Verfe 12.-For (4) now we fee through a glafs darkly; but then (5) face to face; now I know in part; but (6) then thall I know even as alfo I am known.

11. In life's (1) 'firft spring, in childhood's playful age,
What trifles charm, what idle cares engage!
How (2) narrow, how confus'd the fenfe appears,
Till reafon dawn, and light our riper years!
Tis then (3) with judgment and difcretion fraught
We flight the objects of our infant thought;
Chang'd is each paffion, each defire, and aim,
No more our actions, or our words the fame
12. Yet greater till the change, that fhall translate
Man from his earthly to his heav'nly state,
From (4) partial knowlege fhall his foul redeem,
And clear from doubts his intellectual beam,
Caft the dark glafs away that dims his fight,
And gild his profpect with celestial light,
Bear him beyond the follies, and the ftrife,
And painful pleafures of this finful life.

-Oh glorious change! that fhall fuch light difplay,
And ope one perfect and eternal day!

Where (5) in th' Almighty's prefence we shall fhine,
See, and adore his attributes divine,

His pow'r, his wifdom, and his mercy own,

And (6) Him fhall know-as we ourselves are known!'

The rest of the chapter is tranflated with equal accuracy and elegance.

A Paraphrafe of Mr. Anftey's Paraphraft of the thirteenth Chapter of the firft Book of St. Paul's Epifle to the Corinthians; or, a Poetical Expofition poetically expounded. Folio. 15. Almon. This piece is not intended to ridicule Mr. Anfiey's Paraphrafe, as the title-page may probably lead the reader to imagine; but is a parody on that performance, applying the apostle's, or rather the poet's defcription of charity and its effects, to fervility. The last paragraph thus difplays the power and perpetuity of this infinuating and persuasive art.

• While we through paths of oppofition ftray,

Pride fwells our fouls, and freedom guides our way;
But when to penfionary joys we foar,

Pride fhall expire, and freedom be no more;

Pride fhall be loft in drudgery's abyss,

And freedom melted in preferment's blifs;

But thee, Servility, no fenate's doom,

No diffolution ever thall confume;

Thou, honeft praife, and virtuous want above,

With cringing wiles fhalt lure thy fovereign's love;
In ermine clad, by staff of office known,
Thy ftation fix before the worship'd throne;
There, by new maxims, ancient treafons fcan,
And plead the merits of rebellion's clan.'

This production is not inferior to the Paraphrafe.

DRAMATI C.

The Apotheofis of Punch; a fatirical Mafque: with a Monody on the Death of the late Mafter Punch. 8vo. IS. Wenman.

In a Monody, occafioned by the death of our late Rofcius, Hamlet, Lear, Romeo, &c. were introduced, paying the deceafed actor many high encomiums, in the words of Shakspeare. In this piece Melpomene and Thalia, the tragic and the comic Mufe, adopt likewife the language of the Warwickshire bard, in their lamentations on the death of Punch. But as Punch, (to ufe the words of Apollo in the Mafque) is a mighty genius, a nonpareil,' an effential ornament of the modern ftage, he is reftored to life, and appointed fub mayor of Parnaffus,' and 'locum tenens to the god of wit.'

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This is the most material part of the plot: and, as one of the dramatis perfonæ expreffes it,

By the law-barry, this is right good fun!'

The reader may not be altogether of the fame opinion. Yet we are affured, that this production was performed at the Patagonian Theatre with univerfal applaufe.' Probably, it might appear to greater advantage in the reprefentation, than it does in the perufal; perhaps the Patagonian audience were eafily diverted; or poffibly they were-

• Children of a larger growth.'

NOVEL

S.

The Wedding Ring; or the Hiftory of Mifs Sidney. In a feries of Letters. vols. 75. 6d: ferved.

Noble.

This work, as we are told in the preface, is the production of a female pen. Our authorefs hopes, That what he has written may prove an inftructive entertainment to young perfons, and that they may profit by that excellent moral it recommends,

a perfect reliance on the SUPREME BEING in every diftrefs and danger. We fincerely with her hopes may not be disap pointed. Had every novel the fame tendency to promote the interefts of truth and virtue with the prefent, they might form a valuable part of the female library.

