and innocence, than the most notorious in Drury-lane or Covent-garden; fhe having for many years refided in the heart of this city unmolested; by which means fhe lieth in wait as for a prey, and increafeth the tranfgrefors among

men.

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VI. A brief account of the Kings and Queens, whofe ftatues (now repaired and decorated in a most splendid manner) are placed in the Royal Exchange of London; with the reasons why fome of their ftatues are not fet up; that fuch persons as have 'not leifure or opportunity to read the general hiftories at large, may be acquainted with the fucceffion and principal events that happened in the reigns of thefe illuftrious perfonages. In a continued feries from Edward I. to our prefent fovereign; fo clearly connected, as that a person of an indifferent memory may relate the whole after perufal. By John Halliday, M. A. teacher of the languages and mathematics, in Ayliffe-freet, Goodman's-fields. 8vo. 6d. Griffiths.

VII. The Angler's Magazine; or, necessary and delightful Store-houfe; wherein every thing proper to be known relating to his art, is digested in fuch a method, as to affift his knowledge and practice upon bare inspection. Being the completeft manual ever published upon the fubject; largely treating of all things relating to fish and fishing, and whereby the angler may acquire his experience without the help of a mafter. By a Lover of that healthful and innocent diverfion. 8vo. 6d. Owen. VIII. A Call upon the Victuallers in town and country. 8vo. Is. Sold by Woodfall and the reft of the bookfellers.

It seems probable, from the low ftile and fentiments of the writer, that this pamphlet is the work of fome discontented alehoufe-keeper. The author complains of many grievances, which he thinks are as unreasonably as they are peculiarly thrown upon his fraternity: among which the arbitrary behaviour of the juftices of the peace, in partially refufing or granting licences; and the quartering of foldiers, are the most confiderable.

IX. A Collection of the Sufferings of the people called Quakers, from 1650, to 1689. By J. Beffe. Folio, 2 vol. 11. 2s. Hinde.

X. An Abridgment of the Statutes of Ireland, from the first felion of parliament in the third year of the reign of King Edward II. to the end of the twenty-fifth year of the reign of his prefent majefty King George II. and of all the English and British ftatutes which extend to and bind Ireland. With tables of the ftatutes in their chronological order, directing to the titles under which they are abridged, and of the statutes taken from any English ftatutes, and of thofe fince Poining's law which bind Ireland, and of the ftatutes to be given in charge or read

in churches. And alfo an alphabetical table of the principal matters referring to the titles and paragraphs in the abridgement, and to the refpective ftatutes, together with the new rules. By Edward Bullingbroke, doctor of laws, and advocate in the ecclefiaftical courts; and Jonathan Belcher, efq; barrister at law. Published with the approbation of the right honourable the lord high chancellor, and the right honourable and honourable the judges of Ireland, in one large volume. 4to. Il. 8s. Knapton.

XI. Genuine and impartial Memoirs of Elizabeth Canning. Containing a complete hiftory of that unfortunate girl, from her birth to the present time, and particularly every remarkable occurrence from the day of her abfence, January 1, 1753, to the day of her receiving fentence, May 30, 1754. In which is included the whole tenor of the evidence given against and for her on her late extraordinary trial. With fome obfervations. on the behaviour of the court, and the conduct of the jury. Alfo free and candid remarks on Sir Crifp Gafcoigne's Enquiry. 12mo. 3s. bound. Woodfall, Bouquet, &c.

This is the long expected hiftory, for which the public were fo often defired to wait, by advertisements in the news-papers. It is compiled with feeming accuracy and candour, and delivered in the form of letters to a friend. The air of moderation which the writer affumes, and the agreeable and familiar manner in which he has thrown together the particulars of a worn-out ftory, render his hiftory, upon the whole, a more entertaining performance than we might have expected, after having been fo often difappointed and difgufted by the catchpenny things that appeared before it.

XII. Mirza and Fatima. An Indian tale. Tranflated from the French. 12mo. 3s. Ofborne.

To excufe a man to himself for reading over the Arabian Nights and Turkish Tales, it is to be confidered, that the abfurdities of the Indian mythology crouded into thofe performances, are made inftrumental to lead us into the genius, manners, and morals of that people. The characters are Indian, and think, speak, and act as fuch. The Turkish Spy is much more valuable, for being wrote by an European, than if it had been the work of a native of Turky: we are furprised to see the Afiatic kept up to the utmoft degree of exactnefs. The tale before us is called Indian, but the manners, fentiments, and stile are exactly thofe of an European novelift. Plenty of enchantments, metamorphofes, &c. there are, no doubt, if that will make it Indian; but it is excellent to hear one of our Indian enamorato's giving this defcription of his mistress.

• She

She was not barely beautiful; but had diffused all over her perfon that fweet charm of the je ne fcai quoi, so much < more powerful than even beauty itself. It was faid that Aglae, at her birth, had been bathed in the fountain of the Graces, and certainly were the Graces to be pictured, the ⚫ might have furnished the model.' Another young gentleman of India chufes to delineate his mistress thus: Her features were not regular, but fo well adapted for pleafing, or rather for affecting the heart, that it was not easy to see her with impunity. To picture her, however, in one word to you, her countenance was the expreffion of fentiment, and all the <reft of her perfon feemed formed for the joy of the fenfes : fhe had the finest hands in the world, arms fashioned by love, and that critical point of plumpnefs, which excludes neither the eafy genteel air, nor the graces.' All this is very pretty to be fure! but the deuce a bit does it carry any thing oriental about it. We have been looking for the moral of this performance, and can find nothing like it till the very laft line but three; where, indeed, the fairy of adverfity, upon difenchanting the lovers that give title to this fable, leaves her hero to chew upon this maxim, Never suffer prosperity to harden your heart; and never forget me.

