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Dr. T. has given a flight hiftory of the principal difeafes, and has fubjoined prefcriptions adapted to their feveral natures. biftories are generally exact, and the remedies are judicious.

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Art. 34. The New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages. In two Parts, I. French and English;-II. English and French. By Thomas Nugent, LL. D. The Sixth Edition, carefully revised and corrected, by J. S. Charrier, French Mafter to the Royal Academy, Portsmouth. Small Quarto. 4s. bound. Dilly. 1791.

Our account of the fecond edition of this very useful portable dictionary, may be feen in the fiftieth vol. of the M. Rev. p. 68. ; to which we now refer for particulars that we may, on this occafion, fpare ourselves the trouble of repeating. The uncommon fuccefs which this abridgment of the greater dictionaries has experienced, is evident from the number of impreffions that have been already demanded. To the prefent edition is annexed the following poftfcript to the editor's preliminary advertisement:

Few books have been more affiduously improved in fucceeding editions, than this dictionary. So numerous are the additions, that there is danger left it should no longer continue to be a pocket dictionary. Its fmall fize was, however, a great recommendation; and to preferve it in that fize, it is now fo contrived, that the fupplement may be fubjoined or omitted, at the option of the purchafer. As the fupplement chiefly concerns thofe who are in the navy and army, it may be entirely omitted by others who are not in that line, and who wish to avoid whatever fwells the volume with extraneous matter, not effentially neceffary to bind up with the dictionary, though ufeful to officers, &c. The Supplement may be had in a separate state.

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The reader will, of course, advert to one great improvement in this edition, the introduction of many phrafes which are very ufeful, but which never appeared in any preceding edition,'

Art. 35. Sententia & Hiftoriæ, binc inde excerptæ. Quibus fubjiciuntur thefes quædam & verfus, in ufum tironum. 12mo. pp. 42. 1s. Bound. Dilly. 1792.

This little work appears very well adapted for the use of boys who are beginning to apply the rules of Latin grammar.

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Art. 36. Excerpta Hiftorica ex C. Julio Cafare, T. Livie Patavino, &C. Cornelio Tacito. In ufum fcholarum. 12mo. pp. 428. 35.

fewed. Dilly. 1790.

These extracts appear to be judicioufly felected, and the readings carefully regulated.

Art. 37. A Summary of Geography; and Claffical Geography: being
the Second Part of a Summary of Geography, ancient and mo-
dern. For the Ufe of the lower Claffes of a School near Town.
Small 8vo. 2 Vols. 4s. bound. Dilly. 1791.
These two volumes form a judicious abridgment of ancient and
modern geography, properly adapted for the ufe of the lower claffes

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in fchools, as the title page fairly fets forth, without oftentation of parade.

POETRY and DRAMATIC.

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Art. 38. Monody to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, late Prefi
dent of the Royal Academy, &c. &c. &c. By Mrs. Mary Ro-
binfon. 4to. Is. 6d.
Bell. 1792.

Another poetic tear bedewing the hearfe of Sir Joshua - Mrs. Robinson has already obtained from us a wreath of laurel; and we feel a pleasure in being now able to enrich the garland by an added tribute of commendation. The Monody before us deferves and meets with our fincereft praife. The poetry is good, the numbers are pleasingly harmonious, and the apparent heart-felt affection, which animates the diction, impreffes the reader's mind with the most agreeable fenfations. We were alfo gratified with reflecting, that the praife here beftowed by the Mufe on her fifter art is not merely poetical. Mrs. R. very happily and very justly describes the Painter's excellence, in the following lines:

Tafte, feeling, character, his pencil knew,

And Truth acknowledg'd e'en what Fancy drew.'

In p. 11. addreffing herfelf to her Mufe, fhe illuftrates, in very
beautiful imagery, the infufficiency of her poetic efforts to add to
the luftre of fo diftinguished and fplendid a genius, and difcrimi-
nates between the value of the poet's and the public's praise :
⚫ Canft thou with brighter tints adorn the rose,
Where Nature's vivid blush divinely glows?

Say, can't thou add one ray to Heav'n's own light;
Or give to Alpine fnows a purer white?

Canft thou increase the diamond's burning glow,
Or to the flower a richer fcent beftow?
Say, canft thou fnatch by fympathy fublime,
One kindred bofom from the grafp of TIME?
АH, NO! then bind with cyprefs boughs thy lyre,
More be its chords, and quench'd its facred fire;
For dimly gleam the POET's votive lays,

Midft the vast fplendours of a NATION'S PRAISE !'

