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Art. XIX. The Preceptor and his Pupils, Part the Third; or the most fa miliar Synonymes in the English Language critically and etymologically illustrated. By George Crabb. 8vo. price 5s. 6d. Boosey. 1810. WITHOUT stopping to canvass individual parts of this work which appear exceptionable, we readily acknowledge that it evinces conside: able diligence, information, and acuteness, and recommend it as an instructive school-book.

Art. XX. Loyalty enforced by Religious Motives; being the Substance of a Sermon preached at Uny-Lelant, in the County of Cornwall, on Sunday June 4th 1809, being the 71st Anniversary of the King's Birthday. To which are added some Remarks on two Discourses recently delivered in that Neighbourhood. By William Colenso, of Penzance. 8vo. pp. 70. price 2s. Vigurs, Penzance. 1810. THIS provincial discourse which was delivered in 1809 in the

western extremity of the kingdom, but, for some unspecified reason, not printed till another anniversary had elapsed, fully answers the title which it bears. It enforces loyalty by the motives of religion, and practical religion by those of loyalty. The text is 1 Peter ii. 17. The necessity of experimental piety, as well as of practical godliness, is very properly kept in view. The language, though not elegant, is impressive, and well calculated to arrest the attention of a plain country congregation.

On the remarks which are subjoined, and which fill 36 pages, we can say but little, The author appears to be a warm disputant, and zealously maintains the cause of the Wesleyan Connexion, to which he belongs.

The profits of this publication are to be appropriated to the use of the Penzance Dispensary, which was laudably instituted by the inhabitants of that town at the celebration of our national jubilee.

Art. XXI. Advice on the Study of the Law; with Directions for the Choice of Books. Addressed to Attornies' Clerks. 8vo. pp. 160. price 5s. boards. Taylor and Hessey. 1810.

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T is not very probable that many attornies' clerks' will prosecute the enlarged and unnecessary course of study here advised. The volume, however, contains so many useful suggestions, that, considering the manner in which the time and money of these gentlemen are usually expended, we do not hesitate to recommend it to their perusal.

Art, XXII. Sacred Hours: chiefly designed to illustrate the offices and doctrines of the Church of England. By J. Grant, M. A. 12mo. pp. 200, with 3 maps. price 7s. boards. Hatchard. 1809. THOUGH we cannot subscribe universally to the statements of doc

trine and fact in this volume, we can recommend it as 'an useful compendium of instruction for the members of the established church', particularly for those who are too young, too busy, or who occupy too low a station in life, to obtain access to more copious sources of information. It is extracted, with some alterations, from the Manual of Religious Knowledge, by the same author.

Art. XXIII. Marriage and Adultery considered. A sermon preached at the New Chapel, Stockwell, June 3, 1810. By Thomas Jackson. Published by request. 8vo. pp. 42. Price 1s. 6d. Maxwell. 1810. A DISCOURSE not very prominently marked by animated eloquence or close reasoning; but which contains many useful remarks, (though sometimes rather whimsically expressed) and which in point of tendency is unexceptionable.

Art. XXIV. A Compendious History of the Israelites. By Robert Atkins. 8vo. pp. 62. price 2s. Button. 1810.

THIS is altogether the most contemptible performance we have for a long time seen; and its perpetual insults upon sound principle and common sense would deserve a much heavier chastisement than its insignificance requires.

Art. XXV. The Conciliatory Address of Abraham to Lot; a Sermon preached at the Baptist Monthly Association, at Hackney, March 22, 1810. By Thomas Hutchings. 8vo. pp. 26. price 1s. Gale and Curtis. 1810.

THERE is so much good sense and such an excellent spirit mani

fested in this discourse, that we cannot help regretting it was not prepared for the public with a little more care. It strongly enforces the exercise of a peaceable disposition in our intercourse with the world in general, towards persons of different religious views, and in our habits of Christian fellowship. A few sentences we shall extract.

• The conduct of Abraham in this affair, was not the result of stoical apathy, nor of unprincipled tameness. Some men are not affected even by a real insult: Why? for the same reason as a rock does not complain when it is lashed by the foaming billows of the ocean. They do not feel. Some men hardly ever resent a real injury. Why? for the same reason that a lamb does not turn upon its butcher with the fury of a lion. It is not in their disposition. But it may be presumed that Abraham was a man of keen sensibilty. And we are furnished with the most brilliant evidence, that he who dared, for the rescue of Lot, to attack, with a few armed rustics, a numerous host, headed by princes, and flushed with victory, was not wanting in spirit. What we admire and recommend is not stoicism, but sensibility, conjoined with virtue; is not tameness, but energy, under the controul of religious principles.' pp. 14, 15. Art. XXVI. A Companion and Guide to the Laws of England, comprising Information collected from various Acts of Parliament, and judicial Decisions, down to the present Period, on the following important Subjects, viz. Actions, &c. &c. By a Member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. 12mo. pp. 200. Price 5s. Tompson and Co. Birmingham. Reed. 1810.

