Art. 47. Love Fragments. A Series of Letters. Now firft Published. By Mr. Robinfon. Small 8vo.

Wallace. 1782.

2s. 6d. boards.

Thefe Fragments poffefs fomething of the tender and pathetic.At the conclufion is an Elegy, which is not deftitute of poetical me. rit. The following lines may be given as a specimen:

Come, penfive Mufe, weak child of Sorrow, hail!
Oh! touch with trembling ftrains thy fav'rite lyre:
In foften'd verfe record the plaintive tale;

"Breathe the warm with, and pour the fond defire."
And thou, fweet SYMPATHY!-indulgent maid!
Whose welcome fmile fufpends the gloom of woe;
Oh! come-in all thy native charms array'd;
Narfe the big drop, and bid it gently flow.
And ye, whose bosoms of fuperior mold,

Are taught no gen'rous impulfe to conceal ;
But when the tale of human grief is told,

Inftinctive soften-and grow proud to feel.
Ye whofe fine hearts with purer paffions glow,
And melting nature's genial balm fupply;
Oh! come-and, faithful to domestic woe,
Witness its plaints, and fpare it figh for figh.
Here no feign'd forrows, fwell'd with ftudied art,
From fond Humanity fhall fteal a tear;
The faithful bard accepts a humbler part,

Heaves his full breaft, and feels the throb fincere.'

Art. 48. O'Brien's Luforium: Being a Collection of Convivial Songs, Lectures, &c. entirely Original. In various Styles. With Characteristic cuts of the Author, Mufic to the Songs, Suggestions for promoting Convivial Enjoyment, &c. &c. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d. Durham, &c. 1782.

Calculated to fet the beer-tables in Covent-Garden and St. Giles's in a roar. The copperplates exhibit the Author in the characters [caricaturas] of a Methodist preacher, a foreign empiric, a Quaker holding forth, and an Irish priest.

Art. 49. An Effay on Genius. By the Rev. A. Purfhouse, M. A. 4to. 3 s. 6d. Dodfley. 1782.

Of this Effay the first part only is published; and the acceptance it meets with is to determine the publication of the fecond. We are forry to mortify the feelings of an author, by recommending it to him to walte no more time upon an attempt, in which we fear there is but little probability of his fucceeding.

Art. 50. Remarks on the Trial of the Right Hon. Anne Countess of Corke and Orrery, for Adultery, and violating her Marriage Vow. In a Letter to the Right Hon. Edmund Earl of Corke and Orrery. 4to. I s. Wenman.

There are few writers who could inveftigate a tranfaction of this fecret nature with more penetration than Lord Corke's correfpond ent; who has developed the intricacy of the evidence fo completely, as to be able to affirm in the refult," that Lady Corke is very in

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nocent, or very artful, refpe&ting the crime of which fhe has been accufed." Wonderful!

Art. 51. A Letter to Richard Hill, Efq; Member for the County of Salop; Author of the "Sky Rocket," Tables Turned," &c. The third Edition. 8vo. Is. 6d. Debrett. Confiderable alterations and additions appear in this edition of the Ludlow Burgefs's very tart, fatirical, vindictive letter,-befide the Supplemental tract, intituled, Remarks on the Parliamentary Speeches, Literary Productions, and Religious Opinions of Richard Hill, Efq. &c." To the whole is prefixed an ADVERTISEMENT, containing fridures and anecdotes, occafioned by two pamphlets, written in answer to his letter, viz. " A Reply," and "Curfory Remarks, &c." for the first of which see Review for December last; of the latter we could not procure a copy, though much enquired for by our Collector. Thefe tracts, difclaimed by Mr. Hill, he confiders as the productions, in the whole, or in part, of that Gentleman's pen, although profeffedly published, on his behalf, as the voluntary effufions of unfolicited, and even unknown friendship.-We fay this in reference only to the " Reply," which we have seen.

In the prefatory advertisement above mentioned, we observe a note, wherein the Author civilly acknowledges our impartiality in fpeaking of the preceding publications relative to this controverfy; but he adds an intimation, that fome" manoeuvres" had been used, to prepoffefs the Monthly Reviewers against the pieces written by the Ludlow Burgefs. Now, we must honeftly affirm, upon our credit (which is taking the whole property of the corps), that we know nothing of any fuch manœuvre; and that we really do not understand, nor can even guefs at, what the ingenious Author means by this intimation. If he would infinuate, that Mr. Hill had been tampering [we do not much admire that word] with us, either in behalf of his own writings, or against thofe of his fpirited opponent, we can affure the Reverend Burgefs (for we understand he is a clergyman), and we do hereby declare to the Public, that the worthy Member for Salop, fo far from making any application to us, did not fo much as pay us the compliment of fending us his pamphlet, intituled, "The Tabies Turned." It refts, therefore, with our Author to explain what he means by talking of a "manœuvre," made use of to prepoffefs the Monthly Reviewers against his [the Burgefs's] publications. -And now, pray Gentlemen, put up! Wherefore fhould you go on tilting, and pinking, and flashing each other's jerkins (as poor Yorick faid), for the diverfion of the bystanders ?

