be a great improvement, and might very eafily be added. The map contains all the new docks, and every modern improvement. ART. 36. Soirées l'Automne, ou le Vice puni, et la Vertu recompenfée, à l'Inftruction de la Jeunesse, et pour l'Ufage des Ecoles, par Mademoifelle G. Berthelet. 12mo. Dulan. 1810. 4s. 6d. We do not think it neceffarily within our province to notice all the French publications which are printed in this country, but there is fomething fo very peculiar in this that it becomes a motive of justice not to allow it to pafs without animadverfion. We do not pretend to know who Mademoiselle G. Berthelet may be, but this we know, that this publication to which she has prefixed her name, is the performance of M. Bitaubé, by no means an undiftinguished French writer. It was published by Bitaubé, as it ought to have been here, with the title of the Hiftory of Jofeph, and there is a fplendid and elegant English verfion of it, by a writer of reputation among us. The name of Bitaubé no where appears in the preliminary dialogue, which however is introduced by a long lift of royal and noble fubfcribers. The motive certainly requires fome explanation, which it behoves Mademoiselle G. Berthelet to give, for the publication carries at present on the face of it, the appearance of a moft unjuftifiable literary fraud. ART. 37. Inftructive Tales. By Mrs. Trimmer. 12mo. Rivington. 4s. 1810. We rejoice that Mrs. Trimmer is flill able to persevere in her falutary labours for the youth of both fexes, who owe her the greatest of obligations. Thefe Tales twenty-one in number, were originally written for, and printed, in a work which appeared monthly, and was called the Family Magazine. The object cannot be too much commended; they were intended to counteract the poifon of those profane and immoral books, which were at that period induftriously, and too fuccefsfully, circulated among the lower claffes of people. We are glad to fee thefe Tales in this collective form, and recommend them, without befitation, to the perufal of thofe for whofe benefit they were defigned. An Appendix is fubjoined, confifting of fourteen articles of maxims and advice against the fatal effects of dram drinking, rules for the management of children, for nurfing the fick, advice to workmen on oaths, exhortations to the keepers of public houfes, aud other ufeful and important fubjects. ART. 38. Reliques of Robert Burns, confifting chiefly of original Letters, Poems, and Critical Obfervations on Scottish Songs. Collected and published by R. H. Cromek. 8vo. 453 PP. ios. 6d. Cadell and Co. 1808.. Thefe reliques are of no great importance. We intended, however, from refpect to the memory of Burns, to nave noticed them them at fome length; but it has been omitted, and therefore they now only find a fecondary place. A The contents of the prefent volume are thefe: 1. Seventy-two Letters, from Burns to various Perfons. 2. Strictures on Scottish Songs and Ballads, extending from page 187 to page 306, and occupying, confequently, the chief part of the volume. long note, by the Editor, on the Hiftory of James Tytler, mentioned by Burns in p. 224. (not 229, as faid in p. 306). 4. Burns's Common Place Book. 5. Four Letters from William Burns, brother to the poet, with an account of his death. 6. Epistles in Verfe. 7. Mifcellaneous Poems. 8. Songs and Ballads. On thefe contents, many obfervations are not neceffary. The Letters are, like others by the fame author, ftrongly characteristic of the writer's feelings and difpofition; and confequently are very valuable, as genuine pictures of human nature. The Stric tures on Scottish Songs are, to the curious in literary history, invaluable, fince they mark the authors of many beautiful compofi. tions very little known before. The criticifms of Burns are alfo acute and fpirited in a very eminent degree. His Common-place Book is another fingular picture, of a very fingular mind. His Epiftles in Verfe, and other mifcellaneous Poems and Songs, are in general worthy of him, and in many inftances exquifitely beautiful. The fhort preface to his Common-place, or Scrapbook, contains a character of the writer, drawn by himself, fo very original and curious, that it must be gratifying to every reader, "Obfervations, Hints, Songs, Scraps of Poetry, &c. by Robert Burnefs (fic); a man who had little art in making money, and ftill lefs in keeping it but was, however, a man of fome fenfe, a great deal of honefty, and unbounded good-will to every creature, rational and irrational. As he was but little indebted to fcholaftic education, and bred at a plough tail, his performances must be ftrongly tinctured with his unpolished, rustic way of life: but, as I believe they are really his own, it may be fome entertainment to a curious obferver of human nature, to fee how a plough-man thinks, and feels, under the preffure of love, ambition, anxiety, grief, with the like cares and paffions which, however diverfified by the modes and manners of life, operate pretty much alike, I believe, on all the fpecies." P. 316. but This, with fome other paffages of his Common-place Book, was printed by Dr. Currie in Burns's Works, vol. ii. p. 5 ; the whole of that MS. is here given instead of extracts from it. Among his fhort poems, there are many of that striking fimplicity and beauty, which have made him fo juftly a favourite, with the admirers of natural ftrains. Thefe muft be fought in the book; for they are too many for us to extract. But the following is - fingular. It is an arch ridicule of the profeffion which he unwillingly, took up, and written extempore at a meeting of his brother Excifemen, in Dumfries. 66 SONG. "SONG. "The Deil came fiddling thro' the town, "There's threefome reels, and fourfome reels, Fare thee well, Burns ;-for a more original, and in fome refpects eccentric, but always lively genius, has feldom existed ! MONTHLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. DIVINITY. The Petition of the Roman Catholics confidered: in a Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocefe of Gloucefter, at the Triennial Vifitation of that Diocefe, in the Month of June, 1810. By George Ifaac Huntingford, D. D. F.R. S. Bishop of Gloucefter, and Warden of Winchefter College. 8vo. 23. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London, by John, Lord Bishop of that Diocefe, at his Primary Vifitation in 1810. 1s. 6d. A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Stony Stratford, at the Vifitation of the Archdeacon of Bucks, Thursday, June 28, 1810. By the Rev. 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