that it is a fpecies of Beet, perhaps the Cicla, because the cultivation and produce of the Cicla, as given by Mr. Miller, greatly resembles that of the Mangel Wurzel.

The leaves and the roots are faid to be a wholesome food for man and cattle. The produce is large, as fresh leaves speedily fupply the place of thofe which have been cropt. Sixteen thousand

fome hundred plants, which were fet in 2 acres, Lorrain measure, fupported (from the beginning of July to the 15th of November), with their leaves mixed with a third, and fometimes a fourth of other herbage, seven cows, and three calves; and from the zoth of November, the cows and calves were fed with the cut roots, mixed with a small portion of chopt hay, or straw, during the winter.

-Befide the particular directions for fowing, planting, managing, and reaping the Mangel Wurzel, the Author has added fome other obfervations relative to different fubjects of agriculture; among which is a method of weaning calves at twelve days old. This, if practicable, is a circumftance of great confequence in lowering the price of milk, butter, and cheese. Some obfervations are also added on the culture of carrots and fpurrey; and a new method is given of making hay from trefoil, lucern, faintfoin, and other graffes of that kind: it appears expenfive; but perhaps the great quantity which this method feems likely to produce, and the good quality of the hay, may amply repay the labour and coft.

Art. 45. A Letter to the Bishop of London. Containing a Charge of Fornication against Edward Lord Thurlow, Lord High Chancellor of England. With his Lordship's de bene effe DEFENCE. By Caffandra. 8vo. 2 s. Ridgeway.

Such extraordinary liberties are here taken with the great law lord, that we really know not what to make of Mrs. Caffandra and her publication; and, were we to attempt a review of so strange a performance, our Readers, perhaps, would scarce know what to make of us. We fhall, therefore, only add, that we have met with many notable paffages in this Pamphlet; and that, on the whole, we have been much amused by it.

Art. 46. A short Rejoinder to the Rev. Mr. Ramsay's Reply: With a Word or two on fome other Publications. By James Tobin, Efq. 8vo. Is. 6d. Wilkie. 1787.

• Not immediately feeing,' fays Mr. Tobin, the neceffity of a formal and laboured rejoinder to his [Mr. Ramfay's] ill conducted and vindictive attack, and being poffeffed of very little leifure, at the time it appeared, for fuch a difagreeable undertaking, I took the liberty of addreffing a letter to the Authors of the Monthly Review.' And had it been confiftent with the plan adopted by the Editors of that publication to have inferted my letter at length, it should have terminated my fhare of a very unpromising controverfy." Some extracts of this letter were given in our Review for Jan. 1786. A fubfequent publication (a Letter from Capt. Smith), containing fome farther ftrictures on Mr. Tobin's Curfory Remarks,' was a fecondary inducement for the prefent performance. We muft ac

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knowledge, that the acrimony of Mr. Ramfay's publications is a powerful ftimulant; and we are not furprised to find that Mr. Tobin has been roufed by it. Those paffages of Mr. Ramfay's Reply, which are the objects of Mr. Tobin's prefent attention, are animadverted on in a very able manner; and although our Author's language is animated, yet it is not filled with thofe farcaftic retorts, and invective expreffions, which we were forry to observe, and obliged to cenfure, in Mr. Ramfay's Reply.

Mr. T. adds fome obfervations on An Inquiry into the Effect of putting a Stop to the African Trade*,' &c. and on Captain Smith's Letter. He notices also the Essay on the Commerce and Slavery of the buman Species †.

Art. 47. A Narrative of the Life and Death of John Elliot, M. D. Containing an Account of his unhappy Paffion for Mifs Mary Boydell; a Review of his Writings; together with an Apology, written by himself, under the Preffure of expected Condemnation. 4to. 2s. Ridgeway. 1787.

The fhort Life here given of Dr. Elliot, confifts chiefly of virulent abufe of Mifs Boydell; and even the worthy Alderman, her uncle, does not escape. This is followed by an high panegyric on the unfortunate lover. Very long extracts from the Doctor's laft publication are added; and the Narrative concludes with the Apology mentioned in the title-page. With refpect to this laft part of the work, the newspapers have already informed the public, on the authority of affidavits, that Dr. Elliot did not put pen to paper," during his fhort confinement, after his trial. We have been fincerely concerned for the hapless fate of this ingenious man, with whose good abilities we were well acquainted for several years past.

