MEDICINE.

We shall briefly touch this fubject, and pafs on.Dr. Cheyne's volume on the Larynx, Mr. Bell's continuation of his great work on Surgery †, Mr. Lawrence's tranflation of Blumenbach's Syftem of Compara tive Anatomy, and Dr. Reid's fhort tract on the Study of Medicine §, are all the works that we can at prefent bring forward for distinction; and to fome of thefe objections may be made, which we thall not here repeat. They are noticed in this place on the fcore of their general utility. On the controverted fubject of the Eau Medicinale, recommended in Dr. Jones's tract, it is not yet fafe to pronounce a decided opinion. We have been cenfured by fome for what we did venture to fay; yet we ftill maintain that extreme caution is neceffary in the use of a noftrum fo very violent, and fo little understood ¶.

POETRY.

In this clafs, we must felect even from our own felections, left we fatigue our readers by too copious a lift. We fhall mention therefore only the moft remarkable. Thefe are, Wallace, by Mifs Holford**, an hiftorical poem, of fingular merit: The Borough, by Mr. Crabbett, a work of fuch poetical power, as is very rarely produced: The Goblin Groom ‡‡, by Mr. Fenwick, a jeu d'efprit above the common clafs; and the Affociate Minstrels §§, an anonymous collection of fmall poems, but marked with talent and poetical feeling fufficient to diftinguish every coadjutor. A

No. II. p. 174. + No. V. p. 503. No. III. p. 321. No. VI. p. 656. || No. IV. p. 374. It is now reported that the ingredients of it are found to be opium and the veratrum album. ** No. I. p. 37. ++ No. III. p. 236. No. IV. p. 404.

No. III. p. 293.

dozen,

dozen, at least, of fmaller works, which we have more or less commended, we now pafs by for the fake of haftening to our conclufion. But we must not omit to mention Mifs Seward's works, republished by Mr. W. Scott*, in which the judgment and good tafte of the editor are at least as confpicuous as the genius of the poetess.

MISCELLANIES.

Here also we shall by choice comprefs rather than dilate. Mr. Hatchard's edition and tranflation of Richard of Cirencefier † is a valuable acceffion to Britifh antiquities, but we had in this preface no head of ANTIQUITIES. The tracts on the fubject of the Oxford Controversy, are most highly worthy of notice. Several republications of merit have alfo attracted our attention. Such as Evans's Ancient Ballads §, Dr. Clarke's Edition of Harmer ||, Mr. Blifs's Edition of Earle's Microcofmographia ¶, and, if we may be allowed to say it, Mr. Nares's Essays and Traits **. For other works, more or lefs commended, we must refer to our general pages, to which we now dismiss our readers, for the thirty-feventh time.

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BOOKS REVIEWED IN VOLUME XXXVII.

N. B. For remarkable Paffages in the Criticifms and Extracts,
fee the INDEX at the End of the Volume.

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