NEW MEMOIRS OF LITERATURE, Containing an ACCOUNT of NEW BOOKS Printed both at Home and Abroad, WITH DISSERTATIONS upon feveral Subjects, Miscellaneous OBSERVATIONS, &C. AUGUST 1725. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed for WILLIAM and JOHN INNY Sy at the Weft End of St. Paul's. Price One Shilling. MDCCXXV BOOKS printed for W. and J. INNYS. I. Telus Metafyncriticus: or, An Effay on Chronical Difeafes, the Methods of Cure; and herein, more fully, of the Medicinal Waters of Bath and Briftol, their feveral Virtues and Differences. By John Wynter, M. B. è Coll. Chrifti Cantab. Suo. 1725. 2. An Anfwer to fome late Papers, entitled, The Independent Whig; fo far as they relate to the Church of England, as by Law establish'd; in which her Doctrines, Creeds, Liturgies, and Establishment; her Clergy, with their Rights, Divine and Human, are modeftly defended; and their Author's new Notion prov'd to be not only abfurd and ridiculous, but also directly oppofite to thofe very Texts of God's Word, on which he pretends to found them. By Francis Squire, A. M. Rector of Exford, and Vicar of Cutcombe and Luxborow, Somerfet. 8vo, 1723. 3. An Effay on Perspective, written in French by William-James 'sGravefande, Doctor of Law and Philofophy, Profeffor of Mathematicks and Aftronomy at Leyden, and Fellow of the Royal Society at London; and now tranflated into English. 8vo. 1724. 4. Botanick Effays, in two Parts. The firft containing the Structure of the Flowers, and the Fructification of Plants, with their various Diftributions into Method. And the fecond, the Generation of Plants, with their Sexes and Manners of impregnating the Seed: Alfo concerning the Animalcula in femine mafculino, together with the Nourishment of Plants, and Circulation of the Sap in all Seafons, analogous to that of the Blood in Animals. With many curious Remarks, and feveral Discoveries and Improvements. Adorned with Figures. Non fingendum aut excogitandum, fed inveniendum, quod Natura faciat aut ferat. Bacon. By Patrick Blair, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society. With Cuts. Sue 1720. 5. Catalogus Librorum Manufcriptorum in Bibliotheca Collegii Corporis Chrifti in Cantabrigia: quos legavit Matthæus Parkerus Archiepifcopus Cantuarienfis. fol. 1722. 6. An Addrefs to Parents, fhewing them the Obligations they are under to take care of the Chriftian Education of their Children, and laying before them the principal Points in which they ought to inftruct them By Jofeph Hoole, Vicar of Haxey. 8vo. 1724. A TABLE of the ARTICLES For AUGUST 1725. A XIV. N Effay upon the Truth of the Chriftian Religion, wherein its real foundation upon the Old Teftament is fhewn. Occafioned by the Difcourfe of the grounds and reafons of Christianity. By Mr. Sykes, Rector of Rayleigh in Effex, Page 81 XV. Clovis, an Epic Poem, by the Chevalier De St. Didier, 104 XVI. A Collection of the Judgments paffed upon the Errors, which have been condemned in the Church from the beginning of the twelfth Century to the year 1713. By Mr. D'Argentre, Doctor of Sorbon, &c. 119 XVII. Mifcellanies of History and Literature, By Mr. De Vigneub-Marville, XVIII. A new Edition of the Works of Nove tian. By Mr. Welchman, 122 XIX, Reflexions upon the Origin of Springs and Rivers. By Dr, Gualtieri, 124 XX. 1. A XX. 1. A Voyage, in the Prefs at Lisbon, 143 come out, 5. A Catalogue of a Library, 143 144 144. 6. Obfervations upon the fmall pox, 144-146 8. A Commentary upon the Prophets, to be 148 9. Particulars concerning Father Dennys de Sainte-Marthe, 10. Bibliotheca Rhetorum, 148,149 149 149 11. L'Ecole de Mars, 12. A new Edition of the Genealogical Hiftory of the House of France, &c. to be published, 149 13. A Relation of the death of the late Pope, 150 14. Dictionnaire des Arrêts, to be reprinted,150 15. Hiftory of the Peace of Munfter, in the Prefs, 150 16. A Treatife of the duties of wives towards 21. A new way of putting out Fires, 153,154 22. Remarks upon Clovis, an Epic Poem, 154 23. An Epic Poem, by Mr. Roi, 154 25. A Defcription of Paris, 24 Letters against the Clovis, 26. A Poem of Religion, in the Prefs, 155 27. Prælectiones Ecclefiafticæ, 156 New 155 155 New Memoirs OF LITERATURE. For AUGUST 1725. ARTICLE XIV. An ESSAY upon the Truth of the Chri ftian Religion: wherein its real Foundation upon the Old Teftament is fhern. Occafioned by the DISCOURSE of the grounds and reafons of Chriftianity. By ARTHUR ASHLEY SYKES, M. A. Rector of Rayleigh in Effex. London & printed for James and John Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1725. in 8vo. pagg. 304. T HE Author of this Book is fo far. from being a timorous Divine, or a Politician, that he has not fcrupled to publifh the following Lines in his Preface. "It feems incumbent on our parts, fays he, as lovers of men and friends to Truth, to AUGUST 1725. "examine F |