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ART. 20.-Report of the Committee for Investigating the Causes of the alarming Increase of Juvenile Delinquency in the Metropolis. London, Dove, 1816, 8vo. Pp. 32.

THE Committee referred to, originated in some inquiries conducted, twelve months since, by a few benevolent individuals, who were alarmed and afflicted at the increase of juvenile delinquency. In the report are first stated the difficulties the committee had to encounter; and these are followed by a list of the principal obstructions to the utility of their labours. Among them, are three subjects that will, we trust, at an early period, undergo legislative disquisition: the severity of the criminal code, the defective state of the police, and the existing system of prison discipline. An appendix is subjoined, consisting of a few cases of children from eight years upwards, in order to give a general idea of the characters that devolve under the notice of the society.

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SPORTS.

ART. 21.-Instructions to Young Sportsmen on the Choice, Care, and Management of Guns; Hints for the Preservation of Game; Directions for Shooting Wild Fowl, &c. with a concise Abridgment of the principal Game Laws. By P. HAWKER, Esq. The Second Edition, with explanatory Plates, considerably enlarged and improved. London, R. Hunter, 1816, 8vo. Pp. 324.

MR. HAWKER Writes like a professed sportsman, not only in the style of his composition, but in the comprehensive reach of his information; and as far as we can pretend to understand a subject so remote from our general pursuits, the work appears to us a most useful manual for gentlemen engaged in the amusements of the field.

We, perhaps, have too much considered the natural history of birds and quadrupeds, especially the canine species, as the foundation of the knowledge of sportsmen in the immediate subject of their art; and those who look for ingenious illustration in this department of physiology, will not acquire the intelligence they seek from this production: but we think nothing that is generally considered as practically useful will be found to be omitted. The author does not even neglect to console the disappointed sportsman, when he is unsuccessful in his pursuit ; and the terms in which he CRIT. REV. VOL. IV. August, 1816. 2 E

expresses himself in this endeavour, shews his acquaintance with the character of the persons who are to be indebted to his labours. "I may venture to say," says he, "there is no sportsman living who has not been known to miss the fairest shots; and there are very few but, now and then in a season, will shoot badly for a whole day. It stands to reason, when the most skilful may become, for a time, unnerved for shooting, by ill health, oppression of mind, one night's debauch, or any thing that will operate on the temper or

nerves.'

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We shall only add, that a very large portion is devoted to shooting wild fowl, and to the apparatus of an aquatic kind necessary. The work is very handsomely printed, and is embellished with six excellent plates, which are well adapted to the subjects they are intended to explain.

THEOLOGY.

ART. 22.-A Sermon on the Excellencies of the Established Liturgy of our National Church, preached at St Maryle-Bow, Cheapside, &c.; with Prefatory Remarks on the Influence of Private and Public Prayer on the Personal Condition of Man. By the Rev. HENRY G. WHITE, M. A. London, Asperne, 1816, 8vo. Pp. 53.

THE title-page sufficiently explains the contents of this pamphlet. With the reverend author, we are ourselves. among the admirers of the liturgy of our Protestant Church. We admire the simplicity of the language, the devotional fervour of the composition, and the excellency of the purpose of it; but we still think that, like all other human productions, it is capable of improvement. Its history is short. It was composed in 1547, and established by 2 Edw. VI. st. 2, and 3 Edw. VI. c. 1. In the sixth year of the same reign, it was reviewed, when the general confession and absolution were added, and the communion was introduced by the decalogue: the omissions were, the use of oil in confirmation, extreme unction, prayers for souls departed, and what tended to the construction of Christ's real presence in the Eucharist. The last review was in the year 1661; and the Act of Uniformity, enjoining the observance of it, is the 13 and 14 Chas. II. c. 4. The learned author cannot be uninformed that many applications have since been made for a further review; and perhaps, with us, he regrets that they have not been successful; but we do not consider ourselves justified in any conclusion of this kind by the perusal of his discourse.

AT. 23.-A Course of Practical Sermons, expressly adapted o be read in Families. By the Rev. HARVEY MARRIOTT. Second Edition. London, Taylor, 8vo. Pp. 386. THE author supposes, that "the authoritative ministry othe pulpit" is in a style too assuming for "the parent, nster, or other head of a family, to put on, in the nearer al more confined circle of his own domestic audience." I also found, that the sermons used in families contained t much disquisition on the doctrines of Christianity; and t.t both the doctrines and duties of religion were delivered ilanguage above the comprehension of those, for whose befit a Sunday evening lecture is particularly intended. bm such considerations, he was induced to publish the psent work; and we very readily admit its utility; although

think that he, in objecting to doctrinal discourses, has it sufficiently kept in view his own just conceptions of doestic instruction, and has himself introduced too much of atroversial divinity. With the whole that he asserts of e dignity of the character of the religious teacher we rfectly concur; but we conceive that it should be shewn, it by the pride of the Pharisee, but by the humility of the ristian; not by an authoritative, but by an affectionate inistry, such as our divine master recommended and pracsed.

USEFUL INSTITUTIONS.

RT. 24.-Results of Experience in the Treatment of Cases of Defective Utterance, from Deficiencies in the Roof of the Mouth, and other Imperfections and Malconformations of the Organ of Speech; with Observations on Cases of Amentia, and tardy and imperfect Developements of the Faculties. By JOHN THELWALL, Esq. London, Arch, 8vo. Pp. 76.