Art. 48. Mrs. Inglefield's Fuftification; containing the Proceedings in the Ecclefiaftical Court, July 11th and 17th, 1785, taken in Short Hand, by W. Blanchard; with a Preface and Notes by Mrs. Ann Inglefield. 8vo. 3 s. fewed. Sewell, &c. 1787. Mrs. Inglefield has prefaced this account of the proceedings in the cause inftituted by her husband, with a copious review of the circumftances of the cafe (fee Rev. Vol. 75. p. 388. Art. 38.), in order to clear her injured character, by fhewing on what fallacious grounds Capt. I. brought against her a charge of indecent behaviour, and criminal connection with a Negro fervant.-It is impoffible to read this account of the whole affair, without feeling a ftrong prepoffeffion in favour of the accufed.-Surely the Captain has been too hafty! Art. 49. An Hafty Sketch of a Tour through Part of the Auftrian Netherlands, and great Part of Holland, made in the Year 1785. With an Account of the internal Policy, Government, &c. of the Cities of Bruffels and Amfterdam. By an English Gentleman. 8vo. 5s. Boards. Faulder. 1787.

This gentleman fpeaks fo humbly of himself and his performance, and his motives for publication are fo truly praife-worthy-as will

*See Rev. Vol. Ixxii. p. 437.

† See Rev. Vol. lxxv. p. 364. Experiments and Obfervations on Light and Colours, &c. See Review for June last, p. 524.

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be feen by the following quotation from his Preface-that we fin cerely wish him the greatest fuccefs:

The diffidence with which I prefent the following sheets to the Public, with the humble title this work affumes, will, I truft, disarm the criticisms and cenfures of the learned world. Conscious of its many defects and inaccuracies, I entreat particularly their candour and indulgence.

But to the Public in general, I have a more powerful, more interefting claim.-An unhappy mother, reduced by unfavourable, unforeseen misfortunes, from a life of affluence and elegance to that of actual want and mifery, aggravated by the additional diftrefs of beholding four helplefs children looking up to her for that fupport which the cruelty of fate deprives her of the means of affordingthrough the channel of the following fheets fupplicates affiftance. To the ufe of herfelf and family, the emoluments arifing from the fale of this trifling work will be appropriated; and in fuch a cafe I have no doubt, but the generofity of a benevolent and humane Pub lic will be excited to patronize a work from which the Author claims no merit, but in the intention.'

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Reader!" Go thou, and do likewife." We mean not, in com pofing A Sketch of a Tour,' but in affifting the indigent and dif treffed.

As to the Sketches, here given, of towns, &c. in the Austrian Netherlands, and in Holland, if we may judge of the whole of our Author's defcriptions, from our recollection of thofe places which we have feen, his accounts are very juft.

Art. 50. An Account of the Conduct of Mr. Levy, refpecting Christian Claufs, and other extraordinary Perfonages. By a Friend to Mr. Levy. 12mo. 46 Pages. No Price. Printed for the Writer. 1787.

Mr. Levy was formerly in partnership with Mr. Claufs, a maker of piano forte guitars, on an improved principle, for which, as the inventor, he had a patent. The copartners not agreeing, a feparation, and a chancery fuit, enfued; and Mr. Levy's hard cafe is here published, by (as the Writer profeffes) a friend. The narrative is well drawn up; and if the facts are all truly and impartially ftated, as they really appear to be, never man had greater caufe of complaint, than hath the perfon who had the misfortune to be connected in business with Mr. C. C.

Art. 51. A Guide to the Lottery; or the Laws of Chance laid downt in a plain and intelligible Manner, &c. By W. Painter. 2s. Kearsley. 1787.

Mr. Painter has here given the folutions of feveral problems relative to gaming; most of which are taken from De Moivre's Doctrine of Chances; but that mathematician's demonftrations are omitted. The chances in the last lottery are peculiarly attended to, and many tables are inserted, by means of which, various questions relative to that lottery may be answered by infpection only. The bufinefs of infuring tickets is explained, the advantages taken by office-keepers are pointed out, and methods are laid down for afcertaining the prices of infurance for every day's drawing.

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Mr. Painter has added fome obfervations on the game of draughts; he has given 30 felect games in which he fhews the manner of moving the pieces to the beft advantage.

** This article fhould have appeared fooner; but the pamphlet did not come to our hands till within these few days.

Art. 52. The New Polite Preceptor: containing the Beauties of Englifh Profe. Selected from the Writings of the most eminent Authors, in order to form the Style, and promote a literary Emulation in the Youth of both Sexes. By the Editor of the Sunday Monitor. 12mo. 35. E. Johnfon.

Collections of admired paffages detached from approved writers, are become very common; and no wonder, fince the only difficulty in compiling them, is the invention of a new title.-If fuch publications are not to be ranked among the moft useful, they, at least, afford entertainment to the generality of young readers, who are always fond of Mifcellanies.

