fhould marry only as a more eligible alternative, than fighting her feven brothers: neither, indeed, does it appear that the fixing the fickle, the volatile, the various Grammont was the effect of the fair Hamilton's merit, and therefore, a proof of it. The fair Hamilton, certainly, had the fame merit when Grammont forfook her, that he had when he was threatened by her brother, and if he returned, not from fear, but from a returning fenfe of probity, the change was produced not by any new charm in the fair Hamilton, but by the magnanimity of her brother.

Honour has never been referred into mere courage, even by those who confider it as diftinct from virtue; it depends rather upon the fear of difgrace, which this Author fays, was the cafe of Shrewsbury, and which was alfo the cafe with Hamilton. He that fears difgrace more than death, is a man of honour in the general eftimation, whether the difgrace is incurred juftly or not, whether in confequence of abfurd prejudice or right reafon.

The first of these two little volumes contains a fhort cenfure of Hobbs and his principles; a sprightly attack and defence of the fex, and fome fafhionable fophiftry concerning the facility of defiring nothing that we cannot attain. There can be no dificulty, fays the writer, in doing what nature intended we fhould do; our love of life is at an end when we die, therefore, it is our fault, if the love of eafe is not at an end when we fuffer pain from an incurable disease. It contains alfo an encomium upon Cowley, a pathetic lamentation on the death of the Duchefs of Mazarine, fome juft reflections on the folly of defining to tranfmit a name to future generations by pofterity, and the following excellent and ftriking picture from Roman history.

In the civil wars between Vitellius and Vefpafian, the army of Vitellius was fupplied with provifions, of which the army of Vefpafian alfo was in great want, by their women when the foldiers had received them, they conveyed part of them secretly by night into the camp of Vefpafian, to refresh their countrymen, whom they were to fight the next day. "Take this, faid they, fellow-foldier, and eat it-'Tis not my fword I put towards you, it is bread-This too, take, and drink it-It is not my fhield I am holding out to you; it is a cup. Whether you fall by my hand, or I by yours, this refreshment will make death more easy. It will ftrengthen the arm that gives the decifive blow, and we fhall not die flowly by a feeble wound. Thefe, fellow-foldier, are the only funeral rites we shall have. Let us thus celebrate them while we live."

The Author's obfervation on this incident does him honour. In what a deteftable light, fays he, do thofe wretches appear, whose

whose competitions could lead thefe brave and merciful men to the flaughter of each other! Surely fome curfe of peculiar bitterness is reserved for thofe diabolical fpirits, who, for private gratifications, break the bonds of fociety! Is there no place of punishment for thefe demoniacs? I would fooner believe there is no Heaven for the virtuous.'

The fecond volume contains an apology for amufement in old age: a fable in verfe, which has great merit: an encomium on Milton's Lycidas: fome critical remarks on paftoral poetry: a monody, on the death of a friend, by no means fo good as the fable: a dialogue between King Charles the Second and a Worcestershire baronet: the loves of Thyrfis and Sacharifla, related by the genius of Penfhurft: a cenfure on fanaticifm: a letter of St. Evremond, diffuading the Duchefs of Mazarine from going into a nunnery, and fome ftanzas on the same subject, that have. been printed before. Thefe are in French, and are followed by a tranflation; it contains alfo a parallel between Ovid and Cowley; and the following corrections of two paffages in Ovid:

In reading the ftory of Pyramus and Thifbe,' fays Waller to St. Evremond, we both concluded that there must be fomething wrong in the following paffage:

Tempore crevit amor, tædæ quoque jure coiffent,

Sed vetuere patres, quod non potuere vetare.

Ex æquo captis ardebant mentibus ambo.

Sed vetuere patres, quod non potuere vetare, is certainly nonsense. Yet fo it ftands in all the editions I have met with, undisturbed by commentators, who pafs it over in facro filentio. Nothing, however, is more eafy than to remove the error, which lies only in the punctuation. Let the paffage ftand thus, and it is reftored to fenfe :

Tædæ quoque jure coiffent,

Sed vetuere patres. Quod non potuere vetare,
Ex æquo captis ardebant mentibus ambo.

