ART. 18. Poems. A Picture of London in Miniature, and Richmond Hill. By Kennedy Clark, of Banff. 12mo. Is. 6d. Stuart. 1804. The author fo modeftly begs the Public to accept of these Poems as the effufions of an humble and honeft heart, that criticism is out of the question. Befides, the author has for his patrons ALL ETON COLLEGE. Far be it from us to counteract the fostering protection of this feminary of genius and learning. "Few authors now but have fome patron But who have I got a noble fquadron, ALL ETON COLLEGE." The author moreover deferves the praife of being a loyal subject; and thus concludes his volume: "Mars found Fame's triumph, while Arts and Commerce fing, Britons be ever free, God fave our noble King.” DRAMATIC. ART. 19. The Blind Bargain: or, Hear It Out; a Comedy, in five Acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. By Frederick Reynolds. 8vo. 75 PP. 2s. 6d. Longman. 1805. Were we to attempt to analyse the plot of this or any dramatic piece of the fame fchool, we fhould only bewilder ourselves, and probably our readers alfo. Suffice it to fay that, in the prefent inftance, there is much buftle with occafionally fome intereft, bat little confiftency, and lefs probability. The attempts at wit and humour are very thinly fcattered, and generally of the loweft defcription: for inftance, an apothecary who had spent a great deal of money in building, fays, that what he gained by the pefle he had loft by the mortar.' Yet this indifferent pun is the most prominent jeft in the whole piece. After all, we have met with worfe dramas, at leaft by this author; and though it was not without difficulty that we could " read it out," we are not, confidering the present tafte, much furprised that it was "heard out" by the audience. NOVEL. ART. 20. Men and Women, a Novel; in Three Volumes. Dedicated to Sir James Mackintosh. By the Author of What you Pleafe, Tourville. 12mo. 128. Lanfdown. 1805. This author's former productions have not reached us, but we evidently difcern in this Novel a more expert and accomplished pen than is ufually exercifed in this branch of writing. The characters and incidents feem too multiplied and too crowded; but there there is fome very good writing, and proofs alfo of a well-informed mind, which have carried us through thefe volumes with much amusement and fatisfaction. MEDICINE. ART. 21. A Treatise on Febrile. Difeafes, &c. By A. Philips Wilfon, M.D. F.R.S. Ed. &c. Vols. III. and IV. 8vo. Winchester printed; fold by Cadell and Davies, London. 1801, 1804. Of the two first volumes of this work an account was given in the fifteenth and seventeenth volumes of the British Critic. We now proceed to the third and four h volumes, in the former of which (viz. the third) he author treats of fymptomatic fevers, and of inflammation in general; then of fpecific inflammations, fuch as phlegmon, eryfipelas, phrenitis, ophthalmia, cynanche tonfillaris, and cynanche maligna. The Appen ix contains obfervations on the urinary difpofitions in febrile diforders, and on febrile anorexia. In the fourth and concluding volume are comprifed cynanche trachealis, and the following vifceral inflammations; viz. pneumonia, peripneumonia notha, carditis, gaftritis, enteritis, hepatitis (both acute and chronic) nephritis, cyftitis and hyfteritis. After delivering the hiftory and treatment of thefe diforders, the author next proceeds to the defcription and treatment of acute rheumatifm and gout; and laftly to the confideration of hæmorrhagia, phthifis pulmonalis, and dyfentery. The Appendix gives an account of experiments made, with a view to determine the manner in which opium and tobacco act on the living animal body, with obfervations on the doctrine of the fympathy of nerves, and a catalogue of books referred to in the course of the work. With the exception of the laft mentioned article, it appears to us that the matters contained in this Appendix are very much mifplaced in a work of a practical nature. They fhould have been printed in a feparate form, as many perfons who may wish to purchase the Treatife on Febrile Diseases, may not have a tafte for phyfiological inquiries, and would therefore have been glad if the bulk and price of this fourth volume had been leffened by their omiffion. Without this and the other Appendixes, this treatife would have been of a fufficient fize and extent; for if