craft, Priest-craft, and impofition whatever; to curb the exceffes of inordinate zeal; and to cultivate the great principle CHARITY, among the various denominations that have obtained in the Chriftian world. The following fpecimen will shew in what manner this laudable defign is executed: When Courtiers and Priests by intereft are sway'd, If thefe abus'd functions had not with them been lifted. Whatever the Reader may think of the above lines, we can affure him, they are some of the best in the pamphlet. Art. 6. Rodonde; or the State Jugglers. Canto I. 8vo. Is.. Nicoll. A droll Mortal has here attacked Mr. Pitt, in Hudibraftics. The mode is new, but the matter, as far as we can judge from the contents of this firft Canto, is pretty much the old ftory over again. But the Author's plan, is, perhaps, more extenfive than may be apparent from the fpecimen now published. Rodondo [Mr. P.] is not the only perfon here fatirized. Several other characters are introduced, as friends to Mr. P. or as foes to Lord B-e. Mr. Wilkes, and Mr. Churchill, the fuppofed Writers of the paper called The North Briton, are handsomely chaftifed in their own way: the latter, efpecially, is mauled with as much feverity as he himself has mauled the Scots. We do not think it proper to retail perfonal abuse in our Review, and therefore fhall give no extracts from this humourous piece of fcurrility. RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL. Art. 7. A new, plain, and fcriptural Account of the Nature and Ends of the Holy Eucharift, deduced from several important Paf Jages in the Old and New Teftaments. By Samuel Hardy, Curate of St. Clements in Ipfwich, Suffolk. 12mo. 1s. Law. If the famous propofition advanced by the late pious Dr. James Fofter be true, that where Mystery begins, Religion ends,-then is Mr. Samuel Hardy a very irreligious Writer; for he is a most zealous stickler for thofe myftical notions of the facrament which have been so justly exploded by feveral eminent and judicious modern Writers. The worthy Bishop Hoadly's Plain Account, he ftiles an infamous book; and gives his own tract as a full and complete anfwer to it. He likewife falls foul on the Bishop of Glocefter, for having joined his forces with thofe of the Bishop of Winchefter; and really we think Mr. Hardy's zeal leads him rather too near the borders of fcurrility. He may, however, in his way, be a very pious and well-meaning man; and by his earnest manner of treating his fubject, we are inclined to believe, that his zeal for what he apprehends to be the truth, is only blameable in its excels; and may be founded in a laudable defire to approve himself a diligent and faithful labourer in his mafter's vineyard. Art. 8. A Letter from a Clergyman to one of his Parishioners, whe was was inclined to turn Methodiji. With an Appendix concerning the Means of Canverfism and imputed Righteousness. 8vo. Is. 6d. Hinxman. This judicious and fenfible letter is figned Richard Hardy, who appears to bear a very different character, as a divine, from Mr. Samuel Hardy, who wrote the tract on the Euchar ft. He is a modeft, decent, and candid Writer. He ftriatly examines and compares the feveral methoditical doctrines with thofe fcriptures from whence they pretend to have drawn them; and thews how egregiously the Methodilts have misunderstood and misreprefented them. His defign is not to enter into all the numberlefs abfurdities of modern enthufiafts; but, in a short, clear, and candid manner, to convince them that they err, not knowing the Scriptures-to which they fo often and fo confidently appeal.-We think this treatife might do much good, if it could be effectually recommended to the attentive perufal of all who are in danger of being feduced by those enthufiaftic preachers now fo abundantly difperfed through most of the British dominions. Art. 9. A Collection of Latin Sermons. By John Burton, D. D. Fellow of Eton College. (With other Pieces) relative to the Minifterial Office. 8vo. 6s. 6d. bound. Fletcher. We have here, collected in one volume, feveral pieces published at different times, under the following titles: Hophni et Phinees, five impictas facerdotum publica impietatis caufa-A Difcourfe made by the Right Rev. Dr. Sprat, Lord Bifep of Rechefter, to the clergy of his Diocefe, at bis vifitation in the year 1695-Heli: five exemplum magifiratus intempeftiva lenitate peccantis-Samuel triplici nomine laudatus, Propheta, Populi Ifraelitici Juacx, Scholarum Propheticarum Rector-De fundamentalibus difjertatio theologica--De praxeos theologica abufibus-Sacerdos Paræcialis RufTiews. Of the merit of the collection, we need fay nothing, having already given our fentiments of the feveral pieces contained in it, excepting that cntitled--De praxeos theologicæ abufibus---which is ufeful and judicious; and Dr. Sprat's difcourfe, which is an excellent one, and contains more good fenfe, and pertinent reflections, than are to be met with in many volumes upon the fubject. POLITICA L. Art. 10. A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bute, on the Preliminaries of Peace. From neither a noble Lord; a candid Member of Parliament; an impartial Briton, but, an Englishman. 