, 8vo. 28. Harper, London. 1818.

Barnabæ Itinerarium; or, Barnaby's

Journal: Seventh Edition. To which
are prefixed an Account of the Author,
now first discovered, a Bibliographical
History of the Former Editions of the
Work, and Illustrative Notes.
Harding, London. 1818.

12mo.

THIS sensible little tract is addressed to the Clerks of Gentlemen at the Bar,' who now form a very numerous class in society;-not that they are more viciously inclined than the rest of the world, but as being subject to greater temptations, in consequence of their enTHE original edition of this whimsical joying a very ample portion of leisure, production, has long been exceedingly and having greater inducements to be scarce, and sought after with avidity, idly disposed. Though intended for a though perfect copies of it are rarely to particular class of individuals, the be found. In a well-written bibliograpamphlet may be advantageously pe-phical preface, the editor has at length rused by any that are similarly circumstanced: and, considered as a juvenile production, it is a creditable performShould a future edition be required, we would recommend the author to submit it to the careful revision of some critical friend, by which it may be rendered more extensively useful.

ance.

discovered the author, whose real name was Richard Brathwait, a native of Kendal. He was born about the year 1588, and died in 1673. Such scanty particulars, as could at this distance of time be obtained concerning this facetious writer are here collected together in a pleasing form. The volume evidently shews that he was a man of

A Narrative of the Conduct and Ad-learning and talents, though not remarkventures of Henry Frederick Moon, alias Smith, alias Newman, a native of Brigh ton, now under sentence of imprisonment in Connecticut, North America. By Walter Bates, Esq. High Sheriff of King's County with an Introductory Account of New Brunswick, &c. &c. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Allman and Co. London.

1817.

WE have abridged the long title of this publication, which is announced as a companion to the imposture of the pretended Caraboo, noticed in a late Greater innumber of our Journal *. stances of talents, combined with the most desperate wickedness, we have never perused. Some of the stories are almost too marvellous to be credited, were they not originally published by a man of character, and a magistrate.

The apology assigned by the American editor for committing this narrative to press, is, that it presents a useful guard against imposture. We fear, however, that it is more likely to prove

• See our number for October, 1817.

able for delicacy of sentiment or language. This edition of " Barnaby's Journal" is decorated with an elegant Frontispiece, copied from the first edition, the text of which has been carefully restored, and the original arrange-4 ment also preserved. The Index is retained and enlarged, and the preliminary matter given from the later editions, with which also this impression has been carefully collated.

A Companion to the Globes; Containing

the various Problems that may be per-,
formed by the Globes, preceded by the
subjects to which they refer; and ac-
companied by more than One Thousand
Examples and Recapitulatory Exercises,
&c. &e. Designed for the Use of
Schools and Private Families. By a
Private Teacher. 12 mo. 4s. 6d. Law
and Whittaker, London. 1817.

THE title of this work so fully ex-. presses the nature of its contents, as to render any further account of them unnecessary. If the number and re

assure you, and more than difficult; wherein what toyle hath been taken, as no man thinketh, so no man believeth but he that hath made the triall." Where every page shews the industry and research of the author, it is difficult to specify any part as being preferable to another; we cannot however but mention the article on London and Middlesex, which fills upwards of three hundred pages, as being singularly valuable. Not a single tract that has issued from the press, seems to have escaped the author's research.

spectability of the subscribers be any | motto:-" A painfull work it is I'll criterion of value, the author has reason to congratulate himself on enrolling many of the most respectable tutors in the metropolis and its vicinity in his list, The author states his work to be compiled on a plan the result of nearly twenty years practice as a teacher. Besides the topics above enumerated, it contains a short astronomical introduction and appendix, comprising a brief history of the Constellations, &c. Upon the whole, we think this a very useful and convement Manual, well calculated to convey an accurate knowledge of the use of the globes, and of the principles on which the science is founded. A Key is published separately, which will be found serviceable in abridging the labour of the teacher.

A Bibliographical Account of the Principal Works relating to English Topography. By William Upcott, of the London Institution. S vols. royal 8vo.

Sl. 168. London 1818.

