To wholefome nourishment the fanguine feaft His fraudful fchemes unceasing. Thou fuftain' affociated tribe of thought To what we have already obferved, at different times, in approbation of thofe parts of this production which were publifhed feparately, we fhall only add, that a reader of tate will not hesitate to rank it among the few didactic poems in our language entitled to applaufe. Efay on the Contrarieties of public Virtue. 4to. 15. T. Davies. The 'prentice fallies forth a perfect gentleman, with a pair of Artois buckles, and a long watch-chain-and we have not a minor poet, who is not almoft ready to take the wall of the inimitable author of Hudibras, if he be but provided with a pair or two of double rhymes. • Pulpit, drum eccléfiaftic, That's beat with filt instead of a stick' How often has this hackneyed diftich been admired more for its rhyme than its wit! • Stir too,-virtue,' turn ye-journey,' behaviour-paviour,' 'nice is-vices, impreffion-leffon,'' giddy on-meridian,' ask all-rafcal'-It is to these, and to a few more fuch, that we probably owe this Effay. There is, however, more merit in the idea of the Effay, than in the poetry or the rhyme of it. The Gamblers, a Poem: with Notes critical and explanatory. 410. 35. Hooper. The Gamblers, a Poem: Canto II. 4.10. 1s. 6d. Hooper. This author might, we think, have let flip the dogs' of fa tire on nobler game. The vermin, whom he has here hunted down, are, we fear, callous to the bite of fatire. Many of them are certainly unable to read his poem; and those few who are able to read any thing befide the laws and chances of their profeffion, cannot understand it. Both thefe cantos have merit. Their author appears to be a scholar as well as a poet. He who is defirous to fee the torments and the myfteries of the damned laid open; and their various amufements painted by a mafterly hand, with that fuccefs which generally follows indignation, will receive pleafure from the perufal of thefe publications. Fashion, Or a Trip to a Foreign C-t. 410. 1s. 6d. Baldwin. Our readers will pitý us, we are perfuaded, when we affure them that, in this Trip, the fubfequent lines are perhaps by far the best. Here paused the courtier, who left his oration, Upon a poor fign-poft, drinking her heel-tap. Thus ftood the young damfel, with paint all bedoizon'd; Deceitfully fhone, and appear'd alabafter. Hang down all your heads, oh ye lilies of vale! We are told this is a poem; but, for what earthly reason the poor thing is called by fuch a name, we cannot guess.—— Future times will never, we hope, imagine that it was the fashion to fcribble fuch poems. The Inamorato: addressed to the Author of the Electrical Eel, by a Lady. 410. Is. 6d. Bew. A declaration of Platonic friendship from a lady to the author of the Electrical Eel.-If this lady's perfon have no more charms than her (we know not how to call it) poetry, the electrical swain has our congratulations. E'en, as fhe either fings or fays, • let let Platonic friendship meet, Their fancies high regale With effence pure, divinely fweet, And mutual blifs inhale.' We envy his happiness almost as little as we understand her rhymes. An Elegy on the lamented Death of the Electrical Eel, or Gymnotus Electricus. With the Lapidary Infcription, as placed on a fuperb Erection, at the Expence of the Countess of H-, and Chevalier-Madame D'Eon de Beaumont. By Lucretia Lovejoy, Sifter to Mr. Adam Strong, Author of the Electrical Eel. 410. 15. 6d. Fielding and Walker. Adam Strong, efq. naturalift, has no occafion to blufh for the abilities, whatever he ought to do for the modefty, of his fifter, Mrs. Lucretia Lovejoy. The author, however, whether gentleman or lady, who writes with the loose pen of indecency, fhould remember that such per formances can pleafe thofe only who prefer immodefty, perhaps immorality, before their happier contraries. To fay that a performance of this kind has its merit, is the fevereft cenfure; is only to fay that he, who has gained fome little honour under the banners of vice, might have fought fuc cessfully on the fide of virtue. The Torpedo, a Poem to the Electrical Eel. 4to. Is. 6d. We shall avoid the examination of this allegorical rhapsody, for the fame reafon that we declined entering upon that of the Electrical Eel about fix months ago. We would, however, recommend to the author's attention the following line of Horace, with the view of diverting his ingenuity into fome other channel; Nec lufiffe pudet, fed non incidere ludum. A Tear of Gratitude, to the Memory of the unfortunate Dr. Dodd, 4to. 6d. Newbery. Next to the lamentation of Sincerity, that of Gratitude is the moft refpectable, and we fhall therefore never condemn the elegy which flows from this fource. DRA. MAT I C. All the World's a Stage. A Farce in Two Acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-lane. 8vo. 15. Wilkie. This little piece difcovers a theatrical genius, happily turned for exhibiting the ludicrous, both in characters and incidents. MEDICA L. A Letter to the Mafter, Wardens, and Court of Affiftants, of the Corporation of Surgeons, on their permitting Aliens, Apothecaries, and Quacks, to encroach upon the Province of Surgeons, Members of the Corporation. 8vo. IS. Lowndes. The author of this Letter expofes the hardships fuftained by qualified furgeons, through the interference in practice of thofe who who are not members of the corporation; and he fuggefts fome candid propofitions towards the removing of the grievance. An Effay on the Theory and Cure of the Venereal Gonorrhoea, and the Difeafes which happen in Confequence of that Dijorder. By John Andrée, Surgeon to the Magdalen Hofpital. 