once encourage the growth, and preferve mediocrity of prices. For effecting this, he offers a scheme which, fo far as we have had leisure to confider it, appears to be very rational and practicable: but, for farther particulars, we refer to the pamphlet.

Art. 36. An Addrefs to the Privy Council. Pointing out an effectual Remedy to the Complaints of the Islanders of Jersey. 8vo. 6 d. Wilkie.

The regulation here propofed, for remedying the grievances of the Jerfey-men, is a very eafy one, viz. by increafing the number of reprefentatives of the people (called Conftables) in the court of judicature, which is the parliament of that ifland. Our privy council, it feems, have a right to make this alteration in the conftitution of Jerfey; and our Author fays, There is no occafion on which that right can be exerted with fo much wifdom and humanity.' And, to enforce this plan, he ftrongly intimates the danger of a defection and difmemberment of that island from the British crown, fhould the complaints of the people meet with no redrefs. See more of this fubject in our last month's Review, Art. Narrative of the Oppreffions of the Islanders of Jersey.'

Art. 37. The Controverfial Letters of John Wilkes, Efq; the Rev. Mr. Horne, and their principal Adherents; with a Supplement, containing material anonymous Pieces. 8vo. 4 s. fewed. Williams. 1772.

Collected from the news-papers, and neatly printed.

Art. 38. Areopagitica: a Speech of John Milton, for the Liberty of unlicenced Printing-reprinted from an old Edition pubfished by the Author. To which are now added, a Dedication to C. Jenkinson, Efq; and a Preface, by the Editor. 8vo.

Bladon. 1772.

1 s. 6d. The Editor, in the overflow of his zeal for the liberty of the prefs, which he apprehends to be in danger, from the infidious defigns of the miniftry, attacks Mr. Jenkinson, in the Dedication, with ironical, but dull, abuse; and, in the Preface, he directly charges him with the patronage of a pamphlet, entitled, Reasons against the intended Bill for laying fome Restraint upon the Liberty of the Prefs,' which was mentioned in the political part of our last month's Catalogue. This pamphlet we have already spoken of as being what the prefent Author here terms it, a Mafk'd Battery, an effort against the Palladium of British Freedom; but a feeble one.

That all governments, and every ministry, fhould regard the unlicenced prefs with an unfriendly eye, is a very natural fuppofition, and the reafon is too obvious to need mentioning; but that our prefent miniftry will dare even to think of a measure so dangerously unpopular, as that of which this Editor feems fa very apprehenfive, we do not believe; because, if we are not greatly mistaken, it is the general perfuafion, that the mere attempt to carry fuch a design into execution, would immediately involve this great and flourishing nation in all the horrors of Civil War: the bare idea of which is, furely, enough to make ALL parties tremble!

Art

Art. 39. Junius. Small Octavo. 2 Vols.

Woodfall. 1772:

10s. 6d. feed.

At length the public are favoured with a complete edition of the very popular and highly admired letters of the celebrated JUNIUS; printed under the Author's infpection, preceded by a Dedication of 10 pages, a Preface of 22, and illuftrated with Notes. The edition is handfome; the dedication, containing fome very ferious exhortations, is, with great propriety, made to the English nation; and in the preface we have an ample difcuffion of that important branch of our public liberty, The Freedom of the Prefs: alfo a particular addrefs to a GREAT PERSON; expreffed in the true, unrestrained fpirit of this DARING Writer.

Speaking of the CONSEQUENCE of thefe political documents, the Author himself, in the dedication, fays, When kings and minifters are forgotten, when the force and direction of perfonal fatire is no longer understood, and where meafures are only felt in their remoteft confequences, this book will, I believe, be found to contain principles worthy to be tranfmitted to pofterity. When you leave the unimpaired, hereditary freehold to your children, you do but half your duty. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the poffeffors have fenfe and fpirit enough to defend them.-This is not the language of vanity. If I am a vain man, my gratification lies within a narrow circle. I am the fole depofitory of my own fea cret, and it fhall perish with me.'-His motto, prefixed to this edi tion, is, STAT NOMINIS UMBRA.

DRAMATIC.

Art. 40. The Grecian Daughter; a Tragedy. Acted at Drurya lane. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Griffin. 1772.

Every one knows the famous and affecting ftory of the Roman Chas rity, immortalized by the pen and pencil. Valerius Maximus has told it, lib. 5, c. de Pietate in Parentes, 7*. And the fame author mentions alfo a Greek damfel, who had performed the fame act of piety to her fuperannuated father. Mr. Murphy, the reputed Author of this play, hath preferred the latter ftory, for the purpofe of the drama, taking the liberty to place it in the reign of Dyonifius the Younger, at the point of time when Timoleon laid fiege to Syracufe: imagining that the general effect would be better produced, if the whole had an air of real hiftory.'

