56 New Publications, with Critical Remarks. Stars of the Northern Hemisphere, with Tables of their right Ascensions, Declinations, and Meridian Altitudes at Edinburgh, for 1814. By Geo. G. Carey, teacher of mathematics. 2s. 6d. Evening Amusements, or the Beauties of the Heavens displayed, for 1814. By Wm. Frend, Esq. M. A. 3s. 12mo pp. 140. "I am not like any man whom I have seen; and I believe that I am not like any man in existence." Such was the judgment given of himself by the pseudo-philospher of Geneva, and posterity will approve the saying. Madame de Stael has, how ever, laboured to make him appear amiable, and his writings as invaluable; but though we must allow that there is much good writing in these letters, we are free to remark that it is thrown away upon a very nnwarthy subject. Klopstock and his Friends; a series of familiar Letters, written between the years 1750 and 1803. Translated from the German with a Biographical Introduction. By Miss Benger. 8vo. pp. 309. A correspondence between the same persons for above half a century must in any case be productive of interesting matter for reflection and amusement. But the parties in this intercourse were of no ordinary stamp, and the rank which they at tained in the world of letters gives a peculiar im portance to the progress of their sentiments and opinions. Some writer has busied himself in narrat-⚫ ing the quarrels of authors, but the present volume may be read to better advantage, and adduced as a pleasing monument of literary friendship. The translation is executed with fidelity, and the introductory memoir is written with feeling and judg. ment. An Essay on the Life of Michel de Doctor Faustus, and Lust's Dominion, or the Lascivious Queen; two tragedies, by Marlowe; being the first two numbers of a series of plays selected from the works of the most celebrated dramatic writers who flourished previous to the Restoration, many of whom are contemporary with Shakspeare, 8vo. pp. 195. We have often wondered that the plan of Dodsley in republishing the old plays, had not been Jong ago taken up, and extended to the revival of those dramas which were passed over by the compiler of that valuable collection. At length, however, the desideratum is about to be supplied, and henceforth the most rare productions of the early English theatre will become a cessible without [Aug. 1, the trouble of applying to the cabinets of the Zama, the Confession and Orestes; tragedies, The New British Theatre; a Selection of Original Dramas not yet acted. No. 7. containing, The Sailor's Return, a comedy, The Last Act, a farce, Thermopylæ, a tragic drama. 2s. 6d. EDUCATION. Enclytica; being the outlines of a course of Instruction on the Principles of Universal Grammar, as deduced in an analysis of the vernacular tongue. 8vo. pp. 133. Since the publication of the Epea Pteroenta, which made its appearance near thirty years ago, we have not had any book on the principles of lan guage equal to the essay before us; the only fault of which is that it is too compressed. Should the author think proper to enlarge his work, we think he might avail himself of much useful matter to be found in Bishop Wilkins's real character, and Dr. Gilchrist's Theory of Persian Verbs. Miscellaneous questions on History and Chronology; with an Explanation of some of the common terms used in both, and a sketch of the State of the World before the coming of Jesus Christ; the Preservation of the Scriptures, and a Sketch of the Evidence of the Truth of Revelation. 12mo. pp. 87. Multum in parvo; being a very useful compen- The Juvenile Arithmetic, or Child's A Continuation of Early Lessons. By Maria Edgeworth. 2 vols. 18mo. 6s. Animated Nature, or Elements of the Natural History of Animals. By the Rev. W. Bingley. 6s. The Traveller in Africa. 5s. 6d. By Priscilla The English Pronouncing Spelling Book. By Thos. West, late master of the free school, Dedham. 1s. 6d. 1814.] New Books in July, with Critical Remarks. and her Dependencies; including a statement of the duties, drawbacks, and bounties, directed to be paid and allowed. The whole interspersed with the regulations of the several trading companies; proclamations touching war and peace; orders in council; treaties with foreign powers; reports of adjudged cases; and various matters of exclusive official information; brought down to 5th April, 1814. Second edition. By Charles Pope, comptrolling surveyor of the warehouses in Bristol, and late of the Custom House, London. Svo. pp. 868. It is needless to expatiate on the usefulness of such a compilation as the present, the obvious re flection excited by the perusal of the very title page is one of surprise that, in a great commercial nation like this, so necessary a work should not have appeared many years ago. To the praise of industry, accuracy, and perspicuity the editor has an unqualified claim, and no merchant, shipmaster, or any one engaged in mercantile concerns, will do himself justice if he neglects the aid offered by this valuable guide to the custom house. Treatise on the Law of Evidence. By S. M. Phillips, Esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister at law. 8vo. 15s. Scheme for rendering Obligations, Conveyances, and Securities, more plain, simple, and intelligible, in Scotland. By Anthony Macmillan. 