There is, if I am not mistaken, another error in the fame story:

Confcius omnes abeft; nutu fignifque loquuntur.

If every fpy is at a diftance, why fhould they have recourse to nods and figns, to convey their fentiments? That could only be neceffary, admitting the cafe to be quite otherwife. Suppofe then we read

Confcius omnis adeft; nutu fignifque loquuntur. This alteration is by no means violent, and it at once brings the paffage to fenfe and confiftency. However, I am not fo hardy as to fay, Sic lege meo periculo. I only offer this to you by way of conjecture; but the first, I am satisfied, must be right.' These two little volumes contain many other particulars, which will render them acceptable to the generality of thofe who love reading.

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Art. 12. Memoirs of the Life of the late Right Hon. John Earl of Crawford: defcribing many of the highest military Atchievments in the late Wars; more particularly the Campaign against the Turks, wherein his Lordship ferved both in the Imperial and Ruffian Armies. Compiled from his Lordship's own Papers, and other authentic Memoirs. 12mo. 3 s. Becket. 1769.

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S this work appears to be no other than a republication of Rolt's Memoirs of Lord Crawford, first published in quarto, about twelve or fifteen years ago, we have nothing farther to fay concerning it.

Art. 13. Mifcellaneous Views of the Coins ftruck by English Princes in France, counterfeit Sterlings, Coins ftruck by the East India Company, thofe in the Weft India Colonies, and in the Isle of Man. Alfo of Patzern Pieces for Gold and Silver Coins, and Gold Nobles ftruck abroad in Imitation of English. With Copper-plates. By Thomas Snelling. Polio. 10s. 6d. Snelling. 1769.

In Mr. Snelling's views of the gold, filver, and copper coins of England, respectively mentioned in our journal, this induftrious and accurate Compiler, confined himself to fuch as were the true and lawful currency of this kingdom. Thofe contained in the prefent work, although ftruck by English princes, or under their authority, were not, however, the proper money of this realm. The collection here offered to the public is numerous, and will be very acceptable to those who have a taste for this curious and important branch of historical knowledge.

Art. 14. An Introduction to the Hiftory and Antiquities of Scotland. 8vo. 3 s. fewed. Noteman. 1769.

From the advertisement prefixed to this publication, our Readers will perceive that it is not altogether a new work; and, confequently, that a brief mention of it, in our catalogue, is all that can be expected: the words of the advertisement are fubjoined:

The following effay was originally wrote in Latin by the late Mr. Walter Goodall, and prefixed to Fordun's Scotichronicon; but that hiftory being in few hands, and the effay containing many partieulars relating to the antiquities of Scotland, either little known or entirely overlooked by other writers, the Editor was induced to give it to the public in an English tranflation.'-Mr. Goodall appears, from this work, to have been a perfon of confiderable learning and abilities. If we mistake not, he is also author of An Examination of the Letters faid to be written by Mary Queen of Scots, to James Earl of Bothwell, fhewing them to be Forgeries.'

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Art. 15. The Hiftory of Ancient Greece; from the earliest Times, till it became a Roman Province. 12mo. 4s. Edinburgh, printed for Kincaid and Co. and fold by Knox, in London. 1768.

The hiflory of ancient Greece abounds with fuch a variety of great and memorable events, and is, in every view, fo curious and inftructive, that almost every clafs of readers must be defirous of having a general acquaintance with it. Those who have neither leisure nor ability to confult the Greek writers themselves, will find their account in perufing the work now before us, which, notwithstanding fome inaccuracies of ftyle, contains a clearer and more diftinct view of the history of the ancient Greeks than we remember to have feen within the compafs of 56 pages, of which this judicious epitome confifts; exclufive of the preface and index.

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Art. 16. A Treatise on the Effects and various Preparations of Lead, particularly of the Extract of Saturn, for different chirurgical Disorders." Tranflated from the French of Mr. Goulard, Surgeon-Major to the Royal and Military Hospital at Montpellier. 8vo. 35. Elmfly. 1769.

Mr. Goulard's Extract of Saturn is a folution of lead in vinegar; and is the bafis of a variety of remedies, to which he gives the following names; viz. a vegeto-mineral water, a cerate, cataplafm, pomatum, nutritum, and plaifter.

