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the University of Cambridge, by H. W. Ct, D. D. &c. published by Requeft, and now (for the Sake of Freshmen and the Laity) by Requeft tranflated into English Metre, by H. W., Hopkins, A. M." in humourous, and well measured Hudibraftic verfe, ably expofes high church doctrines and tory politics, and may be read with profit, as well as pleafure, by thofe for whofe benefit the tranflator intended it.

"My Night Gown and Slippers, or Tales in Verfe, written in an Elbow Chair, by George Coleman the Younger," were originally defigned to be recited or fung in an entertainment which the author proposed to offer to the public, at the Hay-market theatre, during Lent. We are glad that when that performance was relinquished, he held it more advifeable to print his ftories than to burn them; for they abound in wit and humour, and have frequently excited into action our rifible faculties. The firft tale, entitled the Maid of the Moor, ridicules, in a very happy manner, the German ballad of Bürger, of which, during the last year, we were prefented with fo many different tranflations.

by Frances Greenfted;" Flights, by John Heyrick, Jun. &c. containing Pieces in Verfe on various Occafions;" "Juvenile Effays in Poetry, by J. Donoghue;" "The Lion and Fawn, a Legend, prefented on their Marriage, to the Earl and Countess of Derby;" "Tributes of Affection, with the Slaves and other Poems, by a Lady and her Brother;" "Suicide rejected, an Elegy, founded upon Principles of Chriftian Confidence against worldly Defpondency, by Charles James, to which is prefixed a Moral Difcourse against Suicide (never before publifhed) by the late Dr. J. Fordyce;" "Critical Trifles, in a familiar Epiftle to John Fisher, Efq. by the Rev. C. E. Stewart ;"" Elegy on the Death of Mr. Burke, by Mrs. Weft;"" Elegy on the Death of W. B. Cadogan, by P. Bidulph;" "The Caftle of Olmutz, a Poem, infcribed to La Fayette;" "Ode to Kofciufko, by H. F. Carey, A. M.;" "Poetry, by T. Morgan;" "The Right of Life, a Sermon tranflated into Verfe, by H. Horace, Efq.;" "Chrift's Hofpital, a Poem, by T. S. Surr;" "Britannia, a Poem, by Samuel Hull Wilcocke;"" Walter and William, an Hiftorical Ballad, tranflated from the original Poem of Richard Coeur de Lion;" "The College, a Satire, Cantos I and II;" "Lord Mayor's Day, an Heroic Poem;"" A Poem on the Author of two late Productions entitled the Baviad,' and 'the Purfuits of Literature;”” “The Scottish Hudibras, by S. Colville;" "The The other poetical publications Sea Side, a Poem, in a Series of faof the year were, "Poems, by Tho miliar Epiftles, from Mr. Simkin mis Townsend, Efq.;"" Quebec Slenderwit, fummerifing at RamfHill, or Canadian Scenery, a Poem, gate, to his dear Mother in Town;" in Two Parts, by J. Mackay;"The Lamentation of a Dog, en "Original Mifcellaneous Poems, by the Tax, and its Confequences, adEdwards Atkins Harrop;" "Poems, dreffed to the Right Hon. William by T. F. Dibdin," "Fugitive Pieces, Pitt, with Notes, by Scriblerus Se

From Peter Pindar's mufe we have received, during the year 1797," One Thoufand, Seven Hundred and Ninety-Six, a Satire, in four Dialogues, Dialogue Ift and IId;" and An Ode to the Livery of London, on their Petition to his Majefty for kicking out his worthy Minifters, &c. &c.'

