. SUPPLEMENT to the MONTHLY LISTS of Books and PAMPHLETS, lately published. ART. 7. The Hiftory of France. By Walter Anderfon, D. D. 4to. 11. is. Dilly, &c. It is to be regretted that, while Dr. Anderfon displays fome of thofe qualifications which might entitle a writer to rank with a Suetonius, an Eutropius, and many other diftinguifhed writers of antiquity, he wants thofe agreemens (to use a modish French term) of stile and compofition which have, of late years, fo powerfully recommended fome historical writers of lefs folid merit to popular favour. A faithful narrator of facts, impartially deduced from a variety of writers of different parties, interefts and complexions, is a much more valuable writer generally imagined, It requires a fufficient fund of fagacity to trace fuch facts to the bottom, without the hiftorian's setting up (as Voltaire and fome others of our own countrymen have done) for conjurers, to investigate the motives of them. ART. 8. An Efay on Liberty and Neceffity: In Afwer to Augufus Toplady's Tract, on what he calls Chriftian and Philofophical Neceffity afferted By Philaretus. 12mo. Is. Hawes. Of this effay a more particular account will be given in our next Review. ART. 9. The Hiftorical Mirror; or, Biographical Mifcellany. 12mo. 35. Bew. Wrttten, fays the compiler, for the inftruation and entertainment of youth; exhibiting the moft ftriking fentiments and examples on thofe branches of duty, in which they are particularly interested. ART. 10. Atlas Minimus illuftratus: Containing Fifty-two Pocket Maps of the World. To which is added a Defcription of the feveral Emtires, &c. Liliputian 4to. 4s. bound. Carnan. A work, calculated to make a figure in the minikin library of the late ingenious Mr. John Newbery: Unfortunately, however, for fo large a fubject, a Liliputian Atlas cannot, with any propriety, be fuppofed to carry the whole world. ART. 11. A Brother's Advice to his Sifters. 12mo. 3s. Wilkie. A more particular account of this work in our next number. ART. 12. The Elements of German Grammar. By the Rev. Mr. Wendeborne. 8vo, 38. Heydinger. One of the beft German grammars extant. ART. 13. New Geographical Tables. 8vo. 6s. Cadell. Mr. John Poloveri, the editor of thefe tables, hath here prefented the publick with a kind of geographical gazetteer in a different form "from thofe in common ufe. ART. 14. An Account of the new Northern Archipelago. Svo. 2s. 6d. Heydinger. This account is a tranflation from the German original of Von Stæhlin. The islands therein defcribed were partly discovered about thirty years ago by Bering and Tfchirikoff, between the 50th and 56th degrees of north latitude, in the feas of Kamfchatka; the others are are in the fame feas and thofe of Anadir, including the islands of ART. 15. The Adventures of Telemachus, written originally in French, To this tranflation is prefixed an effay on the origin and merits of thime; against which the writer feems to have fet his face, probably - for a reafon adopted by more than one of our blank-verfe poets.-At leaft we cannot difcern in this version any mark of the tranflator's abilities for writing in rhime; a neceffary proof, in our opinion, of poetical talents in general. ART. 16. A View of the feveral Schemes with Respect to America. 8vo. This writer, after taking a review of the feveral projects that have been started, for conciliating matters with the American colonies, propoles the plan of reftoring them to the fituation, in which they tood before the taking place of the ftamp-act, and of giving up, as impolitic, the right of the mother country to tax them. How far this may be thought expedient by our legiflators and rulers is as doubtful, as is the prefent practicability of it, were its expediency admitted. ART. 17. The Principles of a real Whg; written by the late Lord Molesworth, and now reprinted at the Request of the London Affociation. To which are added, their Refolutions, and a circular Letter. 8vo. 3d. Williams. The motives for this republication may eafily be gueffed at; if they are really as laudable alfo as reprefented, we with fuccefs to this, with every other endeavour of the friends to civil and religious liberty, to oppofe the introduction of popery and flavery. ART. 18. The Yankies War Hoop, or, Lord North's Te Deum, for the Victorious Defeat at Bofton, on the 17th of June, 1775, 4to. is. Bladon. A poor attempt at humour, on a fubject most seriously fad ! ART. 19, The Evidences of the Common and Statute Laws of the Realm, in Proof of the Rights of Britons. 