The graces of pathetic verfe' feem, in this Monody, to be affembled round the tomb of BRITAIN'S RAFFAELLE; and the invocation to Sir Joshua's pupils to protect his fame, founded on an endmeration of thofe feveral virtues which are urged as obligations to this protection, forms a pathetic and beautiful conclufion to the poem:

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Who living own'd the virtues of his heart,
Who mark'd the rising glories of his art,

STILL GUARD HIS FAME! and when, as foon ye must,
Like him ye mourn, fade to your native duft,

May the fond MUSE, to WORTH and GENIUS true, WITH EQUAL JUSTICE FORM A WREATH FOR YOU!' We have fo often met with as foon ye must rhiming to duft, on tomb-ftones, that the phrafe ftrikes us as too common and vulgar for an elegant poem. Confidering the attention which Mrs. R. has paid to her rhimes, we were furprized to obferve, in p. 8, charm used as a rhime to form. The too frequent repetition of the word glow, in fo fhort a poem, likewife difpleafed us:

⚫ Canvas glows'

Bofoms proudly glow.'
Beauties glow.'

Nature's blush glows."
Diamonds glow.'

It has been remarked, that critical commendation generally has a fting in its tail. The defects here pointed out are of io trivial a nature, that the conclufion of this article cannot be felt by the fair author as a fting. On Mrs. R. we are perfuaded, the hint of friendly criticifm will produce no unpleasant fenfation, nor will it be thrown away. Moo-y.

Art. 39. L'Avocat du Diable: The Devil's Advocate; or SATAN verfus PICTOR. 4tc. PP. 19. Is. Johnfon.

A humourous parody on fome proceedings in the caufe, Lord Lagainst P. Pindar; who had, in the exuberance of his imagination, liken'd his L- p to Lucifer. Here the Prince of Darkness takes offence at the comparifon; the caufe is brought into the court of Uncommon Pleas; and thus the counfel for his infernal highness fets forth his client's complaint against the brotherartists, the painter and the poet :

But limners, 'bove all the calumnious race,

Are ever distorting his figure and face.

With ev'ry thing ugly his likeness they load;

He's fometimes a cormorant, fometimes a toad.

Here, a fire-fpouting dragon, he rides on the air!

A forky-tongu'd fnake, on the ground, he crawls, there!
Ev'n then when, to answer fome fanciful plan,

They let him appear in the form of a man;

So droll, or fo dreadful a figure they make him,

That none of his friends for the DEVIL can take him.

He's now a Mulatto, in colour and shape;

And now has the hair, and the foout of an ape.

This day, he appears with the horns of an ox;

The next, with the tail of a monkey or fox:

His limbs are mishapen; his feet are but paws;

And his hands, 'ftead of fingers, are furnish'd with claws !
Yet all this, I fay, he has patiently borne,

And treated his fland'rers with infinite fcorn:

'Till now, that a varlet has plac'd on his shoulders
The head of a LORD,-to the fcorn of beholders!
Nay, ftill he would wink at the horrid tranfgreffion
Of the rules of coftume, in the painting-profeffion,
If he were not afraid, left some infolent neddy
Should-to a LORD's head add the rest of the body.
He, therefore, has begg'd, I would take up his caufe ;
And claim the protection of Justice and laws:
For he fwears that he'd rather be painted a bog,
A crocodile, Snake, falamander, or frog ;

Or any thing else, how much ever abhor'd;

Than appear in the form of a pitiful LORD.'

A delicate vein of pleafantry runs through this performance: but hard is the fate of him who is the object against whom the allied powers of a Pindar and a G-s are exerted: Peter knocks him down with a fledge hammer; and then comes Monfieur L'Avocat du Diable, and runs him through and through, with a fharp-pointed lance,

"As fine as a needle, and keen as a razor.”

Art. 40. The Gibraltar Monkies: or, "The Rights of Man." A Fable. By Jonathan Slow, D. D. F. R. S. &c. Dedicated, by Permiffion, to the Right Hon. Edmund Burke. 4to. Is. 60. Jeffery. 1792.