THE only thing respectable about this catchpenny, is the modesty of printing it as ill as it deserves.

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ART. XXVII. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION.

Gentlemen and Publishers who have works in the press, will oblige the Conductors of the ECLECTIC REVIEW, by sending information (post paid,) of the subject, extent, and probable price of such works; which they may depend upon being communicated to the public, if consistent with its plan.

The death of the Rev. Richard Ceeil having taken place during the progress of his Works through the press, it is intended to add a fourth volume to the three already announced. This fourth volume-consisting of remarks made by Mr, Cecil, in conversation, on a great variety of topics in life and religion-could not, from the nature of its contents, be published with propriety before his death; but, that event having now occurred, it is be-. come desirable to publish together all that will ever appear of his works. A memoir of Mr. Cecil will be prefixed to the first volume; and it is hoped the whole will be ready by Christmas.

In the press in two octavo volumes, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of the late Mr. William Smellie, Printer in Edinburgh, Secretary to the Scottish Antiquaries, F.R.S. &c. &c. Together with a selection from his hitherto unpublished essays; with an engraved portrait. By Robert Kerr, F.R.S. and F.A.S. Edinburgh. In 2 vols. 8vo. This work will comprise a view of the literary history of Scotland from 1758 to 1795, with numerous anecdotes of eminent learned Scotsmen, and accounts of many important, publications, in which Mr. Smellie was either directly concerned as sole or joint author, or which derived material aid from his acute critical skill and correct taste, in their progress through the press, during that interesting period of thirty-eight years.

It is earnestly requested from the surviving Friends and Correspondents of the late Mr. Smellie, and from the Families and Connections of such as are now deceased that they would have the goodness to transmit to Mr. Alexander Smellie, printer in Edinburgh, his son and successor, any letters and other writings, or memorials of his father, which they may still possess, that these may be employed to enrich the present work.

The Familiar Introduction to the Arts and Sciences, some time ago announced

by the Rev. Thomas Rees, will at his request, and on account of his other avocations, be speedily completed by the Rev. J. Joyce, in a duodecimo volume, illustrated by wood cuts and copper-plates.

A Missionary's account of Tonkin and Cochinchina will shortly be pub lished here in French, under the superintendence of a French gentleman of known abilities.

A Biographical Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers, in a duodecimo volume, is nearly ready for publication. It contains sketches of the lives of the most cele brated artists, ancient and modern; with an Appendix, from Vertue, forming a complete English School.

A new edition of Dr. Patrick's Terence is nearly ready for publication.

The British Novelists, with an Essay and Prefaces by Mrs. Barbauld, in fifty volumes, to correspond with the British Essayists, is nearly ready for publication.

Mr. Hewetson will shortly publish translation of Eliezer and Napthali, a posthumous work of Chevalier Florian.

Speedily will be published "Hints on Toleration in five Essays, submitted to the Right Honorable Lord Viscount Sidmouth and the Dissenters", in one 8vo volume.

The Baron de Geramb, now a Brigadier General in the service of Spain, has nearly completed a letter addressed to the earl of Moira on the subject of the Spanish cause, to be printed at his own expence and distributed among his friends. It is written in French.

Mess. Smith and Son of Glasgow will shortly publish a Catalogue of Books, including many articles highly interesting for their extre, pe rarity and fine con. dition.

Mr. Beloe's fifth volume of Anecdotes of Literature is now printing, and a great part finished. ·

Mr. Kidd's edition of Dawes's Mis

cellanea Critica is in considerable forwardness at press.

Speedily will be published in demy 8vo. and royal 4to. Ancient Poems, from MSS of the times of Elizabeth, now first published with an introduction, notes, and an appendix. By John Fry.

Speedily will appear in two quarto volumes, observations on Popular Anti-, quities, illustrating the origin, chiefly of our vulgar customs, ceremonies and superstitions. By John Brand, M. A. late Fellow and Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of London. The following extract from the Preface, written by Mr. Brand so long ago as 1795, explains the intentions of the proposed work. "In the year 1777, I published Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, a little work on this subject, which then had become exceedingly scarce and sold very high, making observations on each of his chapters, and throwing the new discoveries into an appendix at the end. That volume too, by those who have mistaken accident for merit, is now marked in catalogues at more than double its original price. In the following work, I have been advised to dissolve amicably the literary partnership under the firm of Bourne and Brand, and to adopt a very different plan, presenting to the public a collection, which, not only from the immense variety of fresh matter, but also from the totally different arrangement of the subjects, I flatter myself I may with equal truth and propriety venture to denominate an entirely new one."

Dr. Cogan intends to publish in the course of next month, the third volume of his treatise on the Passions and Affections of the mind.

M. Bertrand de Molleville is printing, in English, an Abridgement of the History of England, in the manner of Henault, in three octavo volumes; and he will afterward publish a volume of Chronological Tables, for the use of schools.

The New Edition of Dr. Johnson's English Dictionary, in two volumes quarto, which has been so long delay.

