ART. 21. The Royal Vifit to Exeter: A Poetical Epifle, by John Ploughshare, a Farmer of Morton Hampftead, in the County of Devon. Published by Peter Pindar, Efq. 4to. pp. 32. 15. 6d. Walker, 1795. This is one of the happiest fallies of Peter's comic Muse, with which we have of late been favoured. Though certainly the earlier compofitions of this Bard were better. ART. 22. Liberty's laft Squeak; containing an Elegiae Ballad, an Ode to an Informer, an Ode to Jurymen; and Crumbs of Comfort for the grand Informer, by Peter Pindar, Efq. 4to. pp. 26. 1s. 6d. Walker. 1795. The old flory fo often repeated, that we think, even they who diflike Madam Sg, and have no great fondness for Kings and Princes, muft find their patience and partiality for Peter almolt worn out. ART. 23. The Convention Bill: An Ode, by Peter Pindar, Efq. The Convention Bill, as it is called, has paffed, without any diminution as yet appears, of the comforts of thofe whom Peter pities. We venture alfo to tell Peter, that he may ftill write, and write, and write, without any great fear of moleftation. ART. 24. The Monopolift, with the Inftallation of Sir John Barleycorn, Knight. A Poetical Tale, addreffed to Servant Maids. 4to. pp. 16. IS. Cadell and Davies. 1795. A good humoured laugh at the prefent female drefs, in which a tale is introduced, fairly worth a thilling. ART. 25. The Bills, a Poem, with well-meant Effufions, By J. Eyre, Efq. 4to. On mischievous Delufions, 1s. Wallis. 1795. This Author thinks that few of the Poetical Tribe fucceed without bribing the Critics. He must certainly offer us at leaft fomething far better than he does at prefent, to induce us to speak fa. vourably of his productions. ART. 26. Cabal and Love: A Tragedy. Tranflated from the German, of Frederic Schiller, Author of the Robbers, Don Carlos, Confpiracy of Fiefco, &c. Se. Evo. 119 pp. 25. Boofey. 1795. Mr. Schiller, as the Author of the Robbers, has for fome time poffeffed, and justly, a reputation amongst the writers of his counWith this reputation, the play before us appears perfectly confiftent. It is not deftitute of honourable fentiments, nor of elegant and appropriate language. But its progrefs is clouded with gloomy reflections, try. I reflections, and it terminates with the melancholy catastrophe of fuicide. NOVELS. ART. 27. The House of Tynian, a Novel, in four Volumes, By George Walker. 12mo. 125. Lane. 1795. Of this novel it may juftly be faid that the narration is fufficiently animated to engage attention, and excite intereft in a degree much fuperior to that which is ufually effected by fimilar publications. With the character of the heroine, though in many refpects amiable, we are not perfectly fatisfied. Over-delicate on fome occafions, on others the acts in direct oppofition to the plaineft dictates of prudence: and, with all the fofter paflions under command, is as liable to err from an ill-placed pride, as others are from facrificing difcretion to feeling. Alfred, her lover, is a well-drawn character. An impetuous young nobleman, whofe paffions over-power his reafon, eally led aftray, debafed for a time, yet, by the native vigour of his mind preferved from total depravity. The family of the Bothels are much in nature, and Mr. B. himself an excellent model of a good citizen in the middle clafs of life. Lently is a character exifting, we fhould think, only in the brain of the author, yet not without intereft to the reader. Draper is the most finished villain we have met with, unlefs perhaps, Count Fathom or Zeluco be excepted. Probability is alfo violated in the extenfive influence of his machinations. He feems to be the evil genius of every perfon introduced into the history. The horrors of his death-bed, without any real penitence, form a fpectacle too fhocking for contemplation. We la nent that the moral Deimburk fhould be made a Deilt. If the words unbonmrable, genuity, trivialities, &c. &c. are not to be ranked with the errata, which are numerous, they are inftances of that affectation by which minor works are now too frequently disfigured. ART, 28. The Duke of Clarence. An hiftorical Novel. By E. M. F. Volumes. 