phers, if ye can! And ye females of feeling, take a leffon from an animal which in fenfibility is your fuperior.'

Sir, think again.

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Fye on't, O fye!" Good

How happy would it be, if mankind were fatisfied with the productions of the earth, without encroaching on the tranquillity, or destroying the lives of its innocent and harmless inhabitants! Refinement has almoft produced the contrary extreme. We are faft approaching to abfolute brutality, and before long we shall want variety in the practice of cruelty, unless we commence Cannibals, a circumfance not improbable. Mercy on us! this is terrible news indeed!

This divine woman!-On every occafion Adelina stands alonein her prefence all others appear fools.' Nay, ray, we will, if you pleafe, acknowledge Adelina to be divine;- but why muft every other woman be confidered as a fool?

STYLE.

On the first alarm of her illnefs almoft the whole females of the village ran, &c.'

When his fenfes returned, and after laying quiet for fome time, &c.' I turn to another that lays by his fide.'

Every Sunday we used to learn each other to read, &c.' Such are the beauties of this production—cum multis aliis

quæ, &c., The Curfe of Sentiment is written for the most part in the form of letters - toward the clofe of the performance, however, we meet with the following advertisement from the Editor:

The Editor, in order to give the Reader as clear and perfect a view of the fequel of this fad hiftory as poffible, finds it neceflary to continue it in part by occafional narration, which he selected and gathered from the letters in his poffeffion of the parties interested.' • This fad hiftory.' The Editor fpeaks ingenuously. The epithet is perfectly just.

Art. 39. Louifa; or the Cottage on the Moor. 12mo.

fewed. Kearfley.

1787.

A not unpleafing, but rather improbable tale.

In all you fay or do,

Ever keep probability in view,'

2 Vols. 6s.

fays a celebrated didactic poet; and this is a rule, for the obfervance of which we have ever been, and ever must be sticklers. If, however, we admit that the incidents of this Novel may poffibly come within the line of natural fiction, as our author calls it, the fable is then intitled to praife, as it is woven with no little degree of árt. The narrative, fome few paffages excepted, is prettily

written.

Art. 40. The Convent: or the Hillory of Sophia Nelfon. By a young Lady. 12mo. 2 Vols. 5s. fewed. Wilkins.

Long and painful have been our wanderings in the mifty regions of fiction and romance. A performance like the prefent, therefore, has nearly the fame effect upon us as the fplendid luminary of the

The reader of the modern Novel will, we think, admit the propriety of the epithet.

Rev. May, 1785.

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heavens

heavens upon the weary and dejected traveller; it cheers, enlivens, and encourages us to purfue our way.

The ftory of this Novel is natural and well imagined. The characters, though not original, are nicely difcriminated and ably fuftained. The incidents, for the most part, grow out of each other, and are managed with a confiderable degree of fkill. The diction is eafy, and fometimes elegant; and the fentiments do honour to the Author's heart.

This production, however, is not without its faults; but where the general merit is fo great, it might appear invidious to point them out.

The fair Writer has evidently taken the Author of Cecilia for a model. Could the have chofen a better?

Art. 41. An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manufcript; with Notes Critical and Explanatory. Small 8vo.

Johnfon. 1786.

4s. fewed.

Though there are in this work too many ideas and fentiments of European growth, to admit of its paffing for a tranflation of an Eaftern manufcript, the piece has all the wildness of Eastern fable: we will add, too, that it preferves the peculiar character of the Arabian Tale, which is not only to overstep nature and probability, but even to pafs beyond the verge of poflibility, and fuppofe things, which cannot be for a moment conceived. For example, this mighty Caliph VATHEK had an eye which, when he was angry, became fo terrible, that no perfon could bear to behold it, and the wretch, upon whom it was fixed, inftantly fell backwards, and fometimes expired; and he was vifited by a firanger who brought with him flippers that enabled the feet to walk, knives that cut without the motion of a hand, and fabres that dealt the blow at the person they were withed to ftrike. The Tale is, notwithstanding, written with fpirit, fancy, and humour, and will afford much entertainment to those who are fond of this kind of reading. It is accompanied with notes, which are of a character entirely different from that of the work, containing many learned quotations, elegant criticifms, and judicious remarks.

Art. 42. The Generous Attachment; a Novel, in a Series of Letters.

12mo. 4 Vols. 10s. fewed. Bew. 1787.

There is nothing in the fable or conduct of this Novel to entitle it to much confideration or regard: neither does the work merit our commendation with refpect to language.

In the third volume, the Author has prefented us with rules to be obferved in Novel-writing; and it is but justice to a knowledge that he has a tolerable idea of what a Novel ought to be. But it is remarked by the Poet-

Example frikes while precept fails.'

