tion. London, printed for T. Dring, J. Starkey, T. Basset, and are to be sold at their shops in Fleet-street, 1669. fol. pp. 391.

This work is divided into two parts, of which the first is dedicated to the "Honourable William Brereton, Esq." eldest son of Lord Brereton; and the second to John Earl of Lauderdale. In the preface, the author gives an account of the motives which induced him to undertake a work of this nature. It is much to be lamented that his execution is not equal to the goodness of his intentions.

Perceiving, with regret, how bad the tendency of most works of fiction were in his days, the author's intention was to produce a romance, in which religious and moral instruction should be conveyed in an amusing form. He seems, from some expressions in his preface, to think that he has succeeded in this design. "For my own part," says he, "I do not desire that all books should be as dull as many are, and none composed, as all are not, to delight; but I would have that delight true, and the quickness not evaporate into lightness and vanity. Is there no joy but laughter? Doth nothing recreate but what is fabulous? Such as do not like true happiness, because it is a serious thing, have a reasonable soul bestowed upon them in vain, and would have been better pleased if God had made them worse, and more content if God had not designed them to so noble an end."

The work itself is a religious allegory, not much unlike the "Pilgrim's Progress," though very inferior to it, but in which the two principal characters, Bentivolio and Urania (i. e. Goodwill and Heavenly-light), are represented as perfect Christian characters. And they travel through the world, being brother and sister, meeting with various adventures, every where reproving vice and recommending virtue and piety. All the places and persons have allegorical names, which are explained in the margin, alluding to

their qualities. There is much ingenuity, learning, and goodness in it; but it is so completely dull and uninteresting as a narrative, that it requires no small degree of patience and perseverance to travel through it.

Oct. 7, 1808.

P.M.

ART. XXII. Literary Obituary.

1808. September 27, at Upper Slaughter, co. Gloucester, Rev. Ferdinando Tracy Travel, A. M. forty-four years Rector of that parish, who, when incapable of edifying his parishioners from the pulpit, improved them by his writ ings, having been author of several literary works.

Nov. 3. In Essex-street, Strand, æt. 86. The Rev. Theophilus Lindsey, formerly Rector of Catterick, in Yorkshire. This living he resigned in 1773, from a conviction that the service of the church of England, as far as it involves the doctrine of the Trinity, is repugnant to the precepts of our Saviour and his Apostles: and in the year 1774, he opened a Dissenting Meeting-House in Essex-street, and preached his doctrines till his seventieth year.

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Nov. 11. At Bath, Sir Henry Paulet St. John Mildmay, Bart. of Dogmersfield Park, Hants; and M. P. for that county, æt. forty-four. He was (at least the nominal) Editor of the late edition of the works of his grandfather, Abraham Tucker, Esq. of Betchworth in Surry, which had been originally published under the title of The Light of Nature pursued, with the fictitious name of Search. Sir Henry's paternal name was St. John, which he changed to Mildmay, in consequence of his marriage. He was of St. John's College Cambridge, 1782. He was quick; and had some original talents for literature, which a large fortune, and a public life did not much tend to cherish.

T. Bensley, Printer,

Belt Court, Fleet Street, London.

CENSURA LITERARIA.

NUMBER XXXVI.

[Being Number XXIV. of the New Series.]

ART. I. Poems by Thomas Carew, Esquire, one of the Gentlemen of the Privie Chamber; and Sewer in ordinary to his Majesty. London: Printed by J. D. for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at the signe of the Flying Horse, and York House. 1640.* Sm. 8vo. pp. 264.

ART. II. Castara: Carmina non prius audita, Musarum sacerdos, Virginibus. The third edition corrected and augmented. London: Printed by T. Cotes, for Will. Cooke: and are to be sold at his shop neere Fernivals-Inne Gate in Holburne, 1640.† 12mo. pp. 228.

ART. III. Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs, &c. to which is added Aramantha, a Pastorall, by Richard Lovelace, Esq. London: Printed by

The second edition 1642; third 1651; fourth 1670.

VOL.

X.

The second edition was in 1635, 8vo.

Tho.

Tho. Harper, and are to be sold by Tho. Ewster, at the Gun in Ivie Lane, 1649. Sm. 8vo. pp. 166.

Lucasta.

Esq.

Posthume Poems of Richard Lovelace,

Those honours come too late,

That on our ashes waite.

Mart. Lib. I. Epig. 26.

London: Printed by William Godbid for Clement Darby. 1659. Sm. 8vo. 107.

Elegies sacred to the memory of the author: by several of his friends. Collected and published by

D. P. L.

Nunquam ego te vitâ frater amabilior

Adspiciam posthac; at certe semper amabo.

London: Printed 1660. Sm. 8vo. pp. 14.

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CATULLUS.

Of these three elegant poets of the reign of Charles I. though the public notice has been frequently drawn to them of late years, and the volumes are not particularly scarce, yet I should be sorry to omit the register among the comprehensive contents of works of a similar class which have at length found a place in the CENSURA.

In the elegant Specimens of Mr. George Ellis they have each of them found their due place; and the first of them was reprinted by T. Davies in 1772. A por trait of Lovelace from an original picture has been given in Harding's Biogr. Mirror; and a memoir of him inserted in Gent. Mag. Vol. LXI. p. 1094; Vol. LXII. pp. 99, 321, 604, 971. † Carew has had

They are however far from common.
He died 1658. See Wood's Ath. II. 228.

the

the good fortune to be delineated in the beautiful colours of Lord Clarendon's pen. Of Habingdon and his family a very interesting account may be found in Nash's History of Worcestershire, I. 588. He died Nov. 30, 1654.

"Thomas Carew," says Lord Clarendon, "was a younger brother of a good family, and of excellent parts, and had spent many years of his youth in France and Italy; and returning from travel, followed the court; which the modesty of that time disposed men to do sometime before they pretended to be of it; and he was very much esteemed by the most eminent persons in the court, and well looked upon by the King himself some years, before he could obtain to be Sewer to the King; and when the King conferred that place upon him, it was not without the regret even of the whole Scotch nation which united themselves in recommending another gentleman to it; of so great value were those relations held in that age, when Majesty was beheld with the reverence it ought to be. He was a person of a pleasant and facetious wit, and made many poems (especially in the amorous way) which for the sharpness of the fancy and the elegancy of the language, in which that language was spiced, were at least equal, if not superior to any of that time. But his glory was that after fifty years of his life spent with less severity or exactness than it ought to have been, he died with the greatest remorse for that licence, and with the greatest manifestation of Christianity, that his best friends could desire. † He is said

See also Wood's Ath. II. 109, 110.

to

Life of Lord C. i. 36.-Common as Lord Clarendon's works are, yet