8vo. 2s. Williams. A declamatory farrago of trite pleas and arguments in favour of the Americans. ART. 20. Confiderations upon the different Modes of finding Recruits for the Army. 8vo. 6d. Cade!!. From the title of this pamphlet, the reader might be led to fufpect it treated of the various arts of military kidnapping, practifed by the gentlemen of the halbert in their recruiting parties. The author, however, does not appear to be a fecond ferjeant Kite; what he means by finding recruits, being the raifing them for the public fervice, in a method thought most advantageous to government, and leaft burdenfome to the people. I ART. ART. 21. An Addrefs to the Public: setting forth, among other things, a Cafe of unlawful Imprisonment. 4to. 1s. Bew. The cafe of one Mr. Mawh, who has for many years been battling it with attorneys and folicitors; in a contest with whom, it is no wonder he finds they have got the best end of the staff. But his cafe is hopeless; there is no remedy. In an age and country, in which the legislature itself is corrupt, there is no profpect of any effectual check being given to the chicanery of the corrupter members of the executive part of the law. ART. 22. Some Memoirs of the Life of John Glover, late of Norwich. 12mo. Is. Hawes. Mr. John Glover appears to have been a piteous fanatic, whose life was not worth the writing, and whofe death deferved as little to be commemorated, by the publication of the fermon here printed, and faid to have been preached at his funeral.. ART. 23. Strictures on Military Difcipline. 8vo. 3s. fewed. Donaldfon. Thefe ftrictures abound with judicious obfervations, and appear to come from a gentleman of experience in the fervice, though not communicated to the greatest advantage in point of ftile and compofition. ART. 24. The laft Will and Teftament of the Chevalier Michael Descazeux du Halley, folio. 18. 6d. Jones. The Chevalier des Cazeaux, commonly called the French poet, was very well known for many years in London. He lived a confiderable part of his life on charity; but we are told, recovered at length fo much of his patrimony, as to enable him to discharge the numerous petty debts he had contracted, and to poffefs ftill fomething worthy of bequeathing in a laft teflament. Of the poor Chevalier's vanity, is told a drole Itory, in his being once in a great dilemma about laying out a small fum, beftowed on him for the purpose of purchafing a better pair of breeches; out of which at laft he was extricated by determining in favour of a feather to adorn his hat. His ufual extempore was Il n'y a que deux heros, Le Roy de Pruffe, et Des Cafeaux ! ART. 25. The Use of the Hydrostatic Balance made easy. By J. B. Becket, 8vo. Is. Robinfon. The defign of this pamphlet is to recommend the Hydrostatic balance in detecting counterfeit gold coin. To which end it contains feveral tables and calculations relative to the weight of gold. The author goes even fo far in his calculations as to affirm, that by the late recoinage of the gold, fome perfons have made no lefs a faving than a million fterling. By fuch as understand this fubject beft, however, which it must be allowed is attended with various difficulties; the impoffibility of fuch a fraud's being committed on the public, is pofitively afferted. At the fame time, every one that is but tolerably acquainted with experimental philofophy, muit well know that the defects both of the hydrostatic balance and tables of calculation, refpecting the specific gravity of bodies.. ART. 26 An Explanation and Proof of "The complete System of Aftronomical Chronology, unfolding the Scriptures." In a Series of Letters, ad drejfed dreffed to Mr. James Fergufon. By the Reverend John Kennedy, 8vo. 25. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy's fallacious fcheme refpecting chronology, has been fo long lince, and fo frequently fince, justly exposed and exploded, that our readers will readily excufe our entering particularly on the merits of his difpute with Mr. Ferguson, whofe aftronomical abilities and modeft merit, form a fingular contrast with the strange talents and rude manners of his reverend antagonist. ART. 27. The Ufe and Abuse of Sea Water impartially confidered. By Robert White, M. D. 8vo. 1s. Flexney. Great inconveniences and evils having arifen from the prefent prevailing fashion of fea bathing, and particularly from the indifcriminate ufe of it in all complaints whether in chronical or acute cafes; the world is much obliged to Dr. White for thus publicly writing a caveat against so perilous a practice; of the fatal effects of which he gives many inftances, his reflections thereon bearing all the marks of great obfervation and real experience. ART. 28. Introduction to the Study of Pathology on a natural Plan. By James Rymer. 