of each other. In the work before us the Author treats, in a very compendious but clear manner, of the general properties of the electric fluid, as deduced from and illuftrated by fome of the more entertaining experiments, which he has felected for that purpofe. He then gives a few practical directions and obfervations relative to the use of electrical machines, of which, in the following part, he defcribes a few of the more convenient forms, ciofing the whole with an alphabetical catalogue of technical terms. The well known abilities of the Author render it fuperfluous for us to say how all this is executed. Four copper-plates accompany the work, reprefenting electric machines, properly fo called, a battery, and other fmaller members of the electrical apparatus, which are taken from our Author's larger work.. We did not look for new matter in an introduction: the prefent however contains fomewhat of that kind; particularly a fhort description of what may be called a medical electrometer, invented by Mr. Lane, and though delineated, yet not defcribed in the former treatife; by means of which a patient may receive any number of shocks, of a determinate magnitude, fucceeding each other, as long as the wheel is turned round the vial or jar fpontaneously difcharging itfelf through the patient's body,, or the part affected, as foon as ever the charge acquires a certain degree of force. We have likewife a new and very curious experiment of Mr. Canton's, which our Author communicates to the public with his leave, in which, in confequence of a certain manœuvre, the whole air of a room is readily and powerfully electrified by means of a charged vial held in the hand, and which the Author thinks may poffibly lead to confiderable difcoveries. B-Y Art. 14. An Anfwer to Mr. Horace Walpole's late Work, entitled, Hiftoric Doubts on the Reign and Life of King Richard the Third; or, an Attempt to confute him from his own Arguments. By F. W. G. of the Middle Temple. 4to. 3s. 6d. sew’d. White. 1768. When Mr. Walpole published his obfervations on the life of Richard the Third, he took particular care to inform his readers that the difficulties ftarted by him, with regard to the crimes commonly charged on that monarch, were no more than mere doubts, and that he made no pretences to abfolute certainty upon the fubject. It follows, therefore, from the very nature of the circumftances advanced by him, that many of them must be extremely difputable; and it cannot be denied that a perfon of critical fagacity, and who is thoroughly acquainted with the English hiftory, might be able to produce feveral objections to Mr. Walpole's fentiment and reasonings, which would be found worthy of attention. But this is by no means the cafe with the prefent Anfwer; which is a futile and infignificant performance, fcarcely containing any thing that merits the leat notice. Mr. F. W. G. tells us that he has spent half his life in the dry, jejune, infipid ftudy of the law, and that, after all, with much pains and plodding, he has made but a very inconfiderable progrefs in it. As to the fmallnefs of his attainments in the law, we give him entire credit; for if his proficiency had been tolerable, he would certainly have fhewn himself a better examiner into evidence and facts. It is, it feems, Mr. F. W. G.'s intention to return REV. May, 1768. D d to to his other ftudies again, and we are glad of it, for a very obvious reason. K. Art. 15. The Peerage of Ireland. A Complete View of the several Orders of Nobility, their Defcents, Marriages, Iffue, and Relations; their Creations, Armorial Bearings, Crefts, Supporters, Mottos, Chief Seats, and the bigh Offices they poffefs; fo methodized as to difplay whatever is truly useful in this inftructive and amufing Branch of Knowlege. Together with the Arms of all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal. By Mr. Kimber. Small 12m0. 3s. Woodfall. This little manual is drawn up in the fame form, and upon the fame plan, as the Author's Peerages of England and Scotland. Some errors, he allows, may have escaped his most fedulous attention; but to preclude what he calls all trifling attempts at criticism thereon, he boldly affirms, that where one error is vifible in this compendium, be is able to fix tex, upon any peerage-writer, from Dugdale to the present time.And, indeed, where is the great wonder of it; when the brevity of this, is compared with the prolixity of fome other accounts?-We think it, however, an eligible vade-mecum to all lovers of family-history; to whom it may be fafely recommended, as containing multum in parve. The arms are neatly engraved but the omiffion of the blazon of many of them, in the book, is certainly a detect,-not readily to be accounted for. P. Art. 16. Farnaby Illuftrated, or the Latin Text of Farnaby's Rhetoric exemplified by various Paffages, from the facred Scriptures, the Roman Claffics, and the most diftinguished British Authors. For the Ufe of Schools. 