marble, but wanted art to carve a head on a nut-shell.

The leading defects in the New Man of Feeling are, violent metaphors, long-winded reflections, and Fleet declamatory sentiment.

wood seems possessed of all the foibles of our author, with very few of his excellences.] On those occasions, where he used to be instructive or entertaining, he appears here to be irrelative or tedious; where he was formerly elevated or moving, he seems now to be fulsome or puerile. He is frequently so inflated with the effervescence too of his fancy, that he resembles new beer in the labours of refinement. He is continually sighing at the vent with a sad string of ahs....ahs....ahs!!! or popping off in foam with....good God!...just heavens !...and, poor Mary! You must first be contented to remove the froth from his surface, before you taste of his spirit, or you may be frosted to the eyes in the exuberance of his head. To afford our readers an example of the true sublime and pathetick, we quote the following soliloquy of the New Man of Feeling :

Shall I go to my wife, and confront her with this new evidence of her guilt? No, I will never speak with her, never see her more. It is a condescension unworthy of an injured husband ever to admit his prostituted consort into his presence! It is as if God should go down and visit Satan in his polluted, sulphureous abodes! How from my inmost soul I abhor her! How I will hold her up to the abhorrence of the world!How I should like to see her torn with red-hot pincers!To what a height I have loved her! No, no, no, no, no-never !

If this, gentle readers, be not rhetorick run mad, then have we no skill in criticism. Another objection to Fleetwood is the fashion of its episodes. They seem to

break out unnaturally from the
body of the work, and wear the ap-
pearance of excrescences, rather
than branches. We are told a
kind of cock-and-bull story about
a whimsical little boy, who trav
elled, nobody knows how far, and,
in fact, nobody cares, to introduce
himself, forsooth, to Louis the
fourteenth. Now this, certainly,
is a very singular affair, and for
that reason, unquestionably, very
pretty. But Mr. Godwin should
remember, that he is not compos.
ing for the entertainment of nurs
eries. Our author too, ever will-
ing to take up any threads but
those of his story, diverted him-
self so long in the mill at Lyons,
that we began to suspect him to
be occupied by the spinning out of
other matter than silk. For a doz-
en pages, or more, we heard noth-
ing but the rattling of swifts, chil-
dren scampering for broken twist,
and the trampling of a mill-horse,
who gave spring to' this hubbub.
On the whole; there is very little
in these volumes that reminds one
of Mr. Godwin, excepting his visit
to Ruffigny and his name on the
title.

not a man of superlative talents, but it does not require very transcend ant powers to accomplish all that he proposes. His design is to give a survey of the general objects of knowledge, which he reduces under the following classes: Relig ion, language, history, philosophy, polite literature and the fine arts, and the sources of national pros perity. We were at first apprehensive that we were sitting down to the examination of another at tempt "to show a royal path to geometry ;" and we give Mr. Kett his highest praise, when we say our suspicions were unjust. He has not debased the dignity of lit erature, by making superficial knowledge of it more easy; he only gives his youthful reader a view of the objects and present state of science, and admits him to see at a distance its "goodly prospects," and hear its "melodious sounds," without concealing or diminishing the difficulties,

which must be overpassed before he can completely enjoy them.

The American edition is remarkably neat, and we examined it with unmingled pleasure, till we met the following passage, which is inserted in a note on the chapter on the Greek language.

The English reader must make a due allowance

cal pedant, who seems to believe all the idle sto

for the exaggerated praise of a credulous classiries which the Grecian writers relate of their Countrymen. If the celebrated Romances of Mrs Radcliffe had been written by a Republican of Athens, they would probably have held the first rank in ancient literature.

That sublime moralist. and profound scholar, Mr. Godwin, is equally liberal of his praise of the

language, literature, and virtues of the Romans.

See Godwin's Inquirer.

Editor.

We want words to express our indignation at the unexampled impertinence of this intrusion on Mr. Kett. Its absurdity and imbecility does not at all apologize for its insolence; and if the works which are reprinted in this country are to be thus polluted, our hopes from the growing utility of our press must be at once relinquished.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE

OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE U. STATES, FOR MARCH, 1806.

We cannot too often repeat solicitations to authors, printers, and booksellers, in the different parts of the United States, to send us by the earliest opportunities (post paid) notices of all books which they have lately published, or which they intend to publish. The list of New Publications, &c. contained in the Anthology is the only list within our knowledge published in the United States, and consequently the only one that can be useful to the publick for purposes of general reference. If authors and publishers will consent to communicate, not only notices, but a copy of all their publications, such use might be made of them as would promote, what all unite in ardently wishing, the general interest of American literature, and the more extensive circulation of books.

NEW WORKS.