8vo. 3s. Donaldson. We would advice this author to ftudy Pathology a little longer, himself, before he takes upon him to introduce others; the nature of his plan being almost as unnatural as is his ftile and dition; which is frequently out of nature indeed! ART. 29. Hiftory and Effects of the Aloedunian Drops. 8vo. 6d. Hawes. A fixpenny puff to a quack medicine; probably as efficacious as moft other of the aloetic compofitions. ART. 30. The Statue of Truth in the Garden of Allegory. 8vo. 15. Peat, A poetical addrefs to lord North, by one Mr. T. S. late of the cuftoms. We make no doubt that Mr. T. S. was a better customhoufe officer than he is a poet, if it be true, as he infinuates, that he loft his place for being too honeft. He fhould have confidered, however, that it is in thefe times a reproach to fuperiors for fubordinate officers to be too honeft; and as ill-judged and imprudent as it is to make choice of the language of poetry for the conveyance of truth. ART. 31. Ariftotle's Poetics; or Difcourfes concerning Tragic and Epic Imitation. Tranflated from the Greek into English. 8vo. 3s. 6d. DodЛley. Had our tranflator been more attentive to Horace's idea of the fidus interpres, he would not have fo clofely followed his author verbum verbo. The English reader will hence find a fiffness and inelegance of file in this tranflation; for which it is not otherwise easily to account. ART. 32. Dorinda, a Town Eclogue. 4to. 1s. Ridley. A young lady's lamentation at the approach of fummer, and her confequent retirement from the amufements of the town into the country. The poetry is at least as good as the fubject; which is too trite and hackneyed to give room for much difplay of poetic genius. ART. 33. The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. 4 vols. 8vo. 13s. Payne. The The text of this ancient bard appears, in this edition, to have been carefully revifed by a competent editor, whofe abilities as a critic and fcholiaft appear not lefs confpicuous in the notes and introductory difcourfe prefixed. In the fourth volume is given an effay on Chaucer's language and verfification; in which the editor defends him from the charge of having corrupted the English tongue by mixing it too much with the French. He defends alfo his author's verfification from many of the defects imputed to it, attributing thofe apparent fuperfluities and deficiencies to defign, which have been fuppofed the effect of inattention or inability. ART. 34. Codran and Cara; a Ballad. 4to. is. 6d. Longman. Well enough for a ballad, though not quite poetical enough for a fong.. ART. 35. The Widow of Wallingford; a Comedy of two Alts. 8vo. 1s. If this piece had, like fome other little performances of the fame kind, been entitled A Dramatic Satire, it would been more properly named; the want of plot and character not giving it a right to af fume the appellation and dignity of Comedy. ART. 36. The Confultation; a mock Heroic, in four Cantos. By James A fpirited and fevere fatire on certain perfonages, probably refiding in the vicinity of Glaftonbury; to the inhabitants of which neighbourhood, the circumftances of the tranfactions, here hinted at, may be well known; tho to readers in general the piece is too particular and local to afford entertainment. ART. 37. The Nativity of Chrift, a Sacred Paftoral. By J. M. 4to. 1 S. Nicoll. As we understand this author is advanced far into years, by the publication of an Ode written in his 78th year, which, though not very poetical is pathetical and fentimental, we the more wonder at his defcending to tread the puerile path of pastoral. It would perhaps be too levere to fufpect him of a tendency to verify the proverb refpecting the fecond childhood of old age; we fhall, therefore, leave our readers to pass their own judgment on the following few lines. "I think no fhepherd can more careful be, To keep his charge, and 'fend from harm, than me ; Where I the fun's hot beams could beft evade; Some beaft of prey (alas! I wail the deed) Indeed we do; notwithstanding, as critics, we have but little pity to spare. ART. 38. Twenty Difcourfes on various Subjects. By William Craig, The fubject of thefe fermons (which, with a good deal of merit, have yet nothing of novelty or fingularity either in fentiment or diction to recommend them) are as follows. The |