termittent. This difpute muft ultimately depend on that concerning the general regularity of febrile acceffion. On the subject of apoplexy, Dr. Pew thinks it must depend fometimes on the effential caufe of fever, becaufe its recurrence is, at fome periods, fo frequent, as to appear almost like an epidemic. But, in a large practice, every chronic disease will appear in the fame way. Somewhat may be owing to accident, and fomething to the ftate of weather: an humoral afthma among old people is almoft epidemic in cold and moist air, and apoplexy very frequent in hot weather, entirely independent of fever; fo that the frequent occurrence of any dif ease at a particular period, is not enough to establish it as a febrile epidemic. Our author concludes with an examination of Dr. Brown's fyftem. His account of it is clear, and we believe exact. His arguments against it are threwd and humorous.-We fhall not enlarge on this fubject, as we find the Brunonians are equally ignorant of the operations of nature, and the effect of medicines. Nothing but difgrace can be gained even from victory. Richardi Relhan, A. M. Collegii Regalis Capellani, Flora Cantabrigienfis, exhibens Plantas Agro Cantabrigienfi indigenas, fecundum Syftema Sexuale digeftas. 8vo. 10s. 6d. White. WE E all felect an account of this work, in the words of the diligent and attentive author. The very great number of plants, indigenous to this country, is fufliciently known from the catalogue of Ray, and thofe of our very refpectable botanical profeffors. I had not, therefore, the confidence to fuppofe, when I engaged in this undertaking, that I could find new fpecies, except in the clafs Cryptogamia: a few, however, and those rather scarce, I have defcribed. But it must be allowed, that the ftations of fome of the plants, marked in this work, and not mentioned in the catalogue of our profeffor, together with various obfervations, were very obligingly communicated by him. · The works of Linnæus have furnished the effential and requifite characters: the descriptions and diftinctions are added from the best authors, for the fake of those bonatifts who had not access to the works themfelves: I have paid great attention, and not without fuccefs, in fearching for the cryptogamic plants, and have added, with little hefitation, my own obfervations, fully fatisfied if I fhall have rendered the study of butany more eafy,' We We are forry to obferve that this account is unufually partial; fince Mr. Relhan has not remarked that he has, with great pains, felected the descriptions from a great variety of the most valuable modern authors, and added plates of the rareft plants. This unusual partiality, for we are generally promised more than the author performs, has induced us to add a little to his account, and to fupply what he has modeftly concealed. Among other works, of the first note and highest authority, we find the celebrated Flora Roffica of Mr. Pallas, Schoeffer's Plates, Scopoli's Flora, Weber's Specilegium, Wiegel's Flora and Obfervations, and Weis's Cryptogamic Plants of Gottingen. In fhort, we recollect no modern work of credit which Mr. Relhan does not appear to have confulted. Mr. Curtis and Mr. Hudfon feem to have been particularly attended to: Among the more remarkable plants, we may mention the mountain ftone-parfley, the athamanta libanotis Linnæi, which has not hitherto been confidered as an English plant, but was discovered by our author in 1783. This plant is represented in an annexed plate. The new flag next engraved, is the lichen mufcorum, the mofs lichen: it is not included in Linnæus' fyftem. We shall select the description from Weber. ⚫ Cruftra parum cohærens, farinofa, Byffo incanæ Lin. omnino fimilis, colore pariter varians cinereo, aut ex cinereo virescenti. Tubercula in ficcioribus interdum planiufcula, alias convexa, nitentia, atra, copiofa, magna, ætate fæpius turbinata, Weber." There is another fpecies of lichen, difcovered by our author, of which a plate is added: it is ftyled the fubimbricated lichen. Crufta orbicularis, craffa, margine fubimbricato. Diameter I-4 uncialis. Scutelle innumeræ. The next fpecies of lichen reprefented in a plate, and first difcovered by Mr. Relhan, in England, is the lichen lentigerus, or white lichen. Scutellæ juniores perexigua, concava, poftea convexæ, tandem tuberculis fimiles. This is a fufficient fpecimen of our author's attention; and we have confined ourselves to the plates, to give in the shortest compass the most information. The other plates reprefent the cineraria alpina of Linnæus, the anemone pulfatilla, and the thefium linophyllum. They are all executed with accuracy rather than elegance, and ferve to instruct more than they will amuse. On the whole, we think this a very refpectable and useful work. An An Efay on Agriculture, with a View to inform Gentlemen Landed Property, whether their Eftates are managed to the greatest Advantage. By Thomas Stone. 8vo. 65. in Boards. Baldwin. HE fimple candour, and plain good fenfe, which feem to have dictated the contents of thefe pages, must render them highly eftimable to gentlemen of landed property, for whofe ufe the volume was written. The great object is to inform them to what points their attention is to be directed, in leafing their eftates, or in trufting, more generally, their concerns. This leads our author into many mifcellaneous conf derations relating to hufbandry; and his remarks, though feldom very new, are commonly juft. What we mean by new is that no particular plan is recommended, which had not been before practifed; but this is lefs the defign of the author, than to apply what is already known to the ufe of thofe for whom the Effay is defigned. We read, with particular pleasure, his obfervations on the breed of cattle, and on the improving ftock of horfes; for he does not push his opinions precipitately, with the zeal of a reformer, but recommends with the calm difcretion of an experienced obferver. The shape, the form of animals, must be, in a great degree, connected with their general health; and that again must influence the time required to fatten them, and their ftate when fat. The