This, however, our Author appears to have entirely forgotten, though he has probably borne in mind that,

Sermons are less read than Tales ;'

And that, indeed, may have been his principal inducement for publifhing the Generous Attachment.'

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POETRY.

POETRY.

Art. 43. Lines, addreffed to Mrs. Jordan. 4to. Is. Becket. 1787. The poet paffes high compliments on this favourite Actrefs; accompanied with candid and jult acknowledgements of the tranfcendent merit of Mrs. Siddons, in tragedy.

Art. 44. A Probationary Ode for the Laureateship, by George Keate, Efq; written in 1785, with Notes critical and explanatory, by the Editor. 4to. 25. Kearley. 1787.

A grofs mifapplication of wit and humour.-Mr. K. holds a refpectable rank in the republic of letters.-This fatire on him, and on his writings, feems to have been dictated by private spleen.We never can approve thefe perfonal attacks. They are an intolerable abuse of the liberty of the prefs.-If they have any literary merit, fo much the worse.

Art. 45. The Progress of Mufic: an Ode, occafioned by the Grand Celebration at the Abbey. 4to. Is. 6d. Kearsley. Unluckily, this poem came into our hands juft after we had, by mere accident, been taking a comparative view of Dryden's and Pope's two celebrated odes on the fame fubje&t-the Praife of Mufic.Under the impreffion made on our minds, by the beauties of those Mighty Matters,' it might be fomewhat unfair to speak of the merit of the prefent performance:--which, therefore, we will lay on the shelf, till that impreffion is become a little fainter. Art. 46. The Satires of Juvenal, tranfiated into English Verfe; with a correct Copy of the original Latin on the oppofite Page; cleared of all the most exceptionable PaTages, and illuftrated with marginal Notes from the best Commentators. Alfo, Dr. Brew

fter's Perfius, with the Original on the oppofite Page, and Notes from Caufahon, to illuftrate the Defign and Method, as well as Scope of the feveral Satires. By E. Owen, M. A. Rector of Warrington, and Mafter of the Free School in that Town. 2 Vols. 78. bound. Lowndes. 1785.

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Though, as much friends to decorum as Mr. Owen, we cannot fay that we wholly approve of mutilating ancient Authors, and prefenting them to the public by piece-meal; and though we think Dryden's tra flation not fufficiently accurate in fome paffages, yet the force and fpirit of it have not been equalled in any later effay; and we fufpect that the public will not be fufficiently grateful for Mr. Owen's attempt while Dryden's is in their hands.

We fay not this to depreciate the merit of the prefent work. It is, on the whole, a laudable performance. ihe tranflator is evidently a man of learning, genius, and tafte: and though we might find errors, if we diligently fought for them, yet it is as free of inaccuracies as could have been expected in a work of this nature - where the difficulties originally were not a few, and where our Author's plan, inftead of leffening, tends rather to increase them.

If he fometimes' (as he elegantly expreffes it) dilates or embellishes a thought, it must be remembered that he had an English ear to please: and that, if he fometimes wants the eafe and grace of an original, he had his author's thoughts and images to preferve. Hh 2 The

The first is like that civil verfatility of manners which every man owes to the varying customs of the age in which he lives; but the other is like that integrity and fritnefs of principle which never bends to fashion or convenience at the expence of one fingle virtue.' The notes, at the bottom of the page, and thofe at the close of the fecond volume, will be of great ufe to the young learner.

On the whole, we mu bear our tribute of applaufe to Mr. Owen for his well-meant and ingenious performance; and we fincerely wish that he may meet with fuch indulgence from the public, as may be fome reward for his merit and industry.

MEDICA L.

Art. 47. A Synopfis of a Course of Lectures on Anatomy and Phyfiology. By Bufick Harwood, M B. F. R. S. Profeffor of Anatomy in the Univerity of Cambridge. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Cambridge, Merrill; London, Cadell. 1787.

A performance ufeful only to the anatomical clafs at Cambridge. The arrangement feems to be judiciously formed, and we doubt not that the courfe of lectures, of which this is the outline, will be profitable to the fludents in phyfiology and anatomy.

Art. 48. Nofc gia Methodica Oculorum, or a Treatife on the Difeafe of the Eyes; felected and tranflated from the Latin of Francis Bofier de Sauvages. By George Wallis, M. D.. 8vo. 45. 6d. Boards. Robinfons.

Dr. Wallis hath here given us a methodical arrangement of the difeafes of the eyes, compiled from the admirable Nofology of Sauvages, a work, the merit of which is univerfally acknowledged.

