This is a spirited, and pretty liberal imitation of Horace, tho' fufficiently juft to the general fenfe and fcope of the fatire. The author has included feveral lines of the original, printed on the oppofite page of his tranflation, within hooks, being thofe to which his imitation had little or no regard. As a fpecimen of this gentleman's brief performance, we fhall felect the effential contrast between the conduct of the mifer, and that of the ant, whofe wife example the former molt abfurdly ap plies to juftify his accumulation of unus'd, unneceffary wealth. True,' cries Sir ***, the man who flies from want,

'Life's wary maxims copies from the ant;

Who, grain by grain, ftill adding to her store,
Points out the golden moral, BE NOT POOR,'
Sir, to apply your infance, let us fee
How well thefe hoarders and fome folks agree.
They, foon as wintry vapours chill the air,
Think it a fin a fingle grain to fpare;
Not one, I ween, fo filly as to fit

Hemm'd round with dainties, and not touch a bit.
While wifer thou, no dupe to fancy'd fear
Of heat, cold, hunger, pains, year after year,
Plod'ft on unweary'd in the ways of pelf,
Left there be one more wretched than thyself.

IV. The Modern Juftice, in imitation of The Man of Taste: By Scriblerus Minimus. Written in the year 1753. 4to. 6d. Baldwin.

This expofes the little arts which, poffibly, may be practifed by fome gentlemen in the commiffion of the peace, in order to avail themselves of the private advantages of their office. There is no great doubt, but fome examples may have given fufficient ground for a fatire of this kind; for experience fhews, that fools and knaves have crept into every itation. Such worshipful delinquents may, however, confole themselves with the reflection, that they have, for this time, fallen under the lafh of no formidable pen: for Mr. Scriblerus Minimus 15, in truth, far from being a great poet, or fatyrist.

V. The Lion a whelp, and at full age. A fable, from the French of La Fontaine, which has been fuppreffed in most of the modern editions. Folio, 6d. Cooper.

The original defign of this fable was to infinuate to the powers of Europe, when Lewis XIV. was in the zenith of his glory, that refiftance was in vain, and that it was cheaper to purchase the friendship of France, by fuch facrifices as the required, than to attempt, even by a general alliance, to preferve any thing the thought fit to claim, by fetting bounds to her force. This is admirably conceived, and elegantly expreffed, fuitably to the infolence of those times, when the • brutal Louvois treated fovereign princes in a manner no well• bred

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bred man would have ufed towards his domeftics. But a ⚫ reverse of fortune taught France another language, tho' not other maxims; and from hence we find this fable omitted in our author's works. The tranflation is very literal, except in ⚫ the moral, to which we have given a different turn.'

Tranflator's Advertisement to the Reader. The moral, as deduced in this tranflation, is,

If beasts would not a tyrant know,

They ne'er muft let the LION grow.

The tranflation is not a contemptible one; the original is given with it.

VI. An Ode on Beauty. To Stella. 4to. 6d. Comyns.

We find nothing in this ode faulty enough to deferve a particular cenfure; nothing good enough to demand exprefs approbation: 'tis a cool performance, tho' an irregular ode; and, fpight of the vulgar notion, proves that there is a mediocrity in poetry.

VII. Abe; an oratorio, or facred drama for mufic. As it is performed at the theatre-royal, in Drury-lane. Set to mufic by Mr. Arne. Is. Francklin.

VIII. Appius. A tragedy. As it is acted at the theatreroyal, in Covent-garden. 8vo. Is. 6d. Millar.

Mr. Moncrief, the author, has dedicated this play to the princess of Wales. It was acted fix nights to good-natured audiences; but was not thought adviseable to trust them a seventh time: and truly, if they were as ill entertained, or as little affected, with the reprefentation, as we have been by the reading this play, we cannot but admire at their infenfibility, who fat it out fo long.It is, indeed, one of the moft trivial and infipid performances of the kind we remember to have seen.

