Poems on various Subjects and Occafions. By Mrs. Savage, 2 vol. finall 8vo. Ss. fewed.

Mrs, Savage is not a Mrs. Carter. But comparisons are odious, and we fay no more. As Mrs. Savage is profeffedly not a poet, but a woman of bufinefs, we would advife her to mind her business, and to give up the idle calling of fcribbling verses.

Poems for Ladies. 8:0. 3s. Donaldson.

Ladies not over critical may find entertainment in this mifcellany. We would not advife your gentlemen critics to interfere with what is declaredly out of their province.

A Dialogue in the Shades, between an unfortunate Divine and a Welch Member of Parliament, lately deceased. 4to. is. Bew.

The member of Parliament here meant is the late Chafe Price, whofe facetious difpofition is tolerably depicted. The dialogue is well fuftained, and turns on the characters moft dangerous to civil fociety; in which he feems to give, in our opinion very unjustly, the preference to that of the unfortunate divine. An Irishman of our acquaintance affures us, however, very ferioufly, that this dialogue could not have happened; as he is ready to make oath that, to the best of his knowledge, he dined with the doctor, after he was dead, at Dunkirk. It is true, he owns, he had before no perfonal knowledge of him; but that he was well known by thofe who told him it was the unfortunate divine.-Seriously it behoves those, who took fo much pains to counter-act the law and to bring the doctor to life, to give more public proof of their not having fucceeded. The Perreaus were publicly interred; Dr. Dodd was fmuggled into the grave.

The Poetical Preceptor; or a Collection of felect Pieces of Poetry; extracted from the Works of the most eminent English Poets. And calculated for the Ufe, not only of Schools, but of private Gentlemen. 12mo. 3s. 12mo. 3s. Crowder.

Our readers may remember, that we lately recommended to their notice a mifcellany, publifhed by the fame copiler, entitled the Polite Preceptor, confifting of felect effays in profe.

"It is," fays our Editor," in confequence of the promise I made in the Preface to the Polite Preceptor, I here take the liberty of prefenting the Reader with a Collection of Poetical Pieces, which, as far as I am able to judge, is better calculated for the ufe of fchools, than any other book of the kind that has yet been offered to the public. In forming this Collection, I had two objects principally in view. The first was, to admit no picce that contained any fentiment or expreffion, inconfiftent either with the principles of morality, or the rules of delicacy; convinced as I am, and have always been, of the truth of the Roman Poet's obfervation, that the greatest reverence is due to a child, and that nothing should be exhibited to his view, or uttered in his hearing, that has the leaft tendency to vitiate his taste or corrupt his heart. But not only have I guarded against the infertion of any immoral or indecent pieces; a thing, that has not been fufficiently attended to by fome Editors of fimilar collections: I have done more; I have carefully endeavoured to felect fuch pieces as contained the most excellent precepts of morality, the ftrongest exhortations to virtue, and the most powerful diffuafives from vice; and for this purpose I had recourfe to our dramatic poets, who, it is well known, chiefly abound in paffages of this kind.

"My fecond object, and which I always confidered as fubordinate to the first, was to collect fuch pieces, as, while they were either free from indecency and immorality, or exhibited patterns of the oppofite virtues, were, at the fame time, remarkable for the beauty or fublimity of the thought, the harmony of the numbers, or the elegance or vigour of the expreflion. In a word, my intention was to collect not the moft beautiful pieces of English Poetry in general, but the most beauti ful pieces of English Poetry that were fit to be put into the hands of children; for between thefe there is a very material and obvious diftinc tion. I likewife made it a maxim to collect from as great a variety of Authors as poffible; partly with a view of bringing the young scholar . acquainted with the names of the moit admired Poets of his country; partly in order to give him fome idea of their stile and manner of writing, that fo he may be the better able to enter into their truc fpirit and meaning, when he advances in years, and is qualified to read their works at large.".

As the public have no right to expect more of an author or editor than he profeffes, we can lodge no caufe of complaint against the prefent publication; although we are not altoge ther pleafed, as critics, with the editor's choice of pieces in Ahis collection. Not but that his fins of omiffion are greater

than

than thofe of commiffion: but he was evidently confined to room, and fo far excufable. One of the greatest objections to compilations of this kind, is that, however well they may be adapted to the ufe of children and fchool-boys, there are few private gentlemen, unless their gentility be very private indeed, who must not have before read moft of the pieces here collected. And, though of moft of them we may say with the poet decies repetitâ placebit, yet it is expected that every new publication fhould contain fome novelty.-Shall we give the ingenious editor a hint--it is that, inftead of making a felection from the most eminent writers, he would take the trouble to felect the best pieces from the leaft eminent. We will venture to fay that a man of tafte will not find his time thrown away. In ftercore invenias aurum. The beft lines in Pope's Adrian to his foul were Flatman's. Believe us, fuch a critical gold-searcher would find his pains well rewarded; for whatever the herd of Editors may think, there is more merit in the beft lines of the worft writers, than in the worst lines. of the beft; which they are nevertherlefs fo eager to fave, though they ought to be configned to oblivion.