In fhort, we cannot but agree with part of the latter of our author's mottos, wherein he allows what he has fcraped together to be nugæ; but must leave it to him to make appear how far they -Seria ducunt

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In bona.XIII. A new Syftem of Horsemanship, from the French of Monf. Bourgelat. By Richard Berenger, efq; 4to. 10s. 6d. Vaillant.

This treatife derives its exiftence from that great work on the fame fubject, written by the celebrated William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle; a work which, notwithstanding its ac-1 knowledged merit in many refpects, has been justly cenfured for the author's want of method and exactness. To remedy thefe imperfections was the defign of the prefent fyftem, publifhed by the judicious and experienced Monf. Bourgelat; whofe work is extracted from the rules of that great mafter. The method and conciseness with which the ingenious Frenchman hath digefted the whole, have reduced his copy within a much fmaller compass than the English original; but,' fays the tranflator in his preface, it is a small, well-polifhed gem. To • fpeak the truth,' adds the prefacer, he has made the fubject fo much his own, by the refinement of his remarks, the just• nefs of his reasoning, and the light he has diffufed through it, that it muft have the merit of an original; at least thé During his exile, in the time of Cromwell's ufurpation.

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• reader will be divided to whom he fhall render moft thanks, • whether to him who has given the food, or to him who has • prepared and fet it before us with fo much elegance and order. This is at least the author's praise.-The tranflator has endeavoured to do him as much juftice as he has done • his great original; fenfible of the danger of fo difficult an • enterprize, but prompted to it in hopes of making his merit more known. He tranflated the work, that the treasures it ⚫ contains may be gathered by thofe, who are fo unfortunate as to want this affiftance to obtain them. He has been as faithful to his author as the languages will allow, judging that to be the fureft way of doing him juftice. In fome places, however, he has used (as all tranflators should) a difcretionary power. Every art has technical terms, or words ⚫ of its own. These he has preferved in the tranflation, the English affording none adequate to them. He has given no ⚫ notes or comments, imagining the original can, and hoping • the translation will, want none of this, however, his rea⚫ders will be the best judges.'

The points of horsemanship difcuffed in this work are, 1. Of the horfeman's feat. 2. Of the hand, and its effects. 3. Of difobedience in horfes, and the means to correct it. 4. Of the trot. 5. Of the ftop. 6. Of teaching a horfe to go backwards. 7. Of the uniting, or putting a horfe together. 8. Of the pillars. 9. Of aids and corrections. 10. Of the paffage. 11. Of working with the head and croupe to the wall. 12. Of changes of the hand, large and narrow, and of voltes and demi-voltes. 13. Of the aids of the body. 14. Of the gallop. 15. Of paffades. 16. Of pefades. 17. Of the mezair. 18. Of curvets. 19. Of croupades and balotades. 20. Of caprioles. 21. Of the step and leap.

XIV. The history of the feveral oppofitions which have been made in England, from the reftoration of King Charles II. both against the court and the minifterial influence. Reprefenting the many noble attempts made by British patriots for the establishment of British liberty. By Sir Myles Stanhope. 12mo. 3s. Baldwin.

This hiftorical collection is formed upon an imperfect plan, and executed in a very defultory and fuperficial manner. The gentleman named in the title-page, we apprehend, had never any existence, except in the imagination of the compiler; who, while he condemns fome parties with indecent afperity, and attacks certain royal characters, truly illuftrious and venerable, with infult and virulence, betrays his own partial attachments to a political faction. But what other behaviour could be expected from one who seems not a little addicted to the exploded dreams

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dreams of aftrology; for he intimates in his preface, that fome favourable afpect of the planets, difpofes the Britons to the love of liberty. F

XV. A book of Medals, Coins, and Great Seals, drawn, engraved, and printed in quarto, on royal paper, from the curious works of Thomas Simons, efq; engraver of the mint to the commonwealth of England, the lord protector Oliver Cromwell, &c. contained in forty engraved copper-plates; with fome explanations of the fculptures, by the editor, Mr. George Vertue. Sold at his houfe, in Brownlow-street, near Long-acre, Price 11. Is. stitched.

XVI. A Vindication of a Sermon, entitled, Inoculation an indefenfible practice *. In which Dr. Kirkpatrick's arguments in favour of the operation, together with his and a certain letter-writer's objections to the fermon, are diftinctly confidered and replied to; and the practice demonftrated, in the ampleft manner, highly culpable in a moral, extremely abfurd in a phyfical view. By Theodore Delafaye, A. M. 8vo. 2s. 6d.

Ballard.

As we did not greatly particularize the fermon, the publication before us is intended to vindicate, or the objections that were made to it, we cannot, with any propriety, pretend to enlarge on this performance; which appears, to us, calculated rather to divert than inform an intelligent reader. Mr. Delafaye's way of reafoning gives us occafion to recollect the fubtilties of the old schoolmen, whose arguments were intended to perplex, when they could not convince. He admits the fuccefs of inoculation, but infifts that this fuccefs is wholly owing to the abfence of certain circumftances, to which the natural difeafe is unnaturally fubjected, and not to any fingle effect • inoculation can produce.'. The circumstances here hinted at, are principally fuch as arife from the depravity of mankind, their debaucheries, and irregularities. If our author's perfuafions fhould prevail to make men faultlefs, medicine in general would, in all probability, be little neceffary; but as long as intemperance produces or aggravates difeafes, fo long will people be folicitous to prevent or mitigate the mortal effects of thofe maladies; and while the adventitious fmall-pox fhall be found fatal to fuch numbers, the fuccefs of the artificial communication of it will undoubtedly recommend the practice.

* See Review, vol. IX, p. 237.

+ Ibid. p. 474.

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N. B. The remainder of the Catalogue, with the Single Sermons,

in our next.