MISCELLANEOUS.

IX. The Tuner. Letter the Fifth. To be continued occafionally. 8vo. 6d.

Cooper.

This number, the fubject of which is the common chit chat of the town, concludes the firit volume of the Tuner. We have already introduced this writer to the acquaintance of our readers.

X. The Unnatural Father, or, the Perfecuted Son. Being a candid narrative of the moft unparallel'd fufferings of Robert Nugent, jun. by the means and procurement of his own father. Written by himself. 8vo. Is. 6d. Sold by the author, a prifoner in the fleet, and at Ashley's punch-house, on Ludgate-hill.

The author informs us, that he is the natural fon of a gentleman of the fame name, a member of the prefent parliament; that he has been fo unhappy as to become the object of his fa

ther's

ther's averfion; and that he is now languishing in prison, at the fuit of his own parent. How far a fon can merit such treatment from a father, is a queftion we have not leifure to difcufs; and how far Mr. Nugent, in particular, may have merited the diftreffes he complains of, the public, to whom he appeals, are not, we apprehend, proper judges, till they have heard the other fide.

XI. The Love Encounter, &c.

To make the title-page of this trifle as arch and fingular as the author defigned the whole, it informs us of no publisher's name, nor place of fale; but, after a ftale infipid jeft of its being printed at Cnidus, at the fign of Montefquious' head, &c. &c. it fubjoins one truth, that the modeft price [not the value] of it is fix-pence only! The contents, throughout which the author ftrains unnaturally to appear an eafy drole,-discover it to be a venereal quack-bill, in a new and more diffused stile; and if, like the others, it had been diftributed gratis, the doctor had made his readers a prefent of no exquifite value: tho', upon experience, it will be found much ufefuller than Rock's or Weft's fingle flips, as it contains a dozen leaves in well-fized octavo. Several very intelligible entendres of this perfpicuous writer's occur in his description of the organs, and their encounter. The pamphlet concludes with advertising his four intended geneleo-logic, or generation-lectures; in which we are not to fuppofe he will be much less explicite than in this empirical bill, which he purposed, no doubt, to entertain and enlighten the fpecies, as long as Venus fhall twinkle. He may reflect, however, at his leifure, that there is another author, who could not pardon one indecent intimation in the Careless Husband; and thence expect, if he trefpaffes upon decorum, to be exercifed for it, to fome tune, by him, in his next lucubration. The advertisement of this waggifh production informs us, the doctor has published it in Latin too; which, we suppose, his erudition adapted to another meridian, in order to infnare himself into fome fort of reputation, as he phrafes it, among the academics, and which he will, very probably, in fome fort, accomplish. XII. The Anti-chriftian Opera. 8vo. 6d. Keith.

One Mr. George Paul is the author of this little piece. It contains a narrative of what he obferved concerning the Roman catholic worship, during a short refidence in France. He tells his story in very poor language, and feems, in all respects, to be extremely ill qualified for appearing in print.

XIII. An Answer to the Question, Where are your arguments against what you call lewdness, if you make no use of the Bible? 8vo. Is. Dodley, &c.

The author expatiates on the immoral nature, and evil tendency, of adultery and fornication; and fhews, in how heinous a light thefe crimes were viewed by the wife heathens,

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before the promulgation of Chriftianity; by what laws they were prohibited, and how feverely punished, by the Egyptians, Greeks, and other nations: to which purpose, he cites many paffages from the old philofophers and poets. Our author is a fenfible man, but not a very animated writer.

XIV. The Way to be wealthy and wife. Recommended to all. Applied more particularly, and accommodated to the feveral conditions and circumstances of the gentleman, the scholar, foldier, tradefman, failor, artificer, husbandman. By a Merchant. 8vo. Is. Baldwin.