This is a work of very considerable utility, and indispensible necessity to librarians and booksellers, as well as to those who are forming topographical collections. It originated in the author's professional pursuits, and at the request of some friends, who conceived that such information might be of service to the Biobligrapher, he was induced to extend his plan, and prepare his private collections for publication. The work consists of two parts; the first comprises a very copious catalogue of books relative to the general Topography of England. The second contains an account of the various publications concerning the different Counties, arranged in alphabetical order: the title page of each work is given at length, together with its general contents, a list of the plates, the names of the artists by whom they were executed, and the pages of the respective volumes in which they are to be inserted. Of the labour attending the execution of this work, they only can judge who have been engaged in similar pursuits. To borrow the quaint expressions of the honest Antiquarian and Biographer, Antony à Wood, which the author has appropriately selected for his

A Compendium of the Greek Verbs ;

in a Tree, &c. for the use of Tyros. By John Tilt. 4to. 5s. Law and Whittaker. London. 1817.

This neatly executed tract consists of an engraved table in the form of a tree, exhibiting a compendium of the Greek verbs;-a subject embracing almost infinite variety. The genius of the pupil is to be exercised in furnishing anomalies. The author has added many valuable notes taken from the Eton Grammar, and the excellent Greek Grammar of Dr. Valpy. Though Mr. Tilt has modestly dedicated his "Compendium" to his pupils, we think it calculated for wider circulation, and that it will be found a very useful auxiliary to those, who are desirous of reviving a critical knowledge of that copious and elegant Language.

Family Suppers; or Evening Tales for Young People in which Instruction is blended with Amusement. Translated from the French of Madame Delafaye, 18mo. 2 vols. 7s. with 16 plates. Souter, London. 1818.

It does not often fall to our lot, to take up books particularly designed for the use of children, in which the best moral instruction is so happily blended with amusement, as in the present pub lication. The translation is executed with great fidelity. We cordially recommend this elegant little work to all who have the care of children, as one of the most pleasing Books, which they can give them during their hours of recreation,

Prince Hoare, Esq. is engaged on a life of the late patriot and philanthropist Granville Sharp, Esq.

from the introduction of protestantism to the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

G. Arnold, Esq. is preparing for publication, a History of the Civil Wars of England, illustrated by 200 engravings from original paintings.

MISCELLANIES.

Letters of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, Epistolary Curiosities; or, unpublished Prince Rupert, Gen. Lord Astley, Gen. Fairfax, &c. edited by Rebecca Warner, will appear next month in an octavo volume.

A new edition of Pilpay's Fables, embellished with elegant wood-cuts, is nearly ready for publication.

POETRY.

Mr. R. Bloomfield is engaged in a descriptive poem of Southill, near Bedford, the seat of the late Mr. Whitbread.

A collection of the Poems of Arthur Brook, Esq. of Canterbury, is in the press. J. W. Lake, Esq. has a volume of Poems in the press.

In the press, Astarte, a Sicilian Tale, with other Poems; by the authoress of Melancholy Hours. The work will appear early in March.

The Annual Biography and Obituary, vol. II. for 1818, with silhouette portraits. This volume comprehends the biography of H. R. H. the Princess Charlotte, the Dukes of Northumberland and Marlbo- Shortly will be published, Antonia, a rough, Messrs. Curran, Erskine, Pon-Tale, with other Poems, chiefly written sonby, Horner, Glenie, the Drs. Thomson in Malta, during the interesting period of and Disney, &c. &c. and all the principal the plague in that Island. characters who died in 1816-17; interspersed and illustrated by a variety of origiual letters, documents, and anecdotes; and containing an analysis of recent biographical works, with a general biographical list of persons recently deceased.

DRAMA.

Thomas Bowdler, Esq. is preparing a new edition of the Family Shakspeare; which will contain all Shakspeare's Plays, with the omission of some expressions not proper to be read aloud in a family.

EDUCATION.

Early in March will appear in 8vo. the first volume of a complete Translation of Ovid's Epistles; by Edward D. Baynes, Esq. A faithful version of these elegant and impassioned epistles has long been a desideratum in the literary world.

In March will be published, in demy 8vo. a Poem in two parts, entitled Harvest, will be added a few other poetical pieces; illustrated by an engraving. To which by Charlotte Caroline Richardson.

POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. A Treatise upon the Poor Laws, with a view to the measures likely to be proposed' Dr. Busby has in the press a new Gramin Parliament for their amendment. By mar of Music, which will include the whole compass of the science.

Mr. Chambers has in the press, Geographical Questions and Exercises, interspersed with historical and biographical information.

GEOLOGY.

Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, Esq. one of the committee of the House of Commons, appointed for the consideration of that subject.

An Investigation of the Principles of Population and Production, is forthcoming from the pen of the author of all Classes Mr. Bakewell is preparing for publica-productive of National Wealth, published tion, a Treatise on Practical Geology, illast year. In this new work the theory of Justrated by engravings. Mr. Malthus, as taught in the Essay on the Principle of Population, and of Mr. Gray, as detailed in the Happiness of States, are analysed and compared in all their princi ples and bearings, and tried by the actually operating causes, and their results in

HISTORY.

The Rev. C. Philpot, rector of Ripple, is preparing a History of the French Protestants and the Reformed Church of France

real life. The author discusses, in the course of the investigation, the following highly important practical questions:Does population regulate subsistence, or subsistence population? Has the latter, in its increase, a tendency to overstock, either as to employment or wealth? And should government encourage or check early marriage?

THEOLOGY.

The Rev. E. W. Grinfield, of Bath, has in the press, the Connection of Natural and Revealed Theology.

The Rev. T. T. Haverfield has in the press, a volume of Lectures on the Church Catechism.

The Rev. Thomas Gisborne has in the press, the Testimony of Natural Theology to Christianity.

TOPOGRAPHY-VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

Mr. George Dyer is printing in two large octavo volumes, the Privileges of the University of Cambridge.

dotes, descriptive of a tour through Sweden, Germany, Hungary, &c.

SALES OF LIBRARIES.

Mr. Sotheby will submit to the public the following collections during the present season: viz.

1. A small but valuable collection of books imported from France, consisting of history, romances, poetry, facetiæ, and miscellanies.

2. The extensive library of J. F. Tuffen, the fine arts, books of prints, several of Esq. containing many valuable works on the galleries, voyages, travels, history, and Belles Lettres.

Palmer, of Drury Lane Theatre,
3. The entire library of the late Mr. R.

4. The small but very interesting collection of original drawings and sketches fine collection consists of highly finished of the late Henry Stebbing, Esq. This drawings of objects in natural history, On the first of March will be published self; chiefly consisting of insects, with with accounts and descriptions, by himin 1 vol. 4to. an historical and topographi- microscopic dissections of the various parts; cal description of the parish of Tixall, in the county of Stafford, and of the most lions, &c. likewise finished views and and of animals with anatomical prepararemarkable places in the immediate neigh-sketches in England and Wales, made in bourhood. By Sir Thomas Clifford, Bart. and Arthur Clifford, Esq. This work is readings on the Holy Scriptures, &c. &c. various tours: also his original notes and embellished with five engravings, of which three are portraits from original drawings.luable stock of Mr. de Boffe, bookseller, 5. The entire, extensive, and very va1. Of the famous Judge Littleton. 2. Of containing a very large proportion of the Viscount Stafford, who was beheaded in 1682. 3. Of Walter first Lord Alston. best French works in history, voyages and Also in 1 vol. 8vo. Collectanea Clif- travels, mathematics, botany, natural bisfordiana, in three parts, containing 1. tory, medicine, poetry and plays, the fiue Anecdotes of illustrious personages of the arts, politics, military and naval tactics, name of Clifford. 2. Historical and ge- many elegantly bound by Hering and &c. &c. The whole in good condition, nealogical notices respecting the origin and others. Catalogues are now printing, and antiquity of the Clifford family. 3. Clifford, a tragedy. By Arthur Clifford, Esq. will shortly be ready for delivery. These two works have been printed at Paris, and besides their intrinsic merit af ford a favourable specimen of the present state of printing and engraving in France.

Lieut. Edward Chappell will soon publish a narrative of a voyage to Newfoundland and the coast of Labrador, illus trated by a map and other engravings.

The Rev. C. I. Latrobe, will soon publish a narrative of his late tour in South Africa, with some account of the State of the missions in that country.

Messrs. Savigny and Correard's voyage to Senegal, in 1816, undertaken by order of the French Government, will soon appear in an octavo volume.

John Bramsen, Esq. is printing, in two octavo volumes, Letters of a Prussian Traveller, interspersed with numerous anec

foreigner of distinction, imported from
6. The entire and genuine library of a
Paris; consisting of some works of early
typography, printed on vellum; a fine
works on natural history; several of the
collection of classics; many expensive
galleries and books of prints; Italian and
Spanish literature; some choice and finely
works from Malmaison.
illuminated manuscripts, and other splendid

7. The duplicates of a nobleman's library.

BOOKS PUBLISHED.

