found ourselves in circumftances entirely favourable to our undertaking. Its acknowledged general utility, the unanimous wishes of Europe for its fuccefs, the materials collected a long time fince the attempts already made, all things have confpired to fmooth the principal difficulties, and the remainder has been performed by courage,'

In that remainder, fpirit and perfeverance have, indeed, still found a great deal to do, and have done it as well as could rea+ Lonably have been expected of any man of learning. We find this commentator of Pliny, a gentleman of profound erudition, inde fatigable affiduity, cautious in his conjectures, zealous for his ori ginal author, candid to the merits of his predeceffors, polite in his animadverfions, perfpicuous and elegant in his diction. We therefore fincerely applaud his meritorious performance, and with that he may live to complete his talk with equal fuccefs. The whole work will probably make twelve or thirteen volumes, in quarto, will prove a credit to French literature, and find a distinguished place in every confiderable library.

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FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 15. Memoria Populorum olim ad Danubium, Pontum Euxinum, Paludem Mæoridem, Caucafum, Mare Cafpium, et inde magis ad Septentrionem incolentium, e Scriptoribus Hiftoria Byzantina eruta et digefta a Joan. Gotthilf Strittero, Gymnafii Acad. Scientar. Imperial. Petropolitana Conrectore. Tom. I. Gothica, Gepædica, Longobardica, Herulica, Hunnica, et Avarica complectens. 4to. Petropoli HIS very laborious work has been undertaken at the defire of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Petersburg, and will throw great light on the hiftory of many nations, and their various migrations. Its editor has been greatly affifted by Meffieurs Fischer and Schloezer, two eminent members of the academy. The plan by which the collection and illustration of the memoirs contained in this first volume has been conducted, appears to be judicious. The whole work is to confift of four quarto volumes; and the contents of the three following ones we will here fubjoin in Mr. Stritter's own words:

Secundum (Vol.) Memorias Gentium Slavicarum, Serviorum, Chrovarorum, et reliquorum Dalmatia, Peloponnefi, aliorumque Slavorum, Bulgarorum, Rufforum, Polonorum, Bohemorum, et Gentium iis vel Subjectarum vel Finitimarum, Lithuanorum puta, Permiorum, Samogetarum & Pruffiorum, complectetur.

Tertium de Gentibus Turcice & Tatarica Origenis, Turcis, Chazaris, Ungris, Comanis, Uzis, Patzinacis et Tataris, aget.

Quartum denique Populos inter Mare Cafpium et Pontum Euxinum habitantes, Lazos, Apfilios, Abafgos, Mifimianos, Alanos, præterea Populos quofdam rariores, i.e. eos, quorum non nifi rariffime Scriptores Hiftoria Byzantinæ meminerunt, Juthungos, Carpos, et alios, ea denique, que de Scythis, Maffagetis, Sarmatis, &c. Antiquiora narrantur, et incerta, continebit.'

16. Elogium Viri Clarissimi et Amplissimi Chrift. Fürchtegott Gellerti, publice fcripfit Jo. Aug. Ernefti. 8vo. Lipfiæ.

A most excellent and amiable character delineated by a great mafter.

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17. Jo. Dan. Schepflini, Reg Franciæ Hiftoriographi, Opera Oratoria, Panegyrici, Orationes, Alloquia, Programmata, Infcriptiones, alia. Recenfuit, præfatus eft, Vitam Auctoris adjecit. Frid. Dominicus Ring, Ser. Princ. March. Bad. Durl. a Conf. Aulæ. z Vols, 4to. Auguftæ Vindelicorum.

Ought by all means to be fuppreffed, both for the orator's credit and that of their editor,

18. Jo. Laur. Mofhemii atque Jo. Matthi. Gefneri, Virorum clarifi morum, Epiftola Amæbex. Edidit Chrift. Adolph. Klotzius. 8vo. Lipfiæ.

This edition of the correfpondence of two great men and eminent writers will prove an acceptable prefent to readers of taste, and to lovers of literary history.

19. Neceffary Cautions to the Readers of the Works of Voltaire. 8v Goettingen. (German.)

These Cautions regard Voltaire's continual attempts against revelation. The Cautions are not only necessary, but concife yet 10lid; and we wish they may be fuccessful.

20. Chrift. Reineceii Janua Hebr. Linguæ nunc feptimum recenfuit, emendavit, auxit. Joa. Frid. Rehkopf. 8vo. Lipfiæ. A valuable fchool book, which in every refpect is greatly im proved by its present editor.