there be any fault which attaches to the general execution of the work, it is that of being written in a manner rather too diffuse. Although the author has followed, with fome modifications, the arrangement of Dr. Cullen, yet under the head of profluvia he has not given an account of catarrh, as well as dyfentery; because he confiders catarrh, in its common form, to be fo well known and fo eafily managed as not to require a difcuffion. In its epidemic form, it is, he remarks, a more serious disease; but as in that form it only proves dangerous when it runs into fever, pneumonia, peripneumonia and phthifis, he conceives that what he has faid of thefe diforders will readily apply to the worst forms of catarrh. As to the milder form of the epidemic catarrh, so much (he fays) has been written on it, during the last twelvemonth, in every part of Britain, that any obfervations on it at this time feem to be fuperfluous. After After the remarks we have made on the former parts of this work, it will not be expected that we should enter into a minute examination of the prefent volumes. It will fuffice to have enumerated their contents. We shall only further remark, that on each particular fubject the author appears to have confulted the best authorities, and to have produced altogether a compilation which may prove of confiderable utility to practitioners in phyfic. DIVINITY. ART. 22. An Expofition of the Lord's Prayer. In which are comprebended an Account of the Origin of the Prayer; an Explanation of its Several Petitions; and a Demonftration that, according to its natural Interpretation, it contains a complete Summary of Chriftian Doctrine. By the Rev. Jofeph Mendham, M. A. 12mo. 208 pp. 45. Rivingtaps. 1803. A learned and critical Expofition of the Lord's Prayer, tending to fhow it in the light of a general fummary of the Christian Doctrine, is here prefented to the reader. With refpect to the origin of the prayer, the author brings forward an opinion, which is in fome degree difputable. It is, that our Lord did not invent, but selected the petitions of his prayer from the forms then in ufe among the Jews. Without entering into any controverfy on the fubject, we shall show in what manner Mr. Mendham refers it to thofe fources. "The paffages thus collected are as follows: "Our Father which art in heaven. Thy name be fanctifiedt. Thy kingdom reignt. Do thy will in heavens. Forgive us our fins. Lead us not into the hand of temptation¶, and deliver us from Satan. For thine is the kingdom, and thou fhalt reign gloriously, for ever and ever." P. xvii. In the opinion of the prefent author, this method was "fuitable to the general conduct of our Lord, and reflects much honour upon his character." It avoided the imputation of novelty, and rendered the prayer itself more generally intelligible. We are not quite convinced of thefe particulars, nor prepared implicitly to receive the opinion: we ftate it, however, for the confideration of the learned, who will do well to weigh both the probability and the consequences of it. ART. 23. The Prophecy of Ifaiah, concerning the Humiliation, Sufferjugs, Death, Burial, and confequent Exaltation of the Miah, paraphrafed; or, an Expofition of Part of the Fifty-fecond and Fifty-third Chapter; defigned as a ferious Meditation on Good Friday By the Rev. Edward Brackenbury, A. B. Vicar of Skendleby. 8vo. 30 pp. IS. Rivingtons. 1805. In a fhort, but well-written Preface, the author affures us, that this paraphrafe was undertaken "folely with a view of drawing the ar tention of the public to the recollection of the awful circumftance of a day which is juftly marked in our calendar, beyond all others, for pious folemnity and devout meditation. He has long lamented with many friends of the established church, the indecent, not to say irreligious conduct, of the unthinking multitude on Good-Friday, whofe uninterrupted purfuit of their fecular bufinefs, and folicitude in exacting all their labours, have been as eager, as if no other event had taken place than a partial eclipfe of the fun, in which they had no concern, and which, fortunately for them, did not fuperfede the natural course of their daily labour. But furely every confiderate Christian, whether high or low, muft be convinced that fomething was tranfacted on that eventful day which affects his faith, influences his hope, and deeply concerns