ART. 14. Specimens of a New Tranflation of Juvenal. 8vo. 20 pp. Oxford. 1812. Let this young man, (if he is a young man,) by all means continue his tranflation of Juvenal to the end. He cannot do a wifer thing, for his own improvement. Let him, however, by no means publish a fingle line more of it. He could not do a more foolish thing, on fifty accounts. His tranflation is certainly closer than those which have been lately published; but if he cannot fee that it is far from being better, let him keep it by him till he can; and then he may begin to think himself a tolerable critic. As he would like, perhaps, to fee a few lines of his fpecimens in a periodical work, we will fo far gratify him. "None knows his home better than I the groves Thefe lines have merit of fome kinds, and fo has almost every part of the fpecimens; but who is to read fuch a tranflation? They who can read and relish the original would not, and the mere English reader could not. What is Monychus to him? or "Him Maffa dreads, Carus prefents a fee, And poor Latinus foothes-with Thymele?" How is this more intelligible to fuch a reader, than it was when untranslated? We prefume that feel'd and feel, as rhymes, come from an error of the prefs, the author must have written feel. Laugh and bath alfo, (Sat. 2,) are no rhymes. ART. 15. A Floweret for the Wreath of Humanity, with other Pieces in Verfe, by S. Dobel!. 12mo. 3s. 6d, No Publisher's name. 1812. The produce of the fale of this little volume is to be appro priated to a benevolent purpose, and a very long and refpectable lift of fubfcribers is prefixed. It is our duty therefore to express our best wishes for its fuccefs, but it is far from certain that fuch fuccefs would be promoted by our introduction of an extract. 9 ART. ART. 16. Carmina Selecta Tum Græca, tum Latina Richards Pauli Jodrell Junioris quorum omnia fere intra annum ætatis decimum octavum alumnus Schola Etonenfis confcripfit. 8vo. Taylor. 1810. These poems, which are truly claflical, confidering the age of the writer, may be ranked among the more elegant productions of the kind which modern times have produced. They are on various fubjects, and most of them appear to have been school exercifes, of which no inconfiderable proportion were distinguished by school honours and rewards. They are alfa in various metres, in all of which Mr. Jodrell appears to have attained no mean excellence; we were much pleased with the following fapphics as every reader muft also be. Nunquam fe minus folum effe quam cum folus dicebat. "Forte fi fluctus fugis inquietos Urbium, læfufque recentiorum Impios mores hominum, hoc fub antro "Hic facrum Mufis nemus, hic falutat Otii hic regnat Genius filenti "Tutus his umbris Dryadum et quieto "En tibi fimplex radiat fupellex "Solus hac dulci meditans caverna "Si fophus diam Uranien vereris "Si Camærarum facer aufpicato Strenua furtim requie ferenos ART. 17. The Confolations of Erin, an Eulogy, by Charles Philips, A.B. of the middle Temple, Author of the Loves of Celeftine and St, Aubert, a Romantic Tale. 5s. Stockdale. 1811. The other publication of this writer, which is announced in the title page of the prefent, we had occafion to reprobate for its puerility and want of decency. We have no fcruple, however, in allowing kim the claim of poetical talent which we think he may eafily improve. I he confolations of Erin, are, in this writer's eftimation, the diftinguifhed Irishmen of the present day, who are objects of their country's attention: and his eulogies are directed to Sheridan, Grattan, Kirwan, Curran, Lord Moira and others. The following, which is intended to praife Mr. Moore, may ferve as a fpecimen. "See fee who comes with careless measure Looking blifs and breathing pleasure, Led along by beauty's choir, With heart of feather, tongue of fire A Cupid carrying his lyre; He on whom ments and minions rail Monks, reader, in this author's language, means the friend's of decency. ART. 18. Loofe Papers. 3d Edition. 16 pp. IS. Barker. Dereham. 1812. We have reason for believing, that these facetious verses have proceeded from the fame hand which diverted us with "Abolition of Tithes," noticed in our Review, vol. xxxvi. p. 316. The fong called the Contraft, at p. 8, betwixt old and new farmers in Norfolk, is entertaining; and if the latter could perfuade this fatirist to fpare them in future, many a deferved laugh againft them might be prevented. There is fomething very whimfical in the form and manner of the tract. In the first place there is not a fingle ftop of any kind from the beginning to the end. This is not accident. The author fays, "And all the ftops are here omitted That none by ftops may be outwitted The form is alfo fingular, but that perhaps is merely the effect of a country prefs. Y BRIT. CRIT. VOL. XXXIX. MARCH, 1812. ART. ART. 19. Progrefs of Arts and Sciences, a Poem, in Two Cantos. 