Great Luminary! lovely tho' thou feem'ft In fome lone field (their bed the dewy grafs,-. To fome proud manfion; long they importun'd, A fimilar caft of fentiment, enlivened with feveral picturesque touches, runs through this poem, and renders it, notwithstanding fome profaic lines, a pleafing production. The author has given only the first of thefe books, under the title of Morning:' but he intimates an intention of completing the defign of adding Noon,' and Evening.' The volume contains, befide the poems already mentioned, several fmaller pieces, devotional, fentimental, and humourous; the writer's attempts in the two former kinds are more successful than in the latter. Art. 32. The Melancholy Catastrophe of Peter Pindar, Efq. Being Two Odes in Reply to Pindar's Attack upon Paine; with a Revolution Song. Embellished with a capital Caricature of a Peep into Bethlehem. By Peter Fig, Efq. F. R. S. &c. 4to. pp. 17. 1s. 6d. Hamilton. 1791. Having learnt of Peter Pindar, Efq;-as appears from fome faint marks of imitation, to brandish the poetical quarter-ftaff, 'Squire Fig (graceless elf!) levels a blow at the head of his mafter. Miffing, however, his aim, P. P. remains unhurt. By Melancholy Catastrophe,' 'Squire Fig [fome grocer, belike,] alludes to P. P.'s confinement in Bedlam, whither he is fent by this caftigator, in company with poor Mr. B-ke. Mr. Fig profeffes a warm attachment to the caufe of freedom, with refpect to which he confiders Meffrs. Burke and Pindar as apoftates: but if he be not better skilled in politics than he is in poetry, no party, we apprehend, will be forward to accept him as its champion. Art. 33. The Miller's Tale: from Chaucer. 4to. pp. 27. 28. The licentia poetica has, in all ages, trefpaffed not only on grammar, but on decorum. Old Chaucer's tranfgrellions of this The Sun.' Jatter latter kind, in his Canterbury Tales, are too grofs for modern politeness; and his former imitators have taken more care to preferve his jeft, than to conceal his indelicacy. Whether the prefent writer, who is certainly not without talents for verfification, has exactly dreffed up this old difh to the taste of the prefent time, we fhall not pretend to determine. Art. 34. Oenone to Paris: an Epistle of Ovid. To which is added, IS. Thefe tranflations are not without merit: they are, however, too diffufe, and, in fome inftances, not fufficiently faithful to the originals. The English verfion from Ovid is fuperior to the Latin tranflation of Shenftone's celebrated Elegy on Jey. Art. 35. A poetical Epifle from Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, to Leopold II. Emperor of Germany. By Thomas Atkinson. Hamilton. 1791. Evo. Pp. 18. IS. Mr. Atkinfon is very defirous that the fentiments, contained in thefe pages, fhould not be confidered as his, but as coming from the Queen of France; and we fufpe&t, that the Queen of France, were the to read them, would be as anxious to refer them back again, as the fole property of Mr. Atkinson. Art. 36. Congal and Fenella: a Tale. In two Parts. 8vo. pp.68. 2s. Dilly. 1791. -Related in the ballad-stanza, which, of all kinds of verfe, is manufactured with the greateft facility; witnefs Dr. Johnson's humourous fpecimen: "I put my hat upon my head, And walk'd into the Strand, Whofe hat was in his hand." Our author, from his motto, (nec lufiffe pudet,) feems to have had this idea of it. He confiders this tale rather as the playfulness, than as the labour, of his Mufe. In reviewing it, we are not to cenfure the author because he has not produced an Epic poem. He has imitated his predeceffors in the ufe of expletives, and in drawing out a thought through many lines. Some parts, however, of his Congal and Fenella, are pleafing and affecting; and, to many readers, it will, no doubt, afford pleasure. The ufurpation of Macbeth,' fays the advertisement, well known by the immortal pen of Shakespeare, gave rife to this tale. It is an epifode in that hiftory; and the fcene is placed on the claffic banks of the Spey, in Scotland.' Art. 37. The Collects of the Church of England, imitated in Verfe; to which is fubjoined, The Happy Man. By John Rufher, Charlbury, Oxon. 4to. pp. 85. 