and a certain degree of enbonpoint! Say, what degree, thou arbiter elegantiarum, say, what degree? The Prince of Wales,' continues our author, who is an excellent judge of the fair sex, is, I believe, of the same opinion.' What a flattering coincidence of sentiment ! No. 4. A laughable Accident.-The humour of this affair lies in Mr. Bryant, the painting secretary (who, with our author, and his chere amie, composed the party) being dislodged from a vicious kicking donkey, and both himself and his ass being very severely bruised and lacerated.' And this our author calls a laughable accident; nay he adds, that it would make a good subject for the pencil of the poor suffering artist! We cannot dismiss this remark without endeavouring to salve Mr. Bryant's wounds both of body and mind, by a compliment to his skill in drawing, which is very pleasingly displayed throughout these volumes. The two jackboots indeed,in volume the second, might have been dispensed with after the one jack boot in volume the first, and some few pictures beside are neither interesting in design. nor well executed; but, upon the whole, the drawings are much the best part of the Sporting Tour, and reflect infinitely more credit upon the hand of Mr. Bryant than the letters do upon the head of Colonel Thornton. The cries of Paris,' and the heads according to the Parisian costume,' give a good idea of the higher and lower inhabitants of that capital. But as to any notion of French character which is to be derived from the scanty gleanings and superficial observations of our author, the reader might as well search for knowledge of this kind in the annals of Ulubræ, as in the lucubrations of the sporting tourist. We shall conclude with Remark the 5th, challenging the whole file of our brother reviewers to make up the half dozen with a single passage from this work of more utility or entertainment than the five quotations which we have selected, No. 5. The Horns-a Hunting Song. Aurora's blush the East adorns, Now quit, my friends, the genial bed; CRIT. REV. Vol. 9. September, 1800. H MONTHLY CATALOGUE. RELIGION. ART. 16.-Bodov Teiσayion: or the geometrical Analogy of the Catholic Doctrine of Trinity, consonant to Human Reason and Comprehension; typically demonstrated and exemplified by the natural indivisible Trinity of certain simultaneous Sounds; with Letters from Dr. Herschel, and the late Rev. William Jones of Nayland, and published at his request und desire, by H. Harrington, M. D. 4to. Batt. 1806. WE remember to have heard of a labouring man who found a satisfactory proof to his own mind of the doctrine of the Trinity in, the single element of water, as exhibited under the three forms of hail, snow, and rain. We do not know whether this might not be quite as good an analogy as Dr. Harrington's simultaneous sounds. Many will even be disposed to cry out against such speculations and we own we cannot ourselves feel much disposition to forbid the cry, Quodcunque ostendis mihi sie incredulus odi. ART. 17.-Jesus Christ, the Mediator between God and Man, an Ad. vocate for us with the Father, and a Propitiation for the Sins of the World. Third Edition. 12mo. Hatchard. 1806. THE title page sufficiently indicates the nature of this work, and the demand of a third edition its merits. ART. 18.-A Sermon preached at Rochdale, April 13th, 1806,on occasion of the Death of the Rev. Thomas Threlkeld, Minister of a Dissenting Congregation in that Place; to which is added an Appendix, containing some Account of the Life and Character of Mr.Threlkeld, and particularly of the Powers of Memory, and of the Treasures of Knowledge possessed by him. By Thomas Barnes, D.D. Fellow of the American Philosophical Society. Sto. Manchester. 1806. THIS sermon, like many others on similar occasions, is a triBute to the memory of departed friendship and virtue, and does credit to the author. POETRY. ART. 19.-Vaccinia, or the Triumph of Beauty. 4to. Ostell, 1806. SOME few years before the author of this poem came into existence, Virgil had said "Vaccinia nigra leguntur;" we suppose the writer of this poem had that line in his eye; but if we are not much mistaken, he will be disappointed, and the Vaccinia' of this post will rather share the fate of the 'alba ligustra.' ་ ART. 20-The Progress of Glory in the Life of Horatio Lord Nelson, of the Nile. Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Crosthwaite and J. Wilson. Whitehaven. Suo. 1806. WE had hoped to see no more verses on Nelson; his memory has already been sufficiently insulted. The present poem is like its predecessors. The few good lines that are interspersed in the forty-five pages of which it consists, are a feeble apology for such trumpery as the following: Still faithful memory with immortal chimes, Prefixed to the poem is a rhapsodical address to the army and havy; and to every page is annexed a note of this kind; a prophecy of the anxious muse, who, while life lives to hope, will fondly hope that Britain may fulfil the great accomplishment' ART. 21.—A Word or Two; or Architectural Hints addressed to those Royal Academicians who are Painters; written prior, as well as subsequent, to the Day of Annual Election for their President, 10th December, 1805. To which a few Notes are added, a Dedication, a Preface, and Postscript to Reviewers. By Fabricia Nunnez, Spinster. 4to. Stockdale. 