8vo. 15. Blyth. In this Effay the author examines the feveral theories that have been fuggefted respecting the venereal gonorrhoea, and endeavours to elucidate the proximate caufe of the disease both by diffection and argument; treating likewife in the fame judicious manner, of the method of cure. The pamphlet discovers an attentive regard to facts, and contains many useful obfervations. Every Farmer his own Cattle Doctor. By John Swaine. 12mo. 25. Richardfon and Urquhart. A compilation which we doubt not may prove ufeful both to the farmer and grazier. DIVINITY. The Ingratitude of Infidelity: proveable from the Humiliation and Exaltation of Jefus Chrift, being the most beneficial A pointments to Mankind, that are within the known Plan of God's moral Government. Addressed to Modern Drifts, Jews, Papists, and other Unbelievers. By Caleb Fleming, D. D. 800. I's. Johnson. The first part of this tract is a series of remarks on 1 John iii. 16. Some of the points, which the author endeavours to prove and illuftrate, are, that reprefenting Jefus Chrift as the eternal God, is a daring impiety; that his laying down his life, determines him to be truly and properly man; that he did not die în our ftead; that he could neither have our iniquities imputed to him, nor be liable to the punishment of fin; that his laying down his life for us, does not imply an atoning facrifice, calculated to appeafe the holy God, or to make him more propitious, but to demonftrate, that he is, in his own nature, and in all his measures with mankind, propitious; that there could have been no efficacy in the death of Chrift, if he had not rifen again, 1 Cor. xv. 17; that his obedience cannot make the leaft fatisfaction for our want of obedience; that as the Chriftian is capable of refembling his Lord, even in his death, by laying down his life for the brethren, it is evident, that what is called the orthodox opinion of the death of Chrift cannot be just nor tenable. The fecond part is an explanation of Col. i. 15-19. The inferences he draws from this paffage are, that no rational idea can be formed of our Lord's exaltation, unless we confider it as having an immediate reference to the gospel kingdom; that the creation afcribed to Chrift, cannot mean the bringing of any new creature into being (for God created the world, without any inftruments, he spake and it was done) but a change 235 in the fpirits and morals of men by the gofpel; that to suppose him to have been the creator of all things, and then to imagine, that he was exalted or raised above them, implies a very grofs abfurdity; that there is an amazing ftupidity in fuppofing, that an eternal being of infinite wisdom, almighty power, and an immenfity of prefence, can be either abafed or exalted, that God can be both fovereign and fubject, passively obedient to and rewarded by himself, the firft-born of every creature, the image of himself, the first-born from the dead, and the beginning or the chief of his own creation ;- that the diftinguished honours conferred on the man Chrift Jefus had, for their obvious reason and ground, his matchlefs piety and obedience; that we should reverence him, as the great medium or minifter of all divine communications of grace and mercy; that the exaltation of Christ abfolutely forbids all creature worship, &c. Dr. Fleming's literary abilities are fo well known, that it would be unneceffary for us to fay any thing on this head. The Evangelical Hiftory of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift. With Notes, and an Appendix. By Thomas Brown. 2 vols. 8vo. 65. Jewed. Buckland. In the compilation of this Hiftory the author feems to have taken the idea of his plan for Garthwaite's Harmony, or the Life of Christ, which is commonly afcribed to Mr. Locke, and is an improvement of that work. He has divided his text, in the fame manner, into short fections; and in the margin noted the evangelift, chapter, and verfe, from which the history is transcribed. But in paffages, where the order of time is not af certained by the facred writers, he has followed his own judgement and opinion. The notes are collected from a great variety of preceding commentators, and discover extenfive reading, and a láborious application to the ftudy of the fcriptures. But they are mixed with a variety of obfervations, which the claffical reader will probably defpife. For example, the author has filled near two pages with the ftory of a pious woman, which, he fays, he can relate with certainty.. One morning as the was fitting alone in her chamber, at her needle-work, at ten o'clock, fuddenly fhe heard mufic playing over her head, which ravished all her fenfes to the highest degree, fo that the dropt her work and fat motionlefs. The mufic lafted about ten minutes, as near as she could guess, and fuddenly ceased. She related this at night to her husband, in confidence not to divulge it. About four months after, fhe heard most exactly the very fame again, at the fame hour, (ten o'clock in the morning) fitting as before, (then in her own chamber, at her own houfe); which, as before, fhe told her husband; but could give no defcription of it, nor make any comparison; only that it as far excelled Handell's Meffiah, (which he had heard when himself performed, with other the best hands in Europe) as that oratorio, fo admirably performed, furpaffed a blind fiddler in the ftreets. About |
