on the Commencement and Pro- | gress of the Art of Engraving, as far as relates to the advantages Art has derived from the productions of the Italian School. The Rev. G. G. Scraggs, of Buckingham, has in the press, in two duodecimo volumes, Questions resolved in Divinity, History, Biography, and Literature. Mr. Mudford's Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo, with numerous coloured plates, plans, &c. is expected to be completed in December. We understand, that in January will appear a work we have before announced, entitled, Memoirs and Remains of the late Rev. Charles Buck, collected and arranged from his Papers, and interspersed with Observations illustrative of his Character; to which is added, a Brief Review of his various Publications. By John Styles, D. D. The Privileges of the University of Cambridge, including a Chronological Table of all its Charters; is in a considerable state of forwardness; under the direction of G. Dyer, A. B. formerly of Emanuel College, and anthor of the History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge. As but a few copies will be printed, we recommend it to subscribers to be early in their application, either to the Editor, Messrs. Longman and Co. London; or Deighton and Sons, Cambridge. A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, by the Rev. Robert Morrison, is now printing at Macao, under the patronage of the East India Company. It is founded on the Imperial Dictionary, compiled by order of Kang-He, late Emperor of China, in which II. Chinese and English, arranged III. English and Chinese. We learn with much pleasure, that Mrs. Mary Hays, the author of Female Biography, &c. &c. and lately of the Brothers, has in the press a counterpart, entitled Family Annals, or the Sisters. Mr. Walker, of Dublin, has nearly ready for publication, Selections from Lucian, with a Latin translation and English notes; and to which is to be added, a Mythological Index and Lexicon. Mr. Parkinson has announced a second edition of the Hospital Pupil, corrected and enlarged, and divided into two addresses: one of these to the parents and guardians of those intended for the medical and chirurgical profession, with suggestions as to an improved course of study; the other is addressed to the pupils themselves, on the order of their professional studies, &c.; with hints on entering into practice, and on medical jurisprudence. Early in December will be pub lished, The Transactions of the Medical Society of London, Vol. I. Part 2; containing Cases, communicated by Doctors Adams, Blegborough, Lettsom, Clutterbuck, Woodforde, Roxburgh, Walshman, Sims, Squire, Moody, Green, Damant, Dale, Jackson, Andrée. | Church of St. Peter, Westmin- within a few days. It will consist ster, by E. W. Brayley; with Ar- of Moral and Critical Essays; chitectural and Graphic Illustra-Sketches from History; Classical tions, by J. P. Neale. Part 1, embellished with five engravings. It is to be in folio, and to correspond with the new edition of Dugdale's Monasticon. A new weekly publication, entitled The Literary Bee, or the New Family Library, will appear Tales; Poems; Descriptions of remarkable Ruins, and of sub. lime and beautiful Scenery; with Pictures from Real Life; and Essays on the Manners and Customs of different Nations: by some of the best British and Foreign Writers of the present Age. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. | shown. By J. B. S. A Full and Complete Reply to the | Wool Question attempted to be Calumnies contained in the Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures lately exhibited at the British Gallery, Pali Mall, with other interesting Articles relative to the Fine Arts, their Patrons and Professors, in the 2d Number of Annals of the Fine Arts. El Diablo Cojuelo, Verdades Sonadas, y Novelas de la otra Vida, traducidas a estas por Luis de Guevara. Anadido al fin con ocho Enigmas cu rioso y dos Novelas. The Life of William Cobbett, Author of the Political Register. Writ ten by Himself. A new edition, greatly enlarged, of the Dictionary of Merchandise, and Nomenclature in all European Lan- The Antiquarian Cabinet. Each guages, for the use of Counting- Number will contain 10 beautiful houses, &c. containing the history, Engravings, with Letter-Press Deplaces of growth, culture, use, and scriptions, printed on Royal 8vo. 10 marks of excellency, of such natural Numbers to form a Volume, comproductions as form articles of comprising 100 highly finished Plates. merce. By