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 Bonie Doon, a song, by Burns, as originally written, LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Recent and Proposed American Publications, Recent and Proposed British Publications. NUMBER VIII. REVIEWS. PAGE 1 8 10 24 27 43 44 45 55 61 66 · 68 70 ibid 71 72 Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney, 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, Particulars of the Execution of Mary Bateman and John Brown, 131 PAGE Extraordinary Incident, Memoirs of the late General Paoli, Account of the earliest Discovery of Diamonds in Brasil, Remains of Druidical Practices, 122 133 135 ibid The Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem destroyed by Fire Method of preserving Fruit without Sugar, for Home Use or Sea Stores, 141 142 ibid 143 Proposed Alteration in the Scale of the Thermometer, LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Recent and Proposed American Publications. ibid ibid 144 NUMBER IX. REVIEWS. Scloppetaria; or Considerations on the nature and use of rifle-barrel 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, 145 150 171 176 187 Fisher's Pathetick Tales, Poems, &c. 188 SPIRIT OF THE MAGAZINES. A Memoir of Job, an African High Priest, 189 Sir E. Brydges, K. J. and Robert Broomfield," Pastoral Poet," 195 197 Law Report-Miss Mary York, 198 Order for the Lord Mayor's preparing the ceremony of the solemn entry of Charles I. of Spain, into London, A. D. 1522, On the Instinct of Dogs, and an account of a Remarkable Dog, 273 Singular account of an Eagle's Nest, 274 Extraordinary Sagacity of a Sheep, 275 Digest of the necessary rules for making Bon-mots, &c. An account of the English Ambassadour's Audience with the Sultan. 276 277 264 ibid 285 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 Frederick Bartholomew Folch and William Howard's patent Machine, LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Recent and Proposed American Publications Recent and Proposed British Publications. NUMBER XI. REVIEWS. ibid ibid 267 Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, by Robert Ker Porter, La Fete de la Rose; or the Dramatick Flowers, Hunting Match for the Entertainment of Mary, Queen of Scots, 333 On the Conduct of Lady Montague, towards H. Fielding 334 Shenstone's Pastorals, 335 Habits attributed to the Crocodiles of the Nile, ibid Account of Cayenne, with Anecdotes of Victor Hugues, Account of Socivizca, a famous Robber, Explanation of the Phrase, "Under the Rose." 341 348 350 354 357 M. Degan's Machine for Raising a Person into the Air, ibid Dr. Brewster's Instrument for determining Distances at one Station, without measuring a base, &c. 358 A Cursory View of Prussia, from the Death of Frederick II. to the Miss Edgeworth's Tales of Fashionable Life, Camilla De Florian, and other Poems. By an Officer's Wife, 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, 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. Mr. Hume's new plan for detecting Arsenick, 361 366 Custom of applying Oil, Honey, &c. in cases of Burns and Scalds, 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 VOL. II. 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 A |