The Sorrows of Werter. A German Story, founded on Fall. 2 vols. 55. ferved. Dodfley.

Notwithstanding the tranflator attempts in his preface to palliate the pernicious tendency of the work before us, we cannot but agree with thofe who confider Mr. Goethé, its original author, as the apologist of fuicide. We are told, indeed, that it is for want of properly diftinguishing between the author and his work, that his cenfurers have very unfairly afcribed to him the erroneous fentiments which he has given to his principal character. A method of criticifm, continues the tranflator, which would equally affect all the epic and tragic writers that ever exifled and certainly with juftice, if their principal characters were introduced merely to give a fanion to crimes.

LAW.

LAW.

The Practifing Attorney; or, New King's Bench Guide. 8vo. 45.

Uriel.

The author of this treatife has the modefty to deem it a compendious introduction to the knowlege of the practice of that court.'-Of all introductions it is the worst we have ever had the trouble of perufing; it is indeed delivered in a way intirely new;' for, excepting the plagiarifms from Blackftone's Commentaries, Gilbert's Common Pleas, and Boot's Suit at Law, (a book almoft as bad as the one before us) it is not poffible that the practifer fhould acquire a fingle idea of the nature and reafon of the feveral proceedings-from this compendious introduction.'

A Chart of Penal Law. By Mr. Reeves.

10s. 6d.

Brooke.

The idea of the prefent Chart is taken from one which was fome time fince published by the learned and ingenious Mr. Fearne. Though the fubject which Mr. Reeves has taken the pains to delineate, does not require either fo much reading or attention, as that which engaged the pen of Mr. Fearne, it is nevertheless executed with all poffible care and difcrimination. As a young man, it does Mr. Reeves great credit; and is a ftrong procf of his attention to his profeffion.

A Letter to J. C. Lettfom, M. D. F. R. S. S. A. S, Sec. octafioned by Baron Dimfdale', Remarks on Dr. Lettfom's Letter to Sir Robert Barker, and George Stacpoole, Efq. upon General Inoculation. 8vo. 15. Murray.

The great utility of inoculation is now, we believe, univerfally admitted, and the local confiderations refpecting the communication of the fmall-pox, with the leaft hazard of spreading the infection among perfons not inoculated, are at prefent the fubject of difpute. Towards determining this point, much ftrefs feems to be laid upon arguments drawn from the univerfality of the disease, and the frequent returns every where of the variolous contagion; which being unavoidable, cannot, it is faid, be attended with fo bad confequences when communicated by inoculated patients, who have the difeafe in a milder degree, as when spread by thofe who labour under the natural fmall-pox. This reafoning doubtless appears highly plaufible, but it may not, upon moral grounds, and fuch as refpect the immediate interefts of fociety, justify a mode of inoculating, which is likely to fpread the variolous infection in a populous neighbourhood. On this argument, therefore, refts the great objection against the propofal for extending the practice of inoculation in London; a fcheme which has been urged by Dr. Lettfom, and fupported by the author of this pamphlet, but op pofed by baron Dimfdale."

DIVINITY.

DIVINITY.

Christianity the true Foundation of Civil Liberty. A Sermon preached at St. Mary's Church in Leicefter, at the Affixes held there, Auguft 12, 1778, before the Hon. Sir Richard Afton, Knt. one of the Justices of the Court of King's Bench; and the Hon. Sir Henry Gould, Knt. one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas. By John Cole Gallaway. Svo. 15. H. Payne.

The author takes notice of the excellence of our civil conftitution; he explains the awfulness and importance of an oath in a court of judicature; and obferves, that men would live in perfect freedom, harmony, and felicity, without any penal laws, or any fear of punishment, if they would obey the amiable precepts of Christianity.

A Charge to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of St. Alban's, in the Year M.DCC.LXXVIII. 4to, 15. White.