C. H. Kauffman, Fourth Copies of Verses to the Memory of edition, considerably enlarged, and the late Richard Reynolds, of Brisimproved by an alphabetical arrange- tol, the benevolent Quaker, whose ment of all European Foreign Names Charities, during his Life, were per of Merchandise, with their Transla-haps unexampled, and to whose Metion into the English Language, by mory the Inhabitants of Bristol are the Editor of the Commercial Dic-raising the most honourable Monutionary, and Foreign Prices Current of Europe. The Sinking Fund; a Letter to the Right Hon. George Canning, from a Country Gentleman. Purity of the Heart; or, the Ancient Costume; a Tale: addressed to the Author of Glenarvon. By an Old Wife of Twenty Years. Two Letters to the Right Hon. the Earl of Sheffield; in which his Lordship's Report to the Meeting at Lewes Wool Fair, and the proceedings at a recent meeting of Woolgrowers at Freemasons' Tavern, are examined; and the true state of the ment that ever recorded and perpe. tuated the Virtues of the Dead-a Charitable Institution to reach the Objects of his Bounty while living. By J. Montgomery, Author of the Wanderer of Switzerland, &c. Medical Suggestions for the Treatment of Dysentery, Intermittent, and Remittent Fevers, as generally prevalent at certain Seasons among Troops in the Field. By Edmund Sigismund Somers, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, London; Member of the Royal Irish Aeademy; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh; Director of Hos pitals at the Cape of Good Hope; upwards of twenty years Physician to his Majesty's Forces, and Physician in Chief to the Allied Armies in the Peninsula. Nouvelle edition du Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grece, dans le Milieu du quatrième Siècle avant l'Ere Chrétienne. Abrégé de l'Ouvrage original de l'Abbé Barthelemy, à l'Usage de la Jeunesse, avec la Vie de l'Auteur, par M. le Duc de Nivernois. Cinquième edition. Revue et soigneusement corrigée par Vincent Wanostrocht. Viage de Espana, Francia, et Italia. Por Don Nicolas de la Cruz, Consil, de la R. Acad. de les Bellas Arte. 14 vols. 8vo. Sermons on the Union of Truth, Reason, and Revelation, in the Doctrine of the Established Church of England and Ireland. Preached in the Years 1814, 1815, 1816. By the Hon. and Rev. Edward John Tur nour, A.M. formerly of Saint_Mary Hall, Oxford; late Curate of Heston, Middlesex: and Chaplain to the Dowager Countess Winterton. The Season and Time; or, an ExIn 1 vol. with two Engravings, and position of the Prophecies which rea Fac-simile of Buonaparte's Hand- late to the Two Periods of Daniel writing, a Series of Letters, written subsequent to the 1200 Years now on board his Majesty's Ship the Nor-recently expired; being the Time of thumberland, and at St. Helena; in the Seventh Trumpet: and Prophewhich the Conduct and Conversa- tically assigned to the Extirpation of tions of Napoleon Buonaparte, and Apostacy, and Accomplishment of his Suite, during the voyage, and the the Reconciliation of the Jews, and first months of his residence in that Introduction of the Millennium. Toisland, are faithfully described and gether with Remarks upon the Revorelated. By William Warden, Sur-lutionary Antichrist, proposed by geon on board the Northumberland. Non ego, sed Democritus dixit. Letters on the Constrained Celibacy of the Clergy of the Church of Rome. Svo. Bp. Horsley and the Rev. G. S. Faber. By W. Ettrick, A.M. Author of the Second Exodus, or Reflections on the Prophecies of the last Times. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received a long, and as may be guessed, a most facetious letter from Mr. Monney, the Author of the Tragedy of Caractacus, reviewed in our last number. We said, at the time, that we only noticed that finished specimen of absurdity and ignorance, on account of its pretensions and the complaints in the prefatory matter against the managers of our theatres. In objecting to its grammatical blunders, we hinted that they might have originated in the carelessness of the printer, but the autograph before us shews that Mr. Monney must have been greatly indebted to him for many judicious corrections not merely of grammar. Should Mr. M. continue in his self-delusion that he has a right to obtrude himself as an Author upon the public, he may be assured that we shall, in future, pass his production without the slightest notice. As for his "cracking squibs," we shall be happy (but more surprized) to find that he is capable even of such trifles. An article on the Police is unavoidably postponed, with several respectable works both in poetry and prose. ERRATUM.