Art. 30. The Latin Odes of Mr. Gray, in English Verse, with an Ode on the Death of a favourite Spaniel. 4to. I s. Ridley. Mr. Gray's English compofitions have been tranflated into Latin with fomewhat better fuccefs than his Latin poems have been done into English. That fublime Alcaic Ode, O Tu feveri, &c. which ought to have been transfused into the strongest numbers of the Englifh lyric, is turned into the weakeft, the infantine measures of Ambrofe Philips. The ode on the death of Mr. Walpole's fpaniel is a trifle, without art or elegance. Art. 31. Epifle to Mrs. M*ll*r, Inftitutress of a poetical Society near Bath; in which is included a Comparison between the An cient and modern Times, being a Subject propofed in the foregoing Year. 4to. 6d. Dodley. - My Mufe, bemir'd in prose so long, Again thall rise among the rhyming throng.' -I wish thy Mufe were in a mire! Old Scotch Song. Art. 32. Poetical Amusements at a Villa near Bath. Vol. II. 8vo. 3 s. Dilly. Thefe are not graceless poets, however; for they have heard our voice, and laid their Bouts Rimées under a general prohibition.' O that the god of Poetry would fend them his grace! Art. 33. A poetical Epiftle from the late Lord Melcombe to the Earl of Bute; with Corrections by the Author of the Night Thoughts. 4to. I s. Becket. 1776. This poem, though of a courtly kind, has fome merit, and fome morality in it. It is, really, as decent a thing as one could expect from a Lord. Art. 34. Variety: a Tale, for married People. 4to. I Se Dodfley. 1776. A most pleasing, elegant, little poem; faid to be written by the prefent Laureat. It is incapable of abridgment or extract, without injury to the whole: but the moral application may here be given entire : The moral of my tale is this, Variety's the foul of blifs But fuch variety alone As makes our home the more our own, Muft from the heart fincerely flow; All All human pleafures thither tend; And gain fresh vigour from their fource. Art. 35. The Devoted Legions-Addreffed to Lord George Germaine, and the Commanders of the Forces against America. 4to. 6 d. Kearly. Founded on the ftory of Atteius, the Roman tribune; who having in vain oppofed the unjuft war againft the Parthians, placed himfelf at the gate of the city through which Craffus led the troops, and there (arrayed in the vestments used in the dreadful ceremonies of the auspices, and fcattering incenfe from a fire which he had prepared in one of the facred veffels) he folemnly execrated the expedition, and devoted the army to deftruction. The intended application of this incident is obvious; and the poem in which it is here celebrated is nervous, harmonious, and pathetic:-but we hope the British Atteius, though a fpirited poet, will not prove, as the Roman did, a true prophet. POLITICAL. Art. 36. Septennial Parliaments justified. 8vo. I S. 1776. Wilkie. A rational and truly political difcuffion of the question, Whether the feptennial act ought to be continued or repealed? would beworthy of attention; but the prefent performance is too infignifi- cant, in respect both of argument and compofition, to merit any particular notice. It must be a far fuperior advocate who can be able to prove that feptennial parliaments are agreeable to the dictates of found wisdom, and to the principles of the conftitution. Art. 37. Thoughts on the prefent State of the Poor, and the intended Bill for their better Relief and Employment. By a Kentishman. 8vo. 1s. Conant. 1776. Our Kentishman fhews great humanity, as well as judgment, in the investigation of this difficult fubject. He apprehends, with many other fenfible writers, that the intended bill is pregnant with more evils than advantages to the community; and, particularly, that the poor, themfelves, would be great fufferers by it.-He has fome remarks on Mr. Gilbert's Obfervations on the Refolutions of the House of Commons, with respect to the Poor, &c. which merit the ferious confideration of that gentleman, and the other advocates for the bill. Art. 38. Obfervations on the Bill intended to be offered to Parliament for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor. By Richard Burn, LL. D. 8vo. I S. Cadell. 