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In the press, Joseph a Religious Poem in blank verse, historical, patriarchal, and typical, with notes by the Rev. Charles Lucas. A. M. Curate of Ave. bury, Wilts.

A Monthly Publication is announced, to be called the Village Preacher. The first Number, containing two Sermons written on purpose for the work, will be published on the first of October, price sixpence.

Mr. C. P. Marks, teacher of the Hebrew language will speedily publish by subscription, a concise though compre hensive Hebrew and English Grammar with Points, intitled a Key to the sacred language.

In the press and speedily will be published in one volume royal 8vo. inscribed by permission to Lord Viscount Melville. The value of annuities from 11 to 10001 Per Annum, on single lives, from the age of one to ninety years, with the number of years purchase each annuity is worth and the rate of interest the purchaser receives for his money. And also for the information and convenience of the profession, and of Executors and Administrators, the amount of the several rates of Legacy Duty payable on the value of each annuity'; by Wm. Campbell Esq. Comptroller of the Le gacy Duty.

Mr. William Waller, Jun. a gentleman who has resided many years in Old Spain, has sent to the press, a work in which he gives an account of the present state of the Spanish colonies, and a particular report on Hispañola, the Spanish division of the Island of Santo Domingo, with a general survey of the settlements on the Southern Continent of America, their history," trade, navigation, productions, population, customs, &c. It is expected to appear in the course of the present

month.

Art. XXVIII. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY.

Agricultural Mechanism; or a Display of the several Properties and

Powers of the Vehicles, Implements, and Machinery, connected with hus handry: the whole familiarly arranged,

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and illustrated by Twenty CopperPlates. Dedicated to the Bath and West of England Society. By Capt. Thomas Williamson (Honorary Member) Author of the Wild Sports of the East; Mathematics simplified; and the East_India Vade-mecum. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

EDUCATION.

A defence of Mr. Joseph Lancaster and the Royal British system of Educa tion; or, half an hour's conversation between Lady Letitia Liberal and her old waiting woman Mrs Prudence Paradise, on the subject of "A dialogue between a Master and his Apprentice" occasioned by lectures on education delivered by Mr Lancaster in Bath in the month of February 1810, to which is prefixed Mr. Whitchurch's poetical epistle to Mr. Joseph Lancaster on his Royal British System of Education. price 1s.

FINE ARTS.

The Fine Arts of the English School: comprising a Series of highly finished Engravings, from Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, by the most eminent English Artists; each Subject accompanied by appropriate historical, descriptive, critical, or biographical Letter-press. Edited by John Britton, F. A. S. Number II. (to be continued quarterly) large 4to, 11. 1s.-atlas 4to. 11, 163,

GEOGRAPHY.

Cary's quarto general Atlas, No 16, containing Maps of the Cape of Good Hope, Upper Saxony and Lower Saxony. 3s. 6d.

HISTORY.

Annals of the Honourable East-India Company, from their Establishment by the Charter of Queen Elizabeth, 1600, to the Union of the London and English East-India Companies, 1707-8. By John Bruce, Esq. M. P. F. R. S. Keeper of his Majesty's State Papers, and Historiographer to the Ho" nourable East-India Company.3 Vol. 4to 41. 10s. Printed by Authority of the Hon. Court of Directors.

The Border History of England and Scotland, deduced from the earliest Times to the Union of the two Crowns, comprehending a particular Detail of the Transactions of the two Nations with one another ; accounts of remarkable Antiquities; and a Variety of in

teresting Anecdotes of the most considerable families and distinguished characters in both kingdoms, By the late George Ridpath, Minister of Stitchel. Revised, &c. by the late Philip Ridpath, Minister of Hutton. 4to 1l. 11s. 6d. boards.

JURISPRUDENCE.

Advice on the Study of the Law: with Directions for the Choice of Books; addressed to Attornies' Clerks. 8vo. 5s,

MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY.

Practical Observations in Surgery, illustrated by cases. By William Hey, F. R. S. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, and Senior Surgeon of the General Infirmary at Leeds, a new edition, corrected and enlarged, with additional plates. 8vo. 13s.

Synopsis Pharmacopoe Londinensis. 1s. 6d.

The Encheiridion Medicum, or Young Practitioner's Pocket Companion, being a Conspectus of the London, Dublin, and Edinburgh Pharmacopoeias, with a Collection of Formula, and the necessary Tables of Synonimes. By William Hamilton, M. B. foolscap 8vo. 6s.

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The Anonymous : a Periodical Paper, published in Dublin, now first collected. 2 Vol. 12mo. 12s.

The Conquest of the Miao-tse. By Kien-Lung. With the double translation of the Chinese into English, and Notes. By Stephen Weston, F.R.S,F.S.A. royal 8vo. 6s.

The Female Economist, or a plain system of Cookery for the use of Private Families by Mrs. Smith, 2nd edition 4s. boards.

A Letter to the Rt, Hon. Lord Teignmouth, President of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in Vindication of Reasons for declining to become a Subscriber to that Institution. By Chris

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