THE author of this work is at the head of an institution, which he long since established, for the cure of impedients in speech; and the system employed, is not only dapted to the ordinary purposes of superinducing a disinct and intelligible delivery, and to the removal of those lefects usually considered under the denomination of im>ediments, but also to the remedy of feebleness and dissoance of voice-to the correction of foreign and provincial ccents and every offensive peculiarity of tone and enuniation; nor are even those cases precluded from relief, in hich there are natural deficiencies, and malconformations the natural organs of utterance, particularly of the pate and uvula.

This short production is in the form of a letter to Hery Cline, Esq.; and it consists principally of a series of cas of defective utterance, from which we have selected he following, as one of the most interesting and remarkable

"But we have still beneath our roof another case that justifi a more exulting gratification: our more complete success in the tatment of which, is partly attributable to the capacity and energy of the pupil, and partly to the fortunate circumstance of her hang come under our care at a more early age. This young lady, he daughter of a gentleman of independent property in Surrey, can to us when she was nine years old, with no disadvantages of educaon or intellectual developement, and with the defects resulting frommperfect organization as little complicated as could be expecteby mistaken instruction, or habitual blemish. Not that the defect of her utterance were by any means confined to the elements usuly formed by the organs of which she is deficient. This is a phencenon I have never yet observed in any individual case of this descption-either those which have been the immediate subjects of myxperiments, or those which, falling accidentally under my cognizale, many years ago, gave impulse to the train of reflections which timately emboldened my attempt. With her, as with others, I he had much more trouble in producing the perfect sounds of r tain elements for which her organization is comparatively onplete, than those for which the customary implements are deficit. But the task has altogether been easier than it could have beelif she had been older, if she had been worse educated, or of is determined intellect; and, above all, if she had been more tamped with by injudicious attempts to palliate the evil.

This young lady has been with us little more than a year, a (without any loss of time in any of the useful, or even of the onmental attainments that should belong to her sex, her years, and r expectations), has acquired a tolerably agreeable intonation, and utterance perfectly distinct, and even to a considerable degree, graful and emphatic. Her conversation is easy, and if I may make fe to repeat the testimony both of her friends and of strangers, al particularly of the medical gentleman who attends her family, al who confesses that he himself considered the attempt as hopele and impracticable, her reading and recitation are such as might credit even to public speakers who have no defect of organization contend with. I do not mean to say that there is not yet a lit peculiarity in some of the tones of her voice; but such I believe would never suggest to a stranger the particular cause-certain not more than is frequently heard in the voices of persons whe organs are entire: so that, upon the whole, I think may be p mitted to assert, that, if there still remains some little to be do enough has been accomplished to authorise the conclusion, that pseverance can alone be requisite to the attainment of all that in is respect the heart of affection could require. (p. 24-27.)-9

WORKS IN THE PRESS,
Literary Intelligence, &c.

A new poem, intituled Emigration, or London and Paris, will be published in a few days.

Mr. Pope will shortly publish a new edition of his Abridgement of the Laws of the Customs and Excise, brought down to the present time.

A new edition of Mr. Harmer's Observations on various Passages of Scripture, with many important Additions and Corrections by Adam Clarke, LL.D. F.S. A. will be published in a very few days, in 4 vols. 8vo.

In the course of next month, will be published, Doctor Whitby's Discourses on the Five Points in Dispute between Calvinists and Arminians. In this new and correct edition all the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin quotations are translated.

In the month of October will appear a new edition of the Rev. Sir Adam Gordon's Sermons on the Homilies, in 2 vols. 8vo.; revised, corrected, and enlarged, by the Author, and dedicated, with permission, to the Bishop of Lincoln.

In a few days will be published,

a very
limited impression of Low-
man's Rationale of the Hebrew
Ritual, 8vo. This much-esteemed
work has for some time past be-
come so scarce, as usually to sell
for seven times the price at which
it was originally published.

The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1815, when the Sovereignty of the whole Island was ceded to the British Crown; with Characteristic Details of the Religion, Laws, and Manners, of the Peo

ple; Topographical Notices; and a Collection of their Moral Maxims and Ancient Proverbs. By Robert Fellowes, A. M. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford.

The Travels through Upper Italy, the Ecclesiastical States, &c. of the late Charles Theodore Baron d'Uklanski.

A General History of theCounty of York, by Thos. Dunham Whitaker, LL.D. F. S. A. Vicar of Whalley, and Rector of Heysham in Lancashire, is preparing for publication.

Preparing for the press, and to be speedily published, the Ægis of England; being a Collection of those Admirable and Eloquent Addresses, in which have been communicated the Thanks of Parliament to those Officers of the Navy and Army, whose Eminent Services, during the Wars of the French Revolution, have so essentially contributed to the Glory of the British Arms. To which will be added, Notices, Biographical and Military, by Maurice Evans.

Jackson's New and Improved System of Mnemonics, or Two Hours' Study in the Art of Memory; applied to Figures, Chronology, Geography, Statistics, History, Systematic Tables, Poetry and Prose, and to the Common Transactions of Life; rendered Familiar to every Capacity. Illustrated with Plates of more than 100 Subjects, and calculated for the Use of Schools, as well as for those who have attended Public Lectures upon this Science.

A new edition of Headlong Hall will shortly appear.

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