is an evil to us, and a good to no other perfont, we may then get rid of it. If there be in the world a maxim evident and certain, I think it is this; and if it is to be overturned, there is no human action, which cannot be made out to be a crime." - Mr. Dumas, admits the principle; but denies the confequence. The principle, fays he, is incontestable, if by anather we understand not any of our fellow-creatures only, but alfo the Deity. For, though God cannot be offended in the fame manner as man, he is offended in a manner peculiar to himself, when his creatures, whom he has made intelligent and free, dare to encroach on his rights, to disobey his will, to oppofe his views; to do, in defiance of him what is repugnant to nature, to reafon, to confcience; what difhonours themselves, and deftroys in them that union between foul and body which God himself has formed. This conduct is offenfive to him; not that it makes him fuffer, or does him any hurt; but as it violates that order of which he is the Source, and, as it were, the Guardian; degrades and defaces in man the work of his hands, of which he is jealous; and of which he alone ought to difpofe; as it is an ingratitude towards him; a contempt of his benefits, a rebellion against the laws of his Providence, and aa ufurpation of his Divine authority over his creatures. In this manner our Author confiders this celebrated letter, by fingle propofitions and arguments. He then gives Lord B's anfwer to the whole; which many of our Readers will think more to the purpose than all our Author's declamation. On the whole, this book is well intended, and contains many good things; but it is not likely to be much read by the admirers of the Lettres Perfannes, the Syfteme de la Nature, or the Nouvelle Heloife. ART. XVI. L'Ami de L'Humanité; ou, Lettre d'un François établi à Londres a un de fes Amis en France.-The Friend of Humanity; or, a Letter from a Frenchman in London to one of his Friends in France. London. De Lorme. E 1773. VERY performance that tends to promote a spirit of univerfal benevolence, to remove religious prejudices, to foften the afperity of party zeal, to weaken the influence of bigotry, and to unite mankind in the bonds of focial affection, (how much foever they may differ in their fentiments upon contraverted points) is entitled to the candid acceptance of the Public,-although the writer may not have the philosophy of a Bayle, or the eloquence of a Voltaire. The Author of this Letter poffeffes what may prove equally effectual with many readers readers, the fimplicity and earnestness of an honest, wellmeaning, and intelligent man, ART. XVII. ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ ΛΕΞΙΚΟΝ. Apollonii Sophife Lexicon Graecum lliadis et Odyffea. Primus e Codice Manufcripto Sangermanenfi in lucem vindicavit, innumeris repurgawit mendis, allegata Homeri, et aliorum Poetarum, Loca diftinxit, indicavit, notis atque Animadverfionibus perpetuis illuftravit, et verfionem Latinam adjecit, Johannes Baptifta Cafparus D'Anffe De Villoifon, Regia Inf.riptionum atque Huma niorum Literarum Academia Parifienfis Socius. Cum Prolegomenis, Indicibus Auctorum et Vocum Homericarum, ac novem Tabulis Æncis, in quibus omnes Codices Manufcripti Literarum Forme et Compendia, atque amplum bujufce Scripture Specimen, repræfentantur-Accedit præter multa, bucufque inedita, Philemonis Grammatici Fragmenta, tertii Iliadis Libri profaica metaphrafis Graca, e duobus Codicibus Regiis ab eodem nunc primum eruta, cum notulis, et variantibus Lectionibus, Metaphrafifque et tertii Iliadis Libri.-Apollonius's Lexicon Homericum, &c. By J. B. Cafpar, of the Academy of Infcriptions and Belles Lettres. 2 Vols. 4to. Paris. 1773. L EXICONS exclufively adapted to particular books are of fingular utility in facilitating the bufinefs of learning, and expediting the progrefs of the Tyro. But as this is their principal end, it is frequently to be regretted that their bulk is lo enormously and unneceffarily fwelled. The Lexicon Homericum of Apollonius might, in a proper fize, have made a very useful school-book; but in its prefent form, we appre hend, it will be of no general ufe. Men of learning wanted no tranflation of the Greek fcholiaft, and thefe volumes are too mighty for fchool-boys. Their only proper receptacles are the public libraries, to which the learning they contain fufficiently recommends them. ART. XVIII. Dictionnaire raifonnè univerfel de Matiere Médicale, concernant les Vigétaux, les Animaux et les Mineraux qui font d'Usage en Médicine; leurs Defcriptions, leurs Analyfes, leurs Vertus, leurs Propriétés, &c. recuellies de Manufcrits originaux, et des meilleurs Auteurs anciens et modernes, tant étrangers que de notre Pays; avec une Table raisonneè de tous les noms que chaque pays a donnés aux mêmes Végétaux, Animaux et Mineraux.- An Univerfal Dictionary, &c. 8vo. 4 Vols. Paris. 1773. TH AHE title of this work is fufficient to thew what is contained in it; and, as to its merit, we need only fay, that the medical reader will find it an useful and valuable per formance. ART. ART. XIX. Avis aux Gens de la Campagne; ou Traité des Maladies les plus communes; avec des Obfervations fur les Caufes de Maladies du Peuple, fur l'Abus des Remedes et des Alimens dont il fait Ufage, et fur ceux qu'il doit employer pour se quérir des Maladies aux quelles il eft le plus expofe, quand il n'eft pas à portée d'avoir le fecours d'un Médecin. Ouvrage très-utile aux Pafteurs, Chirurgiens, et Gens de la Campagne. Advice to Country People; or, a Treatife concerning the most common Diftempers; with Obfervations on their Caufes, Remedies, &c. By M. Didelot. 12mo. Paris. 