Jack. She has a devilish itch for painting: I fhou'd expect to have all my gods and goddeffes taken down to make room for her vulgar friends and relations. Mrs. Stap. Ay, that wou'd be a forrowful exchange to my knowledge. Lat. Yes, have a care of that fame painting girl: My life upon it fhe will flip through your hands. Jack. Why I have my eye upon that honeft gentleman in the picture, with the ftag's-horns, I must own-Who fhall I tell her gave me the caution? me. Lat. No matter; when you fee Mifs Fairfax you'll remember Jack. Fairfax! the vengeance: How came you to guess her name? Læt. Oh, Sir, there is but one painter in the street, and fhe, I believe, will remain there; your collection is fafe; the will trouble you with none of her performances, none of her daubings, take my word. Your most obedient-Let us make hafte home, and be ready to receive him: Vain, fenfelefs coxcomb! how I fhall enjoy his confufion! [Exit with Mrs. Staple. Jack. A good lively wench, but the devil of a tongue! I'll run and hand her to her coach.' MONTHLY [Exit. C. CATALOGUE, For JANUARY, MISCELLANEOUS. 1775. Art. 17. The Additions to the Quarto Edition of the Tour in Scotland, 1769; and the New Appendix re printed for the Accommodation of the Purchasers of the first and fecond Editions. 8vo. 5 s. in Sheets. White. 1774. MR R. Pennant gratefully acknowledges, in his prefatory advertisement, that the confiderable additions and corrections in the quarto edition, are owing to the liberal fpirit of communication among the gentlemen of the northern parts of this kingdom, in his Tours of the years 1772 and 1773;' and that by means of their friendly ftrictures, this edition is freed from fome errors that must unavoidably attend the performance of a rapid traveller, notwithftanding all his wishes to be accurate.' This volume contains a number of additional obfervations on various places vifited by the Author, in his travels through the northern parts of England, as well as in Scotland; and to these are added, in the new Appendix, the following tracts: No. I. A fhort account of the culture of Scotch pine-trees; by James Farquharfon, Efq; of Invercauld. No. II. Account of Elgin, and the fhire of Murray; by the Rev. Mr. Shaw, minister of Elgin. No. III. The life of James Crichton of Clunie, commonly called the admirable Crichton. This is taken from the account printed fome years ago at Aberdeen. There is a lefs comprehenfive life of this glory of North Britain in the Adventurer. This hero feems to have been held up to the world's admiration, with all the ardour, F 4 extra. 2 extravagance, and exaggeration of national enthusiasm; and therefore it would be little lefs than damnable heresy, or atheism, to queftion any of his wonderful attributes. There is no doubt, how. ever, but that he was, indeed, a most extraordinary and truly admirable perfon. No. IV. Narrative of a murder of a Laird of Innes, as related in the old account; the language of which will be scarce intelligible to modern readers. No. V. Account of Caithnefs, Strathnaver, and Sutherland; by the Rev. Mr. Pope, minister of Reay. No. VI. Life of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel; a famous partisan of the Stuarts; formidable to the Cromwelians. No. VII. Of the maffacre of the Colquhouns, And twenty one elegant engravings, by Mazell, Canot, Allamet, and Hall. Art. 18. Dueling and Suicide repugnant to Revelation, Reason, and Common Senfe. 8vo. 15. Meighan. 1774. Every writer has fome peculiar mode of expreffion, which it is not always eafy to characterize; and fearing we might fail of doing this Writer full justice, we beg that he may be permitted to ftep forward and fpeak for himself; Argument appearing to me the fureft means of putting a flop to thefe monstrous crimes, I was fired with the like philanthropy of other effayifts, who figure in the public prints, to venture putting in my oar in the Craftsman, where I obferved fome infertions on the fubject: but after three letters was difmiffed, which made me take this method for fubmitting the whole of my meditated plan: not indeed as to its beauty and force of language, which though the best test of a rational production in this fhamefully more than effeminate and pedantic age, witness the frothy periods of a Junius, which afforded fuch delight, without a grain of little more befides, than purely common fenfe, I, if intelligible, as a matter of indifference, ever look upon in a work that fearches after truth; not as to this, I fay; but its diffuafive force to the judicious public, whofe well reafoned, not magifterial award, I shall as gratefully receive, as I do impatiently await.' He must be a defperate fellow indeed who can perfift in his bloody purposes, when a Writer of fuch uncommon powers undertakes to rectify his misapprehenfions! N. Art. 19. An Efay on the different natural Situations of Gardens. 4to. I s. 6d. Dodfley. 