4 12mo. I25. Lane. 1795. There is love enough in thefe volumes to fatisfy the moft tender and romantic readers. It is, however, virtuous love, placed upon worthy objects, and in molt cafes rewarded with just fuccefs. If we were not apprehenfive that fuch perpetual and high-wrought defcriptions of this paffion have a tendency to relax the minds of young perfons, to fill them with expectations of greater felicity than they will find in the world, and to unfit them for the fcenes of real life, we should recommend this ftory, as highly interesting and affecting, as diverfified by a great number of characters well difcriminated and fupported, and unexceptionable in its fentiments and ideas. The ftyle alfo is generally commendable, but we have noticed fome overfights like the following: Vol. I. p. 30, “frigid coldness." Vol. II. may your loves prove fortuitous," p. 64, has for have, p. 8z, are you thereabouts ?" This is a vulgarifm not to be endured from the mouth of a well bred woman, nor indeed from any mouth. Vol. IV. P. 44, Vol. IV. p. 184, "the laft duties to his mains," for manes. We fhould be glad, however, if all books of this kind were as little ceufureable in point of ftyle, and in the more important point of morality, as that which is named," the Duke of Clarence." MEDICINE. ART. 29. The Hiftory of Medicine, fo far as it relates to the Profefion of the Apothecary, from the earliest Accounts to the prefent Period; the origin of Druggifts, their gradual Encroachments on compound Phars macy, and the Evils to which the Public are thence expojed, as alfo from the unfkilful Practice of ignorant Medicafters, and the Means which have lately been devised to Remedy these growing Abuses. Publifhed at the Requeft of the Committee of the General Pharmaceutic Afficiation of Great Britain. By John Mofon Good, Fellow of the Medical Society of London, Member of the Corporation of Surgeons, and Author of ike Differtation on the Difeafes of Prifons and PoorHeufes. 12no. 256. pp. 35. 6d. Dilly. 1795. This book takes its origin from an affociation of apothecaries, formed principally for the purpofe of preventing druggifts from compounding or making up prefcriptions, a liberty, as the author contends, to which the apothecaries alone are entitled. To establish this pofition,. he gives the genealogy of the apothecaries, and proves them to be lineally defcended from Apollo, whofe infignia or arms they bear; while the druggifts are shown to be beings only of yesterday, although they have contrived to nettle themfelves into the most comfortable feats, to the great annoyance of the elder and inore honourable branch. of the family. At a meeting of the affociation, a petition to parliament was agreed upon, which was prefented in the courfe of the prefent feffion; but, as the object of it appeared to be to tear from a valuable fet of men a privilege to which they were legally entitled, and which they had ufed in a manner highly creditable to themfelves, as well as advan tageous to the community, the petition was rejected. It is proper to fay, that the Company of Apothecaries, highly to their honour, difowned having any concern in the petition, either as a corporate body, or as individuals. The other part of the plan of the affociation, which is to prevent the admiflion of illiterate perfons, or thofe not well killed in pharmacy, to act as apothecaries; and to oblige apothecaries, who feldom prepare their own medicines, to keep intelligent and properly educated affiflants to perform that duty, will, we doubt not, meet with the encouragement, and, we hope, the fuccefs it deferves. On this head the auther has made many useful and judicious obfervations and the whole of the work fhows much reading and attention to the fubject. ART. ART. 30. The Domeftic Midwife; or, The Means of preventing Danger in Child-Birth confidered. By Margaret Stephen, Teacher of Midwifery to Females, No. 42, Ely-Place, Holborn. 12mo. 107 PP. Fores, 1795. IS. 6. Mrs. Stephen begins by giving a brief anatomy of the pelvis, and other parts concerned in parturition; the then deicribes the different fpecies of labours, and the method of conducting the n; and concludes with fome general directions for the management of women and chil dren, and for remedying the complaints incident to them. In purfuing this plan, fhe feems to have confulted the latest and best writers on the fubject, and to have given a faithful epitome of their directions. We could have withed the had not fo ftrongly recommended to her pupils the ufe of inftruments, or laboured fo much to perfuade then. that they are as capable of handling them as the men; and that he had abstained from fome indecent expreffions on this fubject, which diste gure a book in other refpects not exceptionable. ART. 31. An Efay on Indigeftion and its Confequences ; or, Advice to Perfons affected with Debility of the digeftive Organs, nervous Dijor ders, Gaut, Dropfy, Sc. Sc. Ee. By R. Squirrel, M. D. 8vo. 109 pp. Sold by the Author, No. 7, Denimark-Street, Soho. 1795. As indigeftion is the caufe