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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

NUMBER VII

REVIEWS.

A NEW System of Domestick Cookery,

Woman; or, Ida of Athens,

Reliques of Robert Burns,

The Siege of Rochelle, or Misfortune and Conscience. By Madame

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Bonie Doon, a song, by Burns, as originally written,
Translation by Cowper of a Latin Sonnet by Milton.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Recent and Proposed American Publications,

Recent and Proposed British Publications.

NUMBER VIII.

REVIEWS.

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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney,
The last years of the Reign and Life of Louis XVI.
Weber's Memoirs of Maria Antoinetta,

Dissertations on the Gipsies,

Pamphlets on the Gas Lights,

Fragments in Prose and Verse. By a young Lady, lately deceased,

Historical Account of the Campaign of Buonaparte in Italy,

The Wedding among the Flowers,

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Particulars of the Execution of Mary Bateman and John Brown,

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Extraordinary Incident,

Memoirs of the late General Paoli,

Account of the earliest Discovery of Diamonds in Brasil,

Remains of Druidical Practices,

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem destroyed by Fire
Discovery of Antiquities.

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Method of preserving Fruit without Sugar, for Home Use or Sea Stores, 141
Patent for a new Method of manufacturing Umbrellas, Parasols, &c.
The French Mode of Fining or Clarifying Wine,
Use of the Aloe in the East Indies,

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Proposed Alteration in the Scale of the Thermometer,
New Mode of drying White Lead.

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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Recent and Proposed American Publications.

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NUMBER IX.

REVIEWS.

Scloppetaria; or Considerations on the nature and use of rifle-barrel

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Periodical Accounts relative to the Baptist Missionary Society,

Bingley's Memoirs of British Quadrupeds,

Memoirs of Captain George Carleton,

The Works of Mrs. Anne Steele,

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Fisher's Pathetick Tales, Poems, &c.

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SPIRIT OF THE MAGAZINES.

A Memoir of Job, an African High Priest,

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Sir E. Brydges, K. J. and Robert Broomfield," Pastoral Poet,"
Remarkable Escape from death,

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Law Report-Miss Mary York,

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Order for the Lord Mayor's preparing the ceremony of the solemn

entry of Charles I. of Spain, into London, A. D. 1522,

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On the Instinct of Dogs, and an account of a Remarkable Dog,

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Singular account of an Eagle's Nest,

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Extraordinary Sagacity of a Sheep,

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Digest of the necessary rules for making Bon-mots, &c.

An account of the English Ambassadour's Audience with the Sultan.

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A Valentine from Constance to Mellidor,

Mary, a Simple Story.

PHILOSOPHICAL AND ECONOMICAL INTELLIGENCE.

An elegant method of obtaining very exact and pleasing Representations of Plants,

Mr. G. Irvin's Experiment on Soapsuds as a Manure,

Mr. Andrew Brown's Improvement in the construction of a Printing
Press,

Frederick Bartholomew Folch and William Howard's patent Machine,
Instrument or Pen, for Writing: also, a certain black Writing Ink
or Composition.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Recent and Proposed American Publications

Recent and Proposed British Publications.

NUMBER XI.

REVIEWS.

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Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, by Robert Ker Porter,
Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres,
Travels through the South of France, by Lieutenant Colonel Pinkney.
An Account of the Empire of Morocco, by James Gray Jackson, Esq.
A Poetical Picture of America, by a Lady,

La Fete de la Rose; or the Dramatick Flowers,

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Hunting Match for the Entertainment of Mary, Queen of Scots,

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On the Conduct of Lady Montague, towards H. Fielding

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Shenstone's Pastorals,

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Habits attributed to the Crocodiles of the Nile,

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Account of Cayenne, with Anecdotes of Victor Hugues,
Observations on the Spider,

Account of Socivizca, a famous Robber,

Explanation of the Phrase, "Under the Rose."

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M. Degan's Machine for Raising a Person into the Air,
Baron Lutgendorf's Machine by which a Person may exist under Water, ibid
Aërostation,

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Dr. Brewster's Instrument for determining Distances at one Station, without measuring a base, &c.

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A Cursory View of Prussia, from the Death of Frederick II. to the
Peace of Tilsit,

Miss Edgeworth's Tales of Fashionable Life,

Camilla De Florian, and other Poems. By an Officer's Wife,
The Husband and the Lover. A Historical and Moral Romance,

The Cavern; Or, The Two Sisters,

Memoirs of William Paley, D. D.

Amelia Mansfield. By Madame Cottin,

The Minstrel,

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,

Nubilia, in Search of a Husband,

Memoir on Fiorin Grass,

Enfield's Compendium of the Laws and Constitution of England,
Tales of Instruction and Amusement, for the Use of Young Persons.

SPIRIT OF THE MAGAZINES.

Biographical Anecdotes of the late Marshal Souworow,

Character of the celebrated Whitfield,

Anecdote of Steele and Addison,

Some Circumstances relative to Merino Sheep,

Fashionable form of Invitation to a Bidding Wedding in Wales,

Miscellaneous Articles,

Anecdotes of several Species of Birds.

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Mr. Hume's new plan for detecting Arsenick,

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Custom of applying Oil, Honey, &c. in cases of Burns and Scalds,
Account of Works constructed for the Manufacture of Mineral Tar,

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SELECT REVIEWS.

FOR JULY, 1809.

FROM THE LONDON REVIEW.

A new System of Domestick Cookery, formed upon Principles of Economy, and adapted to the use of private Families. By a lady. A new Edition, corrected. London, printed for John Murray, Fleet Street; J. Harding, St. James's Street; and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh. 7s. 6d. Reviewed by Mr. J. Smith.

THE three booksellers to whom the world is indebted for this ingenious Treatise on the Art of Eating and Drinking, could not have been more happily marshalled by a king at arms, than they are in the titlepage of this work. Mr. John Murray lives within the city walls, and is, upon that account, positively the best judge of cookery. Mr. J. Harding, of a more courtly residence, may comparatively possess some knowledge of the subject; but Messrs. A. Constable and Co. of Edinburgh, must be pronounced, by all impartial judges, superlatively unfit to give evidence in the cause. A work which treats of oyster patties, green peas, ratafea cream, and London syllabub, must be as much a "sealed book" to our Scottish neighbours, as that northern luminary, Allan Ramsay, is to us darkling natives of the south. The only effect which it can produce in the shop window of the aforesaid A. Constable and Co. is to quicken their countrymen in their journey south ward (like the hay before the horse's nose in Ireland) and thus to overcome that bashful repugnance to visiting England which has ever been the characteristick of a North Briton. But, as a striking title is half the bat

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tle, ought not our authoress, in policy, to have entitled her book: "The Belly and the Members," and dedicated it to our representatives in parliament ?

This would have established her fame in a moment, and consigned old Menenius Agrippa's fable of that name to merited oblivion. The great object of the great mass of mankind, docti indoctique, is to eat. From the savage of Terra del Fuego, whose food is worms extracted from decayed wood, to the peripatetick of Bond Street, who, having performed the duties of the morning, regales on turtle and iced champagne; and, while he picks his teeth, eyes with disdain the ignoble herd through the green lattices of Steevens's Hotel, it may be stated, as an indisputable fact, that man is a cooking animal, and increases in civilisation in proportion to the beauty and variety of the produce of his saucepans. The degeneracy of the Jew may, upon this principle, be fairly ascribed to the trainoil that meanders through his viands. The debased condition of the negro may safely be imputed to the yams and cassava which he dignifies with the name of dinner; and what political efforts can this country ever expect

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