But forms his judgment on this generous plan,
To fpeak with freedom is the right of man.
In peace and honour thus ferenely roll
His glorious days to life's extremeft goal,
And when, mature in years, mature in fame,
To fome bright offspring, worthy of his name,
The regal throne he leaves, embalm'd in tears
Of grief unfeign'd the reverend corfe appears;
Friends, children, fubjects, mingling fighs with fighs,
While each in energy of forrow vies,

And round his afhes as the palm they bind,

Bewail the friend-the father of mankind.'

Avaro and Tray. A genuine Tale. By Major Henry Waller. 4to.

15. Robinson.

The ftory contained in this little poem is, as follows: Avaro walking out with his gun, in frofty weather, the ice gives way with him, and he falls into a pond. Tray immediately runs to the house of Eugenio, and by his fignificant geftures prevails on that gentleman to accompany him to the place where his mafter lay almost drowned. Avaro being extricated from his difagreeable fituation, proceeds on his fhooting expedition, but without fuccefs: perceiving night coming on, and reflecting he had nothing to eat for fupper, kills for that purpose a tame magpye, the favourite of Eugenio. Tray is foon afterwards accufed of killing and eating part of a sheep;

Which sheep, moft likely, he had found
Dead-or, by accident-'twas drown'd.'

A farmer demands five fhillings of his mafter for fatisfaction, but he preferves a perfect confistency of character, and

At once by his-fagacious lord,

Poor Tray-was fentenc'd to the cord.'

The author informs us that the ftory is true, and that he compofed the poem in lefs than ten hours; and we give full credit to both affertions. As to the first, to our difgrace be it fpoken, fimilar inftances of barbarity towards the brute creation are constantly to be met with; and a visible deficiency of the lima labor affures us of the latter. The mode of pointing adopted by this gentleman is reprehenfible. We can fee no kind of ufe in the long paufe or break often placed, as the reader must observe, in the four lines we have quoted, when not even a comma was required. Numberless inftances of a fimilar kind might be felected. A jeu d'efprit however, like the prefent, merits not the rigour of criticifm. Its intention is good, and fuch a character as Avaro's deferves to be tigmatized.

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Ode to Robert Brooke, Ffq. occafioned by the Death of Hyder Ally. By Eyles Irwin, Efq. 4to. 15. 6d. Dodley.

The measure adopted by Mr.' Irvine is of a peculiar kind, and firft ufed by Mr. Jones, in the tranflation of a Perfian ode. The prefent opens in a style truly Oriental, and we apprehend rather approaching towards the bombaft.

Soft as the breath of zephyrs warm,
That fteals along the winding vale,
The rumour of his fortune came ;
Till, like the foreft-rending ftorm,
The air was loaded with the tale,

That veil'd in death the tyrant's fhame.'

On the whole, this performance has more merit, confidered as a tribute to friendship, than as a facrifice to the Mufes.

The Encomium, a Poem. Addreffed to his Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales. 4to. Is. 6d.

Bew.

A miferable performance, written probably by the author of a poem entitled Peace,' of which we gave an account in our Review for February laft, page 153. That indeed exhibited a greater variety of defects; for but little more can be faid against the prefent, than that it is a continued string of abfurd images and turgid expreffions.

Verfes to the Right Hon. William Pitt. 4to. IS. Debrett. This verfifier is fuch an adept in the art of writing obfcurely, that we must defer paffing judgment upon his production until his meaning be explained.

Poems on various SubjЯs. By John Powell, B. A. 8vo. Na Price, or Bookfeller's Nane.

Thefe poems confift chiefly of odes and elegies, but in none of them do we meet with any emanation of genius. The odes are deftitute of fpirit, and the elegies of pathos.

The Death of Sir Barnard Turner, Knt. An Elegiac Tale.

Printed for the Author.

A more wretched attempt at elegy can hardly be conceived.

Vanity of Fame, a Poem. 4to. 2s. 6d, Murray.

Is.

This poem is avowedly written in imitation of Pope's didac tic Effays; and the author has copied his model with a degree of fuccefs. That he is a young writer, defective as yet in judicious arrangement, and not free from inaccuracies, is evident in feveral places; but in these refpects it is poffible that he may improve; and when his own poetical fund increases, he may avail himself lefs of the affiftance for which, in this poem, we find he has on fome occafions had recourfe to Mr. Pope.

Cadwallerian Elegies. 4to. 35. 6d. Rich.

The defign of this production is convivial humour, in which the author's talents feem not unaccommodated to his purpofe; but its tendency is often fo immoral, that it muft neceffarily incur our reprehenfion.

A poetical Epifle to a Friend in the Country. 4to. 15. Faulder. In this Epiftle there is no regular plan, nor any variety of interefting obfervations. Some paffages likewise feem to want emendation, particularly the following couplet :

• But
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HE, whofe eye thro' Nature's womb can dart

A Spark divine, infus'd in ev'ry heart.'

We cannot by any means applaud this writer's animadver fions on the very eminent author of the Lives of the English Poets, whofe works, notwithstanding fome, few peculiarities, will defcend to pofterity with applaufe, and confer an honour on the country and the age in which he lived.

The author of this Epiftle is far from being a defpicable poet. The general ftrain of his verfification is elevated and harmonious; and as this is faid to be his first performance,' there is no doubt, but that he is capable of producing a work of much greater importance than the prefent.

MEDICAL.

Cafes in Surgery; with Introductions, Operations, and Remarks. By Jofeph Warner, F.R. S. Fourth Edition. 8vo. 6s, in Boards. Johnfon.

