"This is a humorous poem, in which the style of Hudibras is most happily imitated. Those who delight to laugh at the philosophick follies of the day, will be much gratified by the perusal of Terrible Tractoration. In every age the half learned are offering their wild theories, and exhibiting their minute discoveries to the world, for which they claim high seats in the Temple of Science, and demand ever-green honours. Such always find gazers to look up and admire, whilst flattery decorates them with laurels. It is the part of satire to assign them their proper rank, and to strip from their brows the unmerited wreaths, which encompass them. To a certain portion of the philosophists and empyricks of the day, Christopher Caustick has performed this office."

Monthly Anthology and Boston
Review, for February, 1805.

"In commending CHRISTOPHER CAUSTICK, we are only subscribing to the opinions expressed by the people of another country. To be behind that country, in our appreciation of his merits, were a stigma; it is very pardonable to go beyond it. National vanity may be a folly, but national ingratitude is a crime. Terrible Tractoration was successful on its first appearance in England, and as yet seems to have lost none of its popularity. It belongs to that class of productions, which have the good fortune to escape what Johnson angrily, but too justly, denominates the general conspiracy of human nature against cotemporary merit.”

The Monthly Anthology, for April, 1805..

NOW IN THE LORENZO PRESS,

And will shortly be published, under the inspection of the author, in a handsome octavo volume, with plates, a new and much enlarged edition of a poem entitled MODERN PHILOSOPHER,

OR

TERRIBLE TRACTORATION!!

a poetical petition against Galvanizing Trumpery, and the Perkinistick Institution, addressed to the royal College of Physicians, London, by CHRISTOPHER CAUSTICk, M. D. A.S.S. fellow of the royal college of physicians, Aberdeen, and Honorary member of no less than nineteen very learned societies.

ALSO,

IN THE LORENZO PRESS,

And will be published in a few weeks,

THE LIFE AND PONTIFICATE OF LEO X. In four volumes,

BY WILLIAM ROSCOE,

Ornamented with four handsome copper plate engravings by that distinguished artist, Mr. Edwin.