1s. 6d. Robinfons. 1790. As Mr. Rufher informs us that he has been encouraged, by feveral eminent fchool mafters, to hope that this verfification of the Collects may be of infinite ufe, efpecially to young perfons; and that they REV. DEC. 1791. I i are are fuited to the most indigent capacity;' we recommend to him not to flop fhort, but, as he finds the church fervice fo fufceptible of poetic graces, to go through the whole Book of Common Prayer, and the Thirty-nine Articles: a labour which will exalt him to rank as a meet affociate with those transcendant laureats of the church, Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins. After this free approbation and friendly advice, we are truly forry to fufpect Mr. John Rufher of plagiarism, in the fecond paragraph of his preface; which appears to be a parody of a paffage in the Quaker's Grace, written by that profane wit, Tom Brown, of eccentric memory. Let our readers judge: Tom Brown. "Water us young shrubs with the dew of thy bleffing, that we may grow up into tall oaks, and live to be fawed out into deal boards, to wainscot thy New Jerufalem." John Rusher. What heavenly fruit may be expected from thus planting the fertile foil of the infant mind with comprehenfive prayer! which, if watered with the Divine bleffing, will continually grow, take deep root, and can never be eradicated; but even, when lopped by the broad axe of death, will break out more abundantly in praise and adoration, and flourish through a glorious eternity.' Art. 38. The Epitaph Writer; confifting of upwards of Six Hundred original Epitaphs, moral, admonitory, humourous, and fatirical; numbered, claffed, and arranged, on a new Plan; chiefly defigned for those who write or engrave Infcriptions on Tombstones. Part I. contains general Epitaphs of two and four Lines each. Part II. Epitaphs on various Characters and Relations in Life, as Fathers, Mothers, Husbands, Wives, Young Men, Young Women, Infants, and a great Variety of moral and religious Characters. Part III. humourous and fatirical Epitaphs, defigned as Satires on Vice and Folly. To which is prefixed, An Effay on Epitaph Writing. By John Bowden. 12mo. pp. 160. 2s. 6d. Sael. 1791. Every one to their tafte;-Mr. John Bowden's mind hovers continually over the grave, for which he provides couplets and ftanzas by wholesale; as a flop-taylor makes coats, waiftcoats, and breeches, of all fizes and patterns, ready for chance customers. What might not Meffrs. John Bowden and John Rusher accomplish, by uniting their congenial powers! Art. 39. Animal Magnetism, a Ballad: with explanatory Notes and Obfervations: containing feveral curious Anecdotes of Animal Magnetifers, ancient as well as modern. By Valentine Abfonus, Efq. Author of the Commentary on the firft Aphorifm of Hippocrates. 8vo. pp. 44. Is. Johnfon. 1791. This pamphlet contains fome good ridicule on a subject, which is justly rendered ridiculous: but where quackery is concerned, nothing feems to open the eyes of the good people of this country; or they might furely have learned to avoid impoftors who, in France, have been ignominioufly expofed, and hunted out of the country. Some Some curious particulars, relating to the hiftory of the famous Mr. Valantine Greatrakes, add to the amufement which may be gained from these pages. Art. 40. The Triumph of Infidelity: A Poem. Supposed to be written by Timothy Dwight, D.D. of Greenfield in Connecticut. 8vo. pp. 27. 6d. Matthews. 1791. Suppofed to be written by a Doctor of Divinity! Surely it is a mistake! It cannot be, that the malignant spirit, which is breathed out in thefe lines against all who do not bear the badge of orthodoxy, fhould have refided in the bofom of an eminent Christian divine: but, Timothy Dwight, D. D. &c. founds very like fiction. hope that this is the cafe. SCHOOL-BOOKS. We Art. 41. The Pradical Geography for the Ufe of Schools; with an Epitome of Ancient Geography, and an Introduction to the Science of the Globes. By J. Ouifeau, A. M. 2s. 6d. Half bound. Law, &c. 8vo. pp. 146. 