We fhall not enlarge on the numerous errata that appear in almoft every page; they are partly typographical, but it is poffible that many of them are errors of the writer. Thus, phoenomena, occurs frequently, especially at p. iv. and v. of vol. i.; dizerned, neugatory, coalecing, Neephritis, may be feen at p. 181. 224. 226. 229 of vol. ii. His ftyle is remarkably uncouth; and a number of ftrange words are introduced. Exuljed is ufed for expelled, p. 43. vol. i. and perfpiratible, in p. 119, for perfpirable; with many others of a fimilar kind, befide fuch as are totally unintelligible, as colicanodyne, p. 220. vol. ii. We fhall conclude with an humble hint to the defenders of the Brunonian doctrine: A weak caufe requires a ftrong advocate; but we have not obferved that any very powerful champion hath yet entered the lifts in favour of the opinions maintained by the late Dr. Brown. B-m. LAW. Art. 21. Reports of Cafes argued and determined in the Court of Com- TRADE. Art. 22. A Copy of the Charter of the Corporation of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Bell. 1788. This is a hand fome new edition of a valuable old publication, that has flood the teft of repeated examinations, by accurate Reviewers, poffeffed of far more fubftantial qualifications than are often to be found at our board. To the Charter are added the Bye-laws of the Company. N Art. 23. Confiderations on the Capital Stock of the Corporation of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. 8vo. 6d. Turner. 1788. So far as the reprefentations of an anonymous writer on fo important a fubject may be liftened to, the Bank of England is at this time in the most profperous ftate, on the molt folid foundation. He boldly declares, that the Company are able to divide ten per cent. on their capital flock, with as much conveniency and propriety as they now divide feven that future enlargements of their dividend do not depend on future profits; but that ample means for it are at this moment in poffeffion that it is prudent to augment the dividend in a fteady progreffive manner; and that the proprietors may look for a farther advance of their dividend, at no very diftant day. N. EAST INDIES. Art. 24. An Enquiry into the Situation of the East India Company, from Papers laid before the Houfe of Commons in the Year 1787 and 1788. By George Craufurd, Efq. 4to. pp. 64. 38. Debrett. 1789. Although much has been written, of late, relative to the concerns of the East India Company, the fubject feems not to be exhaufted. The The accounts that have been laid before the public, are drawn up in fuch an obfcure and ambiguous manner, as to give room for many difputes and oppofite conclusions, of which the partifans of the two contending parties in parliament will, no doubt, avail themselves, for their own particular purpofes. Mr. Craufurd is inclined to fupport the party which reprefent the interefts of the Company as in a declining ftate; and he controverts the juftnefs of that account of the Company's affairs that was lately laid before the public, and fupported as fair and authentic by the minifterial party. The errors which he thinks he has detected, and the inferences which he draws from them, are very clearly stated in the following fhort abftra&: As the truth of what I fhall advance, will appear from the papers called for by the most active member of the Board of Controul, I cannot poffibly be liable to contradiction on any point of confequence; nor fhall it be faid that I have in the leaft heightened the picture of diftrefs, by putting any one article, on which my own opinion decided, in a point of view lefs favourable than it is entitled to. Following then the fame mode of ftating the Company's account, article by article, as the Directors did in 1783, to which no perfon of candour can object, I shall incontrovertibly prove, Firft, That the Company's debts are, at prefent, 5,544,363 1. 6s. fterling more than stated to have been at that period; Secondly, That their effects in Europe and India are 2,301,638 7. fterling lefs; and Laftly, That the Company is confequently dencient 3,877,520 l. 6. fterling (in place of having a furplus of 3,963,4817. fterling as formerly stated), and fubject, at the fame time, to feveral deductions from their fuppofed effects, which would juftify a much more unfavourable statement.' We cannot follow this intelligent writer in his elaborate researches ; but it is eafy to forefee, that from the manner in which thefe accounts (and every other document of the fame nature which we have feen) have been stated, there is abundant room for argument; fo that it is not to be fuppofed that Mr. C.'s conclufions will be admitted as incontrovertible by his opponents-though we fee no important objections to them. The pamphlet is written in a liberal style,— entirely free from acrimony and party abule. An-n. Art. 25. A Letter to the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, on the extraneous Matter contained in Mr. Burke's Speeches in Westminster Hall. To which is added, Mr. Burke's Letter to Mr. Montague, with Obfervations. By Major John Scott. Second Edition. 