· Inner Temple, Barrister at Law. The Twentieth Edition, corrected and enlarged: including the late adjudged Cafes, and the Statutes to the prefent Time, May, 45 George III. In four vo lumes. (No Price.) Cadell and Davies, &c. 1805.

Our worthy country-juftices have long been impatient for(no! we retract the word; impatience cannot be predicated of fuch perfons;) but they have earneftly expected,-this new edition. New editions of fuch a book as this, are effentially different from new editions of other books. Old laws repealed, or altered; and new ones enacted, change the whole face of things; and a poffeffor of the twentieth edition is quite in another region from the pof feffor of the nineteenth.

The plan of the original work, being fyftematic and correct, is here generally adhered to; but the cited cafes (as the advertisement affures us, for no one will expect that we should review every page) are made lefs prolix, by omitting (wherever it was proper) the arguments of counfel. A material improvement is here made; by including, under the title National Defence, all the provifions relative to Militia, Regulars, Army of Referve, Volunteers, &c.; and, under Taxes, every thing that refpects parliamentary impo fitions; including duties on dogs, horfes, houfes, fervants, &c.

We are forry that an obvious and great improvement has not been adopted, which (we know) was fuggefted to the last editor; by adding, to the feveral fubjects of the general heads, the page under which each fubject might be found: for example,

ALEHOUSES:

I. Concerning inns and alehoufes in general (add) 24.
II. Licenfing alehoufes. (add 25.).

III. Selling ale without licence. (add 34.) &c. &c. &c. This will be very friking, under the heads, Excife, Highways, Na tional-Defence, Poor, &c. It is ftrange, very ftrange, that this improvement has not long fince been made; which would fave to every magiftrate, almoft every day, the turning backward and forward a multitude of leaves; and would not add a fingle line to the four volumes; as we (meaning a country-juftice) find, after making thefe additions with a pen.

ART. 37. A brief Examination of the Act lately paffed to re gulate Non-refidence and Farming: with other Remarks on Church Affairs: in a fecond Letter to the Bishop of St. Afaph. By a Magiftrate. 8vo. 59 PP. 25. Cawthorne, &c. 1803.

We

The first Letter was noticed in our 24th vol. p. 205. cannot explain, nor conjecture, by what accident our notice of this fecond Letter has been so long delayed. But the delay is of no great importance; for we muft, at any time, have pronounced it to be written, though with much fhrewdnefs, yet with a

great

great degree of vehemence; and that, not always friendly to the clergy; and with a want of general information, which has led the author to miftake the practices of fome particular district, for thofe of the whole kingdom.

ART. 38. Trial for a Libel in the Anti-Jacobin Review; Troy v. Symonds. 8vo. Symonds. 1805.

We think the proprietors of the Anti-Jacobin Review have done well and wifely in printing and circulating this detailed account of the above trial. We forbear, from motives of delicacy, from making any comments on the arguments introduced by the council on both fides; but we seriously recommend the fpeech of Mr. Garrow to the attention of our readers. It contains fome curious and important facts relative to the confeffions exacted from Roman Catholics, even of the tenderest years, which cannot be too perfectly remembered.

MISCELLANIES.

ART. 39. Recueil D'Hiftoriettes et de Converfations Amufantes; au quel on a ajouté une Methode facile et graduée de traduire le Français en Anglais; à l'Ufage des Jeunes Perfonnes qui commencent à apprendre la Langue Françaife. Par A. Cizos :A Collection of amusing little Stories and Conversations; to which is added, an eafy and progreffive Method of conftruing French into English; defigned for the Ufe of Young Perfons who begin to learn the French Language. By A. Cizos. Two vols. 8vo. A. Cizos, 13, Mary-Ann-ftreet, Brownlow-hill, Liverpool. 1804.

"Thefe juvenile ftories and converfations have been selected from a collection printed, fome years ago, upon the continent." The editor has endeavoured, "with a progreffive method of conftruing, to combine in these volumes, three objects of the first utility to beginners:-I. An amufing companion to fpelling. -II. A familiar introduction to converfation.-III. A key to parfing, and to the use of the dictionary." The undertaking is very happily executed; the ftories are remarkably entertaining, and good in their tendency; and we ftrongly recommend this work, for the use of very young ladies, who enter upon the study of the French language. The price of fuch books (and indeed of all books) fhould be mentioned in the title page.

