The bad we court not.-To the good we say,
Approach with boldness, and with pleasure itay.

ART. I. The Hiftory of the principal Rivers of Great Britain Vol. 11. Folio. 4 4s. Boydell. 1796.

THIS truly magnificent work, as far as it regards the river

Thames, is here brought to a conclufion; and, if the fubfcribers and the public had caufe to be fatisfied with the first volume, in our opinion, they have much greater reafon to be fo with the fecond. The metropolis and its vicinity, as connected with the Thames, if it gave greater fcope to the fkill and genius of the artist, was, at the fame time, from the multitude of objects neceffarily comprehended, attended with extraordinary difficulty, and far more exposed to every kind of criticifm. But the fcenes here reprefented are well chofen and happily executed, and if any objection fhall be made to their being lefs agreeable than might be expected by fome readers,

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