8vo. 1s. The Trial of Lord Cochrane, the Hon. A. Cochrane Johnstone, Charles R. de Berenger, and others, for a conspiracy. Taken in short hand. By W. B. Gurney. 12s. An Essay on Medical Economy, comprising a sketch of the state of the profession in England; and the outlines of a plan calculated to give to the medical body in general an increase of usefulness and respectability. 8vo. pp. 160. The rage for innovation seems to be the leading feature of the day, and prevails in every class of society. The ingenious author of this essay has caught the infection most strougly; and having realized to his imagination many dreadful evils in the state of medical science and practice, he generously offers his assistance for their eradication; but we are free to confess that many of his propositions are as fanciful as the disorders which they are intended to remedy. One of the most objec. tionable parts of his schemes of reform is that of a graduated scale of fees according to the age and standing of the practitioners, the necessary cousequence of which regulation would be to keep in obscurity all their lives those men, who, by their early application, have a just claim to the highest bonours of their profession. NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 7. METAPHYSICS. 57 Fatalism Exposed, and the Freedom of the Will demonstrated. By the Rev. John Duncalf. MINERALOGY. A Manual of Mineralogy. By Arthur Aikin, Sec. to the Geol. Soc. MISCELLANEOUS. 8vo. 7s. Substance of a Speech against the proposed alteration of the Corn Laws, intended to have been spoken in the House of Commons, on June 6, 1814, by J. Broadhurst, esq. 8vo. pp. 58. We have perhaps reason to be glad that this luminous tract was not delivered according to the intention of the sensible and patriotic author; since otherwise we should have had no more of it than a garbled report in the newspapers. To its present substantial form it will stand as a powerful antidote to a mischievous scheme, if ever the selfish and crafty advocates of innovation shall presume to bring the subject again before the public. Remarks on the calumnies published in the Quarterly Review, on the English shipbuilders. Svo. pp. 44. This is in all respects a most important pamphlet, on a subject of vital intere-t to the British empire; and no one can read the statements and arguments here advanced without being seriously alarmed for the safety of that bulwark, which has hitherto constituted our temporal strength and national glory. The Plymouth Literary Magazine, or Devon and Cornwall Scientific Repository. No. I. 8vo. 1s. An Original and Accurate Account of what occurred during the Royal Visit to Portsmouth on the 22d June and three subsequent days. 8vo. 1s. Correspondence between the Supreme Government of Bengal and the Missionaries of Serampore in 1819 and 1913, relative to Messrs. Johns and Lawson, which terminated in the expulsion of Mr. Johns from India, for having gone thither without leave of the Court of Directors. By Wm. Johns, of the Roy. Coll. of Surgeons, and late acting Surgeon at Serampore. 1s. 6d. The North British Review, No. 3. 4S. A Letter to the Electors of Westminster on the Case of Lord Cochrane, as distinguished from that of his associates.. 1s. A Second Letter to the Electors of Westminster on the nomination of Lord Cochrane as a proper person to represent them in Parliament. 15. Remarks on the Case of Lord Cochrane. By a near observer. NOVELS, ROMANCES, &C. Incumanee; or the Fairy of the Nineteenth Century. 