ANTIQUITIES.

A literal tranflation of the Will of King Alfred, from the Saxon Original, preferved in the Regifter of the abbey of Newminfler, at Winchester, founded by that King a fhort time before his death 83 Defcription of the famous labyrinth of Gortyna, in Crete.-From Letters on Greece by M. Savary; tranflated from the French Letter from M. Savary, fhewing that the above-mentioned labyrinth was the refidence of the fabulous Minotaur, and diftinguished from the labyrinth of Cnoffus, in Crete, built by Dedalus

90

93 Memoir of the Language, Manners, and Customs of an Anglo-Saxon colony fettled in the baronies of Forth and Bargie, in the county of Wexford, Ireland, in 1167, 1168, and 1169. By Charles Vallancy, LL. D. Member of the Royal Societies of London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, Sc. &c.From Tranfactions of the Royal Irife Academy Vocabulary of the Language of that Barony

An old Song in that dialect

98

102

108

An hiftorical effay on the Irish Stage. By Jofeph C. Walker, Efq. Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Sc. Sc.-From the fame

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAY S.

On the art of pleafing.-From the Essays of the Marquis D'Argenson
The effects of love on different characters. From the fame

110

119

122

The Death of Mahommed, a Translation from the Déh Mujlis.—From the Afiatic Mifcellany

126

129

The Death of Fatima. From the fame
Efay on Ridicule, Wit, and Humour. By William Prefton, Efq; M. R. I. Á.
In two parts.--From Tranfactions of the Royal Irish Academy 132
Account of a vifit paid by Monf. Savary to Ifmael Aga, a Turk of confequence
in the island of Candia, antiently Crete.-From M. Savary's Letters on

Greece

143

POETRY.

Ode on his Majefty's Birth-day, June 4th, 1789. By T. Warton, Efq. Poet Laureat

148

Prologue, by the Author, to Falfe Appearances, a Comedy, altered from the French. Spoken by Mr. Wroughton.

4

150

Epilogue,

Epilogue, by Lieutenant General Burgoyne. Spoken by Mifs Farren 151 Song, by Dr. Glynn, of King's College, Cambridge

153

The Ivy, a beautiful imitation of the old Poets

Song, by Richard Lovelace. From Specimens of the early English Poets ibid. Song, Anomymous. From the fame

ibid.

154

Song, tranflated from the Greek. by John Baynes, Esq.
Song, tranflated from Phenix of Colophon, by the jame

155

ibid.

156

Prologue, Spoken by Mr. W. Fector, at his private theatre at Dover, Dec. 18, 1787 Epilogue to Matilda; written by Mr. Cobb, author of the First Floor, St. c. Spoken by Mr. Fector

157

Lines written by Mary Queen of Scots, on the Lofs of her husband, Francis II. of France; with an English tranflation.-From Arecdotes by M.P. Andrews, Efq.

On the late American War

Epigram

Another

158

100

161

ibid.

ibid.

ibid.

Verfes on Mifs Farren's acting in Dublin for the Benefit of Perfons confined
for fmall debts. By Sir Hercules Langrish, Bart.
Tranflation of three Hymns, fuppofed to have been written by the Greek Put
Dionyfius, and fet to ancient Greek mufic.-From Dr. Burney's Hiftory of
Mufic
Tranflation of Greek Scolia or feftive fongs.-From the fame Author 163
Verfes by the late Sir John Henry Moore, Bart. written to a lady a few
months before his death
Imitations felected from "Poems, by the late Thomas Ruffell, Fellow of New
College"
From ode xvii. of Expoftulatory Odes to a great Duke and a little Lord," by
Peter Pindar, Esq.

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165

ibid.

168

ACCOUNT

OF BOOKS for 1789.

Three Effays on Picturesque Beauty, on Picturesque Travel, and on sketching Landscape to which is added a poem on Landscape Painting. By William Gilpin, M. A. prebendary of Sarum, and vicar of Boldre in Newa Foreft near Lymington general Hiftory of Mufic, from the earliest ages to the prefent period. By Charles Burney, Muf. D. F. R. S. in four volumes, 419.

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