HISTORY of the Rife, Progrefs, and Termination of the American Revolu tion; interfperfed with biographical, political, and moral Obfervations. In

Vol. III. No. 3. W

three volumes. By Mrs. Mercy Warren, of Plymouth, (Ma) Vols. I. and II. 8vo. 1ft vol. pp. 448, 2d vol. 412. Bofton: Printed by Manning & Loring, for E. Larkin. 1805.

The firft Supplement to the Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, colJected and arranged by B. Smith Barton, Profeffor of Materia Medica, Natural Hiftory, and Botany, in the University of Pennfylvania. 8vo. Philadelphia 1806.

A Syftem of Geometry and Trigonom etry; together with a treatise on Surveying; teaching various ways of taking the furvey of a field, alfo to protract the fame, and find the area. Likewife rectangular furveying; or an accurate method of calculating the area of any field arithmetically, without the neceffity of plotting it. To the whole are added feveral mathematical Tables, neceffary for folving questions in trigonometry and furveying with a particular explana tion of thole tables, and the manner of ufing them. Compiled from various authors, by Abel Flint, A. M. Hartford. Lincoln & Gleason.

No 85 of A new and complete Encyclopædia, or univerfal dictionary of arts and fciences. 4to. New York.

The American Gardener's Calender; adapted to the climates and feafons of the United States, containing a complete account of all the work neceflary to be done in the kitchen garden, fruit garden, orchard, vineyard, nurfery, pleafureground, flower garden, green-house, hothoufe, and forcing frames, for every mouth in the year. To which are annexed, ex enfive catalogues of the different kinds of plants, which may be cultivated either for ufe of ornament in the feveral departments, or in rural economy; divided into eighteen alphabetical claffes, according to their habits, duration, and modes of culture; with explanatory introductions, marginal marks, and their true Linnæan or botanical, as well as English names; together with a copious index to the body of the work. By Bernard M Mahon, nursery, feedfman, and florift, Philadelphia. Price, full bound, 3,50. Philadelphia. 1806.

A Compendious Dictionary of the Eng Efh language, in which five thoufand words are added to the number found in the best English compends; the orthography is in fome inftances corrected, the pronunciation marked by an accent, or other fuitable direction; and the definitions of many words amended and improved. To which are added, for the benefit of the merchant, the ftudent and the traveller,

I. Tables of the moneys of most of the commer: cial nations in the world, with the value expreffed in fterling and cents. II. Tables of weights and

meafures ancient and modern, with the propertion betwen the feveral weights used in the prin cipal cities of Europe. 111. The divisions of time among the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, with table exhibiting the Roman manner of dating, IV. An official lift of the post-offices in the United States, with the itates and counties in which they are respectively fituated, and the diftance of each from the feat of government. V. The number of inhabitants in the U. States, with the amount of exports. VI. New and interesting chronologi cal tables of remarkable events and difcoveries.

By Noah Webfter, Efq. From Sidney Freis, for Hudfon & Goodwin, Hartford, and Increase Cooke & Co. New-Haven. 12mo. pp. 408. 1806.

A Collection of the Effays on the Subject of Epifcopacy, which originally ap peared in the Albany Centinel, and which are afcribed principally to Rev. Dr. Linn, Rev. Mr. Breasley, and Thos Y. How, Efq. With additional notes and remarks. New York. T. & J

Swords. 1 dol. 1806.

A Paftoral Letter from the Right Rev Thomas John Clagget, D. D. bishop of the Proteftant Epifcopal Church in Maryland, to the clergy and congregation of the faid church. New York. T. & J Swords. 1806.

An abridgment of Henry on Prayer, confifting of a judicious collection of fcriptures, proper to the feveral parts of the duty, with an effay on the nature and duty of prayer; to which are and nexed fome forms of prayer. By a committee of the North Confociation of Hartford County. Hartford, Lincoln & Gleason. 50 cents.

Familiar Letters, to the Rev. John Sherman, once paftor of the church in Mansfield, in particular reference to his late anti-trinitarian Treatife. By Daniel Dow, paftor of a church in Thompson, Connecticut. Hartford. Lincoln and Gleason. 1806. 25 cents.

Illuftrations and Reflections on the ftory of Saul's confulting the witch of Endor. A difcourfe, delivered at WestSpringfield. By Jofeph Lathrop, D D. paftor of the first church in faid town. 8vo. pp. 20. Springfield, (Maff.) H. Brewer. 1806.

A new-year's fermon, preached at Lee, January 1, 1804. By Rev. Alvan Hyde, paftor of the church in Lee.

A difcourfe before the Society for propagating the Gofpel among the Indians and others in North America, delivered Nov. 7, 1805. By Jofeph Eckfey, D. D. Minifter of the Old South Church in Bofton. E. Lincoln.

A fermon, delivered at Lenox, (Mäff.) February 20th, 1806, being the day of the execution of Ephraim Wheeler, pur

INTELLIGENCE.