On this foundation hath the present Writer built a tragedy which, from the pen of any authot poffeffed of tolerable abilities for this fpecies of poetry, with all human nature on its fide (and excellent acting +) could hardly fail of fuccefs, in the reprefentation at least, where the heart would fo feelingly improve the exquifite tenderness of the scene.-With Mr. M.'s acknowleged tafte, and dramatic expefience, there could be no doubt of its fucceeding, both on the ftage and in the perufal; and, accordingly, we confider the prefent per

We follow (in this reference) the P. S. given by way of Pref. to this play.

+ The old King, father of the heroine, by Mr. Barry; and the Grecian Daughter by the truly admirable Mrs. Barry.

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formance as, if not a capital, a good fecond-rate play; in no respect unworthy the Author of the Orphan of China and Zenobia.

As this gentleman hath often been reminded of his obligations to foreigners, he hath here taken care to claim the merit of originality,' notwithstanding that the fubject hath been touched by more than one foreign dramatic writer. He affures us that he found a new fable. abfolutely neceffary,' and that he is not indebted to the Zelmire of Monf. Belloy for above three lines.' He takes occafion, however,' at the fame time, to laugh at the boafting of thofe among his cotemporaries, of our own nation, who, after making up aftory with characters and incidents already hackneyed on the English ftage, and inventing nothing, cry out, with an air of triumph, That they have not borrowed from the wits of France.-Thefe felf-fufficient bards he ridicules, by a pleasant allufion to an epitaph, in the Isle of Man, on a person who is there celebrated only for having “never been out of the island.".

But, while this Author was cenfuring our modern play writers for their want of invention, he was not, perhaps, aware how much he is himself expofed to the retort, for using the ftale and brutal ftagemethod of delivering his heroine out of the tyrant's hand, by putting a dagger into that of the defperate fair one, with which the dexterously butchers the royal favage, in the midst of his guards.-It requires, furely, no great ftretch of invention to furnish a more ingenious expedient, as well as a more natural method of executing poetic juflice.

РОЕТ І СA L.

Art. 41. Threnodia Auguftalis, facred to the Memory of her late Royal Highness the Princefs Dowager of Wales. Spoken and fung in the Great Room at Soho Square, on Thurfday the 20th of Feb. 4to. I S. Woodfall. 1772.

The Speakers on this occafion were Mr. Lee and Mrs. Bellamy; the fingers Mr. Champnefs, Mr. Dine, and Mifs Jamefon; with twelve chorus fingers: the mufic prepared and adapted by Sig. Vento. The previous advertisement modeilly acknowledges that the poem may be more properly termed a compilation; and may therefore, rather be confidered as an induftrious effort of gratitude than of genius.'-It is, however, a decent performance; and is the lefs an object of criticifm, as the words were prepared for the compofer in little more than two days; and the mufic, we are told, was also adapted in a period of time equally short.

MISCELLANEOUS. Art. 42. Choice Emblems, natural, hiftorical, fabulous, moral, and divine, for the Improvement of Youth; in Profe and Verfe. Ornamented with near fifty handfome allegorical Engravings, defigned on Purpose for this Work. Written for the Amusement of Lord New battle. Izmo. 2 s. 6 d. bound. Riley. 1772.. Lord Newbattle is a youth of nine years old; and thefe Emblems are well adapted for the amufement and inftruction of children about that age. The Author's method is, to give, first, some little emblematical reflection, or allufion to fome little ftory, in verfe, then to illuftrate the fable by a proper deduction in profe; and, laftly, from these premifes, to draw a fuitable moral inference. This is the general

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outline of the plan; and the execution is, to fay the leaft of it, equal to the end and defign of the undertaking: but we cannot commend the paltry puff in the title-page, relating to the fifty handjome ENGRAVINGS. Who that reads this, in the advertisement, would imagine that these engravings are nothing more than the common wooden cuts, fuch as we fee at the head of an halfpenny ballad ? Art. 43. Obfervations on the Shoeing of Horfes; with an anatomimical Defcription of the Bones in the Foot of a Horfe. By J. Clark, Farrier. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Edinburgh printed, and fold by Robinfon in London.

It is notorious that in the common methods of fhoeing horfes there are many errors, extremely prejudicial to the poor animal, and, in courfe, to its owner.

