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Morhof, Le Long, Fabricius, Itallicus, Ernesti, Masch, Harwood, Harles and Marsh's Michaelis; the Prolegomena of Mill and Wetstein, the Bibliotheca Critica published at Amsterdam, 1799, &c. and our own Reviews. To which may be added, the Notitia literarie of the Bipont Classics; these he has carefully consulted, con sidering them, in general, as the most interesting part of those editions. In order, however, that the present work might receive every advantage which he was capable of affording it, he waded through an abundance of learned prefaces, and from these he appears to have gleaned every thing that could enable him to estimate the real value of an edition.

In the Bibliographical and Typographical department, he has had recourse to Mallinkrot, Chevillier, Maittaire, Wolfius Clement, De Bure, Laire, Denis, Audiffredi, Panzer and Renouard: to which aúthorities, he added occasional references to Bibliographical Dictionaries (French and English) and to public and private catalogues.

"I flatter myself," says he," that the account of the Editiones Principes,' the Aldine, the Stephens,' Elzevir and Variorum Classics, will be found as full and correct as the limits of my work would permit. Many editions in the 16th century which Dr. Harwood has not noticed, or of which he has merely given the date, have been placed in a more interesting point of view." P. vii.

He concludes his preface with the following modest yet manly paragraph:

"My object in this undertaking, however imperfectly effected, has been to promote the study of Bibliography; and whatever success or failure may attend it, I shall feel happy in the reflection of having been the first to present to my fellow-countrymen, in their own language, the testimony of some of the most distinguished foreign critics on the respective merits of the editions of the Greek and Latin Classics." P. x.

In the production of this truly valuable and (though its nature seems obnoxious to it) entertaining work, Mr. D. received the assistance afforded by the libraries of Doctor Gosset and Mr. Lunn, To the former of these he also confesses the debt of information on some doubtful points. A labour like the present, performed under such circumstances, is highly creditable to the industry, learning, and research of the author, and we doubt not, that the success which will crown this attempt, will induce him, as he then promises, " to follow it up with a similar work on the remaining Greek and Latin writers, including the fathers: which may (and we hope will) be succeeded by an account of the most curious and rare books in the English and French languages."

An authentic Account of the late unfortunate Death of Lord Camelford; with an Extract of his Lordship's Will, and some Remarks

upon

his Character. By the Rev. W. Cockburne, A. M. Fellow of St. John's Cambridge. 8vo. Hatchard. 1804.

If this is an authentic account of the death of Lord Camelford, we are sorry for it, since it tends to prove that this unhappy 'young man died without the hope of any advantage to be derived from christianity. What good such a relation can do to the public, or what honour it can reflect on the Reverend Mr. Cockburne, is out of the reach of our understanding. The pamphlet is altogether without merit.

The Duty of Volunteers. A Sermon preached before the Birstall and Batley Volunteers, on their Appearance at Church in Uniform, on the 22d April, 1804. By Hammond Roberson, M. A. 8vo. Ostell. 1804.

THIS discourse, which is "published by request," is very creditable to the piety and amor patriæ of Mr. Roberson. If, however, the labourer may not be permitted to drill on a Sunday, we are at a loss to know how he is to act, as the allowance which he receives will not suffer him to devote any other day in the week to these exercises, without an injury to his family, too serious to be encountered.

The Impolicy and Impiety of Sunday Drill considered. 12mo. 3d. Ogle. 1804.

THE goodness of the intention of these pages cannot be questioned, but it is greatly impaired, if not lost, by the want of judgment in the author. His zeal to suppress Sunday-drills is too warm. -At this crisis he is righteous over-much. We have already given a reason why the labourer must drill on a Sunday, and with the enemy at the gate, we feel no disposition to contest the matter further:

No, Ralpho, this is no fit place,
Nor time to argue out the case;

For now the field is not far off.

Where we must give the world a proof
Of deeds, not words, and such as suit,
Another manner of dispute:

A controversy that affords

Actions for arguments, not words.

Hudibras, p. 1. c. 1. v. 865.

E-VOL. XVIII.

The Letters of Valerius on the State of Parties; The War; The Volunteer System; and most of the Political Topics which have lately been under public Discussion. 8vo. pp. 98. Hatchard.

1804.

THESE letters appeared originally in "The Times," and were written, we understand, by Mr. Coombe, the author of the Devil upon two Sticks in England. Their deserts will be diversely appreciated according to the party spirit that prevails in their readers. We think well of them upon the whole, though we cannot hold it praise-worthy to deal out indiscriminate blame to all who differ from us :

"The coxcomb bird, so talkative and grave, That from his cage cries Cuckold, W

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Though many a passenger he rightly call,

We hold him no Philosopher at all."

and Knave,

Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Boughton-Monchelsea, in Kent. By the Rev. Sir John Head, Bart. M. A. on Occasion of the first Muster of Volunteers, for the General Defence of the Country. 8vo. pp. 16. 4d. or 3s. per Doz. Shaw and Son.

1803.

We have read many sermons more profound and cloquent than Sir John's, but few in which we have seen more honest euthusiasm and good sense.

