Thefe dark, wafte hours allow the reftlefs Ghoft. In late and vain remorfe may vengeance dread. Thy promife, ah, falfe Promifer of joys!" How coud't thou break, to crush my rifing years How coud'ft thou fay my lips, in early bloom, Hark! the Cock crows!-the warning note he gave?' Now fing the Birds, and from the purpling East, And to the tomb, the fatal tomb, is flown, to Headlong he falls on the diffolving Clay. Thrice calls heJULIA in a piercing found; w b --- The The next poem, by Mr. Leyden, of a very different caft, affords a pleafing recollection of an ingenious poet, now abfent from his country: and has also much merit. STANZAS Written by Mr. Leyden before his departure to Madras, on the fillowing given Line from Chaucer, "Harde is his herte that lovith nought." As flow the waning year retires, And I, who once in frolic mood, Torn from thy circling arms afar, Too dear thy love can ne'er be bought, More hard than his that loveth nought."" P.12. London, January, 1803. A poem entitled Glendalloch, by Dr. Drennan, which occurs within a few pages of thefe, contains ftrong marks of genius, and rifes occafionally to fublimity; but we are forry to obferve, that it breathes a violent fpirit of hoftility against that glorious public measure, the union of Great Britain and Ireland. The author appears convinced that his country was made for an independent ftate: but furely this is the dream of partiality rather than the decifion of wisdom. Much happier and greater may fhe be, indiffolubly united with that Sifter, who gives and receives a ftrength which nei ther could poffefs in feparation. The following very elegant poem, with its melancholy appendage, fpeaks strongly for the heart as well as the genius of the writer, and deferves our favourable notice. HORACE, ODE 7, BOOK 2, IMITATED. To Mrs. W. Bofcaren, written in the Summer of 1803. "Thou, who if Heav'n, that join'd our hands, Ordain'd me far to roam, Though yet, unbroke by care and pain, + Whichwood, in thy romantic fhades, But this our wayward lot denies : (Where late we joyed to rove) * Septimi, Gades aditure mecum, &c.” Whichwood Foreft, in Oxfordshire, where the Author's father had a lodge." + "Unde fi Parce prohibent iniquæ, Dulce pellitis ovibus Galefi Flumen, et regnata petam Laconi Rura Phalanto. Ille terrarum mihi præter omnes, Angulus ridet, &c.** ERIT. CRIT, VOL. XXVIII. DEC. 1806. . Dear Dear chofen fpot! where shelter'd vales There focial blifs, when hearts unite, On + There, when the vital spark decays, And, if befide my couch fhe ftand, Grafp her with trembling failing hand, EPITAPH, W. B. In Mary-le-Bone Burying-Ground, on the Lady of William Bef cawen, Efq. who died April 14, 1804. Kind, tender Mother!-fond and faithful Wife! Here wait the meed that crowns a well-fpent life. E'en now, perchance, thy fpirit foars above, To meet each dear departed Pledge of Love. O! may thy widowed Partner, when the doom Of righteous Heav'n configns him to the tomb, Here, where his loved lamented CHARLOTTE lies, With her in peace repofe-with her to blifs arife !! P. 52. We are pleafed to fee among the fugitive poems, fome recalled to notice, which have been long difficult to be procured; particularly the prize poem of Dr. Butfon, now Bishop of Clonfert, on the Love of our Country, (P. 397). We cannot undertake an accurate comparifon, but we are inclined to think that this is the beft volume we have feca; and we hope it may be continued with equal fpirit. TIBULL. Te teneam moriens deficiente manu. That the above with cannot (alas!) now be fulfilled will be feen by the following Epitaph." "The Author had loft fix children." ART. ART. VI. Converfutions on Chemistry. In which the Elements of that Science are familiarly explained and illuftrated by Experiments. In Two Volumes, with Plates in Outline. 12mo. pages 526, and 289. 14s. Longman, and Co. 1806. NOTWITHSTANDING the numerous elementary publications on the fubject of chemistry, which have appeared within these few years, we are decidedly of opinion, that the prefent work, written by the hand of an anonymous female, is likely to prove a ufeful and valuable acquifition to the lovers of that enchanting fcience. It is not from the difcuffion of the most intricate branches of chemistry in a full and complete manner, or from the account of new facts, that the merits of this work must be derived; but from its anfwering, in the completeft manner imaginable, the object of its title; that is, from its explaining the elements of chemistry in an easy and familiar manner. The perfpicuity of the ftyle, the regular difpofition of the fubject, the judicious felection of illuftrative experiments, and the elegance of the plates, are fo well adapted to the capacity of beginners, and efpecially of those who do not wish to dive deep into the fcience, that a more appropriate publication can hardly be defired. The work confifts of two volumes, in which the elements of chemistry are divided into fections, or, as this author calls them, converfations; and are explained under the form of dialogues, between a teacher and two pupils. Eleven of thefe converfations are contained in the first, and twelve in the fecond volume. Eleven fmall plates are contained in the two volumes. Thefe exhibit the outline only of fome inftruments, preparations, experiments, &c.; but they are executed with great neatnefs, by the masterly hand of Lowry. In the preface, this author acknowledges herfelf a woman, offers her work principally to the female fex, and modeftly declares, that as her knowledge of the fubject has been but recently acquired, fhe can have no real claim to the title of chemift. By attending By attending a courfe of chemical lectures fhe became acquainted with the rudiments of that science. But *We fuppofe we do not hazard much in conjecturing the very ingenious female to be Mrs. Bryan. The author has gone fo far as to call herself Mrs. B. U u 2 her |