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cundus;" "The Dog-Tax, by E. Nairne;""The Gallanté Shew, difplaying the Character of a Prime Minifter;" "A Political Eclogue, Citizen H. Te, Citizen T-rn-y, R. B. Efq.;" "A Trip to Portfmouth and the Isle of Wight, in rambling Verses, &c. by a Friend to Britain;""The Trap, a Poem, by a Lady;" "The Guinea Note, by Timothy Twigg, Efq.;"" Hobby Horfes, a Poetical Allegory, in Five Parts, by Jenkin Jones;" "The Reign of Liberty, a Poetical Sketch, by Jofeph Jackson;""The Scaith of France, or the Death of St. Juft and his Son, a Poem, by E. Smith, Efq." "The War of the Giants, by an Admirer of Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins, to which is added a Dialogue between John Bull and one of his Friends, with Notes;" "The Invincible Ifland, with introductory Obfervations on the prefent War, by Percival Stockdale;" "The Volunteer, a Poem;" "The Campaign, a Poetical Effay, in Two Books, &c. by Robert Brown, Corporal in the Coldftream Guards;" The Waes o' War, or the Upfhot o' the Hiftory o' Will and Jean, in Four Parts;" "Britain's Genius, a Song, to the Tune of 'Come liften to my Ditty,' occafioned by the late Mutiny on Board his Majefty's Ships at the Nore, by C. A. Efq.;" and "A Collection of English Songs, with an Appendix of original Pieces, by Mr. A. Dalrymple."

The following were the Dramatic publications of the year 1797: "The Minister, a Tragedy, in five Acts, from the German of Schiller, Author of the Robbers, Don Carlos, &c. by M. G. Lewis, Efq. M. P;" "Lorenzino de Medici, a Tragedy, in five Acts, by William Rough;" *Arviragus, a Tragedy, (never per

formed) by the Rev. William Tasker;" "The Fatal Sifters, or the Caftle of the Foreft, a Dramatic Romance of five Acts. by Edmund John Eyre;" "Falfe Impreffions, a Comedy, in five Acts, by Richard Cumberland, Efq.;" "Knave or Not? a Comedy, in five Acts, by Thomas Holcroft;" "Wives as they Were, and Maids as they Are, a Comedy, in five Acts, by Mrs. Inchbald;"" A Cure for the Heart-Ache, a Comedy, in five Acts, by Thomas Morton, Esq.;" "Cheap Living, a Comedy, in five Acts, by Frederic Reynolds;" "The Will, a Comedy, in five Acts, by the fame Author;"" Prejudices, a Comedy, in five Acts, by B. Frere Cherenfi ;" "The Italian Monk, a Play, in three Acts, by James Boaden, Efq.;" "The Honest Thieves, a Farce, in two Acts, altered from the Committee, by T. Knight;" "The Wandering Jew, or Love's Mafquerade, a Comedy, in two Acts, by Andrew Franklin;” “A Trip to the Nore, a Mufical Entertainment, in one Act, by the fame Author;" and "Utrum Horum? a Comedy of two Acts, as it is now acting with great Applaufe, at the refpective Theatres of London and Amfterdam."

Among the few articles which we have referved for our Miscellaneous department, we find "A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding-Schools, by Erafmus Darwin, M. D. &c." which the author's known good fenfe, literary attainments, and profeffional experience, cannot fail of recommending to parents, guardians, and governeffes of young ladies. Under a variety of heads it fuggefts important and judicious advice, for eftablishing fuch a rational fyftem of edu cation for females, as promifes to be T4

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faccessful" in uniting health and agility of body, with chearfulnefs and activity of mind; in fuper adding graceful movements to the former, and agreeable taftes to the latter; and in the acquirement of the rudiments of fuch arts and fciences, as may amuse themselves or gain them the efteem of others; with a ftrict attention to the culture of morality and religion."

Mythology compared with Hiftory, for the Ufe of Young Perfons, &c. by the Abbé de Treffan, tranflated from the French by H. North." in 2 Vols. is replete with valuable and curious information, explanatory of the fables of Greek and Roman mythology, arranged with judgment and perfpecuity, and detailed in a lively and pleafing ftyle. It deferves to be recommend ed, as an ufeful companion in their ftudies, to thofe for whofe benefit it was chiefly defigned.