Our Author's idea of the operation of his faturnine remedies is exhibited in the following paragraph:

From what has been faid, it follows, that there is not to be found, among all the chirurgical prefcriptions, a medicine more adapted than the extract of Saturn for fubduing external inflammations; that it is endued with the fingular property of penetrating the obftructed blood and lymphatic veffels, and of difperfing the infpiffated matter therein, without too much relaxing or irritating the coats of the inflamed parts; it preferves a medium between thefe two actions, and thereby infenfibly produces, without any bad confequences, the moft furprising effects. This remedy feems to reunite, at once, three qualities very effential for an antiphlogistic medicine; a cooling virtue, which the most ardent inflammatory heat cannot refift; an anodyne one, which quiets the most violent pains obferved in inflammation; an attenuating, refolving quality, which the prejudiced part of mankind have unfairly confounded with repulfion in fhort. al the parts of our body, without diflinction, fatty, glandulous, mufcalar, tendinous, aponeurotic, membranous, ligamentinous, weak or ftrong in their texture, endowed with a greater or lefs degree of fenfibility, bear with equal fuccefs the action of our metallic remedy.'

The virtues of the extract of Saturn according to Mr. Goulard, are very powerful and very extenfive.-In inflammations, whether phlegmon or erifipelas; contufions, burns, gun-fhot wounds; fuppurations, abfceffes, ulcers, and fiftulas; cancers, whether occult or ulcerated; fprains, ftiffness of the joints, relaxation of the ligaments; gouty and rheumatic pains; tetters, itch, ruptures, and piles.-n

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We have no doubt of the ufefulness of our Author's remedies, when directed with judgment and caution; fome of his hiftories, however, are so very extraordinary as to border upon the wonderful. What can we think, when Mr. Goulard attributes the reduction of a diflocated femur to the efficacy of his vegeto-mineral water!

Madam de la Gomercini, a Genoefe lady, had been troubled from her childhood with a relaxation of the capfular ligaments of her left thigh. The diforder had been encreafing for fifteen years paft; and fo much fo, that the motion of the part was infenfibly leffened. The weakness was fo great, that he was unable to fupport herfelf; as the likewife was either to walk, fit down, or get up, without af fiftance. Though the diforder had originally been of a long standing, it was only for the fix or feven last years that it had made any confiderable progrefs. When I had the honour of attending her, in company with two Genoefe phyficians, I found her pains exceffive, and the whole thigh confiderably emaciated. For many years paft, this lady had confulted the most eminent of the faculty, in different parts of the world, had made trials of various baths, and of many other remedies, without finding advantage from any. Having carefully examined the part, I found, that the head of the femur was difplaced, and lodged upon the mufcles of the buttock, which made that limb. fhorter than the other, by about four fingers breadth. I concluded, after having examined the grievance, that by a relaxation of the ligaments of the part, the mufcle of the buttock had contracted, and drawn the head of the femur from its cavity upwards; and that this, by preffing on the pofterior fciatique nerve, gave rife to the pains my patient felt. My opinion was, that the muft inevitably remain a cripple, and that the limb would at laft wither away; and, in fine, that the only method remaining to give her eafe, would be to replace the head of the femur in its acetabulum: to effect which, I took the following method:

I ordered two jugs to be filled with the vegeto-mineral water warm: one affiftant held the upper part of the limb, another the lower part, who gently moved it backwards and forwards in the mean time, a third poured from the jug the vegeto-mineral water upon the part, whilft a fourth was employed in rubbing it. It was not long before the lady found the good effects of this operation. The head of the bone was foon brought upon a level with its cavity, and in less than fifteen days re-entered it. My patient was then able to fupport herfelf, and walk. I took care to apply one of my Saturnine plaifters to the grievance, and a bandage upon that. This lady perfevered in the ufe of my remedies for above two years, after the bone. had been replaced. Tho' I have not seen her for a confiderable time, I am well affured, that her cure has been compleat; feldom a year paffes, without my hearing of her; and I am informed that she finds not the least bad effects from her old complaint.'

We apprehend Mr. Goulard has faid too much in recommendation of his remedies; and that he is not fufficiently aware of the noxious effects