8vo. I s. Nicoll. It is not for us who look upon the study of rhetoric, as it is practifed in the schools, to be burthenfome and useless, to recommend any thing of this kind. L Art. 17. The Comedies of Terence, tranflated into familiar Blank Verfe. By George Colman. 8vo. 2 Vols. 12s. Becket. As we have always had the success of this valuable work at heart, it is with pleasure we see a new edition of it revised and corrected by the ingenious Tranflator. At the end of the fecond volume we find an appendix concerning Mr. Farmer's effay on the learning of Shakespeare, in which Mr. Colman, by fhort but ftrong arguments, maintains the erudition of the poet against that gentleman's opinion. We join entirely with Mr. Colman, and are convinced by many proofs that the poet at least had a competent fhare of Latin. But in this conteft for Shakespeare's learning we are forry to fee that poor Cartwright has loft his. This mi fortune befals him in the following note. In defence of the various reading of this paffage given in the preface to the laft edition of Shakespeare "fmall Latin and no Greek," Mr. Farmer tells us that it was adopted above a century ago .by W. Towers in a panegyric on Cartwright. Surely, Towers having faid that Cartwright had no Greek, is no proof that Ben Johnfon faid fo of Shakespeare." Now Towers did not fay that Cartwright had no Greek-the lines in his panegyric are thefe: 4 Thy skill in wit was not fo poorly meek As their's whofe little Latin and no Greek Confin'd their whole discourse to a ftreet phrase. Cartwright was a very learned man. His lectures on Aristotle's metaphyfics had confiderable reputation in their day; and the ingenious Jasper Main, addreffing him as a poet and philofopher, fays, Thy lamp was cherished with fupplies of oil L. Art. 18. The Trial of Frederick Calvert, Efq; Baron of Baltimore, in the Kingdom of Ireland, for a Rape on the Body of Sarah Wood cock; and of Eliz. Griffinburgh, and Ann Harvey, otherwife Darby, as Acceffaries before the Fact, at the Affizes held at King fton, for the County of Surry, March 26, 1768. Before the Hon. Sir Sidney Smythe, Knt. One of the Barons of his Majefty's Court of Exchequer. Published by Permiffion of the Judge. A celebrated woman of fashion, (whose opinion, on a case of this nature, will out-weigh that of all the critics that ever lived) obferved, after reading this trial, that the L- was certainly guilty, and the Lady not innocent.' Art. 19. Critical Obfervations on each Sentence of a late Defence ; wherein the whole is proved to be inelegant, incorrect, vague, frivolous, inconfiftent, and fophiftical. Humbly infcriped to a certain noble Lord. 4to. Is. Redmayne. A ftring of low and impertinent cavils at Lord Baltimore's defence, at his late trial, Art. 20. Juft and Candid Remarks on fome Critical Obfervations on Lord Baltimore's Defence, just published by a Gentleman of the Inner-Temple. Wherein the whole is proved to be prejudiced, infamous, inhuman, abfurd, and nonfenfical. In a Letter to that modeft and candid Gentleman. 8vo. 6d. Williams. If this Remarker was really as angry with his antagonist as he appears to be, from his outrageous manner of writing, he ought to have given his paffion time to cool before he took up his pen; and then, perhaps, he had not fo unhappily expofed his want of temper, common fenfe, and decency. If his fury is all affected, and he only meant to pay his court to the good Lord Baltimore,-or, perchance, to extract a few pence from the pockets of the public,—may he meet with his re ward! What reward he merits, we leave to the generofity of his patron, or to the judgment of his indignant readers. From his ranting ftyle, and calling fo many ugly names, we conclude this little Boanerges to be no other than Kaftril, the angry boy, whofe valuable production entitled Modern Chastity, or the Agreeable Rape, we celebrated in our Catalogue for March. Art. 21. Obfervations on S. W******k's own Evidence, relative to the pretended Rape, as printed in the Trial. 4to. 6d. Peat. An attack on Mifs W. equally illiberal in is nature, with the foregoing catch penny Obfervations on L-d B. Probably they are both productions of the fame ingenious pen. 1 Art. 22. The Theory and Practice of Rapes, investigated and illuftrated; in an Addrefs to Lord B. and Mifs W. By a Lady. 8vo. I s. 6d. Bladon. In this jocole performance, the Author, whom we cannot fuppofe to be a lady, (as there is nothing lady-like in the flyle and manner in which it is written) has confidered rapes under thefe different claffes: The rape pofitive, The rape decent, Thefe he has defined in their proper order; and he humourously concludes, that the Bé rape belongs to the fourth clafs-and in the courfe of his curious investigation, he has fome threwd glances at Mifs W. and a few arch frictures on the noble rav-r. Art. 23. An Answer to a certain Pamphlet lately published under the folemn Title of a Sermon, or Masonry the Way to Heil. By John Jackfon, Philanthropos. 