of innumerable diftafes, and as the tonic powders, the happy invention of the author, are a fovereign remody for indigeftion, there can be no reason to doubt their efficacy in the large catalogue of complaints for which they are here recommended. We have only, therefore, to add, that this invaluable medicine may be had, by applying to the doctor, at his fhop or laboratory abovementioned; where, if they can digeft the doctor's recommendation, they may be enabled to digeft every thing, DIVINITY. ART. 32. The eternal Generation of the Son of God. A Sermon, preached, before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, on Sunday, the sih of November, 1795. By William, Lord Bijoop of Chester, Principal of Brazenofe College. 8vo. 25 PP. IS. Rivingtons. 1795. The learned Bishop comes forward as the first public opponent of that new fuppofition of Mr. Hawtrey, which we itated in our fixth volume, p. 399, namely, that the appellation of the Son of God did not belong to the eternal Word, till he took upon him the nature of Man. His Lordfhip maintains, what appears indeed to have been the general doctrine of the Church, that the generation of the Son was eternal; that he was begotten of his Father before all worlds. Among the texts adduced by the preacher for this purpofe, the following feem to be the most itriking" who fpared not his own Son," "who gave his only-begotten Son," and "when he bringeth in the firit-begotten firft-begotten into the world:" which the preacher explains, "when he who before had the relation of firft-begotten was made incar nate in the world." The Bifhop alfo argues thus: "Indeed this antecedent relation feems fo to pervade the whole of Revelation, that it appears to be prefigured, even typically, as early as the hiftory of Abraham. For, in the bleffing promifed to this Patriarch, as a reward of his fingular faith and obedience, in the propofed facrifice of his Son, it is ftated as the motive, on God's part, that Abraham had not withheld his Son, his only Son,' in order, as it were, to fix the attention of future ages upon the two leading features in the refemblance which Ifaac bore to their promifed Meffias, who was to be an only Son, and to be offered for a facrifice. Yet the relation fignified by the type of an only Son of an human Father did not exist in the antitype, if that relation be not effential to the Son of God and inherent in his nature." Thofe texts are alfo examined and explained, which Mr. Hawtrey confidered as corroborating his opinion. The Bishop feems no more inclined than we were to doubt the good intentions of the author he oppofes, and therefore treats him uniformly with refpect, while he combats his hypothefis. ART. 33. The Chriftian's Views and Reflections during his laft Illness. Wab his Anticipations of the glorious Inheritance and Society in the beavenly World. To which are annexed trovo Sermins, preached on particular Occafins. By the late Rev. Simon Reader. Publed from the Author's Manufcript by Benjamin Cracknell, A. M. 8vo. 301 PP. 2s. 6d. Dilly. 1794. We revere the piety of this author, though we cannot highly extol his judgment. He feems to confider rapture and extacy as the only vital things in religion. Yet his book is fuch as gives us a very favourable idea of the writer, even where we leaft admire what is written. "The Chriflian's views and reflections during his latt illness," which extend to p. 98, are pious and ufeful; from p. 42 to p. 47 they are even argumentative, and in other parts very affecting and inftructive: but in general they are much too declamatory. p. 99" the invisible world" is laid open to view; and the "fenfations and employments" of its inhabitants are diftinaly reprefented to Some perfons doubtlefs will be edified by what occurs between pp. 99 and 242; while others, of weak and lefs fettled minds, might be confounded and diftracted. We cannot approve of fuch bold attempts of human fancy, as are here made, to draw afide the awful veit which holy fcripture hath left remaining over things eternal. us. At The firft of the two occafional fermons annexed, is on the thankf giving for peace with France and Spain, May 5, 1763. The fecond is on New-Year's Day, 1766. Both are plain and practical. The perufal of this volume inclines us to affent with pleasure to the more important part of the author's character, as it is "delineated (if it may be called delineation) in his monumental infcription:-" He was a man of exemplary piety, and ready to every good word and work." But of his "extenfive learning," proofs must be fought eliewhere than in this volume. ART. |