Theoretic Hints on an improved Pradice of brewing MaltLiquors; including fome Strictures on the Nature and Properties of Water, Malt and Hops, the Doctrine of Fermentation, the Agency of Air, the Effects of Heat and Cold on fermented Liquors. By John Richardfon. 8vo. 2s. Robinion.

We are no brewers, and therefore might pafs over this pam phlet with a pun, and fay they might, for us, even brew as they bake; as we know nothing of the matter. Being lovers of malt-liquor, however, a native and ftaple commodity of this country, we must not difmifs it altogether fo flightly, notwithstanding it feems calculated to answer a private as well as a public purpofe. As they who deferve well of the public, deferve alfo a private compenfation, we are induced to fubmit to our readers the defign of the author in his own words.

"The defign of the Author, in the publication of the fubfequent pages, is rather to intimate the probability of a complete fyftem of brewing, than to promulgate one. Were he prompted by inclination to the undertaking, his intereft would forbid the execution of it. The ordinary emoluments arifing from the fale of a book, however extensive, would be a compenfation very inadequate to the fatigue of many years wearifome attention to the multifarious practice of a brewhoufe, employed in the production of almost every species of malt-liquor; or to

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the trouble of digefting the economy of that practice, noting events, investigating caufes, and thence forming rules for the regulation and management of future proceffes. To the ingenious, it is prefumed, these hints will not want utility; and to the mind unaccustomed to scientific difquifitions, a more perfect theory, without practical elucidation, might have been inefficacious. To both, in the prefent inftance, the illuftration of practice is neceffary, where it is the intention of the enquirer perfectly to understand, in order to adopt, the principles upon which the Author's fyttem is founded, to which this publication is defigned as preliminary information only.

"Such an illuftration must be perfonal, in confequence of special agreement; from which it is prefumed that the brewery of London might vie with the country in the production of the finer ales, whilst the country brewer, in return, might be convinced of the practicability of producing porter in his own office, of qualities equal, in every refpect, to thofe of the fame liquor brewed in the metropolis. Locality, in either cafe, is no further concerned in peculiar qualities (climate only excepted) than what arifes from the difference in the nature of the water, which, being fo large a portion of the product, has indeed a very powerful influence. Yet, by a knowledge of the caufes of that influence, we are enabled to make an artificial variation of procefs to fupply natural defect, and prove that common, which was before thought to be peculiar."

To this declaration of the author's defign in this publication, we have only to add, that, as far as we are able to judge of the execution, it is effected in a fenfible manner; Mr. Richardfon himself, however, acknowledging that

"The few frictures here fubmitted to the infpection of the public, are not brought forward as the refult of any deep researches into the chemic art, but as the leading principles of an improved system of brewing, founded, indeed, on the established laws of chemistry, but confirmed, in every reciprocal relation of caufes and effects, through a feries of practice of many years continuance."

Confiderations on the Game-Laws; together with fome Stri&ares on Dr. Blackstone's Commentaries relative to this Subje&t. 8vo. Is. 6d. Bew.

Thefe confiderations and ftrictures well deferve the attention of those whom they more immediately concern. As the intereft, however, of the makers of the game laws, are unluckily conceived to be incompatible with that of the community in general, we fear that this publication, like many others calculated for public benefit, will be difregarded.

* See the Author's Advertisment addreffed to the Common Brewers.

Letters

New Edition of Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son. 237 Letters written by the late Right Hon. Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Cheflerfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Efq. Small 8vo. 4 vols. 7th Edition, 16s. Dodfley.

We should not have refumed a work which the extenfive circulation of fix fucceffive editions had more than fufficiently notified, if it were not to give the bookfeller his deferved applaufe, for having caufed a very accurate and copious Index to be added to this edition; which is likewife fold separately in the feveral former fizes. We will venture to fay, that there are few who have read the Letters but would wish to turn to fome particular paffages, which they might fearch for in vain through four long volumes. Let fuch readers, therefore, join with us in commending the induftry and abilities of the Editor of the Supplement to Swift;" for to him, we are informed, the publick is indebted for this convenient Index.,

An Argument in the Cafe of Ebenezer Smith Platt, now under Confinement for High Treafon. 4to. Is. 6d. Kearly.

As this writer pretends to understand law better than my Lord-chief-juftice, or even the twelve judges put together, we leave him to the exultation of his own heart, at having fo triumphantly out-argumented them all in the point in question.How unlucky it was for the prifoner that his advocate was not his judge!

A Strict and Impartial Enquiry into the Caufe of the Death of the late William Scawen, Efq; of Woodcote Lodge in Surry. To which is added, An Account of accidental Poifons, to which Families are expofed, with their Antidotes, under the following general Heads, viz. Stings and Bites, Vegetables, Minerals, Fumes, and Vapours. By Dr. Ingram. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Cadell.

It is generally believed, as we believe, that Mr. Scawen was not wilfully poitoned; but, that he was not accidentally and eventually poifoned by quack medicines, is a belief that fire will hardly melt out of us at least we fhall as foon believe the impoffibility of this, as the other impofbility, which Dr. Ingram laboured fome years ago to demonftrate, viz. that the plague could not poflibly be imported into England in any

manner whatever.

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