2 vols. 12mo. pp. 518. The only fau't we have to find with this very instructive work is, that the characters are too nu merous, and brought together in a manner that awakens curiosity, which afterwards is disappointed by the want of information concerning their his tory. This is particularly the case with respect to the heroine of the tale, who breaks upon us in a way that excites a lively interest, and at the end of the book disappears without making us VOL II. I 58 New Books in July, with Critical Remarks. acquainted with her origin, adventures, and con nexions. The Velvet Cushion, 8vo. pp. 185. "Aut tu es Morus, aut nullus," exclaimed Erasmus, when he first met his old correspondent at table, but without knowing his person: and we were compelled by an austinctive motion to adopt the same language, after proceeding only a little way in this delightful allegorical tale. Like the Splendid Shilling in the Tatler, the old cushion of a village pulpit relates its adventures, or rather its observations on the history of religion from the era of the Reformation to the present time. The viear and his wife are beautifully drawn; but they are not the creatures of fancy, or the ideal beings of romance. We have happily known a couple, in former days, exactly corresponding with the characters here described; and, if our conjecture be right, the author had the same identical persons in contemplation when the Velvet Cushion afforded a subject for the record of their virtues, and for giving a most instructive lesson to mankind. Sarsfield, or Wanderings of Youth, an Irish Tale. By John Gamble, Esq. 3 vols. 12mo. pp. 656. con This story is, beyond all question, the ception of a very vigorous imagination: the cha racters are drawn with a masterly hand, the sentiments are excellent, and the language is flow-1 ing and elegant But, after all, we were greatly shocked at the outrageous violation which is con tinually committed upon probability, and the dreadful catastrophie which harrows up our feelings at the moment when we expect nothing bu repose, induces us to adopt the words of Dr. Johnson to another Irish novel-writer-" I know not that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much." The Vain Cottager, or History of Lucy Franklin. 1s. 6d. Love and War, a Tale. 2 vols. 12s. POETRY. Anster Fair, a Poem, in six cantos, with other Poems. By William Tenant. Second edit. 12mo. We feel no hesitation in expressing it as our decided opinion, that Anster Fair is the most humourous poem which has appeared since the days of Butler. It exhibits the history of Maggie Lauder of Anstruther, who being at a loss to choose a husband from a multitude of suitors, is advised by no less a personage than Tommy Puck, the fairy, to issue a proclamation, setting forth, that on the next market-day there will be held four games: the first an ass-race, the second a sack-race, the third a trial on the bagpipes, and the fourth a competition in story-telling; the victor in all which to be rewarded by the hand of this celebrated damsel. Robert Scott, or Rob the Ranter, proves the con queror, who at the nuptial feast produces a pepper box. from which issues Dame Puck, while her partner emerges from the mustard-pot; and with the history of these famous elves, who had been cruelly imprisoned by the art of a noted enchanter, the poem concludes. We repent, that in whimsical description, and broad humour, this piece may have its equal, but certainly it has not been excelled by any performance within our recollection. Spain Delivered, and other Poems. By Preston Fitzgerald, Esq. Author of The Spaniard." 12mo. pp. 100. The principal piece in this little volume is a spi. rited performance, and does great credit to the [Aug. 1, genius and patriotism of the author. We were. also very much pleased with the smaller poems in this collection, particularly with "The Bard's Welcome for his Young Lord," which is equally ani. mated and pathetic The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle, a Poem, in five cantos; supposed to be written by W-S-, Esq. First American, from the fourth Edinburgh edition. 12mo. pp. 222. The reader need hardly be told that this also is a burlesque poem, the production of a Trans-Atlantic genius, who has parodied with considerable effect the manner of the most celebrated bard of the present day. The performance is intended also to turn into ridicule three British naval commanders recently on the American station; and though we cannot admit the justice of the satire, or accede to what is advanced in the notes, truth compels us to grant that the author has evinced poctical talents of a superior order, which we should be glad to see employed to a better pur pose. The Feast of the Poets, with Notes, and other Pieces in Verse. By the Editor of the Examiner. 