from thinking that he has made a good ufe of his choice. His ftyle is hard and difagreeable, and he feems to think better than he writes —Non omnia, nimirum, eidem Dii dedere. Vincere fcis, Hannibal, victoria uti nefcis!

Art. 49. A free Tranflation of the Preface to Bellendenus; containing animated Strictures on the great political Characters of the prefent Time. 8vo. 3s. 6d. fewed. Payne, &c. 1788.

We have already given an ample account of this Preface, as it was published by the Author; and that Review of courfe fuperfedes the neceffity of entering minutely into the merits or demerits of this publication.-Our Readers, when they confider the nature of the work, will not be furprised at hearing that it does not appear in an English dress, with thofe charms which are the boast of the original. We are far from being certain, that the attempt could have been more fuccefsfully performed; and muft, therefore, condemn the temerity of the tranflator, while we fupprefs our criticisms on his work.

EDUCATION.

Art. 50. Thoughts on the Education of Daughters; with Reflections on Female Conduct in the more important Duties of Life. By Mary Woolftonecraft. 12mo. 2s. fewed. Johnfon. 1787.

A female pen is here employed in the benevolent office of contributing to the inftruction and improvement of her fex. The lady begins her very fenfible remarks with the nursery, and proceeds through different fubjects of moral difcipline, exterior accomplishments, artificial manners, drefs, reading, temper, love, matrimony, and public places; with the laft of which the volume finifhes. Its ftyle is correct and agreeable, and the obfervations are judicious, and highly worthy of attention.

This writer is no friend to novels, which she seems to confider as one great cause of the affectation of young women. We have also several chapters on the Treatment of Servants, the Obfervance of Sunday, Situation of Females fafhionably educated and left without a fortune, Benevolence, and Misfortune of fluctuating Principles. In her reflections, experience and good fenfe appear to unite with pious and chriftian principles. She laments, that it is the fashion now for young men to be Deifts. On the whole, the fair writer is no gloomy, though a rational moralift: fhould young people object to fome of her reftraints, they will nevertheless be probably found the restraints and the voice of wisdom.

Art: 51. The Elements of English Grammar, &c. &c. By G. Neville Uther. 2d Edit. 12mo. Is. 6d. Evans. 1787.

An ufeful publication for fchools. We know not by what means the first edition efcaped our notice.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Art. 52. The Plain Catechifm for Children. To which are added, Sentences from Scripture, with Prayers and Hymns. Small 12mo. zd. Johnfon.

1787.

We have here the fundamental principles of chriftianity, abridged from Matt. Henry's Catechifm; but, we fear, it will be found ra

ther too high for the comprehenfion of children of five or fix years old, for whofe ufe it is intended. One material advantage it poffeffes above others of a fimilar kind, viz. that it is fuitable to several different fects of chriftians, as many difputed points are very properly unnoticed.

MISCELLANEO U S.

Art. 53. Principles of Tafte, or the Elements of Beauty: alfo Reflections on the Harmony of Senfibility and Reason. The fecond Edition, much improved. To which is annexed, a Short Analyfis of the Human Mind. By J. Donaldson. 8vo. 3s. Boards. Nicol.

Of the first two parts of this publication we gave an account in our Review, vol. 63, p. 469; to which we now refer our readers.

The Analysis of the Human Mind,' which now makes its first appearance, is fimilar to the former with regard to method and style. The author's defign is, as we learn from the introduction, to endeavour to give a concife and clear view of the present subject, freed from all affectation of pedantry, and confufion of numberless divifions.' In order to effect this, he treats, of Affections of Sense, of Affections of the Mind, of Imagination, Memory, and Judgment, of Volition, and of Abstract Ideas.

We frequently find in this performance many judicious remarks, among which is the following: Mortals never hate, torture, maffacre one another, in fupport of propofitions that are demonftrable; it is mystery and impofture that engender moft moral evils in the world.' Mr. Donaldfon concludes his Analyfis of the Human Mind, in these words: Let us ftudy to establish principles of wholesome tafte, social respect, and every useful fcience, formed on a fair foundation of nature and experience. Let us deduce from real confequences of actions, fure maxims of virtue; and before we praise or detract, learn to diftinguish what is deferving of esteem or condemnation; the intelligent alone are qualified to beftow just contributions of praife; the approbation of ignorance is the work of cenfure.'

This laft fentence has determined us neither to praise nor cenfure Mr. Donaldfon's work (both of which we might otherwise have done), but to leave his readers to judge for themselves, with respect to his merit as a connoiffeur in the principles of taste, and the elements of beauty.