12mo. 32 pp. Harris. 1811. The great fault in the plan of this little poem is, that it is founded on the heathen hypothefis of the ftate of nature, a golden age, &c. Yet the poet who thus contradicts revealed hiftory, like many others, who have written in the fame inconfiderate way, certainly did not mean to oppofe revelation. In the Progrefs of Mufic he has these lines; "Till Handel bade th' up lifted trumpet blow, To hail the Seraphim in burning row; His Saviour's birth in peals exftatic rung, And to the Lord of lords, triumphant fung." P. 26. The sketch is much too fhort and rapid for its fubject, nor is the author very eminently a master of the power of verfification. It is a poem rather calculated for private circulation than for public fale. NOVELS. ART. 20. Memoirs of an Author. By Jane Harvey, Author of Ethetia, Tynemouth Castle, Governor of Belleville, Warkfield Caftle, c. 3 vols. 12mo. 1gs. 6d. Longman and Co. 1812. What the merits of Ethelia, Tynemouth Castle, and the other works of this author recapitulated above, may be, we cannot pretend to fay, but we have no fcruple in avowing that we have perufed this with particular fatisfaction. The title was perhaps fome allurement to curiofity, and held out a certain bait for our fympathy, but we were pleafed to find a tale well told, characters well drawn, particularly that of Dr. Ingleby, and incidents imagined and connected with much fkill and interest. If the reader can get over the first part of the firft volume, where the prefervation of the heroine from the fall of a stack of chimneys, is rather ftale, he will have little, or indeed no cause to regret the perufal of the whole. Lady Bradshaw reminds us of Lady Bellafton in Tom Jones, but her becoming the dupe of an artful foreigner, is hardly confiftent with that acuteness, fubtlety, and knowledge of the world, which are made the great features of her character. However, there are defects of no great magni. tude, and the whole may be recommended as a very pleafing per formance of the kind. Some elegant verfes will be found in terfperfed. ART. 21. Fatal Love, or Letters from a Villager. 12mo. 8s. 'Stockdale. 1812 This is a terrible and melancholy tale, not however ill told, of love and madness, croffes, difappointments, and vexations in numerable numerable. The love on one part, bafe and difhonourable, the madness the refult of loft innocence, and the pangs of confcious guilt. We do always, and moft ferioufly lament to fee refpectable talents exercised on fuch fubjects. ART. 22. Good Men of Modern Date, a Salonical Tale, in Three Tegg. 1812. The author of thefe volumes, who appears to be well qualified for much better undertakings, complains in her introduction of having had fome of her former productions pirated. She muft content herself with the reflection that is no inconfiderable proof of her merit. The prefent work is entertaining, but appears to have been haftily put together, let us hope from no other want than the want of time. LAW. ART. 23. Remarks upon, and propofed Improvements of, the Bill for Parifh Regifters; ordered to be printed, June 21, 1811. Second Edition enlarged. Including Out-lines of a Parish-Regifter Bill; and of another Bill for Diffenters. By the Rev. S. Partridge, M. A. F.S. A. Vicar of Bofton, late Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. 8vo. 50 pp. 2s. Rivingtons, &c. 1812. Since we called the attention of the public to this valuable tract, in our review for January, page 89; the author has been honoured with correfpondence and communications, by the right honourable mover of the Bill. In confequence of this, many valuable additions are inferted, throughout the whole of the tract; which deferve the more notice, because they are founded on the very highest information. Thefe acceffions are too numerous for us to copy, or even specify them ; but we fhall infert one of the firft, as it relates to an interefting fubject. "It appears," from the information abovementioned," that objections to a General Regifter Office in London, would probably have been in great meafure prevented if the following words had here been added, especially to the widows, children, and other relative of deceased Jeamen, by the prompt and much wanted supply of certificates to the Navy Office! This was the immediate occafion of the prefent bill; injuries to thofe poor per fons inceffantly falling under the notice of the Mover, as Treasurer of the Navy. The late investigation of a right to a Pierage was not (as many perfons have fuppofed) even in his contemplation. To foldiers alfo, though lefs frequently, the General Register Office would be useful." P. 3. To our copy, which we received from the very excellent author of the tract, is fubjoined in MS. the following addendum. Y 2 "Would |