12mo. pp. 158. The principal piece in this small volume is an attempt to delineate the characters, and to appre ciate the literary merits of the existing race of poets, who appear in rapid succession before Apollo, seated at a tavern table. As our readers will see that this idea is far from being new, so they will find that the author has not refined upon the coarseness and petulance of the worst of his pre decessors, witness the following lines: "So saying, the god bade his horses walk for'ard, And leaving them, took a long dive to the norʼard.” Instead of being allowed to lash his betters, the ought to receive the horsewhip. writer who can commit to paper such jargon as this Napoleon, or the Vanity of Human Wishes. Part II. By Eyles Irwin, Esq. M. R. I. A. 4to. 2s. 6d. The Ruined Tower. 8vo. 2s. A Sketch from Nature. fc. 8vo. 2s. 6d. By the Author of "The Orphans, or the Battle of An Ode to the Emperor Alexander. Nevil's Cross," 1s. The entire proceeds, free from all expenses, to be applied to the relief of the sufferers by war in Germany. Ode to Wellington. By the Author of the preceding. In aid of the same fund. 1s. 6d. An Ode on the Arrival of the Potentates in Oxford; and Judicium Regale, an Ode. 2s. Odes to the Prince Regent, the Emperor of Russia, and the King of Prussia. By Robert Southey, Poet Laureat. 4to. 3s. 6d. Peace, a Lyric Poem. By Thos, Eastoe Abbott. 4to. 1s. 6d. The Minstrel's Love, a Lyric Romance, 8vo. 3s. 1814.] New Books in July, with Critical Remarks. ginal and translated. By Capel Lofft. 5 vols. fc. 8vo. 11. 10s. Peace, a Pindarick Ode of Triumph. By John Halcomb, jun. Esq. 1s. 6d. Minstrel Stolen Moments, or Shreds of Fancy. 8vo. 9s. Childe Alarique, a Poet's Reverie; Wallace, a Fragment; Varia, the Exile, and other Poems. By R. P. Gillies, Esq. Svo. 10s. 6d. Cona, or the Vale of Clwyd, and other Poems. 12mo. 7s. 6d. POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. Thoughts on Peace in the present Situation of the Country with respect to its Finances and Circulating Medium. 8vo. 6s. The Rights of War and Peace, including the Law of Nature and Nations. From the Latin of Grotius, with notes and illustrations. By the Rev. A. C. Campbell, A. M. 3 vols. 8vo. l. 11s. 6d. Inquiry into the Constitutional Character of the Queen Consort of England. 2s. 6d. The Importance of Religious Establishments to the Interests of Civil Society, and the necessity of Test Laws for their preservation. 1s. The Reduction of the Forces considered. By Capt. Fairman. A Letter to the Inhabitants of Southampton, on the Corn Bill. By Wm. Cobbett, Esy. 1s. Substance of the Speech of Jos. Hume, Esq. at the East India House, May 9, against the Grant of a Pension to Lord Melville. With an Appendix, containing the Letter of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, and other do cuments. 59 a little paltry popularity by the sacrifice of their defends in a proper manner that part of the act of The Family Instructor, or a Regular Course of Scriptural Readings; with Familiar Explanations and Practical Improvements, adapted to the purpose of Domestic and Pri vate Edification for every Day of the Year. By John Watkins, LL. D. 3 vols. 12mo. If it be proper to read the Scriptures statedly in families, it is equally necessary to accompany the practice by some illustration or exposition of the sacred oracles. Small as the bulk of the Bible comparatively is, it is made up of a great variety of subjects; some parts being historical, and others poetic; some legal, and others predictive. To many readers the mystic institutions of the Jewish theocracy must be unintelligible, and the sublimest descriptions of the prophets harsh aud obscure. Yet all these are clear, when opened by that key which the evangelical dispensation alone provides. In the work before us the author has judiciously applied that unerring interpreter to the explanation of the inspired writings; and by uniting the law and the guspel for faith and practice, he has provided a commentary ou the volume of immortality; without perplexing the mind by controversial rea soning, or drawing it off by critical disquisition. A Form and Prayer and Thanksgiving for July 7, 1814, being the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for Observations on the late Treaty of Peace, putting an end to the long, extended, and 1s. so far as it relates to the Slave Trade. 6d. Observations on Dr. Drongoole's Speech delivered in the Catholic Board, Dec. 8, 1813. By Sir Rich. Musgrave, Bart. RELIGION. A Brief Memorial on the Repeal of so much of the Statute of 9 & 10 Will. III as relates to Persons denying the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity; addressed to all who believe the Christian Religion to be a True Religion, and who are desirous of maintaining the Religious Institutions of their Ancestors. To which is prefixed, A Demonstration of the Three Great Truths of Christianity; together with Specimens of Unitarian Rejec tion of Scripture, and of all Antiquity. By the Bishop of St. David's. 8vo. pp. 86. 