-Page 472, line 3, for temptations, read limitations. PRINTED BY W. SMITH AND CO. KING STREET, SEVEN DIALS. MORE than six months having now elapsed since the New Proprietors of the CRITICAL REVIEW commenced their undertaking, they readily avail themselves of the opportunity afforded on the opening of the new year, to offer a few remarks upon what they have already accomplished. In the Address which they prefixed to their publication for June last, they appealed to the future Numbers as the test by which their title to success was to be judged-by that test they are still willing to be tried; and they may assert, without arrogance, that their labours are at least as deserving of public patronage as any of the efforts of the Monthly Censors of the Press. As the Proprietors are the principal Conductors, and often Contributors, to bestow any high praises upon the articles would savour of vanity and egotism; the less pardonable, because the productions, if they have any merit, will be their own eulogists: selfapplause, at all times questionable, when it is uncalled for, becomes contemptible and ridiculous. They trust, that their pages have at least been remarkable for the spirit of candour with which they have treated of books and men; always more anxious to bestow praise than to apply censure; speaking, though with firmness, yet with becoming modesty; and not "taking upon them as if they were judgment's butchers, and as if the life of truth lay tottering in their verdicts."* Private and personal considerations have never influenced them; and if they have now and then appeared severe, it was in the performance of a duty, not less painful than necessary. One of the principal objects of the present Proprietors has been, as they before stated, to restore legitimate criticism, whose province had been usurped either by the dry * Geo. Chapman. CRIT. REV. VOL. IV. Dec. 1816. 4 B analysis of a work, or by a separate essay unconnected with its contents: they were desirous of re-establishing the art as it is described by Dr. Johnson in the preface to the first volume of this Review, published in 1756: "To exhibit a succinct plan of every performance; to point out the most striking beauties and glaring defects; to illustrate their remarks with proper quotations; and to convey these remarks in such a manner as might best conduce to the entertainment of the public.' Thus dismissing the manner, they have a few words to say upon the matter that has chiefly occupied their pages. At least, industry has not been wanting in the fulfilment of their task; and in one respect, the CRITICAL REVIEW has possessed a decided and undeniable superiority over its competitors, viz. in the early notice of foreign productions of interest and value. This indeed is a department neglected by all but themselves, and they have adopted measures to insure their priority in future. Among the works not mentioned by any of their contemporaries, because not within their reach, are-L'Etát present de l'Europe, par Theremin-Memoires historiques sur la Revolution d'Espagne, par de Pradt-Essai sur la Literature Espagnole Carnot, sa Vie politique et privée-L'Origine de la Langue Grecque vulgaire, par Hase-and Cours d'Economie Politique, par Henri Storch. Within the period that the CRITICAL REVIEW has been under its new system of management, works in most of the various branches of literature have been noticed in it; and a reference to the table of contents of each number will shew, that no productions of importance have been omitted, while many are included which are to be found in no other miscellany of the kind: this is more especially the case with publications under the general and entertaining head of Belles Lettres: works of fancy, whether in prose or verse, if worthy of observation, have never escaped attention; and to the Drama a separate division has been appropriated, where original plays, that have not been exposed to a public auditory, or critical attempts upon the stage and those who tread it, are regularly considered. It was originally the intention of the Proprietors to have inserted in their Address a list of the principal works reviewed, but they found that, however abridged, it would occupy too large a space; and they have, therefore, been obliged to content themselves with a comprehensive summary. They have especially applied their attention to the |