1774. The work before us, would have challenged our warmeft commendations, had it been wholly an original performance; but Mr. Shenftone has written on the fame fubject, and a fimilar train of ideas is difcoverable through bis Effay on Gardening. However, thus much we may venture to fay, that this is an excellent copy, from a great mafter; and those who have not, as well as thofe who have accompanied Mr. Shenftone through his variously adapted walks, will meet with entertainment and instruction in thefe; for, in like manner, both expand the mind of the unthinking, and furnish ideas to thofe who ftand in need of them. D..--n. Art, + author unknownre. Found among the paper of the late Mr Spence. Art. 20. A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury; with Obfer vations not to be found in any Defcription hitherto published. By William Goftling, M. A. a Native of the Place, and Minor Canon of the Cathedral. Embellished with a new and correc Plan of the city. Alfo an elegant Engraving of the Church Gate, and a Chart of thofe Parts defcribed in a Tour through Eaft Kent. 8vo. 3 s. Boards. Baldwin, &c. 1774. Mr. Goftling declares that this book is not merely an abstract of what others have written on the same subject, but such an actual furvey as the title promifes. We believe this to be no vain pretence. The Author writes like an honeft, fenfible, and well-informed obferver; and his work is thrown into a more agreeable form than is common to fuch local details of foundations, ruins, infcriptions, and the various revolutions of a corporation. It is really not an unentertaining performance; and the chart and defcription of the places mentioned in the tour of Eaft-Kent will be particularly acceptable to thofe who incline to ramble in fearch of amusement through that pleafing part of our island. To close our opinion of the merit of Mr. Gofiling's refearches with a pun, (to the invention of which we lay no claim) he has left no ftone unturned to gratify the curious inquirer. Art. 21. The Man of Bufinefs, and Gentleman's Affiftant: containing a treatise of practical Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal Fractions; in which are inferted, many concife and valuable Rules, for the ready cafting up of merchandice, never yet published in this Kingdom. Book-keeping by fingle and double Entry, the former upon an entire new Plan, comprifing a modern and approved Method of keeping fmall Accompts, Debtor and Creditor in the Wafte-book only, calculated for the Eafe and Advantage of Retail Traders: Together with an Essay on English Grammar, adapted to the Ufe of Gentlemen, Merchants, Traders, and Schools. By W. Perry, Mafter of the Academy at Kelfo. 8vo. 6 s. fewed. Murray. 1774. Mr. Perry has taken great pains in compiling this comprehensive school-book; and we think, that, for its fize, it contains as much, if not more, useful inftruction, than any other which we have lately feen. He fpeaks of it with diffidence, and recommends it to the public notice in a very respectful manner. We are totally ignorant of Mr. P.'s connections, and therefore cannot fay, upon what ground he expects the feverity of criticifm. In a track, which has been fo often purfued by others, few, that are acquainted with this branch of education, will promife themfelves much novelty and variety. The Author, by taking a very extenfive compafs, and by comprising arithmetic, book-keeping, and grammar in one volume, has omitted fome things, which are of real importance and utility. But we can hardly admit this as a fufficient apology for excluding from a treatife of arithmetic, defigned for general inftruction, thofe rules that relate to the involution of powers and extraction of roots; and fortreating the fubject of intereft, one of the most curious and important, in a manner fo fuperficial and imperfect. It is well known, that, without fome knowledge of the former, and without a very accurate acquaintance with the latter, young perfons must be very incompetently qualified either for the lower or higher departments of trade. The la The Author has failed indeed, not fo much in what he has profeffedly undertaken, as in what he has altogether omitted. The treatife of arithmetic, in itself confidered, is inferior to many that have been long in ufe: but the whole volume, including the bookkeeping and grammar, which, for the most part, are well executed, will, we apprehend, anfwer the end of publication to the Author himself, and may be ufed with advantage by the attentive student. R-S Art. 22. Remarks on the English Language, with Rules for Speech and Action; to which is added, an Account of the Proceedings of the Birmingham, Walfal, and Wolverhampton Free Debating Societies, inftituted by J. Jones, Prefident: Together with his Addrefs, as delivered at the Opening of each of the faid Societies. I S. Brimingham, for the Author. 