The fplendid volume of "Mifcellaneous Writings. by R. C. Dallas, Efq." is compofed of various poems; a tragedy; moral effays; and a vocabulary of the paffions, "in which their fources are pointed out, their regular currents traced, and their deviations delineated." Mr. Dallas's poems poffefs few claims to commendation; and we cannot flatter him so far as to fay, that his tragedy will entitle him to a refpectable station among our dramatic writers. But his profe exercifes reflect credit on his abilities, and on his heart. They are diftinguifhed by folid fenfe, ingenious remarks, benevolent and pious fentiments, and will afford pleasure and improvement to his readers.

The "Narrative of the Sufferings of T. F. Palmer and W. Skirving, during a Voyage to New South Wales, 1794, on Board the Surprife Transport, by the Rev.

Thomas Fythe Palmer," has been published to vindicate the characters of the fufferers from the charge of confpiracy and mutiny, in which it was pretended they had engaged, with the defign of murdering the captain, and feizing the thip. This purpose it has completely answered, by bringing forwards fuch fireng and circumftantial evidence in their favour, as their moft ingenious and prejudiced enemies cannot gainsay or refift. But it exhibits, at the fame time, fuch inftances of cruel, brutal, wicked treatment, to which they were fubjected on their voyage, as muft excite in the humane heart a degree of horror and indignation which words cannot describe.

Mr. Clarke's "Differtation on the Ufe and Abuse of Tobacco, wherein the Advantages and Difadvantages attending the Confumption of the entertaining Weed are particularly confidered, &c." contains a zealous, but not very formidable attack on the confumption of that balmy narcotic. “What I have done," fays the author, "I have done in the fear of God, and with the fimple defire of being use. ful to my brethren; I have fometimes fpoken ironically; fometimes farcaftically; but always with deep feriousness and concern. In fhort, I have done what I could to render odious and detestable a custom which, I think, every thing in heaven and earth discountenances!" For our parts, we are free to acknowledge ourselves fuch hardened finners, that his benevolent and pious labours have been loft upon us. Had the author's work appeared in good king James's days, that fapient monarch might have deemed it worthy of being added as an appendix to his equally argumentative Counterbleft to Tobacco.

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the Manner of Sterne," contains the happiest imitations that we have met with, of that whimsical and eccentric author, and will be read with pleasure by his admirers. It confifts, chiefly, of dialogues, in which the interlocutors, who are of the Shandy family and connection, appear in much of their original character, and hold fimilar opinions and language as in their first appearance before the public. To these the author has added a beautiful and pathetic tale. But the greateft excellence of this work confifts, in the moral, humane, and benevolent fentiments which it invariably inculcates.

"Vaurien, or Sketches of the Times, exhibiting Views of the Philofophies, Religions, Politics, Literature, and Manners of the Age," in 2 Vols." in the form rather than the matter of a novel," contains fhrewd remarks on men and manners, by a writer who appears to have been pretty much converfant with the world, and not an inattentive obferver of the diverfified characters which it prefents to us; and who applies the powers of wit and lively fatire in ridiculing modern philofophers and reformers, political and theological. With the excep. tion of fome paffages, which will ftrike every enlightened reader as not being easily reconcileable with candour and liberality, we recommend his labours as what have afforded us confiderable entertain

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In the following catalogue of the Novels, Romances, &c. of the year 1797, the firft ten articles poffefs fuperior claims to commendation: "The Adventures of Hugh Trevor, by Thomas Holcroft, Vols. IV. V. and VI.;" Canterbury Tales for the Year 1797, by Harriet Lee;"

