Warm Hope, to footh the mental ftrife, For death, immortal life! The Sonnets have merit. That addreffed to Mr. Rogers is on a fimilar fubject with the Ode; it is a remonftrance to that author on his introducing fome of the pains of Memory" among its "Pleasures." Thefe fhort poems have long notes. ART. 18. The Monkey, a Satire, by the Reverend Charles Bartholomew, A. M. Vicar of Shalford, Surrey. 4to. 6d. Longman. 1795. The author amufes himfelf with comparing man, in his different characters and flages of life, to a monkey, and what is far worse, and hardly to be believed!-woman too.-Fortunately for the poet, not many will hear of his flander. ART. 19. Poems on various Subjects. By S. T. Coleridge, late of FeJus College, Cambridge. 12mo. 188 pp. 45. Robinfons. 1796. This collection is marked by tenderness of fentiment, and elegance of expreffion, neither however fufficiently chaftened by experience of mankind, or habitude of writing. The following will be no unacceptable specimen of its merit. THE SIGH. When youth his fairy reign began, ૨૧ Mr. Mr. C. does not, in this volume, betray much of his politics, except in his violent rant to Lord Stanhope. ART. 20. The Tears of the Mufe. An Elegiac Poem, facred to the 1794. A ftrong attachment to virtue and loyalty, expreffed in fome unadorned ftanzas of excellent advice to a young nobleman, appears in this publication. The praife of Lady Weftmoreland is fpoken by a perfonage connected, as it is fuggefted, with her character; and certainly with the style of the poem, the goddefs Simplicity. There fhe befides, who fhuns proud Art, Loves but on truth to call; She whom her mother Nature taught, To fpeak at large the genuine thought, Nor garlands fhall they fail to bring, The high character given of Lady W. is, we doubt not, just; and the advice will, we hope, be useful to the perfon addreffed. In a ftanza preceding those we have quoted, the author too exactly employs the very words and rhymes of Collins. ART. 21. On the Building of a Monaftery in Dorsetshire. 8vo. 6d. 'This author's orthodoxy feems to have taken a precipitate and unneceffary claim at the afylum afforded to fome female emigrants of a religious order in Dorfetfhire. We difpute not the goodness of his intentions, but we are compelled to condemn his verfes as very dull and profaic. ART. 22. The Antidote. A political Poem. Humbly infcribed to the The motives of this author are, we believe, equally good with thofe of the preceding publication, but his fenfe is very little better. ART. 23. Odes and miscellaneous Poems. By a Student of Medicine in 1 Hail power combined, combuftible, impure: The gorgeous, aqueous parts of this poifed ball; And to the wandering world his theory quick compares. ART. 24. Sketches in Verfe, with profe Illuftrations. Svo. 35. 6d. Cadell. 1796. Thefe compofitions are of a far higher order than the preceding, and evince much tafte, fpirit, and harmony. We fee lefs to admire in the profe illuftrations. DRAMATIC. ART. 25. The Sicilian Lover. A Tragedy. In five A. By Mary Robinson, Author of Poems, Angelina, c. c. 8vo. Hookham. 1796. 2s. 6d. We have always more or lefs both of intereft and amufement in the productions of this lady's pen. This is a very melancholy tale; the language in which it is told is fometimes inflated, but there are alfo many animated fentiments and highly poetical paffages. ART. 26. The Battle of Eddington; or, British Liberty. A Tragedy. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Elmily. 1795. The dedication, which is to Mr. Pitt, informs the reader that this poem is the performance of Mr. Penn, grandfon and reprefentative, in the elder branch, of the founder of Pennsylvania. We highly commend the generous and manly strain of feeling in which the whole of this tragedy is both conceived and expreffed: we recommend it to the perufal of all lovers of their country, who, if they should fometimes object to the lefs polifhed effufions of the poet, cannot fail of revering the noble and dignified fpirit of the man. ART. 27. New Hay at the old Haymarket; an occafional Drama. In one A. Written by George Colman (the younger) an opening, the Haymarket Theatre, on the 9th of June, 1795. 8vo. 32 pp. IS. Cadell and Davies. 1795. Nothing can be more flight than the texture of this little temporary piece. A few witticifms on the elephants and bulls of the winter theatres, the inconvenient magnitude of their structure, and their long feafon, gave it fufficient currency for the purpofe; with the aid of Mr. Caulfield's imitations of eminent actors. ART. 28. Vortimer, or the True Patriot, a Tragedy, by Ab. Portal. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Kearsley. 1796. The author informs us, in his preface, that this play was written long ago, and has confequently no allufion to a late tranfaction. If the reports of those who heard and faw "The Vortigern and Rowena" at the Theatre may be trufted, this is by far the better performance of the two. We trace, in more than one paffage of this play, too great a refemblance to the Cato of Addifon; but we think it poffeffes confiderable merit, though the plot is fomewhat perplexed, and the style fome times profaic." NOVELS. ART. 29. Angelo, a Novel founded on melancholy Facts. Written by "Is "But the paifage of his future welfare ameliorated the pain of the ART. 30. The Haunted Cavern. A Caledonian Tale. By John This tale is full of incidents rather too marvellous to be probable, yet it is fufficiently interefting and unexceptionable in its moral and its tendency. In his ftyle, this young author fometimes afpires to be uncommonly elegant, and is only affected; fometimes to be elevated, and is turgid. Expreffions like the following cannot be admitted as improvements of our language: " to irradicate selfish ideas." P. 9." To retrospect his paft conduct." P. 206. We find cause, however, to expect better productions from the fame pen; and we conjecture, from the pat proverbs of honeft Andrew, that the line of humour would fuit the author's talent better than that of tragedy and terror. 1 ART. 2 .31. Arville Cafle. An hiftorical Romance. In two Volumes. The fecond Edition. Svo. 6s. Crosby. 1796. This ftory is probably well enough adapted to the taste of those perfons, who devote much of their time to the reading of fuch productions. It exhibits a great variety of wonderful adventures and fituations, by fea and by land, in affluence and in penury, in freedom and in captivity, above ground and under ground, that is, in ftately caftles, and in caves and dungeons." The times are thofe of the first century, when Boadicea headed a confiderable army against the Romans." Vol. i. p. 2. But the times are fo unfortunately fixed, that, excepting the mention of a Druid, and a few Romans, ten or twelve centuries later would have been a happier choice, and have prevented a multitude of anachronifms in the ftory. Hiftorical novels require a little learning. The dramatis perfonae are very numerous, and are almost all heroes and heroines. Of love, conftant and unalterable love, there is as much as the moft tender-hearted damfel can require. But the author fhall, himself, explain what is to be found in his book: "We see here an amiable family, torn apparently afunder by contending powers and adverfe incidents, all preferved by the moft unlooked for and unexpected accidents-all dead, as it were, to each other; father, mother, brothers and fifters, husbands, wives, and lovers, feparated through years of ftorms and fiery trials, yet at last none of them fuffered to be hurt." Vol. ii. p. 150. The ftyle is inelegant and humble, and, in a few inftances, even ungrammatical. In other refpects the work is unexceptionable, and has no tendency to make thofe readers worse, who perufe books without any defign to be made either wifer or better. ART. 32. DIVINITY. The Prefence of Chrift in Places of Chriftian Worship, two Sermons, preached at the Confecration of St. Andrew's Chapel, in Aberdeen, on Sunday, the 13th of September, 1795. By Bishop Steinner. Printed at Aberdeen; London, Rivingtons. 1796. Thefe fermons feem entitled to our particular notice, as well on account of their author, and the occafion, as on the fcore of their merit. The author is the fon of that venerable Prefbyter, who, in 1788, published, "The Ecclefiaftical Hiftory of Scotland," with a curious and ftriking poetical Latin dedication to this his fon and diocefan, who now bears the ancient title of Primus in the Epifcopal College of Scotland, which is analogous to our term Archbishop. The occafion, as announced in the title, is remarkable; the public confecration of an Epifcopal Chapel in Scotland, being a new thing in that part of the earth. Of this depreffed church, and the various hardships to which it was fubjected for a long period of time, together with its emancipation from the extreme rigour of the penal ftatutes in 1791, a brief but fatisfactory account is given in Mr. Jones's Life of Bishop Horne, fee p. 146, et feq. In the fermons now before us, the preacher, |