Ofmer, and La Foffe, have taken notice of thefe miftakes in the practice of our common farriers, and we have, with pleasure, recommended their publications; as we now do Mr. Clark's valuable additions to what they have written. He agrees with them in their main principles, and general reafoning; which he enforces by many judicious obfervations, flowing from his own reflection and experience, and which he here communicates to the public, in the laudable view of promoting a general reformation in this important branch of the farrier's occupation. In a word, 'fo far as we can pretend to give any opinion on the fubject, we fcruple not to pronounce his pamphlet to be a truly rational and valuable performance. Art. 44. The Memoirs of James Bolland. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Bladon. Art. 45. The genuine Life of James Bolland. 8vo. Is. Axtell. Bolland, late a fheriff's officer in London, was hanged for forgery, in March 1772. From all accounts it appears that he ought to have been hanged long before, for crimes which, however, the law could

not reach.

Art. 46. Select Effays from the Encyclopedy; being the most curious, entertaining, and inftructive Parts of that very extenfive Work, written by Mallet, Diderot, D'Alembert, and others the most celebrated Writers of the Age. 8vo. 6's. Leacroft. 1772. That this small octavo contains the most curious, entertaining, and inftructive parts of fo extenfive a work as the Encyclopedie, is not to be fuppofed. What, then, can the tranflator mean by the affertion in the title-page? Poffibly he intends other volumes of the fame kind; and that the title to the prefent publication fhould ftand as the general title to the whole fet: but if this be his defign, why has he not openly avowed, or, at least, en passant, decently intimated it, by calling this a firft Volume-As the book is now fet forth, offering to the public only twenty-two papers, felected from fo multitudinous a mafs of univerfal literature as is comprehended in the original, it has an appearance for which we want a name, as the abfurdity is too manifest to be conftrued into an attempt to impofe on the difcerning public. The phenomenon, however, will, perhaps, be folved in few words; the trouble of which, by the way, the tranflator might, we apprehend, have faved us, with no lofs to his own credit.

In 1768, was published at Paris, L'Esprit de L'Encyclopedie, in five duodecimo volumes; of which we gave our readers an account in the

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Appendix to the 38th volume of our Review. From the first volume of this work, the Effays before us are tranflated; and, we prefume, are feparately printed, in order to try the taste of the public, and prepare the way for the remaining volumes, fhould this fpecimen be favourably received. But, if we have conjectured rightly, why did not the tranflator ingenuously mention this, and fairly avow his defign-If, however, he had no view of continuing the work, the abjurdity above-noticed recurs; and the phenomenon is not yet fully accounted for.

The articles contained in the prefent volume are the following:

Of the ancient Academies, and the modern Academies,—the Turkish Koran,-Amulets,-Angels,-Aftrology,-and Canonization of faints. Thefe by the Abbé Mallet. Of Conjugal Infidelity, by M. Toulaint. Of Friendship, Love, the Ante deluvian Philofophy, Libraries, the Jewish Cabala, the Canadians, and memoirs of Cardanus: thefe fix are anonymous. Of the Areopagus, and of Cards, by M. Diderot. On Calumny, by Meff. Diderot and D'Alembert. On the Soul of Animals, by Meff. Yfon and Bouillet. Blindness, Character, and Dis Cartes' Philofophy, by D'Alembert.

Several of these papers are undoubtedly curious, but fome of them feem not to be very important, (detached as they are from their refpective stations in the dictionary) and the whole is but indifferently, or worse than indifferently, tranflated.

+++ The pieces which were thought too free, and offenfive to religion, are excluded by the French Editor.

Art. 47. New and elegant Amusements for the Ladies of Greas Britain. By a Lady. 12mo. 2 s. 6d. Crowder, &c. 1772.

The Lady who has compiled this miscellaneous collection of detached paffages, from the writings of our beft poets, &c. propofes to inftruct, on a new plan," perfons of her own fex, in the use of the globes, aftronomy, maps, geography, &c. freed from all thofe thofe harfh, unintelligible terms now commonly used." She adds, "I can teach any lady either of thofe entertaining fciences, in fuch a manner, that they may have a perfect idea of them, and be able to folve any problem on the globes; and I promise they shall acquire thofe attainments in 12 hours."-The Author" will attend any lady who will please to favour her with their addrefs, which may be inclofed in a cover directed to S. Harrington, to be left at Mr. Walter's, bookfeller, Charing Crofs; or Mr. Cook's, No. 85, Royal Exchange."

From the perufal of her book, we are inclined to give Mrs. H. credit for her qualifications, as far as may be requifite to the inftruction of young ladies in the above-mentioned improving and entertaining sciences; yet fome, perhaps, will think that her profeffions run a little too much in the style of empiricifm.-But, whatever may be her dexterity in teaching, we cannot but agree with her in her general remark concerning female education, viz. "Nothing has been more against our fex than the late mode of education; for our teachers are by no means fufficiently attentive to the most delicate endowment, viz. that of a refined and cultivated understanding. We are treated almost as irrational beings. A boarding-school, a fmattering of French, dancing, &c. feem to be all the acquifitions