Art. 54:

Liber Regis, vel Thefaurus Rerum Ecclefiafticarum. By John Bacon, Efq. Receiver of the First Fruits. With an Appendix, containing proper Directions and Precedents relating to Presentations, Inftitutions, Inductions, Difpenfations, &c. 4to. 11. 10s. Boards. Cadell, &c.

The firft fruits, viz. the first year's income, and the tenth of the yearly value of every church benefice, were originally referved for the pope, and before the reformation they were paid to him; but the parliament tranflated them to the crown, 25th Hen. VIII. c. 20. In confequence of this, and that the king might afcertain the value of every ecclefiaftical benefice throughout the realm, he appointed a commiffion for making a furvey of them: the inftruction to the commiffioners is intitled, Inftructions devifed by the Kyng's Highnes,

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Highnes, by the advise of his counfail, for knowlaige to be hadd of the hole, true, and just yerly values of all the poffeffions, mannors, londys, tenements, hereditamentys, and proffits, as well spirituall as temporall, appertaynyng to any manner of dignity, monaftrie, priorie, churche, collegyatt churche, conventuall, perfonage, vicarige, chauntrie, ffree chapell, or other dignitie, office, or promocion fpirituall, within this realme, Walys, Calyce, Berwyk and marches of the fame, as well in placys exempt as not exempt; whiche his pleasure ys, that fuche as have charche by his commiffion to furvey the fame, fhall effectually with all uprightness and dexteritie followe and enfue; as they will answere unto hys Majeftie at their perrell.'

The performance before us contains the returns which the commiffioners made, and other matters relating to the benefices, that the author thought might be neceffary for the information of the clergy.

Among the benefices, fome are discharged from the payment of thefe revenues, on account of the fmallness of their income, and are intitled to receive the augmentation called Queen Ann's Bounty. The first fruits and tenths were, by a grant of the 3d year of queen Anne, fet apart for a fund to augment thefe fmall livings; and left they should be too much augmented, the rates of all benefices according to the king's books, were declared unalterable. 2 & 3 of Ann.

The Appendix is a very useful compilation for the younger clergy, as it contains inftructions for several things of confequence to them, which they would not readily be able to obtain, fince they lie fcattered and difperfed in feveral acts of parliament and canons, intermixed with matters of quite a different nature.

Art. 55. Sentimental Beauties, and Moral Delineations, from the Writings of Dr. Blair, and other admired Authors. Selected with a view to refine the Tafte, rectify the Judgment, and mould the Heart to Virtue. 12mo. 2s. fewed. Wallis.

A pretty collection for fuch young readers as can be brought to delight in, or duly attend to, ferious fubjects; well chofen, and properly comprehended in fhort extracts.

Art. 56. An Appeal to the Humane, on behalf of the most deplorable Clafs of Society, the Climbing-boys employed by the Chimneyfweepers. By J. P. Andrews. Izmo. Is. Stockdale. 1788. The plan of relieving the diftreffes of the [very undeservedly] wretched chimney-fweepers, which the bevevolent Mr. Hanway had formed, was prevented from being carried into execution, by the death of that ftrenuous advocate for oppreffed innocence: it is however happy for thofe miferable boys, that Mr. Andrews has exerted himself in their behalf, and has undertaken their caufe, agreeably to the plan which Mr. Hanway firft ketched. Humanity must wish him fuccefs, and will doubtless affift his pleadings!

The fubftance of the prefent publication hath already appeared, in a feries of letters, in the Public Advertiser. The author laments the death of his friend, Mr. Hanway, and, in addition to that gentleman's defcription of the deplorable ftate of these poor wretches, he gives a more ample detail of their fufferings: he does not declaim

against

against the cruelties and oppreffions of Mafter Chimney-fweepers, but barely relates facts, which a morning's walk through the public ftreets of this metropolis cannot fail to confirm. Had he visited the loathfome cellars, where, on bags of foot, thefe abject children of diftrefs vainly wait for refreshing fleep; he might have described their emaciated bodies excoriated with climbing narrow funnels, fcorched with flaming foot*, livid with the blows of an hard-hearted master, their eyes bleeding with the pungency and acrimony of foot made into a pafte with briny tears, their limbs diftorted with fqueezing through crooked and almost impervious chimneys, their extremities chilblained with the inclemency of the weather, their-but we shall draw a veil over this hideous picture, and requeft our readers to perufe Mr. Andrews's Appeal; at the end of which he propofes certain regulations for removing the evils that he enumerates. These regulations, if duly followed, would without doubt remedy many of the ills which befet thefe miferable objects; but why not prohibit and abolish the trade? England, which precedes every other nation in Europe for improving the arts, unlike every other, has yet no better method of fweeping chimneys than at the expence of an annual facrifice of hundreds of her children configned either to death, or to languish in hofpitals and poor-houses, the deformed, mutilated, and miferable proofs, that the conveniencies and luxuries of life are procured by the deftruction of our own fpecies. It is, in some respects, worse than the African flave trade. Stop, for goodness fake! ftop the practice! encourage artists to devife other methods of cleanfing chimneys, than by depriving the community of many of the rifing generation, who might become happy as well as useful fubjects.

