Art. 34. An humble Addrefs to the Clergy of England, recommend ing a Method for the more speedy Augmentation of the Income of their indigent Brethren; and for rendering the Provifion of their Widows and Orphans more general, adequate, and certain. 8vo. Is. Beecroft. The neceflity of fome expedient for effecting the purposes mentioned in this title-page, is too generally felt; and every fcheme that is offered on fo interefting an occafion, must be confidered with candour by all the liberal and humane. The fubftance of this Writer's plan is as follows: Let every bishopric, living, benefice, &c. (how great or fmail foever, and under whatsoever denomination diftinguished) pay annually, at the Eafter-Vifitation, a deduction of 5 per cent. out of its amount, into the hands of a Clerk, or Treasurer, (fuppofe, if agreed to, the Clerk of the office of their refpective Arch-deaconries) to be applied to the following purposes: To the Relict of every beneficed Clergyman, of what degree faever, from a Bishop to a Vicar, or perpetual Curate of the lowest in'come, during their widowhood, (no annuity or eftate whatever, or any thing elfe, fave a proof of incontinency, difqualifying them from the receipt thereof) zol. per annum. To the fon or daughter of any beneficed Clergyman, at the age of fourteen, and more (or to every fuch fon or daughter at the age of twenty-one, whofe parents are both deceafed) 101. per annum. Salary to the Clerk or Treasurer, 101. • As in moft Archdeaconries this deduction of 5 per cent. will be found, I hope, in a few years, to exceed the above demands; let the remainder, as foon as ever it amounts to zool. be given to the parish of the leaft income within the archdeaconry, which, by the aft of Queen Anne, requires that fum to claim her bounty.' We with fincerely that fome fcheme of this nature might be adopted; and we fhall only mention one objection that occurs to us with regard to this; viz. that the relicts and orphans of Curates are left out of the queftion; thofe poor men, who have laboured in the vineyard, and have scarcely received a penny! Art. 35. The Savages of Europe. From the French. 12mo. 2 s. Davies. If a crazy Life-guard-man fhould foretell an earthquake, a Method, ift Preacher call our metropolis a fink of wickednefs, and doom it, like another Sodom or Gomorrah, to be confumed by fire and brimftone from heaven; there are many poor fanatic fouls, who would think them infpired by the fpirit of prophecy, and, blefling them for their informa tion, would either remove their families into the country, or pioufly betake themselves to their devotions, in order to avert the impending judgment. Nay, we have feen wifer heads than thefe, thrown into an univerfal defpondency by a North-country Parfon; whom they accord. ingly almost adored for about fix weeks, for telling them, they were a parcel of undone, miferable, luxurious, and enervated wretches. But tho' the English, like many other nations of a grave and faturnine cait, are fometimes well enough pleafed at being told they are unhappy, woe be to the impertinent Satirift who, like the Author of this piece, ventures to tell them, they are brutal, barbarous, and disagreeable. If the ingenious Tranflator of the Romance before us, had reflected on this diftinction of circumstances, he would hardly have thrown away fo much of his time, as was neceffary to equip his Frenchman's Savages in fo decent an English drefs. Not that this performance is devoid of spirit or humour, but we are not of the Tranflator's opinion, when he took it into his head, that, tho', in the fatire, the failings of Englishmen are exaggerated beyond all reason, yet it might, on the whole, be of fome ufe to his countrymen, to know in what light they are feen by foreigners." For we can perceive very little utility arifing from the exhibition of fuch caricaturas; as we do not think, in the firft place, that foreignes regard us in that strange light in which the extravagance of the Painter hath here placed our countrymen and if they did, it is fuch a falfe one, that we should be more likely to be exafperated, than amended, by that reflection. Add to this, that the English are at prefent become too confequential in their own opinion of their natural fuperiority, to fubmit, with any degree of refignation, to be fo feverely schooled by a Frenchman.. Fas eft ab