Art. 53. A Collection of Pamphlets concerning the Poor, with Abstracts of the Poor's Rates; Expences of different Houfes of Induftry, &c. and Obfervations by the Editor. 4to. 5s. Boards. Elliot and Co. 1787.

The pamphlets here republished are, 1. Some proposals for the employing of the Poor, efpecially in and about the city of London. By Thomas Firmin. First printed in 1678. 2. Bread for the Poor ; or, a method fhewing how the Poor may be maintained, and duly provided for, in a far more plentiful and yet cheaper manner than they now are. By R. D. Printed in 1698. 3. Giving alms no charity. By Daniel de Foe. Printed in 1704. 4. A Letter to the Citizens of Glafgow, containing a fhort view of the management of the Poor's funds. By a Citizen of Glasgow.-Printed in 1783. The Editor has added fome pertinent reflections on our poor rates, and has given large abftracts from the returns made by the overfeers of feveral places to the house of commons, in 1776.

The republication of the first three pamphlets may prove acceptable to the Public at the time when a revifal of the poor laws is in contemplation. They all contain many useful hints, and may be deemed valuable, as exhibiting the state of the poor, and fhewing the means that have been used for supplying their wants, &c. &c. Art. 54. The Afiatic Mifcellany; confifting of Tranflations, fugitive Pieces, Imitations, original Productions, and Extracts from curious Publications. By Sir W. Jones, and William Chambers, Efq; and other literary Gentlemen, now refident in India. Crown 8vo. 3 s. fewed. Wallis, &c. 1787.

Of the original Calcutta edition of these Afiatic Mifcellanies, we have given an ample account in our Reviews for May and June last. This pocket edition contains the fame pieces, except the paper on the Arabian Aftronomy, and Thevenot's Account of his Journey from Cairo to Suez, which feem to have been defignedly omitted, on reafons fimilar to what we remarked, when we noticed thofe papers in the article above referred to.

Art. 55. A bort Account of the Marratta State. Written in Perfian, by a Munfhy, who accompanied Col. Upton in his Embaffy to Poonah. Tranflated by W. Chambers, Efq; Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. To which is added, The Voyages and Travels of M. Cæfar Fredericke, into the Eaft Indies, &c. 8vo. 2s. Kearfley. 1787. Re-printed from the Afiatic Mifcellany above mentioned. Art. 56. Rane Comice Evangelizantes; or the comic Frogs turned Methodift. 8vo. I s. Macklew. 1786.

The pretended Editor (who, no doubt, is the Author), in his previous advertisement, ftyles this work an abominable rhapsody !? and he has in these words justly characterised the performance. We never knew fatire worse applied! Under the pretence of attacking fanaticism and bigotry, every thing facred, and awful, even the very day of judgment, is expofed to ridicule !

66 Learn, ye dunces, not to fcorn your God!"

MEDICA L.

Art. 57. Short Directions for the Management of Infants. By T. Mantell, Surgeon and Practitioner in Midwifery, at Dover, 12mo. 2s. Becket. 1787.

The great number of books on the fubject of nurfing, might have induced us to think that little more remained to be added. Though Mr. Mantell has not advanced many new thoughts, yet his directions are good, and fuited to the class of readers for whom they were chiefly intended: they are however rather too concife.

Art. 58. Medical Cautions, chiefly for the Confideration of Invalids, &c. The fecond Edition: to which are now added two Appendices. Published for the Benefit of the General Hospital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M. D. Member of the Medical Society, and Fellow of the College of Phyficians at Edinburgh. 8vo. 6s. Boards. Dilly. 1787.

In our brief review of the first edition of this work, we made fuch remarks as we thought it merited. In this edition, we obferve the effays to be confiderably enlarged, efpecially that on regimen, which, by its plan being extended, affumes the appearance of a new work. Two effays are added under the form of Appendices..

The nature of the work has led the Author to animadvert on a variety of medical abuses. As he has not always executed this task with fufficient moderation, he has unluckily expofed himself to the attacks of empirics, and, in fome measure, to the cenfure of regular phyficians. A great part of the preface is employed in repelling thefe attacks, which ought, if prudence had prevailed, to have been treated in a different manner. Private piques and quarrels are uninteresting to the Public, and it is beneath the dignity of the profeffional character to carry on a controverfy with the venders of noftrums.

The originality of the work, and the ingenuity and humour which the Author frequently manifefts, efpecially when he addreffes bimself to his learned fifters, the Lady Doctors, may be agreeable to See Review for Sept., 1786. p. 227. N 2

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