lent little Tract cannot but be deemed peculiarly feasonable. We therefore heartily recommend it to the perufal of our younger Readers especially, as a fit monitor to the unexperienced, who more peculiarly fland in need of cautionary advice in regard to prudential concerns, as they are moft apt to be caught with the glare of exterior fhew, moll liable to fall into the diffipations of pleasure, and most apt to be infected with the contagion of evil example. The Author confiders his fubject under the three principal heads of Forecast, Order, Prudence; and conflantly ftrengthens his judicious bints and remarks by apt citations from the Holy Scriptures: from which he has made an admirable collection of moral and prudential apophthegms.

Art. 15. The Complete Annuitant. Confifling of Tables of Intereft, Simple and Compound; confiructed on a new and familiar Plan, viz. 1. An Univerfal Table of Simple Intereft, fhewing the Interest of any Sum of Money from 90,000,000l. to 1 Penny, and from I to 365 Days abfolute, &c. II. Tables of Compound Intereft, at 3, 4, and 51. per Cent. per Ann. fhewing the Amount and prefent Worth of any Sum, likewife the Amount and prefent Worth of any yearly Sum, Rent, Annuity, or Penfion, at the fame Rates of Intereft, from 1 Year to 100 Years; with their Application in Reversions, and renewing and purchafing of Leafes. III. A Table of Reverfions. IV. A Table of Annuities, fhewing how many Years Purchase any Annuity or Leafe of any Land or Houfe is worth, and likewife for the Renewing of any Number of Years laffed in any Leafe for any Term of Years. V. A Table fhewing the Value of any Eftate in Fee Simple, with Tables of Fines for renewing College Leafes, &c. VI. Tables for the Valuation of Life Annuities at 3, 3, 4, 5, and 6 per Cent. with their Logarithmical and Arithmetical Application in folving feveral curious Problems. VII. A new Set of Tables contrived for Quarterly and Half Yearly Payments, adapted to the above Tables, &c. By Benjamin Webb. 12mo. 6s. bound. Henderson and Keith.

Mr. Webb's Tables for buying and felling Stocks, which we mentioned in the twenty-fecond Volume of our Review, p. 71, gave fo much fatisfaction to the Public, that he has now extended his arithmetical labours to another equally interesting fubject; and, we believe, with equal accuracy and merit. The utility and plan of this work are thus briefly explained in the Author's Preface:

"The number of books of Simple and Compound Intereft which are already extant, fhould, one would imagine, (lays Mr. Webb) have fo exhaufted the fubject as to leave fcarce any room for improvement; and notwithstanding many ingenious Authors have produced fo many valuable performances, yet, as their calculations have been confined to certain liated rates, and most of them made for too fhort a time to render them of general ufe, even to a nice Calculator, much less to

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perfons not verfed in figures, none of them have fully answered the end, and in many cafes will not, nor from the nature of them can, without much labour, produce an exact answer.

"This being the cafe in regard to Simple Intereft, I was induced to attempt fuch a fet of Tables, as might in all cafes, with the greateft exactness and eafe, anfwer all the purposes of more extensive and voluminous ones; and this I hope I may without vanity venture to fay, the following concife fet, adapted to the fize of a small pocketbook, though calculated for every day in the year, will perform to fatisfact on, if not beyond expectation: for in order to render them univerfal, nothing more is required than to multiply your fum by the number of half pounds contained in the given rate of Interelt, and you have the answer in pence and the decimal parts of a penny, which there are few but can easily reduce into fhillings and pounds.

"And farther, as in moft Tables of Simple Intereft which are constructed on a decimal plan, the calculation is made only for one pound, and therefore to folve questions in common, recourse must be had to multiplication, thefe are already calculated for any fum that can happen, without multiplying by the given fum; and the numbers are fi contrived, that the true anfwer may be obtained with the atmoft certitude, from one penny to 900,000,000 pounds. And to prevent any manner of trouble or confufion in computing the number of places to be taken out, I have diftinguished each article with its proper numerical character, being thofe of the common numeration table inverted, viz. U x crxc, which I flatter myself will not only be deemed a very agreeable improvement, but an useful discovery in the application of decimal numbers to the purposes of business in general.