1791. Of fuch elementary compendiums as the prefent, there is no end: every schoolmafter compiles for his own ufe, as he has an undoubted right to do; and fo far as his method and compofitions may be adopted abroad, fo far his profeffional credit is extended. who want manuals of this kind, have abundant opportunity to please Thofe their fancy, for the diftinctions between them are felcom material, beyond the decifion of the respective writers, or the difference of price. POLITICS and POLICE. Art. 42. Patriotifm and the Love of Liberty defended. In two Dialogues. By the Hon. John Somers Cocks, M. P. 8vo. pp. 60. Is. 63. Faulder. 1791. We have read thefe two dialogues with confiderable pleasure. They are the production of a found head and a good heart. foundations on which they are reared, are the maxims, that our The duty is our trueft intereft; that virtue is but another name for happinefs; and that rational and well-regulated liberty is the legiti mate parent, both of pure morals and of folid blifs. Art. 43: 1791. This addrefs, from one of the most diftinguished ornaments of the late National Affembly, befpeaks a head, and a heart, worthy of the reprefentative of a great nation; worthy of a Christian; worthy of a Proteftant! This pattern to his brethren of the church, calls on the English nation to follow the example of his own countrymen, in renouncing all offenfive war, and to unite with them in their efforts to banish from the earth that deftructive peltilence; the bane and the difgrace of the world; and to accelerate the bleffed day, when nation fhall no more rife up against nation, when they shall not learn war any more; but fhall convert their fwords into ploughshares." We hope that Britons will not be deaf to fuch a benevolent call. Whatever Whatever may be the reception of this generous and humane address, or whatever may be the influence of the great example fet as by our neighbours, it must always redound to the honour of France Well fays this writer, to have taken the lead in fo good a caufe. It became one of thofe nations of the earth, which had been moft exhaufted by the fever of ambition, to be the first to recover from it, and to renounce these deliberate outrages;'—and well fings the poet too, -War's a game, which, were their subjects wife, Art. 44. Defence of the Rights of Man; being a Difcuffion of the 34. Is. 6d. Evans. 1791. Мотто. "What in my secret foul is underflood, My words fall utter, and my deeds make good.” PP. If the author understands nothing better than this, in his fecret foul, we would advife him, as friends, to utter no more of it; for no deed, short of a miracle, can ever make fuch effufions good. Art. 45. Letters to Thomas Paine, in Anfwer to his late Publication on the Rights of Man. By a Member of the University of CamIs. 6d. Pridden. 1791. bridge. 8vo. pp. 64. These letters are more to be commended for their moderation and good fpirit, than for the importance of the particular topics treated, or for the elegance of manner, or the weight of argument, with which they are difcuffed. The attack is chiefly carried on against Mr. Paine's outworks; fometimes with good effect, but not always with that fuccefs, with which, probably, the author flatters himself; and which will never be attained by one who is too indolent to take pains.' Art. 46. A British Freeholder's Addrefs to bis Countrymen, on Thomas Paine's Rights of Man. 8vo. pp. 23. 6d. White. 1791. "The proof of the pudding," fays this Freeholder," is in the eating If fo: this, which is here ferved up, is a very bad pudding indeed. We queftion if the meaneft cook's shop in London could match it. It tastes to us like what is vulgarly defcribed by the words, " chopt hay;" and we fear it will afford no better relish to any other mouth in the kingdom-for, as the Freeholder obferves: Some degree of literary tafte is almoft univerfal in Britain-I mean with thofe that can read; and who would write to thofe that cannot? Why really, Sir, we cannot fay what man, in his fenfes, would be fo filly as to do fo: but, if the politeness due to a Freeholder did not forbid, we could readily tell you who should do fo. Art. 47. Slight Obfervations upon Paine's Pamphlet, principally refpecting his Comparison of the French and English Conftitutions; with |