The reputation of this volume is already fufficiently eftablifhed. It is now only neceffary to obferve, that the prefent edition is fomewhat augmented. Several cafes are published in it, to enforce the author's opinion, that in concuffions of the brain only, the application of the trepan, on the wounded part, is effentially neceffary. Indeed, if the fymptoms are alarming, and any particular part feems to have fuffered by the blow, the precaution is certainly proper; but it cannot, and on many accounts it should not, be an univerfal rule.

Some cafes, in which the operation for the empyema was performed fuccefsfully, are now added. In thefe, the diagbofs was remarkably clear; but the event was not always fuccefsful. In the only inftance of hydrops pectoris it failed. We have already confidered this fubject, in our review of the second volume of Mr. Bell's Surgery, and the facts of our prefent author do not difprove our arguments, or materially affect our pinion.

The next fubject is the effects of an ounce of tinctura thebaica on a man. They are nearly the fame as Dr. Mead found when opium was given to a dog. The pulfe was remarkably flower, The diffection of a fcrophulous patient, and the ope

ration for the bubonocele, afford nothing very particular. In the last instance, a mortified part of the omentum was cut off, without any fupervening hæmorrhage. The laft cafes are of ftones formed in the urethra, and efcaping fpontaneously by laceration two plates, more particularly defcriptive of their appearance, are also fubjoined. On the whole, there is much practical information in this volume; and the additions certainly deferve attention.

Obfervations on Poifons; and on the Ufe of Mercury in the Cure obftinate Dyfenteries. By Thomas Houlton, M. D. 8vo. Baldwin.

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This little pamphlet chiefly confifts of cafes, already public, in different collections, and now first brought together into one view. The whole is introduced by a fummary account of poifons in general, in which we find little that is remarkable. On the fubject of mineral poifons, our author's chief object is to recommend a folution of an alkali to decompofe the falt, and to render it lefs offenfive. This it will in fome measure effect in corrofive fublimate, the common medicine employed; but in emėtic tartar, and a few other metallic falts, it may rather increase the injury. We by no means think that it will be useful in making arfenic more foluble; and perhaps fulphur might, on that account, be more efficacious.

The effects of the Iremlock dropwort, we have already confidered. Our author has added a plate to diftinguish it from the bunium bulbocaftanum, or pignut; but has not, in other refpects, materially elucidated the fubject. The directions for recovering those who are dying from the effects of fpirits, confift in the applications of different ftimulants, and the warm bath. We are furprised that, in obviating the effects of fedative impreffions, he has not fully infifted on the good confequences which are faid to refult from immediate immersion into cold water perhaps the efficacy of no one remedy is better eftablished.

In the canine madnefs, our author recommends falivation but he has not properly limited the time for ufing it, nor urged fo ftrongly as he ought, the neceffity for deep fcarifications, large difcharges from, or even extirpation of, the part bitten. In obftinate dyfenteries, he advifes alfo the use of mercury; but, from his cafes, the remedy feems to be confined to thofe in whom the difeafe is complicated with a biliary complaint, by which it is probably fupported. This little mifcellaneous pamphlet concludes with an account of Dr. Maryatt's dry Five grains, confifting of equal parts of blue vitriol and tartar emetic, produce no very fevere operation This may appear furprifing; but we can confirm Dr. Houlton's account from our own experience.

NOVEL S.

The Sentimental Deceiver; or, History of Mifs Hammond. By a Lady. I 2mo. 35. Lane.

This is faid to be the first effay of a female pen, and of one who, froin a fituation of affluence and elegance, is unfortu nately reduced to a reliance on the generofity of her friends for maintenance and fupport.' At this relation, Criticifm muft drop her pen, and fmooth her wrinkles: every fault is foftened into a kindred excellence, and every beauty magnified. We know not whether it is owing to the author's own ftory, but we think we perceive in this little volume fome tenderness and delicacy a moral tendency enforced by examples, perhaps too common, but certainly interefting and entertaining. Imogen, a Paftoral Romance, from the ancient British. 2 Vols. 55. Lane.

Whether this be really a tranflation from the Welth, and the original of great antiquity, as the editor affirms, it is impoffible for us to determine without farther evidence. But we do not hefitate to pronounce that it abounds with tender fentiments, pleafing defcription, and an innocent fimplicity of manners.

DIV INJT Y.

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The Scripture Lexicon or a Dictionary of above Three Thousand proper Names of Ferfons and Places, mentioned in the Bible; with the Etymon or Derivation, and the Defcription of the greater Part of them, divided into Syllables: with their proper Accentuations, Together with the Explanation of many Words and Things in the Bible, which are not generally underflood. 8vo. 3s. 6d. served. Johnfon,

In this Lexicon the compiler has divided each word into fyl Jables, and marked it by an accent, in order to ascertain the pronunciation. He has then fubjoined the derivation, and Tuch other geographical, biographical, and hiftorical remarks, as may be of general utility, We have feen several former publications, refembling the prefent, in the etymological part: namely, an Alphabetical Table of Names mentioned in the Scriptures, compofed by Robert F. Herrey, and annexed to an edition of the Bible, in quarto, printed in 1578; an Interpretation of Names, &c. by Ed. Lyford, in 1655; an Alphabetical Explanation of Names, &c. fubjoined to Calmet's Dictionary; and fome others. But the prefent work is formed upon a more extenfive plan.

Our author, in his etymologies, feems to have followed mafter Herrey too implicitly. Take an inftance from the first

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A'B-A-NA (i. e. fiony; a building; father! I beseech now.) A river of Damafcus in Syria. Its fource fuppofed to be at the foot of mount Libanus towards the east,'

Hebrew