While from Pennant the younger we wait to review (a) Of London his annals, amended and new;

(a) Mr. Pennant, jun. is stated to be occupied upon a new edition of his late father's London, the sale of which has been a sufficient indication of its worth with the public. With respect to the deceased writer, his labours are not only voluminous, but fraught with information that must at future periods prove of the greatest utility to such individuals as may be engaged in topographical researches. In addition to the names above recorded by Sir Noodle, I cannot refrain from adding that of Gough, the deceased antiquarian, whose Camden's Britannia, although in many respects an interesting labour, contains, I fear, too much vague matter from newspapers and other publications of a similar class. Bigland's Gloucestershire is arranged with care and industry, and the account of London by Dr. Hewson, alias Pugh, displays sufficient proof that the compiler was not a sloven in the progress of this work. To these might be subjoined a variety of other topographical labourers, such as Herbert, the Lambeth historian; Park, jun. engaged in writing a history of Hampstead: but a recapitulation of every name would far exceed the bounds of this volume, the annotations to which have already increased to a bulk beyond the editor's original intention.

That name which to mem'ry now pictures the dead, A father from regions terrestrial long fled,

Whose pages, though slurr'd with the dear egomet,
Demand from a public warm gratitude's debt;

Since quality keeps with his quantity pace:
Thus granting this writer a prominent place,

Both pleasing, instructive, and useful to read,

With whose praise I conclude the topographist's

creed.

Antiquarians.

Vetera extollimus, recentium incuriosi.

Tacitus.

We extol the productions of the ancients, but are wholly unmindful of contemporary merit.

On this field to dilate might the laughter provoke

Of Heraclitus, ne'er known to smile at a joke:
One sage pens a book, all the charms to expose
Of Praxilite's Venus bereft of a nose;

A second, possessing of statue great toe,
Attempts from such specimen matchless to show
What beauty and grace did the figure betoken,
Ere yet into shatters the sculpture was broken;

A third from stone trough, whence the swine us'd

to guttle,

Pretends to discover, with acumen subtle, Sarcophagus fam'd of the great Grecian youth, (b) Who whimper'd for more worlds to conquer, in sooth;

(b) It is to antiquarians in a body we must fly to acquire a knowledge of this walk of literature; wherefore, the Somersethouse society, dedicated to the pursuits in question, is perhaps the best criterion to go by; and to judge of their infallibility, from the labours they have produced, would, I much fear, place their acumen in a very dubious point of view. I shall not here lay any stress upon the hoax played off some years back, by the late commentator Steevens, nor shock their nerves by recording all which was said and written upon the subject by the society's then oracle, Mr. Pegg; it is sufficient to hint, that events of this nature are known to have taken place, whereby the whole body was gulled; and from thence we may infer how easy a matter it is to dupe those who rank as wisest in this dubious walk of literature. As the Sarcophagus of Alexander is mentioned by Sir Scribblecumdash, I cannot refrain from stating, that I have perused, with no small degree of mirthful feeling, the pros and cons that have been committed to the press respecting the Egyptian stone relic deposited in