which the various fubjects connected with the duties of tradesmen are handled in the body of the work. The advice given is indeed good, and, if it be carefully followed, may make an honest and induftrious fhopkeeper; but the reward of fuch a character is not renown, or the pinnacle of fame. Amufing Recreations; or a Collection of Charades and Riddles on political Characters, and various Subjects. Dedicated to Lady Onflow. By Mrs. Pilkington. 12mo. 1s. Vernor and Hood. 1798. From the dedication of this collection, we learn that it obtained the approbation of lady Onflow, who is probably a better judge of fuch compofitions than the Critical Reviewers. The political conundrums, we apprehend, are beyond the capacity of the readers for whom the work is intended, but may fuit children of a larger growth. Elements of Geography; containing a concife and comprehensive View of that ufeful Science as divided into Aftronomical, Phyfical, or Natural, and Political Geography, on a new Plan; adapted to the Capacities of Youth, and defigned for the Ufe of Schools, and private Families. By Jedidiah Morfe, D. D. Embellished with Maps. 12mo. 3s. 6d. Bound. Stockdale. This is an useful school-book. The compiler had in view the improvement of his countrymen; and he is therefore particularly diffuse in his description of America; but, from the increasing importance of that part of the world, this cannot be confidered as a blemish in the work. The general accounts of the system, of the component parts of the earth, and of the political and religious state of mankind, are well adapted to the rifing generation. Greenfield Hill: a Poem, in feven Parts. By Timothy Dwight, D. D. 8vo. 35. 6d. Button. It is always with pleasure that we announce the fuccefs of the polite arts, wherever it occurs; and, when America difcovers an excellence in the literary walk, it is with an unfeigned fatisfaction that we make the communication to the public. Greenfield Hill, a beautiful fpot in Connecticut, is the subject of the Trans-atlantic Mufe, who proves her powers in defcriptive poetry to be beyond the flight of a vulgar wing. We shall select the beginning of the poem in fupport of our opinion. From fouthern ifles, on winds of gentleft wing, New-loos'd, and burfting from their icy bonds, Full-blown and lovely, teems with fweets and fongs; Had tun'd to rapture, and o'er Cooper's hill, Shall foon inchant the foul-when harvest full These foon the fight fhall blefs. Now other fcenes P. II. That speak the industry of every hand.' Having no reason to doubt the veracity of the reverend bard we fhall exhibit a part of his prospect for the admiration of our readers. • How blefs'd the fight of fuch a numerous train Have rais'd above the throng. For here, in truth, Sail'd down the expanding stream, in triumph gay, As it is natural for every man to cherish in his heart the amor patria, we applaud the enthusiasm of the following apoftrophe. Hail, O hail My much-lov'd native land! New Albion hail ! The happiest realm, that, round his circling courfe, The all-fearching fun beholds. What though the breath And hardens into brafs thy generous foil; Though, with one white, and cheerlefs robe, thy hills, Leaflefs the grove, and dumb the lonely spray, Or cloud-embofom'd mountains, dares the plough, P. 13. From these specimens of American poetry, the reader, we think, will derive pleasure; and, when we inform him that they are not the only meritorious paffages in the poem, he will probably be derous of perusing the whole. Epifle in Rhyme, to M. G. Lewis, Efq. M. P. Author of the With other Verfes. By the fame 1798. The author of this epiftle undertakes to vindicate the morality of the Monk, and lavishes praise upon the Caftle Spectre. To us Mr. Lewis's romance appears the vigorous production of a depraved imagination; and his play we deem excellent only in pantomimic ftage effect. The prefent writer, however, muft not be confidered as indifferent to the morals of the public; for he pretends to have difcovered a dangerous tendency in The Stranger. This is extraordinary in one who appears as the apologist for descriptions of grofs lewdnefs; but he has accounted for it by faying that the Stranger contains French morality. The poetry of the epiftle poffeffes great merit. will fhow the author's powers. Our extract Say, oft as night and filence o'er the earth Soon fhall fome wag, to fet opinions right, Poems on various Subjects. By Mary Ann Chantrell, of Newington Simmons. 1798. Butts. 8vo. 2s. 6d. There is nothing better in this volume than the Address to the Subscribers. When Fancy to me her affistance first lent, To amufe my own thoughts was my only intent; The contempt of my friends by attempts at a joke.' r. v. We may also observe, that there is nothing worse. The Warning, a poetical Addrefs to Britons. To which is added, a Report of the Proceedings of the Whig Club, at their Meeting, May 1ft, 1798, in a poetical Epiftle from Henry Bumpkin, in Town, to his Brother in the Country. 8vo. Is. 6d. Hatchard. 1798. Of this very dull and very loyal piece a fhort fpecimen will be fufficient. • What are the bleffings, Britons, we can boast, 'Tis not their aim, your wealth, your homes, and land, Nor is this all, where'er they plant the foot, The Egotift: or, Sacred Scroll. A familiar Dialogue between the Author of the Pursuits of Literature and Octavius. 8vo. Is. Od. Murray and Highley. 1798. This is an attempt to ridicule a malignant work'; but it displays little ability. DRAM A. Cambro-Britons, an Hiftorical Play, in Three Acts. First 'performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on Saturday, July 21, 1798. With a Preface. Written by James Boaden, Efq. Author of Fontainville Foreft, Italian Monk, &c. &c. 8vo. Robinsons. 1798. 25. The march of troops up the mountains, the bards curfing them |