8vo. Is. Bladon. Another idle vindication of the Free-mafons: fee our last month's Catalogue. Art. 24. A Letter to a Bifhof, concerning Lectureships. By F. T. and Joint-lecturer of St. Affiftant-curate at 8vo. IS. Baldwin. An affecting reprefentation of the hard cafe of thofe of the clergy known in the city under the humble denomination of lecturers; shewing the mortifications and indignities to which they are expofed in foliciting thofe appointments; the wretched incomes allowed them; and-but read the pamphlet, and you will be well entertained. How! Entertained with the perufal of an affecting representation !—'Tis very true; for, though there is a great deal of terious meaning in this Letter, it is, for the most part, expressed with fuch exquifite humour, that we may venture to pronounce this tract one of the merrieft, the wittieft, and best written, that we have had the pleasure of perufing for a long time pait. Perhaps the ingenious Author judged the ludicrous vehicle to be the moft palatable, the most likely to recommend his performance, to give it an extenfive circulation, and, in fine, to make it anfwer every good purpofe he might have in view by publishing it: in which we heartily with him all politle fuccefs-notwithstanding the oblique froke he has aimed, en paffant, at us poor Reviewers. Art. 25. The new Foundling Hofpital for Wit*. Being a Collection of curious Pieces, in Verfe and Profe, written by Lord Chefterfield, Lord Hardwicke, Lord Lyttleton, Sir C. H. Williams, Mr. Wilkes, Mr. Churchill, Mr. Garrick, Mr. Potter, Dr. Akenfide, and other eminent Perfons. 12mo. 1 S. Almon. There are fome pieces of wit and fatire in this collection, which are undoubtedly worth preferving; but many others of them, being of a This title is borrowed from that of a fimilar collection made by the late Mr. Dodfley, about 20 years ago. temporary temporary and political nature, will, in a few years, be unintelligible: perhaps not a few of them may prove to already, to the generality of readers. Art. 26. The Complete Farmer: or, a General Dictionary of Hufbandry, in all its Branches; with the ufeful Parts of Gardening; or thefe neceffary for the Farmer, and Country Gentleman. Illuftrated with a great Variety of Felio Copper-plates, exhibiting all the Inftruments used in this neceffary Art; particularly thofe lately invented, and prefented to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. in London; many of which have never yet appeared in any Work of this Nature. By a Society of Gentlemen, Members of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Published in Sixty Numbers, Folio, Price 1. 10s. in the Years 1766, and 1767. Crowder. The Writers of this work juftly observe, in their address to the public, thar husbandry had its birth with the world, and has always been the most genuine fource of folid wealth, and real treafures: it is therefore no wonder that the wileft princes, and most able minifters, among the ancients, made it their principal fludy to encourage and improve the a t; as well knowing that the Frength of a flare fhould not be eftimated by the extent of its territories, but by the number of its inhabtants, and the utility of their labours.--And it may be remembered, that fome of the most noble confuls and dictators among the ancient Romans were taken from the plough, and that the fenators of that flourifhing people spent the greater part of their time in the country, where they tilled their fields with their own hands. But when luxury was introduced among the Romans, husbandry declined, and has never fince reached the honourable tation it before poffeffed: owing, perhaps, to an ill-founded opinion, that the practice of husbandry requires ne:ther tudy, reflection, nor precepts; and is therefore beneath the notice of men of fortune and genius. The ancients, however, thought differently; being persuaded, that, in order to cultivate lands to advantage, it was neceflary to ftudy the works of thofe who had written on this fubje&t, adding the experience of others to their own. This opinion feems to be now once more happily established and the study of hufbandry is purfued with fuch affiduity in the different pa ts of Europe, that a great number of important difcoveries have been lately made in that most useful and necefiary branch of knowledge. But as thefe difcoveries and improvements are fcattered through a multitude of volumes, written in different languages, and published in different countries; the Authors of the work before us were eafily perfuaded to believe that the public would certainly encourage an undertaking, in which they propofed to deliver both the theory and practice of every branch of hufbandry, enriched with all the difcoveries hitherto made in any part of Europe. This laborious tafk they appear to have executed in a manner not unworthy the notice of the intelligent farmer, who will here find many of the most valuable precepts, obfervations, difcoveries, and improvements, contained in the writings, not only of the authors enumerated in the title-page, but also in thofe of Barck, Tarello, Dahamel, De Lille, Sharrack, Houghton, Stillingfleet, and others; with the farther D83 addition |