Letters on the Importance of the present War. By Allan Macleod. Let. I. pp. 22. Let. II. pp. 32. 1s, each. Vernor and Hood.

1804.

MR. MACLEOD appears to have a just sense of the advantages of our constitution, and of the villainous machinations of its Imperial enemy. These epistles deserve circulation.

The Wife of Auchtermuchty: an antient Scottish Poem, with a Translation into Latin Rhyme. 8vo. Neill and Co.

THERE is much ingenuity in this production, but it is of such a nature, that the enjoyment of it must necessarily be limited.

The Fashionable World displayed. By Theophilus Christian, Esq. 8vo. 3s. 6d. Hatchard. 1804.

THIS work is written for the suppression of vice, and the promotion of virtue in the fashionable world; but, alas! he sings to the deaf who writes to those who never read; or if they read, not think

ing, read in vain. The physic is good, but we greatly fear that the patient will not take it.

Avdgãæλavoμevos; or, a Pedestrian Tour through Part of the Highlands of Scotland, in 1781. By John Bristed. 2 Vols. 8vo. 21s. Wallis.

1804.

A MISERABLE account of a miserable tour. It may be delightful, according to the old Greek, to remember past labours, and there may Le some pleasure in recording them, but that pleasure is, in the present instance, confined exclusively to Mr. Bristed.

A Letter to Francis Jeffray, Esq. on certain Calumnies and Misrepresentations in the Edinburgh Review; the Conduct of certain Individuals, on the Night of Mr. Thelwall's Probationary Lecture, at Bernard's Rooms, Edinburgh; and the Ignorance of the New Critical Junto of the simplest Elements of English Composi tion and English Grammar: with an Appendix, containing Outlines of a Course of Lectures on the Science and Practice of Elocution. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Edinburgh. 1804.

We have heard of the improvement which the body has often received from a change of air, but that the mind should experience so much by it, as it would appear that Mr. Thelwall's has, is quite new He has certainly moved out of Boeotia into Attica. In the metropolis he was as heavy a Baotian as we ever "coped withal;" but now 66 quick, presto-begone," he is all that we admire in attic

to us.

wit, acuteness, genius, and learning:

Magister artis, ingenique largitor

VENTER,

Persius

Observations on Mr. Thelwall's Letter to the Editor of the Edinburgh Review. 8vo. 24d. Edinburgh. 1804.

A MAN of Mr. Thelwall's critical powers and extensive knowledge could not decently publish a book for less than two shillings and sixpence, but Mr. Jeffray, with becoming humility, and great judg ment, thought two pence halfpenny sufficient for any work of his in reply to the lecturer. He could not afford much for this price, but we doubt not that Mr. T, will find it enough!

The Duchess de la Valliere, an Historical Romance. By Madame de Genlis. Translated from the French. In two Vols. Murray. 1804.

ANY account of this celebrated and interesting favourite < fLewis the Fourteenth must have proved acceptable; but when attended

by so many other attractions as it assumes in its present form, it becomes, in the greatest degree, pleasing and desirable.

"I have spoken," says Mad. de Genlis," of Lewis XIV. from what I read in those works which should alone guide the historian. I am not, however, sufficiently presumptuous to suppose, that it was possible to delineate his picture in a work of this kind. I could trace only a sketch, but that sketch is, at least, faithful. The character of Madame de la Valliere is represented more in detail; since it is her life which is more particularly the object of the present publication. I have invented many circumstances, but omitted nothing; the entire history of the Duchess de la Valliere given, in this volume, with the most perfect accuracy, since, except in the first thirty pages, the facts are wholly drawn from history." Pref. p. xxiv.

It has been observed by the Duke de Saint Simon, "that Madame de la Valliere was modest, disinterested, and uniformly benevolent. She continually combated against herself; and, at last, proving victorious; fled from the court, to consecrate the remainder of her days to the most rigid and exemplary penitence."

All these feelings are admirably pourtrayed by Mad. de Genlis, and, with other matters of fact, combined with her lively inventions, a work has been produced which will afford no very imperfect knowledge of the gallantry of the voluptuous court of Lewis the XIVth, at the same time that it offers all the amusement of those numerous volumes which have no truth to recommend them.

The translation is, upon the whole, executed with ease and perspicuity. That it might not have been done better, would be to say too much, and that, in a future edition, many loose periods will be revised, and several Gallicisms reformed, is to be hoped.

25.

Useful Arithmetic; or, the most necessary Parts of the Science of Numbers rendered easy. By Adams Taylor. pp. 96. Longman and Rees. 1804.

WE Consider this work as likely to be so useful to young students in arithmetic, that we may safely say, in the style of Dr. Pangloss, "Take two shillings from the gain which the buyer may acquire by it, and there will remain great profit on his side." Cocker.

Walks and Sketches at the Cape of Good Hope. To which is subjoined a Journey from Cape Down to Blettenberg's Bay. By Robert Semple. 8vo. C. and R. Baldwin.

THIS pleasing little volume, gives a concise but not superficial aecount of Cape Town and its environs, to which it might, with propriety, have been entitled a guide. The first three chapters are

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