21. Chriftoph. Andr. Mangoldi, Opufeula Medico-Phyfica. Edit. E. G. Baldinger, &c. 8vo. Altenburgi.

A collection of academical differtations and programs; the pro ductions of an accurate observation, folid learning, and acute judg

ment.

22. The Characteristic Do&trines and Maxims of the Jefuits, by which they are become pernicious to Chriflianity and to States: extracted from their own claffic Writers; with a concife Hiftory of that Order. 8vo. Züllichau.

German.

A dreadful picture of their practical moral doctrines: which are first proved to have been actually delivered by their writers; then contrafted with the genuine morality of the gospel, often even with the fentiments of pagan authors, and generally expofed with great force and perfpicuity.

23. Effays on Political Oeconomy, Commerce, and Manufactures. By a Merchant. In Two Parts. 8vo. Leipzig and Roock. German. A performance which has been warinly approved of, for a great number of practical and interefting truths contained in it. 24. Les Saifons. Poëme. Cinquième Edition revue et corrigée. 8vo. Amfterdam.

This fine piece of poetry has, fucceffively, been fo greatly improved by many corrections and additions, as to make, together with its excellent notes, one of the best productions in the French language.

Piece qui a conPar M. M***.

25. L'Etude de la Nature, Epitre à Madame ***. couru pour le Prix de l'Academie Françoise. A proof both of great knowledge in natural hiftory, and of confiderable talents for poetry.

26. Alembic Moral, ou Analyse raisonnée de tout ce qui a rapport à l' homme. Par l'Ami des François, à Maroc.

A fort of dictionary fraught with crudities and impieties, inter fperfed with fome truths.

27. L'Art

7. L'Art de Graver au Pinceau. Nouvelle Méthode plus prompte qu' aucune de celles qui font en Ufage, qu'on peut exécuter facilement fans avoir I Habitude du burin ni de la Pointe. Par M. Stapart. 12mo. Paris.

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Both the inftructions contained in this small treatise, and the difinterestedness of its author, have been warmly applauded by a connoiffeur, an artist, and the cenfor of the performance, Mr. Cochin. 28. Mémoires et Obfervations fur les Effets des Eaux de Bourbonneles-Bains, en Champagne, dans les Maladies Hifteriques et Chroniques. Par M. Chevalier, Docteur en Médicine à Bourbonne-les-Bains, c. 12mo. Paris.

Dr. Pomme had generally cenfured the ufe of Bath waters, fuch as thefe of Bourbonne, in Chronical difeafes. The prefent performance, therefore, in which both arguments and obfervations are accumulated to prove the efficacy of the fame waters in fuch cafes, is chiefly intended for a confutation of Dr. Pomme's fentiment.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE.

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29. Charity: A Portical Effay. By Charles Peter Layard, A. M. 4tc. 15. Beecroft.

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Performance by no means deftitute of poetical merit. It has procured the author the honour of Mr. Seaton's reward; yet, with all due deference to the poets of Cambridge, we will venture to call the Kiflingbury estate *, -poetarum arida nutrix. 30. Difcord: a Satire. 4to. Is. Beecroft.

This poem may be called, The Author's Last Words, for at the conclufion he makes his exit from the world. How, at the approach of that period, he could think of amufing us with poetry, we cannot readily conceive; but it is certain, that his fatire betrays the feebleness which may be fuppofed natural to

fuch a fituation.

31. The Mifcellaneous Works of Mr. John Gay, Vels. III. and IV. 12mo. 65. Bell.

To publish every crude or trifling production that can be raked from the fweepings of an eminent writer's clofet, is fuch an officious piece of industry as merits univerfal condemnation. The volumes before ns are chiefly a collection of literary offals of this nature, which from reípect for the memory of Gay ought to have been buried in oblivion.

Davies.

32. The Afylum; a Poem. 4to. 25. While genius continues to be an indifpenfible requifite in the votaries of the Mufes, this bard will find no afylum in Parnaffus.

Mr. Seaton's reward is paid out of the rents of this estate.

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DRAMATIC.

33. Palladius and Irene, a Drama: in Three Acts. 800. 1s. 6d. Dodfley.

In this little drama we meet with a few paffages which amufe the imagination, but none that are calculated to affect the heart. The plot is imperfectly delineated, and effects are produced without the apparent intervention of natural causes.