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An Inquiry into the Antiquity of the Sabbath, a Sermon, preached at the Visitation of the Bp. of Lincoln. By Wm. Cooper, B. D. 60 Dramatic Register-Drury-Lane. Rector of West Rasen and Wadingham, The first report of the Oxford and Oxfordshire Auxiliary Bible Society, with the Proceedings of the Anniversary Meeting, June 16, 1814. The Trial of Antichrist, otherwise the Man of Sin, for High Treason against the Son of God. 3s. 4d. Creed Philosophic, or Immortality of the Soul. By Nath. Cooke, Esq. 4 to 8s. 6d. A General Account of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 2s. 6d. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. Letters from a Lady to her Sister during a Tour to Paris, in the Months of April and May, 1814. 12mo. pp. 170. DRAMATIC DURING the season which has just closed, our regular theatres have not been conspicuous for the number or the importance of the novelties which they have produced: indeed, if we except the appearance of Mr. Kean at the one, and the return of Mr. Kemble to the other, as noticed in our early numbers, there is little that requires particular notice besides a few new pieces, mostly of very humble pretensions. Our readers will therefore, we trust, the more readily excuse any arrears into which we have fallen, from peculiar circumstances, in this department of our work, but which we shall in future use our best endeavours to prevent. DRURY-LANE. Among the oratorios performed as usual during Lent, was one, new in this country, called the Mount of Olives, the production of Beethoven, the celebrated German composer. It is a work which deserves to be placed on a level with the best works of any living master. The music is original, bold, expressive, full of variety and movement, partaking of the German school by the harmony of the symphony, and of the Italian by the melody of the airs. On this occasion a younger sister of Madame Catalani made her first public appearance: her voice, though fine and delicate, is not of the superior order; and indeed, such was the evident timidity which she felt, that no proper judgment could be formed of her powers from this first essay. April 12, one of those fashionable modern compositions called melo-drames, was brought out under the title of The Woodman's Hut. The story is not un [Aug. 1, These are the letters of a lady who visited the French capital at the precise time when the re stored monarch entered the seat of his ancestors, of which interesting scene she gives a touching rcIt is indeed but justice to say, that we have been highly entertained by the perusal of this little volume, 'which is written in a lively style, and contains much information on the state of that unhappy country. lation. A Voyage to the Isle of Elba, with Notices of the other Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Translated fro the French of Arsenie Thiébaut de Berneaud, Emeritus, Secretary of the Class of Literature, History, and Antiquities, of the Italian Academy, &c. By William Jerdan. 8vo. pp. 183. This is a very accurate survey of a spot which, at the present moment, attracts general attention; and at a future period will, most probably, occupy a considerable place in the history of Europe. REGISTER. If the interesting for a work of that kind, and They April 26, a new interlude, entitled Intrigue, by Mr. Poole, author of Hamlet Travestie, was well received. The piece consists of only one incident:Two London bucks, on an excursion to Bath, arrive at an inn kept by a man who had formerly been servant to one of them, but who, having married the daughter of the former possessor, has succeeded him in the business. both take a fancy to his wife, not knowing that she is married; each lays a wager that he will run away with her, and endeavours to bribe the husband to assist him. The latter is made stake-holder; and the landlady pretending to favour each, agrees to elope with both disguised in a horseman's coat. This plan she communicates to her husband; he personates his wife; and her disappointed admirers, to prevent the publication of the circumstance, make a present of the stakes to the landlord. The piece was well acted, and Knight, as the jealous husband, was particularly diverting. May 5, Mr. Kean presented himself to the public in the part of Othello. In the first scenes he was rather tame; but where the author himself rises, and the jealousy of Othello is awakened, there Mr. Kean displayed a degree of excellence equal to that of any of his preced |