ART. 40. Nufri Benuzeer, &c. edited under the Superintendance of Mr. Gilchrift, at Calcutta.. 136 pages. 1803. Folio. This work is a verfion in profe of the Romance, called Sikr qal Buyan; or, an Enchanting Fairy Tale: (as the title page defcribes

it) originally compofed in Hindooftanee verfe by Meer Hufun, about twenty or thirty years ago. The profe verfion was undertaken by Meer Buhadoor Ulee, (we adopt Mr. Gilchrift's manner of expreffing Oriental in European characters), at the editor's requeft, when a regular fyftem of inftruction in Hindooftanee, Perfian, and other Afiatick dialects was firft inftituted at Calcutta.

This volume is printed in a small Arabic type, which although not elegant nor appropriate to the Hindoostance, was adopted by Mr. Gilchrift (as he informs us in the preface, p. vi.) from a defire of accuftoming the ftudents to a diverfity of charac ter, as well as from motives of temporary convenience.

As it was intended that the poem of Meer Hufun fhould appear in print a few months after the publication of this volume, we fhall defer any account of the ftory, until we shall be enabled to perufe it in the original verfe. Like all the works of which Mr. Gilchrift has been either editor or author, the Nufri Benuzeer will be found useful and inftructive; and the reader is at once entertained with a pleasing tale, and rendered familiar with the fruits, and flowers, the cookery, mufical inftruments, &c. &c, of Hindooftan, by the various descriptions scattered through this volume.

ART. 41. A ner Theory and Profpe&us of the Perfian Verbs, with their Hindooftanee Synonimes; in Perfian and English, by John Gilchrift, Calcutta. 1801. 4to. Fifty-four pages English; thirty-two Perfian: with two tables on folded sheets.

The author was induced by Mr. Horne Tooke's ingenious work on the English Particles, and the learned Dr. Vincent's Hypothefis of the Greek verb, to undertake the elucidation of the Perfian verbs on fimilar principles. By reducing to two claffes the thirteen of Sir William Jones, and the eleven of Mr. Gladwin, (who in his admirable grammar, the Perfian Moon/bee, has adopted the fyftem of native teachers) Mr. Gilchrift hopes to facilitate a knowledge of the verbs, and undertakes to explain them on a more fimple plan than any of his predeceffors. The aorift is formed, according to Mr. Gladwin, by a change of the final letter be fore dun or tun; of these final letters he enumerates eleyen, and for each there is a feparate rule: "thus it will appear that fome verbs where the process is founded exactly upon the fame principle,. but whose final letters are different, are claffed feparately; for instance, oftadun, iftadun, their aorists, oftud, iftud―rufudun, tul budun; rufeed, tulbeed. The inquifitive fcholar, if I be not mif taken, may find under fome of the rules conftructed in that way, more irregulars, than regulars, and at all events may discover with me, that after wading painfully through thirteen claffes, he has acquired no more real analytical knowledge of the fubject, than the day he first commenced his multifarious career." (Advert. P. 4.)

Mr.

Mr. Gilchrift's canon for the first clafs of verbs, according to his arrangement, is given in page zo." By fimply rejecting the finite portion of the various Perfian verbs, viz. dun, tun, adun, udun, fun, and mdun, the imperative is generally found, but when the letter of the part left by this process is oo, kh, f, these are, in the order inferted, converted to a, z, (after vowels) b, (after confonants) a, as azmoo, ezma; amokh, amoz; yaf, yab; ruf, ruo; goof, go; &c. after dropping tun, if close the remainder, it is converted to r; but should udun be the portion dropped, the f undergoes no change whatever; thus dafbtun, dar; kashtun, kar; khum fbudun, khumosh; khurafbudun, khurash; &c. by affixing udun to every imperative now in ufe, the old or regular infinitive, as well as the prefent caufals, may almost always be found."

