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Commentatio philologica in Canticum Deboræ, Judicum V. Audort
Chriftian. Frid. Schnurrer. Ato. Tubinge.

A very learned, judicious, and mafterly performance.

Abrégé des Principes de l'Economie politique, par S. A. S. Mgr. le Margrave regnant de Bade, de Dourlach, & de Hochberg, &c. 8vo. Carlfruhe & Paris.

This excellent fketch of the principles of political economy was originally published in the Ephemerides du Citoien, tome I. It is defigned by its illuftrious author to form his princes to the duties and functions of government, and will remain an interesting monument of his care for the lafting profperity of his fubjects. Saggi d'Agricultura, del Medico Antonio Campini, fulla Cultura delle Terre, loro Diverfità e Natura, fulla Seminagione de Grani, loro Stato naturale e morbofo, e fulla Coltivazione de Prati naturali ed artifiziali. 8vo. Turino.

Signor Campini has carefully ftudied, and frequently quoted the ancients; yet is alfo well acquainted with the principal English and French writers on hufbandry. But the chief merit of his performance is a variety of fenfible obfervations made by himself and his friends.

Gedanken über die Unzufriedenheit; or, Thoughts on Difcontent, by J. C. R. Eckermann. 8vo. Lubeck. (German.)

The author has treated his fubject with judgment, method, and precifion. His thoughts on the ways of Providence, we hope, will ferve to eafe many a throbbing heart.

Der einzige Weg zur wahren Glückfligkeit; or, the only way to ge nuine Happiness. By J. G. Pütter, 3d Edit. Goettingen. (German.)

The author, a very eminent and celebrated profeffor of laws at Goettingen, after dedicating the week to the duties of his profeffion, devotes the Sunday to the confideration and purfuit of his eternal interefts, and feeks genuine and latting happinefs in the only way in which it is to be found, in a faithful application of Christianity. to himself. He wrote his meditations for his own ufe, but published them at the entreaty of the reverend Dr. Gerling, who intended them for texts of lectures on practical divinity: they are indeed a very valuable prefent to the public at large, and will place his name with thofe of Locke, Boyle, Boerhaave, Haller, and other illuftrious laymen, who have approved themselves friends to religion, mora, lity, and mankind.

Etwas für alle Steende, und etwas zur taglichen Andacht: Something for all Conditions, and for daily Devotion. By the fame Author. 8vo. Goettingen. (German).

A judicious examination of the lawfulness and confcientious difcharge of every calling, to which meditations, extracted from the former work, have been fubjoined.

Apologie der Feyertage: Apology for Festivals. 8vo. Bremen.

(German).

A number of festivals have of late years been confidered as fuperfluous, and hurtful to the ftate: and their reduction has therefore already taken place in fome countries, and been propofed in others. Their apologift here enters into an impartial and judicious enquiry into the fitnefs and real effect of this reduction; and proves with a warm, but philofophical spirit, the great influence of Sundays and

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other feftivals on our temporal happiness. He obferves, that continual labours enervate and stiffen the body; and infect the mind with littleffness, morofenefs, and roughness; and that stated days of reft are as necessary for the prefervation of health, as for that of good, or at leaft tolerable, morals.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE.
POLITICA L.

Öbfervations on Mr. Welley's fecond calm Addrefs, and incidentally on other Writings upon the American Question. (By Capel Loft, Efq.) 12mo. Is. Dilly.

HIS writer tells us, that the Americans did not complain

Tbefore they were injured; that they petitioned as freemen,

entitled to the privileges of British fubjects; that they wished for nothing but the liberty of Englishmen; that they were ready to answer the defires of government, in a free and conftitutional way; that their declarations of loyalty and affection were not regarded; that they have been contending for a government on the very principles of the British conftitution; and that we are now fighting for difhonor, either in victory or defeat; for incredible lofs either way, perhaps for ruin.

The author expatiates on thefe and other topics, in favor of the Americans; but with more moderation, than fome of our feditious declaimers, and patriotic prophets.

Reflections on the Rife, Progrefs, and probable Confequences of the prefent Contentions with the Colonies. Edinburgh.

This appears to be the production of a well meaning, humane writer; but of one who is not perfectly void of a bias towards the pretenfions of the colonists.