"Walfingham, or the Pupil of Nature, a Domestic Story, by Mary Robinson, in 4 Vols;" "Cinthelia, or a Woman of Ten Thousand, by G. Walker, Author of Theodore Cyphon, &c. in 4 Vols;" "Moral Tales, confifting of the Reconciliation, &c. by Jofeph Mofer, in 2 Vols;" "The Hiftory of Vanillo Gonzales, furnamed the Merry Bachelor, from the French of Le Sage, in 2 Vols;""Emily de Varmont, or Divorce demonftrated by Neceffity, &c. from the French of Louvet, in 3 Vols;" "Eftelle, by M. de Florian, with an Effay upon Paftoral, translated from the French, by Mrs. Sufanna Cummins, in 2 Vols;" "The Genius, or the Myfterious Adventures of Don Carlos de Grandez, by the Marquis Von Groffe, tranflated from the German, by Jofeph Trapp, in 2 Vols" "Clara Dupletis, and Clairant, the Hiftory of a Family of Emigrants, tranflated from the German, in 3 Vols;" "The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors, by Mrs. Bennet, in 7 Vols;" "Parental Duplicity, or the Power of Artifice, by P. Š. M. in 3 Vols;" "The Knights, or Sketches of the Heroic Age;" "The Inquifition, in 2 Vols;" "Santa Maria, or the Myfterious Pregnancy, by J. Fox, in 3 Vols;" "The Neapolitan, or the Test of . Integrity, by Ellen of Exeter, in 3 Vols;" "A Welch Story, in 3 Vols;" " Grafville Abbey, first printed in the Ladys' Magazine, in 3 Vols;""Clara Lennox, or the Diftreffed Widow, by Mrs. Lee, in 2 Vols;" "An Old Friend with a New Face, by Mrs. Parfons, in 3 Vols;" "The Girl of the Mountains, by the fame Lady, in 4 Vols;" "Munfter Abbey, by the late Sir E. Leigh, in 3 Vols;" The Shrovetide Child, or the Son of a Monk, in 2 Vols;" "The Submif

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fions of Dependence;""The Count de Santerre, by a Lady, in 2 Vols;" "The Orphan of Bollenbach, or Polycarp the Adventurer;" "The Myfterious Wife, by Gabrielli, in 4 Vols;""The Church of St. Siffrid, in 4 Vols;" "Azemia, a Defcriptive and Sentimental Novel, by J. A. M. Jenks, in 2 Vols;" "Jocelina, or the Reward of Benevolence, by Ifabella Kelly, in 2 Vols;" "The Caftle of Bucktholme, in 3 Vols;" "Miliftina, or the Double Intereft, in 2 Vols;" "Count Donamar, tranflated from the German, in 3 Vols;" " Advertisement for a Hufband, in 2 Vols;" "The Orphans of Snowdon, by Mifs Gunning, in 3 Vols;" "The Spoiled Child, by Mrs. Howell, in 2 Vols:" " Difobedience, by the Author of Plain Senfe, in 4 Vols ;"" Henry Sommerville, a Tale, in 2 Vols ;""The Days of Chivalry, in 2 Vols;"

"The Irish Heirefs, in 3 Vols;" "Percy, or the Friends;"" Love at first Sight, altered from the French, by Mrs. Gunning, in 5 Vols;" "Edmund and Eleonora, or Memoirs of the Houses of Sommerfield and Gratton, by E. Marshall, A. M. in 2 Vols;" "Phedora, or the Foreft of Minfki, by Mary Charlton, in 4 Vols;" "Edmund of the Foreft, in 4 Vols;" "The Sorrows of Edith, or the Hermitage of the Cliffs, by Mrs. Burke, in 2 Vols;"" The Hiftory of Sir George Warrington, or the Political Quixote, by the Author of the Female Quixote, in 3 Vols;" "Rofe Cecil;" "The Governess, or Courtland Abbey ;""Ifidora of Gallicia, by Mrs. Hugill, in 2 Vols;" "Bungay Castle, by Mrs. Bonhote, in 2 Vols;" and "The Contradiction, by the Rev. W. Cole."

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