We do not recollect that the Society of Arts, &c. have ever offered a premium for the difcovery of a method to improve the art of Chimney-fweeping. If one life, or even one limb, could by that means be annually faved, it were an important concern to fociety: but how much more important, if, by fome happy invention, multitudes should be faved; and, poffibly, thousands of our fellowcreatures, now overwhelmed with mifery and difeafe, reftored to the parent ftate, which, hitherto, feems to have unnaturally neglected fo many of its children.

Art. 57. The Contraft, or the oppofite Confequences of good and evil Habits, &c. 12mo. is, Cadell, &c. 1788.

See our account of the larger edition of this moral work, Art. 51. of our Catalogue for January. By leaving out the introduction, and the plates, the publishers are enabled to afford this fmall edition, at the abovementioned eafy price.

Art. 58. Anecdotes of Henry IV. of France, fhewing the great Encouragement he gave to Literature; with feveral of his Letters never before published. 12mo. 2s. 6d. fewed. Cadell. 1787. Henry the Fourth of France has been fo repeatedly extolled by hiftorians and poets, that we fuppofed it impoffible to add to his eulogium: the writer of the work before us, however, is of opinion, that this monarch is not fufficiently known as the encourager of li

* When employed to extinguifh chimneys on fire.
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terature;

terature; he has therefore brought forward a variety of anecdotes to prove, that Henry was no lefs remarkable for a love of letters, than for a love of arms: many of which anecdotes are drawn. from MSS. in the library of the King of France. The author informs us, in a note, that M. Deformeaux, who has written the life of the great Condé, &c. is preparing for the prefs an hiftory of this illuftrious fovereign. Deformeaux is a very elegant and animated writer, and as his work is nearly finished, we fhall defer our remarks on the character of this victim at the altar of fanaticifm, until it appears.

The following letter of Henry to his miftrefs, Gabrielle D'Eftrées, when returning from war, proclaims the lover and the hero in a manner remarkably forcible and concife.

"My beauteous love!

"Two hours after the arrival of this courier, you will fee a cavalier who loves you much; they call him King of France and Navarre, which are certainly honourable, though very painful, titles; that of being your fubject is infinitely more delightful; all three together are good; and let what will happen, I have refolved never to yield them to any one."

Art. 59. Memoirs of Charles Frederic, King of Pruffia. By Samuel Johnfon, LL. D. With Notes, and a Continuation, by Mr. Harrifon, Editor of the British Claffics, &c. To which are added, Tranflations of Select Poems written by the King of Pruffia. 8vo. 6s. Boards. Harrison. 1786.

Dr. Johnfon, as appears by thefe memoirs, when connected with a periodical magazine, and chufing to lie perdu, could write like other people, and avoid his ponderofity of ftyle and diction. His part in the prefent volume is, if we mistake not, collected from a fhort-lived work of the above-mentioned clafs, entitled The Literary Magazine; in which he wrote the life of the great Frederic, as far as to about the year 1756. What Dr. Johnfon then published amounts to near one fifth of the volume before us; for the rest we are indebted to Mr. Harrifon, who, affifted by a literary friend, has given a decent finishing to the ftructure, of which the learned architect above-named laid the foundation. The poetry mentioned in the title, confits of An Ode to Courage, tranflated by the late Dr. Kenrick; An Epistle to Voltaire, tranflated by the late John Gilbert Cooper, Efq.; and An Ode to Death, tranflated by the late Dr. Hawkefworth.

Art. 60. Marcellus and Julia, a Dialogue. 8vo. brett. 1788.

crown of

Is. 6d. DeBy Marcellus, the reader may understand the Heir apparent to the ; and by Julia, a certain lady, who (as it is gene rally fuppofed) has, for a confiderable time, been in poffeffion of the P- 's heart. The fubject of the dialogue is, a voyage to the land of matrimony, for which the lady pleads with much ardour;

*This from private information. It was first published in a periodical work entitled The Library, in which were many excellent original papers; yet the undertaking failed for want of encourage

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