THE BRITISH CRITIC, FOR JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, MDCCCX. Noftra hæc militia est, ferimus quæ possumus arma. VOLUME XXXVI. London: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGΤΟΝ, 1811. Printed by Law and Gilbert, St. Jolm's Square, Clerkenwell. PREFACE. THROUGH months of real mourning for Royal calamity, amidsft the suspense of political and military movements, and the progress of events such as this age has first, and let us hope last also, produced, literature has been among our chief confolations, fecondary only to those which are more folemn and more fecret. In the same scale and proportion we recommend it to all our readers, and would, if possible, to all the world. For this reason we continue to give, (errors excepted, as the merchants say) a complete view of all the literature of our country; not selecting a few publications on which to flourish and show away, but endeavouring, at least, to mention all. Defiring also to quieken and direct the taste for good books, we continue to diftinguish, in our halfyearly preface, the most valuable of those which have lately fallen under our inspection: and, first of all, as of most importance, in DIVINITY. The aspect of this half-year's theology has been, on the whole, favourable; and though we cannot boaft of any work of primary magnitude, yet have we feveral to mention of abundant merit and utility. We are inclined to lay no small stress on the continuation A a 409125 of |