1776. This very judicious and distinguished Writer is likewise an objector to the bill, in a variety of refpects;-all of them important, and worthy of the ftrict attention of the legislature. He recites the plan and heads of the bill; and he allows that, in theory, it looks plaufible; and that it may, perhaps, on trial, in fome counties, be found effectual. He acknowledges, too, that he has not, himfelf, had a fufficient practical knowledge of any county, except that only in which he has, for a long time, most commonly refided, namely, Weftmoreland; he, therefore, confines his obfervations chiefly to the circumstances circumftances of that county; leaving it to others to determine, on their more perfect information, how far the fame may be applicable to any other county or place MISCELLANEOUS. Art. 39. Three Difcourfes: Containing, I. The Character and Office of a Clergyman, in a Letter to the Rev. Dr. Backhouse, Archdeacon of Canterbury. II. Of the Excellency of the British Conftitution; in a Letter to a Member of Parliament. III. OF Liberty, Public Spirit, and the Power of the British Legislature; in a Letter to Dr. S, Provost of the College at Philadelphia. By the Rev. Mr. Biffet. 8vo. 1 s. Law, &c. 1775. As thefe difcourfes are written in a language which, we honeftly confefs, we do not understand, our Readers will, we hope, forgive us, if we are filent concerning them. If it fhall please the Author, or any of his friends, hereafter to publish an English tranflation, we will review them in the best manner we are able. Art. 40. A Biographical Hiftory of England, &c. By the Rev. James Granger, Vicar of Shiplake, in Oxfordshire. The Second Edition, with large Additions and Improvements. 8vo. 4 Vols. 11. 4 s. Becket, &c. 1775. To the ample commendation beftowed by us on the first edition of this curious and fingular work, we have but little to add in regard to this fecond impreffion. In our 41ft vol. ann. 1769, we gave a pretty large account of the first publication of Mr. Granger's performance, in 2 Vols. 4to. In our 52d vol. Number for March, 1775, our Readers had a fecond Article on this fubject, occafioned by the publication of the Author's Supplement to his Biographical History: and in both Articles fufficient fpecimens of the work were given; with a justly merited encomium on the compiler. This Supplement was likewife in 4to. conftituting, in effect, though not profeffedly, a third volume: it confifted, indeed, only of corrections and additions to the first and Jecond. The prefent edition poffeffes the advantage of having all the corrections and additions which had been published feparately in the Supplement, regularly inferted in their proper places; befide other improvements: fo that here we have, in a reduced fize, and at about one-third of the price of the 4to impreffion, as correct and complete' an edition (to ufe Mr. G.'s own words) as it was in his power* to give: we refer to his prefatory advertisement; in which he takes occafion to acknowledge the friendly affiftance afforded him by perfons of diftinction in the literary world, particularly the late Bishop of Rochester ; Mr. Walpole; Mr. Cambridge; the Rev. Mr. Farmer, Master of Emanuel-College in Cambridge; the Rev. Mr. Afhby, late Prefident of St. John's; the Rev. Mr. Cole, fome time Fellow * Many inaccuracies, and other little defects, muft be expected in a work of this kind, for which the compiler may be held very excufable, as he could not be supposed answerable for the veracity and exactness of all his multifarious authorities and materials; to a thorough examination of which, a man's whole life, from youth to old age, might prove inadequate, of of King's, in that Univerfity; and (principally) to John Loveday, Efq; of Caversham, in Oxfordshire. Art. 41. Philofophical Arrangements: By James Harris, Efq; 8vo. 6s. Boards. Nourfe. 1775 Though we refpect the learning and ingenuity of the Author of this work, the fubject on which he has chofen to exercise them is of fo dry and, in general, of fo uninterefting a nature, that we think it will be fufficient barely to explain the title and defign of his undertaking. By the modern title of Philofophical Arrangements,' the Author means thofe artificial divifions of Being and its attributes, which Ariftotle and the schoolmen arranged under ten genera or claffes, well known by the title of Categories, or Predicaments. We fhall be filent concerning the utility of fuch an undertaking as the prefent; and fhall only obferve that, notwithftanding the intermingled abftrufeness, and triteness, of the fubjects difcuffed in this work; thofe whofe peculiar tafte, or reverence for antiquity, may incline to fpeculations of this nature, will here find the predicaments aforefaid ferved up in a much more palateable form than could have been expected from fuch dry, tough, and tafleless materials. For our parts, to borrow a faying from Father Shandy,-We left off our fubftantial forms at an early age, and have ever fince gone an reafoning very tolerably without them. The prefent expofition is, however, undoubtedly a work of genius, but of genius mifapplied. The erudition, tafte, and precision exhibited in fome parts of it, feem to be thrown away on fubjects that appear, to us at least, not to be deferving of fo minute and laboured an inveftigation as is here bestowed upon them. Art. 42. Mrs. M. C. Rudd's genuine Letter to Lord Weymouth; with feveral authentic Anecdotes of the late Meffrs. Perreaus : together with an Explanation of the Conduct of a certain Great City Patriot. 