INDUSTRY and FRUGALITY are the means recommended by our author for the attainment of wealth; the practice of thefe virtues is the wisdom he points out: to induce us to which, he employs a variety of very fenfible arguments and exhortations. His performance appears to be founded on experience, and a juft and ample knowledge of the world; his maxims are undeniable, his advise falutary, and fuch as mutt infallibly lead to the very defirable ends mentioned in his titlepage. In a word, we fcarce know a more ufeful pamphlet; confequently, few that more deferve to be circulated among all ranks of people: as every reader may be benefited, none can be hurt, by an attentive perufal of this, and due obfervance of the wholesome doctrines inculcated in it.

XV. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon. By the late Henry Fielding, efq; 12mo. 3s. Millar.

As this publication is intended to be of service to the widow and children of the very ingenious author, it would be inhumanity to fearch it for imperfections; but there is another powerful reafon for its exemption from criticism; which we fhall give in the words of the editor. If in this little work there fhould appear any traces of a weakened and decayed life, let the reader's imagination place before his eyes a true picture, in that of a hand trembling in almoft its latest hour, of a body emaciated with pains, yet ftruggling for our en⚫tertainment; and let this affecting picture open each tender heart, and call forth a melting tear, to blot out whatever failings may be found in a work begun in pain, and finished almolt at the fame period with life.'

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This narrative, tho' not greatly abounding with incidents, we have perufed with fome pleasure. The reflections inter fperted in it, are worthy of a writer, than whom few, if any, have been more juftly celebrated for a thorough infight into human nature: tho', as the editor remarks, it must be acknowledged, that a lamp almost burnt out, does not give fo fteady and uniform a light, as when it blazes in its full vigour; but yet it is well known, that by its wavering, as if truggling against its own diffolution, it fometimes darts a ray' as bright as ever.'-We are given to understand, that Mr.

Fielding hath left behind him fome other pieces, which, we hope, will follow this laft written, tho' firft published, pofthumoas volume of an author, who long hath been, and will continue to be, the delight of his readers. The fragment annexed to this journal of Mr. Fielding's, entitled A comment on Lord Boligbroke's fays, is a fmall introductory sketch, of only twentyfeven pages; in which the author fhews himself in a new and advantageous light; fo that we cannot but think it a misfortune to the public, that he did not live to profecute and finish his defign.

XVI. A Supplement to the fure Guide to Hell. In a letter of approbation from Belzebub, prince of the infernal regions, to a favourite fubject on earth, &c. 8vo. 6d. Printed for Peter Imp.

This pretended Supplement is much inferior to the Sure Guide, and does not feem to come from the fame hand: it is too contemptible for further notice.

XVII. An impartial Difquifition into the Cafe of Sporus. 8vo. 6d. Crowder and Woodgate.

The cafe of the perton meant under this fictitious name, has been fufficiently explained in the Craftsman and in the Inspector.

XVIII. A Collection of the moral and inftructive Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions and reflections, contained in the hiftories of Pamela, Clariffa, and Sir Charles Grandifon. Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume and page, both in octavo and twelves, in the respective histories. To which are fubjoined, Two letters from the editor of thofe works: the one in answer to a lady who was follicitous for an additional volume to the hiftory of Sir C. G. the other, in reply to a gentleman, who had objected to Sir Charles's offered compromise in the article of religion, had he married a Roman catholic lady. 12mo. 3s. Hitch, Rivington, &c.

It is a fufficient recommendation of this collection of moral aphorifms to fay, that it is given us by Mr. Richardjon himfelf; not the work of a jobbing compiler. This volume may be confidered as a curious and valuable dictionary of morality. It contains 410 very full pages, befides a preface, by a friend of

'the author's.

XIX. Select Epitaphs. Collected by W. Toldervy. 12mo. 2 vols. 6s. fewed. Owen, &c.

This collection of English epitaphs commences fo early as the year 293, and comes down to 1754. Many among them are not real inscriptions, but designs only, for the persons whom they celebrate. Some of these, and not a few of the others, are fuch as do little honour to the editor's talte and choice in a Select collection. It will not be expected, that we should exa