The author of this political fquib has fome humour, but much of it is enveloped in obfcurity; at leaft his wit, in feveral inftances, lies too deep for our penetration: we hardly perceived the drift of his performance, till we arrived at the clofe of it, where we obferved poor Tom Paine to be a principal object of his fatire ;Paine, at whom our minifterial pamphleteers, and news-paper witlings, are daily aiming their invective and ridicule ;-Paine, who may cry out with Shakespear's fat knight, "Men of all forts take a pride to gird at me !”

Although we have allowed this fabulift a degree of humour, we cannot much commend his poetry; for even in doggrel verfes, in which very odd rhymes are fometimes held excufable, we hardly know how to tolerate fuch forry jinglings as the following; P. 1. Horizontal - Longtail. P. 11. Curfe-Fafs.

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4. Great First-Unjust.

8. Burft-Luft.

15. Solder-Order. -27. Bathe in-Play-thing.

The writer who, while he afpires to the name and dignity of a POET, poffeffes an ear and taste that can be fatisfied with fuch rhimes as the foregoing, ought to confine his attempts to blank verfe:-yet we fhould hardly expect much harmony from his productions, in any species of verfification.

Art. 41. The Monkies in Red Caps, an old Story; newly infcribed to the Club of Jacobins: by Timothy Thrum, Efq; Verfe-capper to the Affiliated Society at Mother Red-cap's. 4to. pp. 23. is. 6d. Debrett. 1792.

Mr. Thrum appears to be no well-wisher to the efforts that have lately been made by the French to establish for themfelves a free

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conftitution of government; and this publication is a fatire on fome
of their proceedings, particularly on their fancy for wearing red
caps, as the fymbol of liberty. He ridicules this flaming exhibi-
tion, by a droll ftory of a National Assembly of monkies, in one of
the forefts of Africa. He is a man of humour; and his tale (though
founded on an old joke, of a trick faid to have been put on a mif-
chievous monkey, by misleading him to employ his talent at mi-
micry in cutting his own throat,) is laughable; and the poetry is
given in a good imitation of the manner of La Fontaine, &c.
Art. 42. An Imitation of the Prayer of Abel. In the Style of
Eastern Poetry. 4to. 19. PP. 13. Nicol. 1791

A fhort prayer, or rather pfalm, compofed of various fcraps of fcripture, fomewhat altered, printed with a large beautiful type, on a fine paper Neither the title, nor the motive of the publication, will be very intelligible. The prayer, of which this is faid to be an imitation, may poffibly be found in Gefner's German work, intitled, the Death of Abel, of which this compofer may peradventure be an admirer.

Moo-y.

Art. 43. Semiramis; or, the Shuttle: A Cantata. From the Chro-
nicles for 1792. By Zuinglius Zenogle, Yeoman of the Buife.
410. PP. 32. Is. 6d. Debrett. 1792.

It is hard, that with all our pretenfions to fagacity, and after
having fo long ftudied the art of decyphering, we fhould find our-
felves fo completely foiled by Mr. Zenogle: fuch, however, is the
fact. We do not understand two connected lines through the whole
piece; nor can we gain any farther information, than that, by Se-
miramis, is meant the Emprefs of Ruffia.

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Art. 44. A Mock Elegy, in irregular Verfe, on the fuppofed Demife
of P**** P*****, Efq. M. D. 4to. pp. 50. 2s. 6d. Hook-
ham. 1792.

We do not comprehend the wit of the Suppofed demise of P. P.'
(i. e. Peter Pindar,) who is not only alive now, but was, and can
prove himself to have been alive, when this prefumption was formed;
in like manner as Partridge the almanac-maker proved himself to
be living, on a fomewhat fimilar occafion.

Let us not spend more words on the defign of this performance,
than the matter is worth. Let the ingenious author enjoy his joke,
if any joke there be in his concetto.-Let us rather attend to the
merit of the poem which is formed on it.-Merit, did we fay?
Alas! we had better drop the fubject, and call another. Proceed
we then with our Catalogue.

Art. 45. A Member of Parliament's Review of his firft Seffion. In a
Poetical Epiftle to his Wife in the Country. By Sir Solomon
Gundy, LL. D. F. R. S. F. A. S. R. A. and M. P.!!! 4to.
PP. 32. Is. 6d. Ridgway. 1792.

Sir Solomon Gundy, with half the alphabet in his train, does
not rife much in our esteem as a writer. We did not, last month,
deem very highly of him as a connoiffeur in painting. He now
feems to hold nearly the fame rank as a politician;--and as a poet,
we perceive no improvement in his ftrains. His verfes hobble most
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