4to. Anciently they had itinerant bards and walking philofophers, but the former are reduced to the ballad-finger and the bellman, and the latter to the porters of the monthly and daily prints. Yet we have what the ancients could not boaft, itinerant rhetoricians and walking orators: a fet of worthy and well-meaning gentlemen, who come from other countries, principalities, and kingdoms, to teach the good people of England to fpeak the English language. There is fomething very pleasant in all this,-to fee Welch, Scotch, and Irifh, iffue from their native regions, like the prophets of the groves of old, with the benevolent purpose of inftructing us in our mother tongue! This idea occafioned the following EPIGRAM on the Welch, Scots, and Irish teaching the English language. See townright Taffy from his mountains preak, As a fpecimen of this gentleman's rhetorical abilities, take the firft fentence in his pamphlet. To understand the English language, and to be able to speak it with propriety, are accomplishments that every one fhould be defirous of attaining: but which is not the cafe in general, is too plainly evident.' This is ungrammatical; inftead of but which, it ought to have been but that this. Again, a fhocking circumftance; a difgrace to our country, and occafions us to be laughed at and ridiculed by every foreigner.' This is as bad or worfe than the former; for instead of and occafions, it ought to have been which occafions, but we are not yet arrived at the bottom of the first page, and fo Master Shones, your moft opetient ferfants. น. Art. 23. Le Courier François. An Account of the Regulations concerning the Prices and Minner of travelling Poft in France. With a complete Lift of the Pofts throughout that Kingdom. Made and published by Order of M. Rigoley, IntendantGeneral. For the Year 1774. Izmo. 1 s. 6d. Faden, and Jefferys. This lift and rates of French pofts, being published by authority, must be accepted under that fan&tion; and we are happy to find that Pegafus is not among the number of poft-horfes. N. Art. Art. 24. The Oeconomist. Shewing, in a Variety of Eftimates, from 801. per Annum to 800, how comfortably and genteely a Family may live, with Frugality, for a little Money. By a Gentleman of Experience. 8vo. 1s. Bell. To those who, through ignorance or negligence, are deficient with regard to the due regulation of their domeftic expences, we would recommend, as the firft inftance of economy, the purchase and perufal of this little tract; in which they will find fuch eftimates as feem to be the refult of real experience in the London methods of living. Art. 25. An Effay on the Depravity and Corruption of Human Nature. Wherein the Opinions of La Bruiere, Rochefoucault, Efprit, Senault, Hobbes, Mandeville, Helvetius, &c. on that Subject, are fupported on Principles entirely new, against Hume, Shaftesbury, Sterne, Brown, and other Apologifts for Mankind. By Thomas O'Brien M'Mahon. 8vo. 3 s. fewed. White, &c. 1774. Some men, like fome animals, (the hedge-hog, for inftance) have the talent of wrapping themfelves up in fuch obfcurity, that they often pafs without regard, becaufe a fpectator does not easily know what to think of them, or becaufe they do not appear to be worth ftudying. But left our Readers, in virtue of the obligations we lie under to them, fhould infift on a more particular defcription of Mr. Thomas O'Brien M'Mahon; we will, after unfolding him, and turning him over and over, and carefully exemining him on all fides, venture to pronounce him a fanatic, with juft fuch a fhare of hiftorical knowledge and philofophy, as hath enabled him to colour a parcel of myftical jargon with the appearance of argument, aided by forced illuftrations from experience and the hiftory of mankind. If we may prefume to guefs at the meaning enveloped in a plenteous affemblage of very unmeaning words, it is, merely, that all our paffions are derived from the hereditary taint of original fin. We fee nothing new in this; though he promises us principles entirely new. There was however a fair opening for a man of Mr. Thomas O'Brien M'Mahon's ingenuity, to have given us fomething new, by delineating what kind of a being he thinks man would be, if he was wholly cured of all this original fin that poifons his conftitution, and if all his paffions were thus totally eradicated. This would have been a curious inquiry, as the unenlightened part of mankind are apt to conclude that thefe paffions are the only fpurs to human action; that we should never act without motives; and that thefe motives mutually correct each other. This original infection, instead of being weakened by length of time, muft, on the contrary, acquire ftrength and virulence by diffufion; for our Author reprefents all mankind as no better than incarnate devils: he has doubtlefs provided himself with a certificate of health, by virtue of the selfish doctrine of affurance; though he is very angry (and anger is a diabolical paffion) with all those who are willing to judge more charitably of their fellow-creatures. See with what rigour he treats us, in one of his most intelligible paffages: Indeed, itrarely happens, that any man conceives he has an intereft, which he actually imagines incompatible with the existence of his whole |