8vo. 1s. Nicoll. This Letter-writer need not have taken the trouble to tell us, he was neither a Lord, nor a Member of Parliament; we will venture to say, there is no one member, either of the upper or lower house, who can be at once fo illiterate and void of common fenfe as this contemptible fcribbler. An Englishman! for fhame!-A driver of black cattle from Scotand would be ashamed of fuch English, and fuch nonfenfe, as are to be md in this pamphlet, Art, Art. 11. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, a Comedy. Written by Shakespeare. With Additions and Alterations, as it is per formed at the Theatre - Royal in Drury-Lane. 8yo. Is. Tonfon. Although this Comedy is generally reckoned as one of Shakespeare's worft Performances, and even by many thought fo meanly of, as to be deemed the Work of fome inferior hand, in which Shakespeare bore but a very fmall Part; yet hath it been fo much more favourably regarded by the present Editor, as to be thought worth all the pains he hath taken to improve it. He obferves, in his previous advertisement, that "it is the general opinion, that this comedy abounds with weeds;" but he thinks no one who perufes it with Attention, will deny, that it is adorned with feveral poetical Flowers, fuch as the hand of a Shakespeare alone could raife."-The rankeft of the weeds he has endeavoured to remove, and we think with a careful and skilful hand.-Another part of his defign was "to give a greater uniformity to the scenery, and a connection and confiftency to the fable, which in many places is vifibly wanted:" wherein we apprehend our Editor hath not been unfuccefsful, He has also inferted two additional scenes in the last act, of a humorous caft, and which, in our Opinion, are not inferior to any other parts, of the fame kind, in the original. Art. 12. The Britifb Grammar: Or an Effay in four Parts, towards fpeaking and writing the English Language grammatically, and inditing elegantly. For the Ufe of the Schools of Great Britain and Ireland, and of private young Gentlemen and Ladies. 12mo. 3s. Millar. It has been long conceived, that the best way to acquire a grammatical knowlege of modern languages is, by first studying thofe of the Ancients; whofe writings are confeffedly the models of elegance and beauty of ftyle. Our British Grammarian, however, is of a different opinion, and thinks nothing of this kind is now to be learned from them. "Will the greatest mastership," fays he, " in Greek or Latin, or tranflating these languages into English, avail for the Purpose of acquiring an elegant English ftile? No-we know juft the reverfe from woeful Experience! And as Mr. Locke and the Spectator obferve, men who have threshed hard at Greek and Latin for ten or eleven Years together, are very often deficient in their own language. That the greatest Skill in, or tranflating from the Greek and Latin, will not, cannot, procure an elegant English ftyle, appears to be indifputable even from the folJowing reafon, viz. That the learned fucceffively roaming over all the beauties of thefe ornate languages, have in course ranfacked all their fweets, and culled all the most expreffive and lively Flowers which now fo beautifully clothe the style of our best Writers, adorn the British oratory, or embellish the most pompous and ravishing strains of a Mansfield's eloquence!" After this flourishing fpecimen of our Author's own ftile, we conceive the Reader will not prefume to call in question the propriety of those means he prescribes for acquiring a fimilar elegance, Away, then, ye Tyros! with Demofthenes, Cicero, and the reft reft of your claffical trumpery, and apply yourselves incontinently to the British Grammar. Raillery apart, however, though we do not think there is fo little to be acquired by ftudying the dead languages as our Author would infinuate, we conceive there could not be a more acceptable fervice done to the cause of British literature, than by the publication of a methodical and well-digested English Grammar. It is nevertheless to be doubted, whether any Perfon hath as yet engaged in fach a Defign, with Resolution and Abilities equal to the task. As to the Author of the prefent work, it must be confeffed he hath laid down a number of very just rules and obfervations relative to speaking and writing the English language grammatically. They are intermixed, however, with fo many that are erroneous or impertinent, and are rendered fo perplexed and confused by the Author's method, or rather want of method, in arranging them, that we can by no means think this Performance likely to answer the end defired. At the fame time we hold it neceflary to give fuch young perfons, provincials and foreigners, as may confult this Grammar, a particular caution against placing too much dependence on our Author's rules for pronunciation; by