1773. HE great utility of a work of this kind, by a person of T knowledge, judgment, and experience, is fufficiently ob vious. The celebrated M. Tiflot, we are credibly informed, speaks of this Avis in terms of the warmest approbation, which, to say the leaft, is a very strong prefumption in its favour. We are obliged to a friendly Correfpondent for the foregoing little Article. AR T. XX. Elémens de Littérature, Extraits de Cours de Belles-Lettres de M. L'Abbè Batteux. Par un Profeffeur.-The Elements of Literature, &c. 12mo. 2 Vols. Paris. 1773 TH HIS is a very clear, diftinct, and judicious abridgment of the Cours de Belles-Lettres by Abbè Batteux. The Abridger has added feveral reflections borrowed from celebrated writers, together with fome obfervations concerning the ftate of literature in England, Germany, Italy, &c. MONTHLY CATALOGUE, For FEBRUARY, 1774. POETICAL. Art. 21. An Heroic Poftfcript to the Public, occafioned by their favourable Reception of a late Heroic Epiftle to Sir William Chambers, Knt. &c. By the Author of that Epiftle. 4to. mon. 1774 HE ingenious Writer exults, with spirit and humour, on the fuccefs of his Heroic Epiftle*, &c. and TH Now to the Public tunes his grateful lays, Warm'd with the fun thine of the public praife; Glad are we to learn that this hitherto carelefs pen,' waits but a proper call to more ferious employment; and that the Writer — is, and means to be his country's friend. 'Tis but to try his ftrength that now he sports With Chinese gardens, and with Chinese courts: See Review for April laft, p. 314. But But if that country claim a graver ftrain, Nor, e'er they give, afk how the fums were fpent, If this they dare; the thunder of his fong, Rolling in deep-ton'd energy along, Shall ftrike, with Truth's dread bolt, each mifcreant's name, His Mufe's vengeance shall your crimes pursue, Fit garbage for the hell-hound, Infamy.' Boldly announced! but whether this threatening declaration will produce any greater effect than the old woman's counter blaft to the thunder, no one can pronounce, but every body will guess. Art. 22. Ode to the Right Hon. Spencer Earl of Northampton. 4to. 6 d. Robinfon, &c. 1774. A compliment to the Northampton family; and not inelegant. Art. 23. Female Artifice; or, Charles F-x outwitted. 4to. I s. Ridley, 1774 The ftory of this poetical narrative difclofes the manner in which Mr. F was duped by the noted Mrs. G—, who, it is here said, found means to perfuade him that he could procure him a young Weft-Indian wife, with a fortune of 160,000l. The Author declares that every the minuteft circumftance has a foundation in truth; that there are no flowers of invention, no embellishments of poetical fancy; but that all the particulars are related with the very fame degree of precifion (he wishes he could add, with the fame portion of bumour) that Mr. C. F-x relates them himself.' We are inclined to credit the whole of this declaration, because we find that one part of it is strictly true, viz. that there are no flowers of invention, no embellishments of poetical fancy,' in this performance. Admitting, by the way, the truth of this tale, if Authors and Printers will be blabbing fuch anecdotes, where is the wonder that Mr. F. was fo fevere upon them, in certain late debates about a scandalous Letter: vid. Art. 30. of this month's Catalogue. Art. 24. The Search after Happiness; a paftoral Drama. The Third Edition. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Cadell. 1773. It is with pleasure we fee our opinion of Mifs More's ingenious poem confirmed by the public approbation, in the demand of a third edition and we attend to it a fecond time on account of a very spirited epilogue which is now added to it, and which was spoken when it was performed by a fet of young ladies; an exercife we would by all means recommend, as the piece is entirely calculated to make them them both speak and think as they ought, or, as the profound author of the Rambler would exprefs it, to inure their organs to the orthotony of elocution, and to conftruct their morals on the plan of rectitude. In this epilogue Mifs More thus liberally compliments her SifterAuthors: • When moral Carter breathes the ftrain divine, And fair Macaulay claims a Livy's right. Braviffimo! Encore! Encore! Art. 25. The Four Seasons, a Poem; by John Huddlestone Wynne, Gent. 4to. 2s. 6d. Riley, &c. 1773. This is a wretched fricaffee in rhyme of fome paffages in Thomfon's charming work on that fubject. The bad verfes are fo numerous, and the whole fo infipid, that it merits not the leaft attention. Again, SPRING. • From courts and cities that the great ones love.' And teems with thousand ever-valued charms.* Nor lefs, Society, thy power I own, SUMMER. "the glorious God of Light His former abfence with new beams difplays, Truly Hibernian! But this Author has one degree of merit for which he ought to have credit, that he never has the impertinence to take the liberty of naming those principal authors from whom he borrows, or on whom his imitations are a burlefque, as his archetypes. For this they are indebted to him. Art. 26. An Epistle to Junius*. 4to. 2s. 6d. Richardfon and Co. 1774 Half a crown for fuch-But we forbear! the Author may want it. DRAMATIC. Art. 27. The Note of Hand; or, Trip to New-Market. As it is acted at the Theatre in Drury-Lane. 8vo. is. Becket. 1774. We have, in this little two act piece, fome lively, laughable, and juft fatire on the turf and table gamblers. The fecond scene prefents a rich exhibition of this fort; but the reft of the piece is much inferior, in point of humour and fpirit.-It hath been faid, that a perfon of rank, who hath figured in a public character, is glanced at in that of Revel, who is both statesman and jockey. If it be fo, the Author hath, however, wrapped up the allufion fo By Benjamin Hughes: fays the advertisement, neatly, |