In this Charge the author takes occafion to confider the late Act for the relief of Papifts refiding in this kingdom; on which he fays: We cannot fufficiently deplore the ftrange infatuation of fome, who, though bound by the facred ties of honour and confcience to preferve us from the common enemy, do gradually deliver us again into the power and tyranny of popery, and endanger the fafety of our excellent conftitution in church and ftate.'

This Charge is accompanied with a fhort extract from another, delivered to the clergy of his archdeaconry, in April, 1779, in which he purfues the fame fubject, with remarks, in favour of Proteftant Diffenters; concluding with an earneft exhortation to his reverend brethren, to employ the whole firength of their abilities to withstand the encroachments of popery.'

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CONTROVERSIAL.

A Calm Reply to the First Part of Mr. De Courcy's Rejoinder, as far as it relates to the Scriptural Mode of Baptifm. By Joseph Jenkins, A. M. 800. 15. Keith.

This author proves, that immerfion was the flated and ufual method of adminiftering baptifm among the firft Chriftians. In this respect he has defended his own practice and perfuafion, upon good authority.-Though we make this conceffion, we cannot allow, that the church of England is reprehenfible for her deviation from the practice of the primitive ages, in that part of the facred right of initiation into the Chriftian religion, which is merely ceremonial. He must have a very contracted notion of the genius and fpirit of Christianity, who will not admit, that external forms are variable, according to different climates, feafons, fituations, conveniences, and other circumftances.

MIS

MISCELLANEO U S.

A View of the Earth, as far as it was known to the Ancients; bea ing a fhort, but comprehenfive Syftem of claffical Gergraphy. Illuftrated with a new fet of Maps, corrected from the best ancient Hiftorians and Geographers. By R. Turner, Jun. of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. 8vo. 3. Dodsley.

This work is divided into two parts. In the firft the author has given a description of the feveral empires, kingdoms, provinces, cities, towns, rivers, and mountains, mentioned by Homer, Virgil, Xenophon, Cæfar, Livy, Herodotus, and other Greek and Latin claffics. The fecond part contains an accurate abridgment of the whole Æneid of Virgil, and the Odyffey of Homer, or a geographical defcription of the voyages of Æneas and Ulyffes, with the travels and voyages of St. Paul.

For the benefit of young ftudents, not acquainted with profody, the author, in two of his chapters, has marked the quan tity of the doubtful fyllables, in the names of perfons and places. In this article he has fallen into two or three mistakes, and fome inaccuracies; viz. Mycōne for Mycone; Olearon for Olearon; Chaōnia for Chaonia; Ceraunæan for Ceraunian; Eryphyle for Eriphyle; Ciclädes for Cyclades; Ionian for Ionian; Strōphades for Strophades; Andromache for Andromache; and Dodona for Dodōna.

This work is a commodious introduction to the ftudy of ancient geography, preparatory to the larger fyftems of Mela, Pliny, Dionyfius Periegetes, Ptolemy, Strabo, &c. and, on account of its brevity, is very properly calculated for schools and academies. The latter part may give even thofe, who are fcholars of a higher clafs, a more diftinct idea of the voyages of Ulyffes, Eneas, and St. Paul, than they have received from repeated perufals of the Odyffey, the Æneid, and the Acts of the Apostles.

Pictures of Men, Manners, and the Times; interfperfed with Deferiptions of the Country and rural Enjoyments. 2 vols. 8vo. 61. Boofey.

Thefe Pictures are not delineated by the hand of a mafter. They are very defective, both in the defign and execution. The defcriptions are a mere jumble of common-place thoughts, tricked out in the language of affectation; which, by fome strange perverfion of ideas, the author feems to have mistaken for wit. A Treatise on the Cuftom of counting Nofes. 8vo. 15. Kearfly.

A faftidious critic, whose character was that of suspendens omnia nafo, might perhaps turn up his nofe at this performance. But we confider it as an innocent attempt at humour, and have therefore no inclination to put the author in the least out of