a fervile attention to which, they would only acquire a mixt dialect of vulgar English and broad Scotch. Art. 13. The Modern Part of an Univerfal Hiftory. Vol. XXXVIIL Vide Accounts in our laft. Having compleated their history of the three other Quarters of the globe, our induftrious Compilers are, at length, arrived at America: a wide extended field, but not fruitful of hiftoric materials. All we know of the new world, is its recent conqueft, and fettlement by the Europeans; so that of course the annals of America could only fall under the title of Modern Hiftory,-although carried up to the highest antiquity of which we can poffibly attain any certain knowlege: as the fartheft retrofpect will neceffarily be confined within the limits of the three last centuries. Our Authors have, indeed, in the prefent volume, given a brief fketch of what they term the Ancient Hiftory of Mexico; but it is all of fuch uncertain authority, as to deserve very little credit, being drawn by the Spaniards from the fabulous traditions of the Mexican Indians a nation equally deftitute of literary knowlege with the reft of the Americans, although greatly fuperior in other refpects to all the other inhabitants of that immenfe continent: the Mexicans being, in truth, an amazingly ingenious and civilized people. They were not strangers to fcience, nor to many of the liberal arts; notwithstanding they had no more idea of the nature and use of letters than the Peruvians; one of whofe incas, or emperors, being folicited by the Spaniards to turn Christian, and being fhewn the Bible, which they told him contained the oracles of truth, he put it to his ear, liftened with great attention, but hearing nothing, threw it with refentment on the ground, and vehemently reproached the Spaniards with having intended to impofe apon him by a moft palpable falfhood. Our Historians have given in the prefent volume, an account of the voyages and difcoveries of Columbus; together with the entertaining and affecting story of the conquest of Mexico and Peru by the Spaniards under under the gallant Cortez, the afpiring and avaricious Pizarro, and other famous commanders of that ambitious, rapacious, and cruel nation; whofe treachery and inhumanity to the innocent and unhappy Indians, will be an eternal monument of infamy to the Chriftian name and character. Art. 14. John English's Travels through Scotland; containing an entertaining Account of the Manners and Cuflems of the Inhabi tants, &c. 8vo. Is. 6d. Morgan. Of all the dull and ftupid trash which, to our unavoidable mortification, hath puffed in review before us, this, furely, is the dulleft and moft ftupid; as it is also the filthiest and meaneft. It is not merely that the Author (if it be not an abuse of the term to use it on fo unworthy an occafion) has falfely afperfed a whole nation, fince much better Writers have fallen into this low and illiberal conduct, and rendered the practice as common as it is fenfelefs; it is not his telling the most improbable and impudent lies, for they can only reflect fcandal on the liar himself;-it is not any confideration of this fort that ought fo much to provoke the candid Reader's refentment, as that fuch vile ribaldry fhould pass through the prefs.-We Hope, however, that no Englishman can be charged with offering fo bare-faced an affront to the Public: and, indeed, from fome expreffions in his trumpery, we are led to conclude this fhameless fcribbler a native of fome other foil. Certain it is he can be a credit to none. Such infringers of public decorum, put us in mind of an impudent fellow, who, fome years ago, made it his practice, many fummer evenings together, to poft himfelf in one of the public fquares at the weft end of the town, where, letting down his breeches, he expofed, in full view of the oppofite houses, where the ladies very frequently appeared at the windows, a fight which could not fail to attract their notice. The ladies, however, foon found a knight who undertook to encounter this monster; and who luckily aiming a fowling-piece at the hideous object, fent him hobbling to a furgeon, who made him pay handfomely for the trouble of extracting the small-shot. As to the prefent dirty offender, we think it would be very proper to have him well washed in a horfe-pond. Mr. Birt's travels into Scotland were feverely fatirical upon that country, and he may poffibly have made fome things worse than he found them; yet, as he wrote like a gentleman, we have known even fome North Britons who could readily forgive him his fatire, for the fake of his good-humoured remarks, and fenfible obfervations. • See Review, vol. XI. p. 342. Art. 15. An Efay on Oeconomy. The Fourth Edition. By Edward Watkinson, M. D. Rector of Little Chart in Kent. 8vo. 6d. Richardfon. Having already two or three times mentioned this little useful tract, the former Editions of which were printed at the Author's expence, with the fole view of distributing them among his friends, we find ourselves, for that |