8vo. I s. Kearily. The Perreaus being gone, and liable to nothing worse, in this world, it may have appeared to fome people, a defirable thing, that the escaping party thould make the most of the lucky circumftance of furvivorship. Life being preserved, the next point of folicitude would naturally arife from a regard to reputation; without which (bad as the world is) a person makes but an indifferent figure in it, and will have little enjoyment of any fituation. Accordingly, by blackening the memories of the late unfortunate brothers, and finking their characters as low as poffible, that of Mrs. R. it might be expected, when placed in the oppofite fcale, muft rife in proportion: as the darkened figures in a picture make the others ftand fairer to the view of the fpectator. Hence this laboured invective against the most abandoned men, that ever difgraced fociety; as they are here ftyled: and (it may be) with too much truth. But whether their conviction, on this new trial, at the bar of the Public, will produce the honourable acquittal of Mrs. R. is a confequence which we pretend not to ascertain. The Letter to Lord W. bears, indeed, very hard upon the memory of Dated Jan. 1-5; the Perreaus were executed on the 17th. Robert Robert Perreau; who, we doubt not, richly deserved to share the fate of his brother. As to the expectation that may be raised, by the mention of a Great City Patriot, in the title page of this pamphlet, it is par turiunt montes. Art. 43. The Cafe and diftreffed Situation of the Widaws of the Officers of the Navy, explained in a Letter from a Captain in the Navy, to a Member of Parliament. 8vo. 1s. Ridley, &c. 1775. The diftreffed fituation of the widows of the commiffion and warrant officers of our navy, is worthy of public attention, and highly deferving of redrefs. Their penfions (of which they lofe near one third, in time of peace) were established fo long ago as the year 1732, when, as their prefent worthy advocate justly remarks, the neceffaries of life were much cheaper than they are now. widows of our gallant fea-officers might then comfortably fubfift on the provifion made for them; but, by the changes which time has wrought, these unfortunate gentlewomen are reduced to-just enough to farve upon. The It is, therefore, with pleasure we learn, that a number of gentlemen of the navy, in which our Author is honourably included, have affociated, for the laudable purpose of relieving thefe diftreffed widows, not only by a proper application to government, in their behalf, but by a generous offer of an additional contribution by fresh deductions from their pay. Those who wish to be informed of the various circumstances of the cafe before us, will find a fuccinct and fatisfactory detail of the fubject, in this benevolent publication. LAW. Art. 44. Several Special Cafes on the Laws against the further growth of Popery in Ireland. By Gorges Edmond Howard, Efq; Dublin, printed for Lynch. 8vo. 6s bound. Sold in London by Robinfon. 1775. Much has been pleaded, by feveral able men, in favour of a mitigation of the popery laws in Ireland; on the foundation, not only of equity and humanity, but even of policy, accommodated to the alteration of circumftances which time has effected in that ifland, fince thofe laws were made. Mr. Howard is an advocate for fuch relaxation; the expediency of which he proves by fome very ftriking obfervations: thefe will be found in the prefatory difcourfe." According to the diligent reporter's account, thefe cafes were collected with much trouble and difficulty. They appear to be carefully flated; to contain a great variety of circumftances relating to profecutions on the popery laws; and are furnished with proper indexes. Two RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL. Art. 45. Foy in Heaven. And the Greed of Devils. Sermons preached October 29, 1775. Bv Augustus Toplady, A. B. Vicar of Broad Hembury. 8vo. 1s. Vallance, &c. 1775. From the first of these fermons we learn, that the joy which is faid to be in heaven over one finner that repenteth is owing to the Capt. Edward Thompson. certain |