The Equity and Wisdom of Adminiflration, in Measures that have unhappily occafioned the American Revolt, tried by the facred Oracle. I 2mo. zd. Edinburgh.

Adminiftration is here found guilty, and condemned upon a political indictment; but as the fame perfon is at once the profecutor and judge, we pronounce the trial to be illegal; and indeed the evidence feems far too weak to fupport any equitable action. Remarks on the Evidence delivered on the Petition, prefented by the Weft India Planters and Merchants to the House of Commons, March 16, 1775. 8vo. IS. Bew.

The author of this pamphlet appears to be well informed of fuch facts as relate to his fubject; and his remarks on the evidence åre pertinent.

DIVINITY. The Principles of the Chriftian Religion compared with thofe of all the other Religions, and Syftems of Philofophy, which have bitherto appeared in the World. By J. Stephens, Efq. 8vo. 45. boards. Dodley.

This learned writer gives his readers a general view of the moral and religious fyftems of the Pagan philofophers and legiflators, of Confucius in China, of the Brachmans in India, of

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Manco Capac in Peru, of the Edda *, or the ancient Gothic mythology, of Mahomet, and of Mofes. He then confiders the doctrines of Jefus Chrift, which he ftates at large; and afterwards refutes the objections, which have been made againft Christianity, by ancient and modern unbelievers, particularly by Celfus.

This author feldom refers us to original authorities, and is fometimes inaccurate: yet his work has confiderable merit. It is written with a ufeful defign; it gives the reader a competent idea of the principal fyftems of religion, which have appeared in the world, and difplays the infinite fuperiority of Christianity.

MISCELLANEO U S.

A Difcourfe upon fome late Improvements of the Means of preferving the Healb of Mariners. By Sir John Pringle, Bart. 410. Is. 6d. L. Davis.

This Difcourfe was delivered before the Royal Society, previous to the awarding to captain Cook, fir Godfrey Copley's medal, for the account communicated by that gentleman, of the method he had taken to preferve the health of the crew of his majesty's fhip the Refolution, during her late voyage round the world. The Difcourfe contains a concife and accurate detail of the various dietetical and other means which have been propofed for this purpofe, intermixt with many judicious remarks on the nature and caufe of the fcurvy, as well as explanatory of fome things but curforily mentioned by captain Cook. The obfervations through the whole compofition are clear, fenfible, and juft; and it is highly diftinguished by that generous ardour in the purfuit of philofophical enquiries, fo confpicuous in the animated public difcourfes of this refpe&table prefident of the Royal Society.

A concife Hifiory of England, from the earliest Times to the Dearb of George II., By John Wesley, A. M. 12mo. 4 vol. IIS. Jewed. Hawes.

We are informed in the preface, that this work is chiefly extracted from Goldsmith, Rapin, and Smollett, and compiled with the view of fupplying a defect in all the hiftories of this country, which is, that divine Providence is never once mentioned in the narrative. Mr. Welley might have faid more ingenuously, that the work was almoft a literal tranfcript of Goldfmith's Hiftory, with fome omiffions, additions, &c. With refpect to the accomplishment of Mr. Wefley's profeffed defign, we meet with fo few reflexions of a religious nature, that there is reafon to queflion, whether he has not forgot the plan upon which he intended to proceed.

Mentor's Letters addreffed to Youth. 8vo. 1s. Dilly.

This work confifts of general obfervations on benevolence, charity, temperance, detraction, humility, friendship, amufements, reading, the divine perfections, the nature of genuine

* There were two editions of the Edda; the one compiled by Sæmund Frode, in the XIth century; the other by Snorro, the son of Sturla, in the XIIIth.

Christianity, and other common topics of morality and religion; which are illuftrated by the characters of two young perfons, who, in the purfuit of pleafure, trod the opposite paths of virtue and vice. Thefe characters are not ill drawn, and the language not inelegant. In the preface, the author, Mr. Rack, informs us, that he wrote thefe letters four years ago, for the ufe of fome felect young friends; but that having been repeatedly advised to fet them before the public, by fome, who thought they might prove useful, he now refpetfully fubmits them to the candid and ferious of every dénomination.'

The Poetical Preceptor. 12mo. 35,

Crowder.