Enough of paper's fpoil'd-what floods of ink!" Art. 52. The Repository: A Select Collection of Fugitive pieces of Wit and Humour, in Profe and Verfe. By the most eminent Writers. 8vo. Vols. III. and IV. 6 s. fewed. Dilly. 1783. The two preceding volumes were announced to the Public in the Review for July 1777, page 81. The nature of the collection was then explained, and the pieces of wit and humour (of which the two volumes then published were compofed) were enumerated. Nothing more is therefore neceffary, on the prefent occafion, than to mention the titles of the feveral articles collected in these two additional volumes.

In the first volume we have-Bonnel Thornton's City Latin.-Plain English, in answer to City Latin.-City English.-Hall's Anodyne Sermon, and his Paftoral Puke -Dr. Armitrong's Efay for abridging the Study of Phyfic.-The Coronation, a poem-Advice to Mr. Logan, the Dwarf Fan-Painter.-Anjwer to ditto.-Table-Talk -Fragments of a copy of verses to Lord March and Lord George, fons of the Duke of Richmond, on their falling in the pool, through the ice, at Godwood, Jan. 1747.-Scheme for punishing Felonies-Imitation of the RAMBLER. - Three Imitations of the INSPECTOR.-Thoughts concerning Happiness, by Irenæus Kranizovius.

Several of the above pieces were originally published as pamphlets; and their characters will be found in the Monthly Reviews correfponding with their feveral dates.

In the fecond volume are republifhed, Smart's Hilliad,' a mock Epic poem, in ridicule of Dr. Hill, the celebrated Inspector.-Patrictifm, a mock Heroic, in fix cantos, firft printed in 1765.-An Effay on Nothing, by Henry Fielding.-Philofophical Transactions, for the year 1742-3. By the the fame.-Epifile to Gorges Edmond Howard, by George Faulkner, Efq; and Alderman.--Account of the progrefs of an Epidemical Madness.deroic Answer from Richard Twifs, Efq; to Donna Terefa Pinna Ruiz.-Archæological Epiftle to Jeremiah Milles, D. D.

Of thefe, too, the principal performances have been characterized in our Reviews; fome of them very lately.

VOYAGES and TRAVELS. Art. 53. An Account of a Voyage to the Spice Islands, and New Guinea. By M. P. Sonnerat, &c. With Notes. 12mo. 2s. 6d. fewed. White, &c.

1781.

From the title of this Work, the reader, who does not attend to the fize and price of it, might be led to infer, that it is a tranflation of the whole of M. Sonnerat's ingenious performance; which is a large quarto volume, ornamented with 120 copperplates-ab account of which was given in the Appendix to our 54th volume, pag. 546. It is, however, only an abridgment, or rather confifts of fhort extracts from fuch parts of the original work, as the tranflator and abridger thought the most inftructive and entertaining. Thefe extrafts are fucceeded and illuftrated by notes, which equal the text in bulk; and which fhew the annotator's extenfive reading and acquaintance with books of travels. He has added, too, a Latin index, or defcription of the various birds, plants, &c. that have been des fcribed and delineated by M. Sonnerat.

PHILOSOPHICAL.

Art. 54. Elements of the Branches of Natural Philofophy, connected with Medicine, &c.; Including the Doctrine of the Atmosphere, Fire, Pblogifton, Water, &c.; together with Bergman's Tables of Elective Attractions, with Explanations and Improvements. By J. Elliot, M. D. 8vo. 5 s. in boards. Johnfon. 1782.

Medicine is fo intimately connected with Natural Philofophy, of which, indeed, it is one of the branches, that those who practite that art ought certainly to be well verfed in the general principles of philofophy; particularly fuch of them as bear a near relation to the healing art. The poffeffion of fuch knowledge is not merely ornamental,

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and indeed ufeful in any ftation of life, but is, on innumerable occafions, abfolutely neceffary to a juft and rational practice. The prefent work, however, is principally intended for the ufe of those, particularly in the pharmaceutical line, who have not had the advantage of receiving a regular medical education; but who may, nevertheless, have fufficient leifure to acquire a competent knowledge of what may be called the neceffary branches of Natural Philofophy, properly felected from the common mafs, for that particular purpole.