obfervations on husbandry are calculated to preferve the estate in an improving condition, by accurately afcertaining the mutual claims and interefts of the landlord and tenant. In this way, the rent is only the annual price paid for the use of the land, it is not a deduction from the real value, which it must be, when at the end of a term the estate is left in an impoverished condition. There is no fet of men, fays our author, I have a higher efteem for than farmers; but I must confefs, that no set of men know better how to make a bargain for their own advantage. A fteward ought to be careful how he allows the custom of any country, for there is a good, and a bad one every where. For inftance, where a farmer is allowed to take only two crops and a fallow; and after fallow, turnips and barley, which is generally esteemed good husbandry, he can manage his farm fo, that at the end of a term he will have fowed all his land with a fucceffive crop; or having taken two crops, the whole will be to fallow by the incoming tenant in his firf year, which will be an infuperable objection against any man's hiring it. Indeed the like advantages may be taken throughout the whole of a leafe loosely and injudiciously made. And was was the cafe to be litigated,' in which a tenant had taken two crops and left all his land to be fallowed, it might be determined in the tenant's favour, he having only taken two crops to a fallow, during his term, according to agreement: therefore a man, who is a good judge of the properties of land, and its condition, will frame covenants fuitable to each case, in order to remedy fuch an evil. For inftance, a farmer fhould be bound not to crop more than a certain proportion of his arable land with the fame kind of grain in any year of the term; not to fow a fecond or fucceffive crop upon more than a certain proportion thereof every year; after which he should be constrained to fallow, manure, and fow turnips or colefeed, and to lay the fame down with artificial or natural graffes for fuch a limited time, as fhould be approved. • In fome cafes it might be adviseable for a farmer to covenant to lay a proportion of his farm down for perpetual pasture at the commencement of the term, and to lay other parts down at ftipulated times during the leafe. However it is a landlord's business to improve the value of his eftate, not only at the end of the term, but during the occupation; yet the great view ought to be directed to the end of the term, that the value of the land may not be reduced, but improved, and made defirable for a tenant to continue thereon, or others to take it.' We have selected this paffage, as an inftance of the plainnefs and fimplicity of our author: we have felected it too, as we trust it will recommend his performance, and perhaps him felf, to thofe most interested in fimilar concerns. La Grace et la Nature, Poëme. 8vo. 5s. Longman. THIS poem is adorned with a new title, and extended by the addition of ten cantos. Its former title La Lou ange,' was a term equally equivocal with those which are now prefixed to it. In fact, this poem is of the religious kind, chiefly in the language of Scripture, an extended commentary on the 148th Pfalm, with numerous annotations. After much dif ficulty, we have reached the end; for the ftyle is frequently flat and profaic, the lines fometimes inharmonious: we can praise little but the author's defign. The work, fays Monf. de la Fléchére, is not polemic; it treats of no object of controverfy; it unites moral philofophy with the principal tenets of the Gofpel, and confequently every Chriftian fect will find in it the principal truths which they admit: truths proper to conduct us from faith, to the practice of every Chriftian virtue.' Yet Yet fomewhat may be adduced to leffen the cenfure which we have paffed. Religious poetry, as we have often obferved, finks, in the copy, greatly below the original; the Mufe too walks in fetters, and the greatest praise we can beltow on the best poets, on fuch fubjects, is, that the moves with apparent eafe, and fupports her chains with grace. They are, however, ftill chains which keep her on the ground, and check her sublimeft flights. In this volume, fome miscellaneous fubjects are alfo introduced. If the work has any merit, it is an exact conformity with holy fcripture: thofe who have read the facred writings with attention will perceive it; for the fake of others, to whom they are unknown, different paffages are added in the margin.' We readily allow, that this may be an apology for the religion. of the work, but not for its poetical imagery. Even Milton's genius was blinded by the brilliancy of the infpired penman; and, when on holy ground, the fublimeft poet funk to the humbleft and most imperfect copyift.-On the whole, we think that the work breathes, in every part, Chriftian piety, faith, and charity.' Prefixed to the poem is a Difcourfe on Evangelical Myfticifm, and the Ufe made of it in the Work.' We were pleased with the title, becaufe various paffages in the poem feemed to border on myftery. The author properly began to define myfticifm,' (we must be allowed this word, for no other feems adequate to the author's intention.) Reafonable myfticifm, fays he, as we find it in many excellent works, both ancient and modern, is a flight veil which covers the nakednefs of truth, fo as to render her more amiable, to excite the attention of those who feek her, to augment the pleasure of those who discover her, and to conceal her from the fight of her enemies.' Thefe veils are, we find, both pleasant and convenient; but, in this sense, myfticifm is only a hard word for a metaphor, and a learned term for allegory: we can af fure our readers that monf. de la Fléchére means no more. We shall felect, as a fpecimen, fome of the moft poetical lines of this poem. They are part of an epifode entitled the Peace of Paris,' which was printed, under that title, in a fepa rate form it is but loosely and inartificially connected with the poem before us. The lines we have tranfcribed are part of a fpeech by the king of France. "Contemplez ce combat, où pleins de nos projets, Quand |