Thus,

He has not purfued the fyftem of Sauvages, but adopted one of his own, clating the difeafes according to their feat. I. Difeafes of the eye-lashes, and eye-lids. II. Difcafes of the angles of the eye. III. Difeafes of the conjunctive membrane. IV. Difeafes of the corneal tunic. V. Difeafes of the chambers of the eye. VI. Difeafes of the uvea, and its membranes. VII. Dif. eafes of the chryftalline lens, and its capfula. VIII. Difeafes of the vitreous humor. IX. Difeafes of the retina. X. Difeafes of the choroideal membrane. XI. Difeafes of the bulb of the eye, XII. Diseases of the optic nerves. XIII. Difeafes of the mufcles of the eyes. XIV. Difeafes of the fat, and cellular membrane in the inferior part of the eye, and the orbit itfelf.

Befide the defcription and cure delivered by Sauvages, Dr. Wallis has added the opinion of other celebrated writers, with feveral remarks of his own.

As to the tranflation, what there is of it is faithfel; but we fee no reason why fo much of Sauvages' mathematics is rejected; the problems, for instance, to determine the concavity and convexity of glafes, fuitable to given degrees of fhort and long fightedness, are certainly very useful; as are alío feveral other matters palled over by Dr. Wallis.

The chief excellence of the work confifts in the Author's remarks on the operations on the eye, which leave us no room to doubt of his abilities as a practical or operative oculi,

Art,

Art. 49. Thefaurus Medicus, five Difputationum in Academia Edinenfi ad Rem Medicam pertinentium, a Collegio inftituto ad hoc ufque Tempus, dilectus à Gulielmo Smellio. Tom. III. & IV. 8vo. 7s. each. Boards. Edinburgh, Elliot. London, Robinsons.

1785.

Thefe two volumes are a continuation of the collection of the fes published at Edinburgh, which we noticed in our Review, vol. lix. P 305. The differtations contained in the third volume are, De Chinchona, Pultney. De Vermibus, Palmer. De Rachitide, Nooth. De Actione Mufculari, Smith. De Febre Bengalenfe, Lind. De Febribus arcendis, Monro-Drummond. De Muficis, Odier. De Cynanche, Crawford. De Perfpiratione Infenfibili, Hamilton. De Cyftirrhea, Parnham. De Vino, Wainman De Morbis Cali Mutatione medendis, Lilie. De Arteriarum et Venarum Irritabilitate, Dennifon. De Hominum Varietatibus, J. Hunter. De Phyfiologia Plantarum, Bell. De Alimentorum Concoctione, Stevens. De Rabie Canina, Heyfham.

De

The fourth volume contains, De Fetus Nutrimento, Evans. De Attractione chemica, Kier. De Nutritione, Wade. De Igne, Cleghorn. De Hydrocephalo interno, Quin. De Confuetudine, Hen. Cullen. De Frigore, Arch. Cuilen. De Cerebro, Nihell. De Syftematis Nervoft Officiis, Stuart De Vafis abjorbentibus, Winterbottom. Syncope, Hare. De Aeris Effectibus, De Butts. De Tetano, Gul. Monro. De Contagione, Owen De Somno, Cleghorn. De Evaporatione, Paterfon. De Leucophlegmatia, Unthank. De Aere fixo, Emmet. De Sanguinis Putridine, Ferris. De Submerfis, M'Donnell.

EDUCATION, &c.

Art. 50. Recreation for Youth: a useful Epitome of Geography and Biography. By John Paterfon Service. Small 4to. 35. 6d. bound. Kearsley. 1787.

In this compendium, we have a general view of the feveral kingdoms, &c. of the globe, in alphabetical order, and the author concludes the first part of his work with what he calls a Treatife on Natural Geography.' He divides geography into two parts, natural and artificial; natural geography, he fays, refpects the globe in its real and natural ftate.' Under this head Mr. S. confiders continents, islands, promontories, &c. The fecond part is a biographical dictionary, abridged, as the Author acknowledges, from the large work under that title, in twelve volumes *. Mr. Service's publication may be ufeful to thofe who do not poffefs larger works of a fimilar kind. That divifion of the geographical pages in which the productions, arts, government, &c. of each country, are defcribed, will afford much information to many readers.

MILITARY AFFAIRS.

Art. 51. General Regulations and Orders for his Majefty's Forces. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Walter.

Thefe regulations are drawn up, at his Majefly's command, by Adjutant General Fawcett; and are a foundation for establishing among the troops that uniformity and fyftem in the performance of all exercifes and movements, which are effentially requifite for mi

See Review for March last, p. 210.

litary