hofte dceri, fays our Tranflator's motto; the truth of which we do not call in queftion; it may, indeed, be both lawful and poffible to reap inftruction from our enemies; but there is little probability of its being attained by means fo mortifying or contemptible, as the perufal of fuch indifcriminate fatire must prove to every national and public fpirited Englishman. To thofe Readers, however, whofe good fenfe and good nature may induce them to overlook the manifelt injuftice and partiality of the Satirift, this little Romance will afford no difagreeable entertainment. Art. 36. Letters from the Marchionefs de Sévigne to her Daughter, the Countess de Grignan. Tranflated from the French of the 12mo. 68. Coote.. laft Paris Edition. Vols. V. and VI. Having already recommended the former parts of this tranflation, we have only to add, that the prefent volumes appear to come from the hand of the fame Tranflator. Art. 37. A Critical Examination of the Evidence for and against the Prifoners Peter Calas, his Mother, &c. in relation to the Death of Marc Anthony Calas, and the cruel Execution of John Calas. Tranflated and epitomised from certain original authenticated Papers, never before made public. 8vo, 6d, Whitridge. The cafe of this unhappy family is already fo well known, and fo fincerely regreted by all Europe, that humanity fuffers by reflecting on To cruel an inftance of the barbarous effects of fanaticifm and miftaken zeal. When an evil is once paft remedy, to what purpose should it be placed in its most aggravating and horrid point of view? unlefs, indeed, by way of example to pofterity, and to prevent the like mifchief for the future. In this light, the prefent publication may have its use ; as it cannot fail of making every Reader, not totally divefted of fenfibility, fhudder at the thoughts of the direful effects of enthufiaftic prejudice and religious perfecution. With refpect to the information con tained tained in this pamphlet, it amounts to little more than has been already published on the subject. Art. 38. A Catalogue of Engravers, who have been born, or refided, in England: Digefted by Mr. Horace Walpole, from the MSS. of Mr. George Vertue; to which is added, an Account of the Life and Works of the latter. 4to. Strawberry-Hill. Sold by Bathoe*. This Catalogue of Engravers is written and published, on the fame plan as Mr. Walpole's Lift of Painters; it contains, however, much fewer personal anecdotes, and is therefore much dryer reading than his three volumes of Anecdotes; the whole being better calculated for the ufe of the Antiquarian than the amusement of a Reader of tafte, or a Lover of the polite Arts. Art. 39. Reflections on the natural and acquired Endowments requifite for the Study of the Law. And the Means to be used in the Purfuit of it. By By a Barrister at Law. 8vo. is. 6d. Worral, &c. We are forry that our limits will not allow us to give the Reader fo full an account as we could wifh of thefe judicious and ingenious reflections, which are conveyed in a very animated and elegant style. The Writer, in his introduction, takes notice, among other things, that In other profeffions and fciences, there are able and experienced Tutors, to direct the Pupils in the purfuit of fuch ftudies as are most fuitable to the sphere of action for which they are defigned. But Gentlemen, he continues, embark in the Law, just as the caprice of their friends, or their own warm imaginations dictate, without ever confidering the bent of their genius, or whether they are bleffed with qualifications adapted to the nature of the profeffion. And if their genius Should happily coincide with the ftudy, yet the difficulties they meet with, for want of a Guide, to point out the readieft way to knowlege, and to affist them in the purfuit of it, foon damps their imagination, and makes them fink into a fupinenefs, which renders them both useless to fociety and a torment to themselves.' In pointing out the natural and acquired endowments requifite for the entrance upon this study, and the cafieft and most proper means to be ufed in the purfuit of it, the Writer digefts his fubject under the following heads, and treats-Of Perception-Of Memory Of JudgmentOf Elocution Of Learning-Of a Univerfity Education Of Study Of the Choice of Books-Of attending Courts-Of taking Notes Of Common Place Books-Of Drawing