8vo. pp. 136. 3s. Stockdale. 1789. Major Scott's various compofitions in defence of Mr. Haftings haye, very defervedly, obtained fo much credit with the public, that barely to mention the title of any production of his on this fubject, may now, perhaps, be deemed fufficient for the information of our readers. We fhall, therefore, only add, that the prefent publication is ftrong in evidence and argument; and reflects a fevere cenfure on the conduct of those who have charged Mr. H. with acts of cruelty and oppreffion which, according to the tract before us, were never committed in the fmallest degree. ART ART CULINARY. Art. 26. The Lady's Complete Guide; or Cookery and Confectionary in all their Branches. To which is added, The Complete Brewer; alfo, The Family Phyfician, &c &c. By Mrs. Mary Cole, Cook to the Right Hon. the Earl of Drogheda. 8vo. 6s. Boards. Kearfley. 1789. Art. 27. Cookery and Paftry. As taught and practifed by Mrs. Maciver, Teacher of thofe Arts in Edinburgh. 12mo. 2s. 6d. bound. Elliot and Co. 1787. It is cruel to tantalize us with books of this kind. We can only lick our lips, and put them afide. EDUCATION, &c. Art. 28. Petite Encyclopédie des Jeunes Gens ou Definition abrégée des Notions relatives aux Arts et aux Sciences, à l'Aftronomie, au Blafon, à la Chronologie, à la Geographie, &c. &c. tout rangé fuivant l'Ordre Alphabétique; avec Figures. Par N. Wanoftrocht. 12mo. pp. 342. 5s. bound. Boofey. 1788. Young perfons, while they are learning French, may, by the help of this miniature-dictionary of arts and fciences, gather much ufeful information. Many of the articles are indeed fcarcely dwelt on fufficiently to give the learner the first leading ideas; but others are more fully treated, particularly, geography, chronology, heraldry, mythology, and the explanation of emblematical figures. The plates, though not elegant, are well adapted for ufe. E. Art. 29. A New Grammar to teach French to Englishmen. By Dom. Blondin, Profeffor of Divinity at the Fuillans, Paris, Interpreter to the King, and Member of the Royal Society of Agriculture at Soiffons. 12mo. pp. 136. 2s. fewed. Bell. 1788. Though this grammar is too concife to be a complete introduction to the knowlege of the French language, as far as it proceeds, it is correct and well arranged. It is chiefly valuable for the accurate precepts and tables which it contains, refpecting pronunciation. E. BIOGRAPHY and MEMOIRS. Art. 30. The interefting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vaffa, the African; written by himself. 12mo. 2 Vols. about 260 Pages each. 7s. fewed. Printed for the Author; and fold by Johníon, &c. 1789. We entertain no doubt of the general authenticity of this very intelligent African's interefting ftory; though it is not improbable that fome English writer has affilted him in the compilement, or, at leaft, the correction of his book: for it is fufficiently well written. The narrative wears an honeft face and we have conceived a good opinion of the man, from the artlefs manner in which he has detailed the variety of adventures and viciffitudes which have fallen to his lot. His publication appears very feafonably, at a time when negroeflavery is the fubject of public inveftigation; and it feems calculated to increase the odium that hath been excited against the Welt-India planters, on account of the cruelties that fome of them are faid to have exercised on their flaves; many inftances of which are here detailed. The fable author of these volumes appears to be a very fenfible man; and he is, furely, not the lefs worthy of credit from being a convert to Chriftianity. He is a Methodift; and has filled many pages, toward the end of his work, with accounts of his dreams, vifions, and divine impulfes; but all this, fuppofing him to have been under any delufive influence, only ferves to convince us that he is guided by principle; and that he is not one of thofe poor converts who, having undergone the ceremony of baptifm, have remained content with that portion, only, of the Chriftian Religion: inftances of which are faid to be almost innumerable in America, and the Weft-Indies. Guftavus Vaffa appears to poffefs a very different character; and, therefore, we heartily wifh fuccefs to his publication, which we are glad to fee has been encouraged by a very refpectable fubfcription. NOVELS. Art. 31. Eleonora, in a Series of Letters; written by a Female Inhabitant of Leeds in Yorkshire (Mrs. Gomerfall). izmo. 2 Vols. 6s. fewed. Walter, Piccadilly. 