શારો કરી Crois-moi, dis-je, Properce, Ovide, ni Tibulle, LE GOUT ET LA MODE, fable. Par M. de la Viéville. La mode, un jour, difoit au goût: Tu dois m'aimer à la folie, "Vous faites tout avec extravagance, "Nous offrez a-vous une forme agréable? "Eh! que diroient nos artiftes fameux, "S'ils revenoient contempler ces ouvrages Qu'on expofe au grand jour pour le tourment des yeux * "Que voit-on? des écrits? Il en eft peu de fages.. "Et les bluettes de l'efprit "Ont fur le fentiment remporté l'avantage; "Et toutes le même vifage. "Dans l'art de Phidias celui qui peut briller, "Loin de développer ce talent qu'on admire, "Forme des grouppes nains, qu'un inftant voit détruire "Le graveur pouvant travailler "Et les chefs-d'œuvre qu'il fait voir, "N'ornent plus une galerie, "Mais embelliffent un boudoir; "Embouchant de la renommée "La trompetre bruyante, on vous voit très-fouvent "D'un géant nous faire un pygmée, "Et donner un pegmée auffi pour un géant.' F Le goût alloit peindre tous fes travers, Si la mode en courroux alors ne fût fortie:" Elle fe déclara fa cruelle ennemie, -༄ ༥ཟླ མ L'Esprit L'Esprit des Journaux, dedié a S. A. R. Mr. Le Duc Charles de Lorraine & de Bar, &c.-The Spirit of Literary Journals, dedicated to Prince Charles of Lorraine, by a Society of Men of Letters. 12mo. Liege. This publication may be not improperly ftiled in English, The Review of Reviews; being the project of a fer of Hypercritics, who have taken upon themselves to take all the other periodical critics in Europe to tafk; to compare their different ftrictures on the works of the learned, and to decide ultimately which is in the right.-Much good may do thei the task they have undertaken. It is dangerous enough to attack a poet, an hiftorian, or any other ordinary writer; but to affail a critic, nay the whole body of Ariftarchufes together! -Thefe bravadoes are certainly not long-lived.-At least if Mr. de la Croix's project fhould be put in execuion, that of drawing out the lafh of every critick, who fhould dare to condemn the works of others, they muft foon be starved for want of grinders, if not from want of fomething to eat. To our CORRESPONDENTS. We should be glad to know how to addrefs a letter to our anonymous Correfpondent, who offers his fervice, in refpect to the London Catalogue. We thank him, in the mean time, for the trouble he takes in pointing out the typographical errors and other flips in the London Review: but cannot altogether agree with him about their importance. We should have obliged the editor of Bishop Pearce's excellent commentary, had we thought the little errour, pointed out by the other Reviewers, refpecting a circumftance in the life of that learned prelate, a matter of any confequence: the words omitted, whether by the tranfcriber or printer, being easily fupplied by the intelligent reader. Qui capit ille facit. Our correfpondent, who is fo highly offended at an expreffion made ufe of in our Review of Dr. Macleane's letters to Soame Jenyns, fhould reflect that every body may not be fo well acquainted with his friend's family and relations as himfelf. The comparifion might be very innocently made by a critic, who knew no more of the doctor than his name. This circumstance, however, fhould make those people cautious how they throw stones, who, as the proverb fays, have glafs windows in their heads.-There is a fpirit of infolence in the file of fome authors, particularly of Irish Priests, that deferves chastisement. D. B's request cannot be complied with. The Correfpondence, Intended for this Appendix, is inferted in the Review for July. THE SUPPLEMENT of English Books and Pamphlets, hitherto deferred. A Commentary on the Book of Pfalms. In which the literal or biftorical Senfe, as they relate to King David, and the People of Ifrael, is illuftrated; and their Application to Meffiah, to the Church, and to Individuals, as Members thereof, is pointed out: With a View to render the Ufe of the Pfalter pleafing and profitable to all Orders and Degrees of Chriftians. By George Horne, D. D. Prefident of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. 4to. 2 Vols. 11. Is. Boards. Oxford printed. London, fold by Rivington, &c. Notwithstanding the many and learned commentaries on the Pfalms of David, which have appeared in the world, Dr. Horne apprehends their fpiritual fenfe hath not been fufficiently attended to. By the fpiritual fenfe alfo, he means the prophetical or myftical fenfe; conceiving, with fome of the primitive fathers of the church, that almost all the pfalms are spoken in the perfon of Chrift, being addreffed by the fon to the father, that is, by Chrift to God.-The Chriftian redemption is, according to this learned commentator, the chief fubject of these divine hymns; which are to be confidered, for the most part, as the language of Chrift to his Church. it is on this fpiritualizing fyftem that Dr. Horne proceeds through the greater part of his Commentary; much of which may be deemed fanciful and visionary by readers of a lefs enthusiastic and rhapsodical turn than the commentator; this mode of comment hath nevertheless had its advocates as well among the primitive as modern profeffors of Chriftianity, and that among the most eininent for their learning and piety. Twelve Sermons. By the Rev. J. Smith, M. A. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. 8vo. 6s. Harrison. Concife, plain, and pertinent difcourfes on interefting fubjects of religion and morality. Three of them are confeffedly taken from the French. The Riches of Gospel Grace opened, in Twelve Difcourfes on the following interefting Subjects of the New Teftament; the Word of God in its Truth and Efficacy; the Word of God in its extenfive Latitude; Chrift the great High Prieft; Chrift all in all; Repentance and Remiffion of Sins; Regeneration, or being born of God; fuftification by Faith; Evangelical Sanctification; the Baptifm of the Holy Ghost; the Spirit's Testimony of the Son; the Father's Glory opened by the Son; the Son of God on the Throne of Judgment. By John Johnson, Minister of the Gospel in Liverpool. 2 Vols. 8vo. 8s. fewed. Warrington printed; fold by Law in London. Mr. Johnson, who, to ufe the phrafe of the fraternity, appears to be "powerful in the fcriptures," hath here publifhed a dozen of as fpirited orthodox difcourfes as we remember ever to have met with. A little more diffidence in his language, and moderation in his fentiments, would yet have recommended him more to the moderate and lukewarm among our modern chriftians. Seventeen Sermons on fome of the most important Points on natural and revealed Religion, respecting the Happiness both of the prefent, and of a future Life. Together with an Appendix, contain ing a brief and difpaffionate View of the feveral Difficulties reSpectively attending the Orthodox, Arian, and Socinian Syftems in regard to the holy Trinity. By Jofiah Tucker, D. D. Dear of Glocefter. 8vo. 5s. Rivington. We are told, on the beft authority, that it is impoffible for a man to serve two mafters, God and Mammon. On the fame principle and by the fame authority is inculcated the impoffibility of reconciling the wisdom of this world with that of the next. The learned Dr. Tucker, however, appears determined to prove the contrary, and to fhew himself, in utrumqu: paratus, as found a divine as he is a profound politician. Indeed, to do him juftice, he difplays a good deal of that ambo-dexterity, which is peculiar to Ingenuity; and, if it does not produce conviction, produces a kind of perfuafion, that has, for a time, the fame effect. Politics and religion are, nevertheless, in our opinion, an heterogeneous and improper mixture; and, as we never expect to fee any diyine politicians, we are the more averfe to political divines. As a theological Controverfialist, Dr. Tucker is, yet, no mean advocate. *** Sermons. Sermons. By Hugh Blair, D. D. one of the Minifters of the High Church, and Profeffor of Rhetoric and Betles Lettres in the Univerfity of Edinburg. 8vo. 6s. Cadell. The fubjects of these fermons are, The Union of Piety and Morality-The Influence of Religion, on Adverfity, and on Profperity-The Death of Chrift-Our Ignorance of Good and Evil in this Life-The imperfect Knowledge of a future State-The diforder of the Paffions-Devotion-Self Communion-The Duties of the Young-The Duties of the AgedThe Power of Confcience-The Mixture of Joy and Fear in Religion The Motives to Conftancy in Virtue, &c. Thefe Difcourfes are, for the most part, excellent pieces of compofition; written in a masterly ftile and manner; as might well be expected from the ingenious author of the Critical Differtation on the Poems of Offian. Objections to Mr. Lindsey's Interpretation of the First Fourteen Verfes of St. John's Gospel, as fet forth in the Sequel to his Apology: With fome Strictures on his Explication of St. Paul's Text. Phil. II. 5, 6, &c. By a Serious Enquirer. 8vo. Is. 6d. Johnson. There is nothing more common than for the fagacity of the fcholiaft to outrun the ingenuity of the writer; who, in that cafe, is fuppofed to have meant what perhaps he never thought of. This feems, alfo, to be particularly the cafe with the facred penmen; whofe expreffions could, otherwife, never admit of fuch a variety of conftructions as have been put upon them, But, Non noftrum eft tantas componere lites. The Harmony of the Truth: the Second Part, called the Harmony of the Scriptures. 8vo. 2s. Law. Whatever truth or harmony there may be in the Scriptures, there is, in truth, fo little harmony among the expounders of them, that we must confefs ourfelves heartily tired of the many pretences, of crack-brained enthufiafts, to reconcile things, in their own nature irreconcileable. Whether this harmoniít is to be ranked among their number, we leave his readers to decide, on this fecond part of the difplay of his harmonical abilities *. * See our Review of the firft part in October laft. 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