34. "The Duellift; a Comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, By William Kenrick, LL. D. 8vo.

in Covent Garden.

Evans.

In theatrical productions, there lies no appeal from the voice of the public to the tribunal of criticism.

35. Achilles in Petticoats. An Opera. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent Garden. Written by Mr. Gay, with Alterations. The Mufic entirely new by Dr. Arne. 8vo. IS. Lowndes.

The story of Achilles's being difguifed by his mother in women's cloaths, to detain him from the Trojan war, is the foundation of this Opera, which is here revived with fome alterations, confifting chiefly of abridgement and tranfpofition. The piece is improved with a few new airs that are properly inferted, and well fet to mufic.

36. The Songs, Choruffus, &c, in a New Damatic Entertainment, called a Christmas Tale. In Five Parts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. 8vo. 6d. Becket. In thefe Songs and Choruffes we obferve greater propriety of, fentiment and expreffion than is ufual in productions of this kind; and the airs, which are thirty in number, afford an agreeable diverfity of elegant mufical compofitions.

37. The Bow-freet Opera, in Three Acis. 8vo. s. 6d. Marriner. This piece is a burlefque of the Beggar's Opera, the parody on which is modelled by the train of humour which prevails among the loweft and most corrupted inhabitants of the metropolis.

38. The British Spouter, or Stage Affiftant, containing, the most celebrated Prologues and Epilogues, that have been lately spoken in the different Theatres. 12mo. Is. 6d. Rofon.

The title of this piece renders any account of it unneceffary. NOVEL S.

39. 'Twas Right to marry Him; or, the Hiftory of Mifs Petworth. 2 Vols. 12mo. 6s. Noble.

On the first opening of this novel, we fancied it was written by the author of 'Twas Wrong to marry Him; and as we proceeded, our conjectures were confirmed. The marks of the fame manufacturer are fufficiently vifible in the fabrication of them both. The moral of each is equally interefting to the unmarried females, for whofe inftruction it is calculated. Mifs Petworth acted as right in marrying Mr. Eufton, as Mifs Welton acted wrong by giving her hand to Mr. Manwaring.

40. The Affignation. A Sentimental Novel, in a Series of Letters 2 Vols. 12mo. 65. Noble.

These volumes are written in a pretty eafy manner, and they are, upon the whole, not deftitute of entertainment. Emilia, who feems to have been drawn for the heroine of the piece, is an amiable, and pitiable character, but has not fufficient employment. As the gives the title to the novel, fhe ought to have had a more confiderable fhare in it. The epifodes might have been difpenfed with, especially that relating to Clarinda, who, by deviating from the paths of virtue, without having any apology to make for her conduct, is, by no means, deferving of the light in which she is placed.

41. Memoirs of a Gentleman, who refided several Years in the East Indies during the late Revolutions, and most important Events in that Part of the World. 8vo. 35. Donaldson.

As pitiful, miferable a romance as we remember to have read ; with falfe English in the first page.

ME DICA L..

42. A Ledure introductory to the Theory and Practice of Midwifery. By John Leake, M. D. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Baldwin.

Dr. Leake appears from this Lecture to have confidered his fubject with great attention in every light in which it could be viewed. He is at particular pains to vindicate the art of midwifery from the imputation of meannefs: for which purpofe ha mentions the names of fome celebrated perfons of ancient times, who cultivated the fcience, and alfo urges feveral pertinent ar guments in favour of the public utility of obftetrical knowledge.

To this preliminary Lecture, which impreffes us with an opinion of the author's abilities in his profeffion, we find annexed, the defcription and ufe of a pair of new forceps, which feems to be a great improvement of that inftrument. Befides a verbal defcription, drawn up with uncommon precision, the mechanifm of this forceps is illuftrated with an engraving.

43. Experiments on the Spa at Mount Sion, near Liverpool. By James Worthington. 8vo. 15. Johnfon.

This author writes with fuch an air of importance, as if he was inveftigating the waters of Aganippe, while the fubject of enquiry is only the nature of a plain chalybeate.

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44. An Effay on the Juftice of God. 8vo. 6d. Johnfon. The properties of the Supreme Being are infinitely beyond the reach of the human comprehenfion for this reafon, when we attempt to treat of them, we should proceed with the utmost caution and diffidence, with the profoundest humility and refpect. All that we can do is to follow the dictates of reafon and revelation, and to confider the great Author of our existence under the most amiable and endearing characters.

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