flection that they are neither refponfible to the writer whom they infult, nor the reader on whom they impose; that for this reason they disdained the fubterfuge of concealment; prefuming on the fortitude of being as little influenced by private prejudice as public profeffion; that uninterested in the fuccefs of particular productions, they engaged in fo arduous an undertaking, for the fake of literature in general, and would fuffer neither peculiar favour, nor even personal affection to pervert their judgment or prevent their impartiality. It is with pleasure they have received repeated proofs of the extenfive approbation their conduct hath hitherto met with in this refpect; although fuch proofs have been too flattering to permit of their own publication of them. A clamour, indeed, has been raised against the London Reviewers by the interested and mercenary, for having frequently given, in a few pages, the whole fum anđ substance of voluminous publications. But against this clamour they rely on the juftice of the public; on which popular writers and artful editors are too apt to impose their scanty volumes and loosely-printed pages, at a price too exorbitant for fo much waste paper. It has been in oppofition to the repeated requests of their correfpondents, that the Reviewers have hitherto forborn as much as poffible to admit of any attacks on 6 their their periodical rivals. The advantage their long esta blishment gives them over the London Review, rendered fuch an oppofition, however folicited, in the infancy of their institution, altogether imprudent. At the fame time, they prefume a comparison of the different Re views for the past year will not only fhew how much earlier all the principal publications have been noticed in the London Review than in the Monthly or Critical for the fame period, but will fufficiently prove the present work to be conducted on a more liberal and indepen dent plan than has been before adopted. To those who have already taken this work under their protection, the Authors therefore prefume it unne ceffary to say any thing more than to give them the af furance, that it fhall continue to be carried on with the fame inflexible impartiality toward the talents, persons, and principles of individuals, and the fame unremitted attention to the information and entertainment of the public. Archaelogia; or Mifcellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. By the Society of Antiquaries, London Wood's Effay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer, with a The Pilgrim; or, a Picture of Life. In a Series of Letters, written moftly from London, by a Chinese Philofopher, to his Friend at Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind, with introductory Effays, by Toplady's Scheme of Chriftian and Philofophical Neceffity afferted in Oppofition to Mr. John Wesley's Tract on that Subject Keeling's Fourteen Difcourfes, critical, explanatory, and practical, on Baruh's Examination of the Critica Sacra A Voyage to the Island of Mauritius, the Ifle of Bourbon, and the Philofophical Tranfactions, giving fome Account of the prefent Under- Dean Tucker's Letter to Edmund Burke, Efq; in Answer to his printed Speech, faid to be spoken in the House of Commons, on the 22d of Marmor Norfolcienfe; or, an Essay on ancient prophetical Inscription, Sharp's Verfes to the Right Honourable John Wilkes, Efq Freewill and Merit fairly examined; or, Men not their own Saviours Good News from Heaven; or, the Gospel a joyful found Mechanism of the Motions of floating Bodies, by Admiral Knowles Harrison's Defcription concerning fuch Mechanifin as will afford a nice or true Menfuration of Time; together with fome Account of the Attempts for the Difcovery of the Longitude by the Moon; as alfo an Account of the Discovery of the Scale of Mufick Remarks on Dr. Balguy's Serraon, preached in Lambeth Chapel, at the Confecration of the Bishops of Lichfield and Coventry, and of Answers to Correspondents AUGUST. 38 Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind, with introductory Essays, by Archaelogia; or, Mifcellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity. By the Society of Antiquaries, London. Continued A Voyage to the Ifland of Mauritius, the Ifle of Bourbon, the Cape Philofophical Tranfactions, giving fome Account of the prefent Under- takings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in many confider- able Parts of the World. Continued Memoirs of Guy Joli, Claudè Joli, and the Duchefs of Nemours Defcription des Royaulmes d'Angleterre et d'Efcoffe. Composé par Eftienne Perlin, Hiftoire de l'Entre de la Reine Mere dans la Grande Wood's Effay on the Original Genius and Writings of Homer, with a comparative View of the ancient and prefent State of the Troade. Rayner's Readings on Statutes, chiefly thofe affecting the Adminiftra- tion of public juftice, in criminal and civil cafes, paffed in the Reign |