This collection contains above 250 poems and extracts from the works of the molt eminent poets in the English language. The compiler has not only felected fuch as are remarkable for their beauty and fublimity; but fuch alfo as are fraught with noble fentiments, and excellent precepts of morality. It is therefore extremely well calculated for the ufe of thote readers who wish to have a great variety in a fmall compafs. Genuine Memoirs of the Countess Dubarré, Mißtress to Louis XV. 2 vols. I 2mo. 5. fewed. Stevens.

Thefe volumes contain the Memoirs of Madame Dubarré, from her introduction to the French king, under the name of Mademoiselle L'Ange, in or about the year 1767, to the death of that monarch. They are written in an eafy agreeable ftyle; and amidit a detail of gallantries, prefent us with fome private anecdotes of the French court, which feem not to be improbable. A Prospect from Barrow Hill, near Rocefter, in Staffordshire. 410. 15. Baldwin.

He who lives for any time on a particular spot, without feeling an affection for it, cannot have a good heart, and, in our opinion, ill deferves to live any where. Of this affection moft fenfible are the fons of Loyola, thofe fearchers of the hearts and reins of mankind; and it abfolutely makes part of the Jefuit's education, that he fhould ufe nothing, nor frequent any thing, long enough to be attached to it-that his bed should not ftand a week together in one part of his cell, that even his books of prayer fhould be frequently changed left the mind become Occupied by other affections than thofe with which they wish it to be filled.

The fpot which Mr. Afle has chofen to defcribe, appears to be the place of his refidence, is perhaps that of his nativity. Gratitude even to things inanimate merits praife. If our author be too partial to Barrow Hill, it is a partiality which other hills have experienced and perhaps without deferving it more; for this hill feems to command a truly beautiful profpect. We do not fay that every cock has his dunghill; but every author has his Parnaffus. This performance is by no means contemptible: although Barrow Hill muft not hold its head fo high as Grongar's Hill, or Cowper's Hill.

The thoughts in the following little extract are prettily Ovidian, and by no means ill expreffed. X 3

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At the length of a few hundred yards beyond Crakemar a lovely rivulet fhoots ftraight acrofs the mead, with fuch fearfal speed and complaint, that one would imagine it to be making its efcape from fome confinement or oppreffion. The river Dove, moved by the lamentations of the defenceless nymph, ftretches out his paternal arm to receive her into his embraces; and adopts her into his family of waters as his youngestborn.'

POETRY.

Richmond Hill A Poem. By Charles Crawford, Efq. 4to. IS. Becket.

Here is another Hill, better known to our London readers, which Mr. Crawford, has made the fubject of his poetry. It is well that the heathen mythology has fuffered us to reckon nine Mufes, or we do not fee how there could be a Muse for every hill. In a little time our good lady Mufes will be able to boaft their proud refidence on more hills than ancient Rome.

Of this poem fome lines, here and there, are not bad. But how a nightingale can be faid to tune her feel, we cannot comprehend; nor do we like the frequent ufe of the Alexandrines.-The following extract we give, because we highly difapprove the complaint which it contains. As a poet, its author muft have a heart too big, though it appear a contradiction, to contain fo narrow a notion; too warm to cherish fo very cold a conception. To a fenfible, feeling, humane mind, we do not know a more pleafing fatisfaction, than that which is derived from the fight of thoufands of fellow-creatures, fearching after that happiness on a garish Sunday,' of which, for the fix days of labour, they are effectually deprived, Cannot the poet fpare his Hill to them for one day in the week? Most readily would all the Mufes fpare it, we are confident; and, whatever hand they might have in the reft of this poem, we can never think that any one of them dictated a fyllable of thefe perhaps ill-natured lines.

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Here could I wish to pafs each fummer day;
Here on this hill for ever could I ftray;
Save on garifh Sunday, when the crowd

Of vile Plebeans, turbulent and loud,
The pleafing quiet of the place annoy,
With their profane, tumultuary joy.

Meanwhile, O Ham, thy walks afford retreat,

From buggies, duft, from cits, and scorching heat.'

For curfelves, we do not blush to own that we are always forry to fee a Sunday which is not a garish one; nor do we murmur at the buggy-raifed duft of cits; because we are fure that, in proportion as we are duty, our fellow-creatures have been happy.

Mount Pleasant: a defcriptive Poem. To which is added, an Ode. 4to. 1s. 6d. Johnson.

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If the Mount in question, near Liverpool, be as pleafing as e poem which celebrates it, we do not wonder at the author's

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