away mo keeps the parchment within the lining of his coat. Would a fraudu Art. 33. Miltonis Poema Lycidas, Gracè redditum. 4to. Faulder, &c. 1797. In this Greek version of the Lycidas of Milton, we find little that calls for praise. To enter on a discussion of the errors, however, would occupy more space and time than we can at present allow to so short a performance. The mixture of styles is one of the prominent faults: the composition should have been broad Doric: but the dialectic distinctions are not accurately preserved. We are not so much surprised that the translator should have failed in his version, as that he should have hazarded so bold an attempt. Our opinion on these modern Greek poetical productions has been frequently stated; and it has not been in the slightest degree shaken by this publication of Lycidas. To the work is prefixed an inscription to the Right Hon. Fre- Art. 34 Every opportunity of fostering the effusions of youthful minds, "Thus from the shades which hid his rising worth, Great WASHINGTON arose to bless the earth: As in the eastern quarter of the sky, When clouds high piled in sable masses lie, *Rev. Mr. Plumptre, we apprehend. Mur..y. Beneath D.C.B....y. Beneath their gloom, o'erwhelm'd in second night, Robb'd by those hands which taught its frame to rise, Hands, which had torn the laurel wreaths that blow Withheld that moisture which should nurse the shoot, And their deliverer hails, OWASHINGTON! in thee." Art. 35. Poems, by the Rev. Gerald Fitzgerald, D.D. S. F. T.C.D. and Professor of Hebrew in the University of Dublin. pp. 100. 3s. 6d. Boards. Johnson, &c. 1797. 8vo. Though the general character of these poems appears to us not to rise above mediocrity, yet there are, in the piece entitled The Islanders,' some lines that brought Goldsmith to our recollection, in a light favourable to the imitative powers of Dr. Fitzgerald. We will present our readers with a passage in the poem; in which Oberca, to induce Captain Wallis to return to Otaheite, describes the country. and its inhabitants: Say thou, whose judgment diff'rent nations boast, Smyth Na No varying arts, to multiply desires, And pleas'd, or anger'd, as the work they find, We were surprised at many harsh and difficult lines in this poem, which is altogether much superior to the other pieces of which this miscellany is composed. The following lines seem to us defective in elegance and perspicuity: Where dew dropp'd shrubs breathe fragrance as I stray, The purple streamers wave by wave appear.' p. 28, 1. 17. P. 30, 1. 59. If sudden shook (shaken) by autumn's angry storm.' p. 32, 1.97. Do these, alas! thy country's danger speak? Art. 35. Ode on the Fluctuations of Civil Society. P. 33, 1. 129. P. 36, L. 181. An Ode to Fortune. 8vo. IS. We have more than once observed that our modern poets seem to think obscurity an essential property in an ode: but, amid the dark. ness of involved expressions, inverted sentences, and a general confusion of ideas, we have fancied that we have discovered, in the au... thors who have passed under our notice, something like meaning or design. In the ode before us, however, we own ourselves incapable of comprehending what, perhaps, is not to be understood. Our readers, on perusing the following extract, may probably excuse our dullness: Smyth. There There in mazy course meand'ring to meet, Turbid-dark! and crystal sweet! Be these the bloodless toils of man! Till, spent foul Luxury's flood, Life's sphere may prove POLITICAL, &c. Art. 37. A Letter to the Right Hon. William Pitt, shewing the Ne- If Mr. Fox be not quite unteachable, he must ere now have become one of the wisest men in England; for no man certainly has received more hints, warnings, and advice. He seems indeed to enjoy these advantages almost exclusively: we seldom perceive advice bestowed on the Minister. This author, however, does not confine his salutary admonitions to Mr. Fox. Though he professes to entertain the most profound respect for the courage, the wisdom, and the virtue of Mr. Pitt, he yet thinks it not unbecoming a person of his station' to advise him. He does accordingly advise him, 1st, to keep his place, 2d, to per severe in the war, and 3d, to persist in a strong government. It must be highly gratifying to this gentleman to learn that Mr. Pitt follows so closely this good counsel. may Of the metaphoric beauties and sage reflections with which this pamphlet abounds, the following is a sample: In a vessel, on a high and tempestuous tide, you must go with the stream, or, leap overboard and be drowned. In either case, the odds be that you perish.' Art. 38. Address, of great Importance, (at least in the Opinion of the Writert,) to the Natives of England, the Emigrants from France, and the Rulers of both Countries. By a Plain Englishman. 8vo. Is. 6d. Longman. 1798. Patriotic addresses to our countrymen, suitable to the present situation of our public affairs, have lately abounded among us; recommending, on just grounds, the abandonment of our political distinctions and animosities, and a firm union of all parties, in the support of Government against every daring effort of the enemy. Among the numerous publications of this kind, the tract which we have just perused merits particular attention, on account of the good * Luxury. Science. The title-page has this parenthesis. Ban Wall.. discretion discretion and salutary counsels of the public-spirited writer. His manly exhortations, and seasonable remarks, are given in French and English, (the former being a translation from the latter); and they are directed, especially, to the emigrants from France who have taken refuge in this country, to avoid the distractions and calamities which have too long prevailed in their native land. The author's notices to these unfortunate sojourners among us seem justly applicable to their present situation and circumstances. Art. 39. Pepper and Salt; or, a Letter to the Armed Associations of Art. 40. Three IVarnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old This is a clerical pamphlet. It might perhaps not improperly be called a sermon, of which the text is the old story of Death and Farmer Dobson. The object of the writer is to prove that Britain, like the farmer, has had the three successive warnings which were to precede her ruin. If the farmer's story be applicable, therefore, her ruin must now be inevitable:-but the writer, who has made this trite tale the ground-work of thirty-nine pages, does not carry the allegory so far. He thinks, if we will be good, if, although late, we will at length be warned, and will lend unanimous assistance to our government; by which he means giving an unqualified and implicit support to all the measures of the Minister, renouncing all hope of reform, and looking on the assessed taxes as a measure deserving more praise than all the wisdom and virtue of antient Greece; if we will also resume a just and manly regard for our established religion,' which, he complains, has been successively assailed ever since the year 1760 by Gibbon, by the French, and even by the women, who have been enlisted as seducers to bring us over to those cursed opinions; and if, finally, we immediately amend our manners,' which he charges with effeminacy in the men and boldness and immodesty in the women;-then, he thinks, we may still be saved; the enemy may, like Pharaoh, follow our heaven-defended fleets into the water, but they will perish there as he did.' To every attempt at reforming the manners of an age, we wish well: but we entertain little hope that much will be done in that way by a writer whose principal argument against adultery is a numerical calculation of its increase. From 1760 to the present day, he tells us, adultery-causes have increased in England in the ratio of 60 to 16! Art. 41. Earl Moira. By a Son of St. Patrick. Harding. 1798. The object of this little work is 12mo. 2s. 6d. Wall..e. to give the public a portrait of that Do |