This talk the Author has well executed in the prefent performance, which he has divided into three parts. In the firft, he explains the principles of philofophical chemistry; referring the Tyro for the merely practical part, to thofe works in which it is particularly taught. The Author has confiderably enriched this part of his work, with thofe valuable compendia of chemical fcience, the tables of the celebrated Profeffor Bergman, on two large fheets. The first thews, at one view, all the fimple elective attractions, and is divided into two parts; the upper exhibiting the bumid, the lower the dry way of chemical combination. The fecond relates to double elective attractions, and chemical operations. Thefe tables, we believe, have not yet been published in any English work. They are equally adapted to inform and exercife the ingenuity of the fludent, and to refresh the memory of the proficient in chemillry.

In the fecond part, the Author treats, but very briefly, of certain mifcellaneous fubjects, viz. of optics, fo far only as may tend to explain the functions of the human eye. The other articles, which are found, hydreftatics, and electricity, are fill more briefly dif cuffed.

In the third part, the Author treats of phyfiology, or what may be termed the philofophy of phyfic; fo far as relates to the structure of the human body, and the functions of its various parts.

It will not be expected, that we should more minutely analyfe an elementary work of this kind. It will be fufficient to fay, that it is executed the chemical part in particular-in a manner well adapted to inform thofe for whofe ufe it is intended. The more learned reader, too, will here meet with a few hints refpecting the theory of fire in particular:-a fubject on which it is well known that the ingenious Author has, at leaf, exhibited the powers of a very fertile imagination.

MEDICA L.

Art. 55. New Thoughts on Medical Electricity; or, An Attempt to difcover the real Uses of Electricity in Medicine, &c. 8vo. 1 S. Cumberlege. 1782.

The anonymous Author of this tract appears to have been induced to publish it, in confequence of a very remarkable cafe in medical electricity, which fell under his notice. The patient, in confequence of mifmanagement after a fracture, had entirely loft the ufe of her arm and hand; which had likewife become almoft totally infenfible, and were greatly wafted, fo as to refemble thofe of a skeleton.

Electricity was not applied till nine months after the accident; but, by courageously perfevering a very confiderable time in the ufe of it, the patient appears nearly to have obtained a cure; which

feems,

feems, from certain circumftances here related, not to have been owing to the powers of nature alone, but to have been effected by thofe of electricity. Powerful fparks were drawn one day, and strong fhocks on the fucceeding, alternately, under the direction of Mr. Long, Soho.- Sometimes the number of fhocks amounted to one hundred and fifty, and even to two hundred ;' [in a day, or at one fitting, we fuppofe] fo infenfible was the arm at that time. They were, however, fufficient in number and strength, to make the whole limb fwell exceedingly.'

The Author difcuffes feveral points relative both to the theory and practice of medical electricity. It will be fufficient for us to obferve, that his principal theoretical pofition is, That electricity is peculiarly adapted to the removal of rigidity, tenfion, &c. but pernicious in cafes of laxity;'-and that if medical philofophers had attended to this fingle circumftance, it had, long before this time, been brought into regular practice; and many miferable objects might have received the benefit of a relief, which the whole Faculty, armed with the most powerful medicines, were not able to afford.'

Art. 56. A Narrative of a fingular Gouty Cafe: With Obfervations. By John Lee, M. D. Phyfician at Bath, Member of the College of Physicians in London, and Fellow of the Royal Society. 8vo. 15. Evans, &c. 1782.

The circumftance chiefly remarkable in this cafe, is the depofition of a glutinous, foetid, green matter in the urine, by which the fymptoms of a wandering gout were repeatedly relieved. This fediment was in confiderable quantity, and fometimes continued for months together, during which time the patient was free from complaints, though advanced in years, and of a debilitated conftitution. The relater's Obfervations will not, probably, be thought very masterly or instructive.

Art. 57. Candid Animadverfions on Dr. Lee's Narrative of a fin gular Gouty Cafe. To which are prefixed, Strictures on Royal Medical Colleges: Likewife, a Summay Opinion of the late Disorder called the Influenza. By William Stevenfon, M. D. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Newark printed; fold by Dilly, &c. London. 1782.

Dr. Lee's" friend and countryman" has here published a critique on his Cafe, feveral times exceeding in bulk the cafe itself. Dr. Stevenfon is a writer of fo extraordinary a kind, as to puzzle a Reviewer to give any distinct account of his performances. With much rambling, extraneous matter, felf-conceit, petulance, and abfurdity, this pamphlet contains fome fenfible and fhrewd remarks. But, in fact, no writer has an easier task than one, who, cutting and flashing at all around him, confines himself to no plan of operation, and fits loofe to all ties of method and difcipline. We have met with feveral fuch, who, while they were tolerably fucceffful at raising a laugh against others, were themselves the most shallow and ridiculous of mortals. Dr. Stevenfon affects to fight under the banners of medical incredulity; and yet no one can pronounce more dogmatically than himself. He fuppofes a variety of names " Dr. will be given him, as a votary of this new Apollo; fuch as, Strange-man, Dr. Eccentric-man, Dr. Troublesome-man," &c. &c.;

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