Pleadings-Of the Crown Law Of Company-Of Diverfions-And, in the conclufion, he makes some obfervations concerning the proper time of the Student's being called to the Bar. Thefe feveral titles, which are judiciously arranged, are handled in a most masterly and agreeable manner and, upon the whole, we may venture to recommend this little treatise, as one of thofe very few pamphlets, which are worth reading, upon fubjects of science. For the Price, fee our account of Mr. Walpole's third volume of Anecdotes, in this month's Review. Art. Art. 40. Some political and literary Obfervations on reading fome of the Works of the Rev. Mr. Churchill; and particularly The Conference: In a Letter to that Gentleman. 4to. 2.s. Hinx man. Nothing can be more infignificant to the public than Mr. Churchill's politics, and nothing, certainly, more fuperfluous than political obfervations founded upon them. The literary reflections contained in this pamphlet, are just as valuable as the political ftrictures are useful. Art. 41. Anecdotes of polite. Literature. IOS. fewed. Burnet. 12mo. 5 Vols. Readers of refined taste, and finished erudition, need not hope for any entertainment from the volumes before us. Anecdotes, indeed, of Literature and of Men of Genius here are many, but they are, in general, fuch as lay open to, the fearch of common curiosity, and are therefore fufficiently known to those who have been conversant in biography and critical learning. Yet there may, without doubt, be many Readers, to whom fome or other of thefe Anecdotes may be new. To read every thing, even every valuable thing, that is published, must be the lot of few, and notwithftanding the methods we take to extend the reputation of every useful or ingenious work, many muft perish in the crowd of publication, that might contain fomething worthy of attention. He, therefore, who takes upon him the labour of felection, and gives us, in one view, what has been scattered through many different conveyances, merits, at leaft, the rewards of industry, which are not the lefs valuable because unenvied. Thefe volumes contain a great variety of critical animadverfions on the different fpecies of compofition; but as they are chiefly borrowed, they have no farther claim to our attention here. Art. 42. Accentus redivivi: Or, a Defence of an accented Pronunciation of Greek Profe; fhewing it to be comformable to all Antiquity; together with an Answer to the Objections of Mekerchus, Ifaac Voffius, Henninius, and other modern Oppofers of Greek Accents. By William Primatt, M. A, 8vo. 5s. borne, &c. This is a very diffuse and elaborate treatise, containing upwards of four hundred and twenty octavo pages in defence of the Greek Accemuation. What a waste of time and pains, of ink and paper! Yet poffibly it might amufe the Author, and help to deceive the hours of literary folitude-That, certainly, was the only good it could ever produce; for whether we ought to retain or remove the Accents from our future impreffions of Greek books, is a circumftance altogether unconfequential to the interests of Literature. Such of our Readers as are inclined to enquire into the merits of the debate concerning the ufe of Accents, may confult the eleventh and twenty-eighth volumes of our Review, where they will find a brief ac count of the principal arguments made ufe of by the Difputants on both ་ both fides -To introd Art. 43. The laft Will The tiny production of Art. 44. An Addrefs to of Cambridge, on the religious Society: With Steward. To which formerly of Chrift's C leian Collection) givi Circumftances attendi in King Charles the 8vo. 1s. Briftow. There is fomething threw his pamphlet is now no bet it never was of much greater Art. 45. A new Treatife of ing a rational and mathe and Nature of Aftronomy in divers and weighty prefent received Sytem ca Syftem will be humbly prop ed, whereby all the coeleft rally explained, and accour without that oblique and u nomers are obliged to fupp of the Mathematics, at Printed by Brice, in Ex It hath been more than once fashions in drefs, have their day velty and as little duration. A clude from hence, that even th or other as much exploded as th indeed have been the fate of fu fandy foundation of metaphyfic with thofe which are founded of ftration, and have their fuperft Had the above fuggeftion, indee would have reafon to be alarmed |