his best and higheft interefts. What thofe interefts are, it is not, therefore, beneath his notice to inquire; and the author fincerely hopes, that a brief elucidation of this prophetic part of holy writ, may tend, through God's blefing, to convince the careless of their error, to enlighten the eyes of the ignorant, and make their hearts glow with a generous and grateful fenfibility of the unfpeakable mercies wrought out for their falvation as on this day, and to which they may be entitled through the sufferings and mediation of the crucified Redeemer of the world". P. iii. The author has executed his defign, in a manner which evinces great piety of mind, joined with a very refpectable fhare of erudition; and we recommend this tract to the attention of all perfons, who have not been accustomed devoutly to meditate on the fubject of this important day. ART. 24. A Penitential Sermon, preached in the Spanish and Portuguese Jerus Synagogue, in Bevis-Marks, on 3d Hefvan, 5564, A. M. anfwering to the 19th of October, 1803, in conformity to a Royal Edit, appointing that Day to be obferved as a General Faft, and for the Purpofe of invoking by penitential Prayer, Succefs to his Majefty's Arms,. c. By J. Luria. 8vo. 32 pp. 25. Afperne. 1803. This is an English Tranflation of the Sermon preached in Spanish." It fhows, that the Jews confider themselves as under "an indispensable obligation to co-operate in the fecurity and welfare of the land they live in"; (p. 16) and," that they are confcious of the fuperior bleffings "See the Bishop of London's Sermon on the Religious Obfervance of Good Friday." which Providence has apportioned to this land". P. 17. Though we cannot fay that this fermon is either eloquent or argumentative, yet we may justly commend fome particular paffages in it; and especially the energetic maxim of the learned rabbins in their incomparable tenets of Abot :-"Conftantly pray for the peace and welfare of the kingdom and government; for if there were no fubordination, one should fwallow each other alive." P. 16. The fad experience of France has added one to the many proofs of the truth of this maxim; and it is not owing to fai-difant whigs, that another proof has not been added in England. ART. 25. Aferious aud off &inate Addrefs to the Seamen and Mariners, of the Port of Bofton. By a Fellow Townfman. 8vo. 16 pp. Kellaby, Boston. 1803. This is properly a Sermon, on James v. 19, 20. The good and pious intention of the writer is indifputable; but more than this is required in an author; in one who propofes to inftruct the public: namely, a knowledge of his fubject fomewhat accurate, reflection, judgment, argument, and found oratory, wherever (as in this cafe) oratory is requifite. But in these particulars the author before us is wanting; being fuperficial, defultory, and declamatory, in no moderate degree. His general reprefentations, alfo, are not quite correct. We trust, that our brave failors are not fo extremely and univerfally profane, as this writer fuppofes. It fhould be confidered, that one drunkard, or one man" belching out (as it is here elegantly expreffed) oaths and curfes", engages more notice, than twenty of a different character; yet he palles, with inattentive obfervers, as a fample of all the reft.* In another point, the author fhows himself unacquainted with fome excellent provifions lately established by law. The feamen of our merchant-hips have caught the infection [from the navy]. "Thus, the honett earnings of a voyage of hardship and danger, instead of going to the fupport of a wife and children, or aged parents, are too often fpent in riot and debauchery". P. 13. The navy fets them a very different example. For the ftatutes, 35 Geo. 111. c. 28; and 37 Geo. III. c. 53. having admirably well enabled feamen, &c. to allot part of their pay for the maintenance of their wives, children, or mothers; we have the beft authority for affirming, that these ftatutes have produced, and continue to produce, very general and extensively beneficial effects. POLITICS. ART. 26. Thoughts on the Object of a Foreign Subfidy. By John Wheatley, Efq. Svo. 46 pp. 15. 6d. Cadell and Davies. 1804.. "Men of the pen," fays Dr. Johnfon, have feldom any great fill in conquering kingdoms, but they have a strong inclination to give advice." *Perhaps, this obfervation is applicable to human life in general. That |