1789. Thefe volumes are rendered interefting by a great variety of natural incidents, and are enlivened by an eafy and often humourous delineation of characters. The former are indeed fuch as often happen in life; and the latter are chiefly taken from the middle or the lower claffes of fociety; but the general effect is pleafing, and the writer certainly poffeffes a vein of comic humour. Her account of a Yorkfhire courtship is particularly happy. In defcribing low characters, Mrs. Gomerfall introduces rather too much of their coarfe and ungrammatical dialect. A few words of this fort may be endured; but Mrs. McGregor's wulgarifms are repeated till they become difguftful.. Art. 32. The Steatre. Vols. 12mo. About 180 Pages each. 6s. Boards. Stockdale. 1789. If this book be regarded as a Novel, it has little merit, for the incidents are few and unnatural: if it be confidered as a series of lekers on various topics, it deferves commendation. The writer has contrived to weave into his narrative a defcription of the modern ftate of the Grecian Iflands-a critique on Elfrida-a review of the novel called Emmeline-a dialogue on duelling-a comparison of the advantages and difadvantages of private and public education-a philippic against the cullom of powdering the hair-and two or three pleafing poems, befide many moral reflections. The whole is written elegantly, and will afford confiderable amufement. POETRY and DRAMATIC. E. Art. 33. Remarks on feme of Shakespear's Characters. By the Author of Obfervations on Modern Gardening*. 8vo. pp. 82. 2s. fewed. Payne. A preliminary advertisement informs us, that thefe remarks proceeded from the author of the "Obfervations on Modern Gar See Rev. vol. xliv. p. 345. By Henry James Pye, Esq. dening dening [Mr. Wheatley], who intended to have gone through eight or ten of the principal characters of Shakespeare in the fame manner.' Were this the only misfortune refulting from his death in 1772, the lofs were not much to be regretted; for thefe remarks contain, in our opinion, more labour and ingenuity, than novelty or folidity. It is not true, as is afferted in the introduction by the author, that any eminent critics, ancient or modern, confidered the manners as lefs effential to the drama, than the fable; nor does it require fuch an investigation and analysis of the two feveral plays, as prevails in the remarker, to difcriminate the leading features that diftinguish Richard from Macbeth; though they each made their way to a throne by murder, fupported it by cruelty and tyranny, and loft it by death in battle. Col-n. Art. 34. Macbeth reconfidered. An Effay, intended as an Answer to Part of the Remarks on fome of the Characters of Shakespeare. 8vo. Is. pp. 36. Egerton. In this anfwer to part of the above remarks, the commentator is worthy of his predeceffor; and argues with equal labour and addrefs, and with almoft an equal number of quotations, that Shakespeare did not mean, in Macbeth, to give an example of cowardice; a difcovery which he has fubmitted, with great refpect, to Mr. Malone, and proved, moft incontrovertibly, that two and two make four. Do Art. 35 Peter Pindar's Penitence. A mifcellaneous and burlefque Poem. By Pindaromaftix. 4to. 2s. 6d. Robinfons. 1789. This perfevering antagonist of Pindar's, may be confidered as his fhadow, or, rather, as his loufe, living upon him, and fticking as clofe to him as his fhirt, or clofer. This fhadow, or this creeper, which you pleafe, gentle reader, fuppofes Peter to have been lately haunted by difmal dreams, and a tormenting confcience; in confequence of which he repents of his abuse of the K***, Sir Jofeph, and Mr. Weft; and refolves to quit, at once, the wicked rhyming trade. Accompanied by his Peggy, whom we are to confider as his favourite female friend, and who makes a great figure in this poem, he propofes to retire to Falmouth, or the Land's End-there to pafs the remainder of his days in penitence for paft offences. This thought, fuch as it is, the bard has embellished with wondrous wit and humour, through upwards of fifty pages. We shake our heads now and then at his jocularities, - but he never, like Peter, makes us bake our fides. Art. 36. Retort Smart upon Peter Pindar's Epifle to a falling Minifter With Peter's Palinody and Petition to a ftanding Minister. A pelting Poem. By Pindaromastix. 4to. PP. 24. Is. 6d. Robinfons. 66 In this dull poem, as in the preceding piece, P. P. is configned over to repentance. He begs pardon of Mr. Pitt, and requests, as the recruiting ferjeant fays, to be taken into prefent pay and good quarters."-Something too much of this, Pindaromaflix! Too much, indeed! many may think, for human patience, even that of a Reviewer, to bear!-But the worst we with thee, is, that thou wouldst See Rev. for February laft, Art. 62. of the Catalogue. REV. June, 1789. give |