1806. WE shrewdly suspect that Fabricia Nunnez doth bely her sex. "Vox hominem sonat.' Her style certainly bears a strong likehess to that of certain tales which have met our eye, and the subject of her pen excites a conjecture`that she is an artist,' as well as a friend to art.' Her object seems, to recommend the propriety of electing a painter, rather than a sculptor or architect, as a president of the academy. We love dear Painting at the heart, We should be sorry to see discord arise among three such amiable sisters, and it should seem that a votary of one of them may be suffi ciently acquainted with those principles of beauty which are com. mon to all three, to assist as chief priest at their mysteries and cere→ monies. The wit which we understand in the Hints of Fabricia Nunnez, does not prepossess us in favour of the larger portion which we do not understand; and though she may handle the painting brush with as much skill as her ancestor applied the shaving brush, she seems not to be a very great adept in wielding the quill. Take a favourable specimen, and unriddle the note subjoined ye who can. "Just to himself Antaus knew From whence his strength and valour grew, Fought Hercules, the high renown'd, There prove your strength, display your power, Erect the steeple to the skies; But do not act a kindless part,* Sit night-mare on a sister art: Oh! help her when you find her fainting, DRAMA. ART. 22.-Edgar, or Caledonian Feuds, a Tragedy, now perform ing with universal Applause at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden. By George Manners, Esq. Tipper and Richards. 1806. UNCONNECTED as we are with newspapers, we shall pass over the preface of this play, in which the author complains of the illtreatment he has received from the editors of Sunday papers, and proceed to the tragedy itself, which is nothing more than a feeble echo of Douglas. The author acknowledges that he borrowed his plot from Mrs. Radcliffe's Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne,' and 'that he was obliged to have the plan of Douglas continually before him as a beacon, to avoid splitting on the rock of plagiarism.' In this, however, he has not succeeded; the slightest examination will convince the most partial admirer of Mr. M. that the sentiment, language,and manner of Edgar are a most servile transcript from the tragedy of Mr. Home. In one thing, however, we shall coincide with the author, that he is a perfect novice in the art of poetry. MEDICINE. ART. 23.--The Domestic Guide in Cases of Insanity, pointing out the Causes, Means of preventing, and proper Treatment of that Disorder. Button. 1805. .UPON the whole, the advice given by this writer in maniacal diseases is judicious. In the medical treatment, he confides chiefly to purgatives, long continued; to the use of the warm bath and pediluvia; and to the methods used to promote the secretions, and to make a derivation from the head. He condemns (perhaps too indiscrininately) opiates, tonics, and stimulants. The mental and moral Line 205. But do not act a kindless part.]-Distinguished by painting, not painting distinguishing. treatment is likewise equally rational. We must except from this commendation the following direction, which we think rash and absurd: If these measures produced no alteration, I would try repletion, and fill the vessels (as) full as possible, by good living, and even make the patient drunk; and when this was accomplished recommence the first plan.' We are also sorry to see a sensible work disguised by a bad stile, and even disordered by many grammatical errors. ART. 2.-An Inquiry into the Nature and Action of Cancer; with a View to establish a regular Mode of curing that Disease by Natural Separation. By Samuel Young, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Sto. Phillips. 1805. CANCER, according to the sentiment of Mr. Young, depends on altered organization only. He excludes therefore the notion of any specific matter, either as producing it, or as generated in the diseased part. It would appear to be an accumulation of disproportionate actions in previously déranged structures, originally, for the most part of complicated natures, and the continuation of the disease would seem to rest upon the want of an equal concurrence of powers to regenerate.' The cancerous action therefore he conceives to be confined to the diseased part, and in consequence rejects as groundless the idea of there being any constitutional affection conjoined with it. In all the cancers I have seen,' he says, after sloughing, a healthy state of the part has been the consequence for some time, until the natural effort has been subdued by the continued irritation kept up, and the part has again fallen back into similar irregular productions. Here, in truth, is the difficulty. What is this irritation which prevents the regeneration of the parts, if it be neither a local poison nor a constitutional taint? It is in vain to object complication of structure, and different degrees of vitality of the parts involved in the disease. The same circumstances are met with in the common abscess, in which, notwithstanding, we find blood vessels, nerves, cellular membranę, all simultaneously reproduced. Till this difference of event is strictly accounted for, this theory must be considered as essentially and radically defective. The disease, according to Mr. Young, may originate in simple obstruction. Its recurrence where the schirrous tuntour has been removed, he attributes to the same cause, some diseased parts having been left, in which there is no obvious alteration of structure. Here then we have an obstruction, which it is impossible to detect by the senses. This appears to us an entire confusion of ideas, and a gross abuse of words. In what does this obstruction differ from the contamination of Mr. Home? a term to which Mr. Y. objects, but which is the best that can be used to express the matter of fact. Our hopes of effecting a cure, or of much improvement in the treatment, are not greatly raised by the prospect here held out. It is allowed that there is no chance of recovery but by an entire separation of the sound from the unsound parts, and it is insinuated that caustie applications have been rejected from regular practice 100 hastily, and |