The fecond clafs (Mr. Gilchrift informs us, p. 32), are irregu lars in their imperative, and its derivatives. Some verbs drop du from the infinitive to form the imperatives, and in one instance the initial d of the infinitive (perhaps to prevent all confufion with dux) is changed to 6 in the imperative; in this laft s is occa-. fionally permuted to n or nd; kh to s or b; and to with a flight vocal change in kurdur, kaon, &c.

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Thefe canons are illuftrated by two large tables, printed in English and Perfian, on folding sheets, containing fuch an arrangement of the verbs, that the ftudent may at one glance be enabled to trace the dependence of one part upon another, and by frequent reference and comparifon imprint the whole upon his memory.

We have on former occafions noticed the ingenuity and zeal of Mr. Gilchrift in the cause of eaftern literature; and we have reafon to believe, that this work will be found ufeful to those who wish to acquire a critical knowledge of the Perfian and Hindooftanee languages.

ART. 42. The Wonders of the Telescope; or, a Display of the Wonders of the Heavens and of the Syftem of the Universe, writ ten in a familiar and popular Manner; adapted particularly to the Perufal of Young Perfons, and especially calculated to promote and fimplify the Study of Aftronomy among Perfons of all Ages, with twelve Plates. 8vo. 117 pp. 4s. 6d. Phillips. 1805.

We have not met with a work of the kind better calculated to amufe young perfons, or fo far as it goes, to inftruct them, than that which is now before us. A general view is given of the folar fyftem, with an account of the phænomena belonging to each particular planet, as feen through the Telescope. The prin cipal conftellations of fixed stars are alfo pointed out, and the whole illuftrated by plates well adapted to render the subject intelligible.

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ART. 43. Love and Satire; containing the farcaftic Correfpondence of Julius and Eliza; to which is prefixed, a few brief Memoirs of an Unfortunate Lover. 8vo. Price 28. Allen. 1805.

A brief account of a poor gentleman who died all for love, introduces fome amatory and farcaftic verfes of no great intereft or importance. The biographical sketch is written with fome vigour, and is probably the firft effay of a pen, which experience may improve. We do not, however, fee the ufe of fuch publications, which can have but few readers and fewer ad.

mirers.

ART. 44. Typographical Marks used in Correcting Proofs, explained and exemplied, for the Ufe of Authors. By C. Stower, Printer. 8vo. Price 1s. 6d. Longman and Rees. 1805.

The title page fhould have faid for the ufe of young authors, to whom the directions here given may be of service. We do not fee, however, the neceffity of defignating by numbers the alterations required to be made in the revife, having found by long experience the ufual marks fufficient for the purpose.

ART. 45. Outlines of a Plan of Inftruction, adapted to the varied Purposes of active Life. To which is added, a detailed View of the Syftem of Studies (Commercial and Professional), Moral Management, Difcipline, and Internal Regulations, adopted in the Literary and Commercial Seminary, established by the Rev. Samuel Catlow, at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Third Edition. 8vo. 91 pp. 25. Johnson, &c.

1805.

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The plan of inftruction here detailed, is calculated chiefly for young men deftined to a commercial life. Very ample provifion appears to be made in this line. In point of religious instruction, the establishment is comprehenfive indeed; churchmen, diffenters, and papifts, being all well provided for; but we conjecture, that the fecond of these is the most favoured clafs. The former part of this work confifts of Differtations (as we account them) on Education; which we found fomewhat tedious, and the ftyle of which is far removed from fimplicity; the latter part is an Advertisement, extended through nearly 20 pages.

ART. 46. The Triflers; confifting of Trifling Effays, Trifling Anecdotes, and a few Poetical Trifles, by an Adept in the Art of Trifling. To which is added the Rout, anew Edition, with a few Additions, corrected by the Author. Also, The Farmer's Son, by late R. Graves, Author of the Spiritual Quixote, &c. Se. Sc. 12mo. 180 pp. 4s. 1805.

This is the lateft production of an author, who paffed the very; unusual age of ninety, and wrote quite to the end of his career.

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