ANTIQUITIES.

Pompeiana; or, observations upon the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii: by Sir William Gell, F. R. S.

F. A. S. &c. and J. P. Gandy, Esq. Arch.
No. 6, royal 8vo. 8s.

A few copies are printed in 4to. with first impressions of the plates, price 12s.

BOTANY.

Muscologia Britannica; containing the mosses of Great Britain and Ireland, systematically arranged and described; with plates illustrative of the characters of the genera and species. By William Jackson Hooker, F. R, S. &c. and Thomas Taylor, M.D. M. R. I. A. &c. Illustrated by 31 plates. 8vo. £1 11s. 6d. boards...

EDUCATION.

A Key to Mair's introduction to Latin Syntax; wherein the principal sentences extracted from original authors are carefully compared, and reference is made to the book and chapter from which they are taken. By John Black. 3s.

GEOGRAPHY.

The Edinburgh Gazetteer; or, Geographical Dictionary; comprising a complete body of geography, physical, political, statistical, and commercial. Vol. I. part II. (handsomely printed in 8vo, double columns, and containing twenty five sheets letter-press.) 8vo. price 9s. Accompanied by an atlas, constructed by A. Arrowsmith, hydrographer to the Prince Regent, price £1 16s. half-bound.

Part VI. of the Ordnance Map of Great Britain. This part contains two sheets, and includes the greater portion of Surrey, the north of Hampshire, and parts of the adjoining counties.

There are now 28 sheets of this work before the public. They exhibit, besides the interior, the accurate contour of the sea-coast from Cornwall to Essex, and being sold at the Tower, either separately or in any allotments at the pleasure of the purchasers, affords to them an opportunity of possessing accurate maps, on a scale of an inch to a mile, of the country in the vicinity of any of the watering places in the South of England.

MEDICINE, SURGERY, &c. Observations on some important points in the Practice of Military Surgery, and in the arrangement and police of hospitals. Illustrated by cases and dissections. By John Hennen, Deputy Inspector of Military Hospitals. 8vo. 12s.

Memoirs and reports on the efficacy of -Sulphurous Fumigation in the Treatment of Diseases of the skin, joints, and glan. dalar system, chronic rheumatism, gout, paralytic affections, &c. &c. From the French of J. C. Gales, M.D. Illustrated with several coloured engravings, 118 cases,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No.
X. for January 1818. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

The British Review, No. XXI. 8vo. 6s.
Journal. No. LVII. 8vo. 6s.'
The Edinburgh Review; or, Critical

An essay on the mysteries of Eleusis; by
M. Ouvaroff, Counsellor of State to his
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia,
&c. &c. Translated from the French by
J. D. Price; with observations by J.
Christie; with plates. 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds.

Nos, III. and IV. of the new and improved edition of Stephens' Greek Thesaurus are published. The vacancies yet open have been occasioned by the decease of some of not on the original list, has been already the subscribers. The price, o such as were raised; and the editors, according to advertisement to No. III. mean to raise it again. All public libraries, in particular, aré recommended to subscribe before the opportunity is lost, as only a sufficient number of copies have been printed to cover the subscription. Present price £1 Ss.; large paper £2 10s. To be completed in about

25 numbers.

Letters from Horace Walpole to George Montagu, Esq. from the year 1756 to the year 1770; now first published from the originals, in the possession of the Editor. Uniform with Lord Orford's former works. royal 4to. £2 2s. boards; on imperial paper £3.

A complete collection of Scottish Proverbs, explained and made intelligible to the English reader. By James Kelly, M. A.

12mo. 7s.

A view of the present increase of the Slave Trade, the cause of that increase, and suggesting a mode for effecting its total annihilation; with observations on the African Institution and Edinburgh Review, and upon the speeches of Messrs. Wilberforce and Brougham, delivered in the House of Commons, July 9, 1817.-Also a plan submitted for civilizing Africa and introducing free labourers into our colonies in the West Indies. By Robt. Thorpe, Esq. LL.D. late Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, and Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court in that Colony. 8vo. 5s. 6d.

An Essay on some subjects connected with Taste. By Sir G. Stewart Mackenzie, Bart, F. R. S. &c. 8vo. 8s.

The Philosophical Library; being a curious collection of the most rare and valu