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OUR author's enquires into the causes of inflammations gives us the theories of Boerhaave and Van Swieten, which he endeavours to explode, and propofes a new one himself. His stile is too turgid, too much abounding with technical terms; and the arguments he has produced are far from being conclufive. His attempt is certainly great :

"Magnis tamen decidit aufis."

Four Paftorals. By T. S. Efq; of the Middle Temple:

4to. 25.

A Paltry collection of rhimes beneath criticifm.

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"Non di, non homines, non conceffere columnæ."

Liberty Chaftifed, or Patriotifm in Chains; a Tragi-comi political Farce, as it was performed by his M's Sts, in the Year 1268. Modernized by Paul Tell-Truth, Efq; 8vo. IS. Steare

DULL! fcurrilous! low! and feditious.

The Statefman foiled, a Comedy in two Alts, performed at the Theatre in the Hay-market. The Mufic compofed by Mr. Rufh.

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Thing which has neither plot, fentiment, drama, nor English! Mr. Rufh is much to be pitied for being taken in to fupport fo much nonsense by the powers of mufic.

Elogy on Prince Henry of Pruffia, compofed by the King of Pruffia. 12mo. 28. Elmefly.

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HO' not in the hackneyed style of panegyrics, it abounds too much in fynonimous fentences, which approach almost to tautoligies. The Profopopeia at the end is fublime, and the apostrophe is worthy of the pen of one who rivals the moft elegant writers in ftyle, and the greatest heroes in battle. The original french is excellent, but the English tranflation execrable,

A genuine

A genuine Collection of all the new Songs, Ballads, Cantatas and Chorufes now finging at Vauxhall Gardens ба

Aftrong refemblance of a drag-net, which is filled with

and rubbish instead of fifh.

A Sermon preached before the Sons of the Clergy. By R. Finch, M. A. 6d.

A warmth. Its effects may be judged from obferving that

Well meant difcourfe; but defective in elegance and

the collection for the orphans of the clergy amounted only to 12001. whereas that for the proflitutes at the Magdalen was more than 2000l. Q tempera. O mores.

Inftructive and Entertaining Exercises, with the Rules of the French Syntax. By John Perrin. 12mo. Law.

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UR author has endeavoured to render this collection of Exercises both entertaining and inftructive. The method of part III. which treats of the agreement of the participle, is at once new, eafy, and expeditious. To this are added the history of the most celebrated authors in Greek and Latin, intermixed with anecdotes curious and entertaining, and an appendix of plain and familiar cards. The whole is concluded with an alphabetical table of the Conjugation of the regular and irregular verbs in one view, with references to different parts of the work. In our judgment this collection of exercifes is the moft elaborate that hath appeared; the author has descended into all the minutia of the French language without being tedious; his examples are fraught with double utility, inafmuch as they ferve not only to illuftrate his rules, but likewife to convey fome ufeful moral inftructions to the mind. He fhews himself no less a mafter of the French than he does of the English; and as he has omitted nothing that was neceffary; it is eviden the has been equally cautious m admitting any thing that is fuperfluous or trifling. On the whole this feems to be the best work of the kind, whether we confider the cafe of the mafter, or the improvement of the scholar.

Liberty,

Liberty, a Poem, infcribed to John Wilkes, Esq; 4to.

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OUR author takes great liberty with the harmony of English verfe, as well as with the grammar of the English Language, he therefore can have no claim to the conceffion of the Latin Poet,

dabiturq; licentia fumpta pudenter,

Sermons on Practical Subjects. By James Fanch, Minifter of the Gospel. 8vo. 5s. bound, boards 4s.

Sermons are very little read; but these will not conduce to

bring them more into fashion.

True Delicacy, or the hiftory of Lady Frances Tylney, and Henry Cecil, Efq; 2 vol. I2mo. 55. Jewed.

Noble.

F the title was altered to FALSE delicacy, it would equally fuit the work.

Remarks on the Riot Act, with an Application to certain recent and alarming Facts. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Kearfly.

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N examination how far the difagreeable circumstances, which happened lately at St. George's fields are confiftent with the riot-act. The author has acquitted himself with honour in his enquiry, and fhewn, that by the riot-act the magiftrate is not authorised to order the military to fire in any cafe upon a crowded and defenceless multitude; that all he is warranted to do is to apprehend and difperfe, but that perfons who are killed cannot be faid either to be difperfed or apprebended. Several other obfervations equally pertinent are to be found in this piece, which is not unworthy of the perufal of the inquifitive.

Annotations on the Pfalms, By James Merrick, M. A. late fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. 4to. 10s. fewed.. Dodfley.

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Udicious and learned! not unworthy of the author; and, if perufed with care, not unimproving to the reader!

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