"After the fame manner I have proceeded with the Tables of Compound Intereft, which are calculated for any fum at the more common Rates of Interest, viz. 3, 4, and 5 1. per cent. yearly payments; but in the Tables for other Rates of Intereft, the calculation is made for one pound only, fhewing their application in making Tables of Fines, &c. the renewing and purchafing of Leafes: and in order to render thefe Tables more extenfive and ufeful, there is added a new set of Tables calculated on the above plan for Quarterly and Half-yearly Payments, and likewife for fhewing the value of One Quarter, One Half, and Three Quarters of a Year's Annuity, Rent, Penfion, &c. To make this part of the performance more complete, are added Tables for finding the fuperficial Content of any piece of ground, building, &c. in fquare feet, yards, and acres

“As to the Tables of Life Annuities, these are calculated on the fame principles as thofe done by most other Authors, only with this difference, that thefe are deduced from thirty years obfervations on the bills of mortality, from the year 1731 to the year 1761, confequently a more exact medium is thereby obtained than from a shorter time. And in the calculation of them I have endeavoured to make them the more exact, having carried them to three places of decimals, fhewing the method of calculating the fame for one life, two, three or more joint lives, &c. and in the application of them have laid down the

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the most easy and familiar rules I could meet with; fo that nothing more than the knowlege of common Arithmetic is required in the folution of most of the problems: and in those where a Logarithmical folution has been necessary to shorten the work, I have endeavoured to exprefs myself as clearly as poffible.

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Laftly, for the Reader's farther fatisfaction 1 have re-calculated thofe excellent Tables of Mr. Abraham de Moivre, with the advantage of having carried them to three places of decimals, and not only corrected the few errors I met with, but for the Computist's convenience have annexed a Table of Logarithms adapted to his Tables, with the common and hyperbolical Logarithms to the Rates of 3, 3, 4, 5, and 61. per cent. and for the accommodation of thofe unacquainted with the ufe of the Logarithmical canon, I have contrived a method to conftruct new Univerfal Monomial Theorems, whereby the amount of any fum, or Annuity for Yearly, Half-yearly, and Quarterly Payments, may be calculated for any Rate of Interest."

Art. 16. A Defence of the united Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies, and their Servants (particularly thefe at Bengal) against the Complaints of the Dutch East India Company; being a Memorial from the English Company to his Majefly on that Subject. 4to. 2s. 6d. Brotherton.

This is the Answer to the Dutch account of the hoftilities between their countrymen and ours at Bengal, mentioned in the Review for Januar, la, p. 76. The evidence on both fides of the question being now laid before the Public, we refer the curious Reader to thofe original Documents, for farther fatisfaction, in regard to a transaction which we hope will be amicably fettled, as foon as the merits of the caufe are clearly explained to both parties; which, we apprehend, they undoubtedly are, in the prefent Publication.-The Dutch appear to be equally unfortunate in this difpute, both in the field and upon paper. In the Indies they met with knock-down blows, and here feem to be fome knock-down arguments; which we fufpect they wilļ hardly be able to answer.

Art. 17. Moral and Philofophical Essays on several Subjects, viz. A Views of the buman Faculties; a fhort Account of the World; two Difcourfes on Decency; an Ejay on Self-love. 12mo. 3s, Longman.

In the Frft and fecond parts of this Collection the matter is difpofed in the form of Dialogues. This, however, is merely formal, the ftyle and n anner being much the fame throughout. The language indeed is not the moft elegant, but there is much good fenfe and fome instances of a delicacy of fentiment to be found in thefe little performances. If the Author alfo doth not appear either the profound Philofopher or the fine Writer, he hath had the art to throw together a a number of ingenious, though fometimes fuperficial, reflections, in an agreeable and entertaining manner.

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From the face of this publication, the Reader might be led to conceive it a new book, as no intimation is given of its having been before printed. We are well informed, however, that these little Tracts made their appearance in Public about twenty years ago, which is one reafon for our taking only this curfory notice of the prefent Edition.'

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Art. 18. An Historical and Critical Review of the Paintings, Sculptures, Models, Drawings, &c. now exhibiting at the Great Room of the Society inflituted for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. 4to. 1s. Bathoe.

A fort of catch-penny Catalogue, containing a few flimfy and fome impertinent Remarks on the principal Paintings, &c. Had thisWriter, or any other perfon, better qualified, given a truly critical review of the pieces lately exhibited in the Strand, it would doubtless have been very acceptable to the Public; and might, to a great many persons, have proved an agreeable and useful fupplement to the catalogue of thofe pieces.

Art. 19. Fachin and Boaz: Or, an authentic Key to the Door of Free-Mafonry. By a Gentleman belonging to the Jerufalem Lodge. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Nicoll.

We do not believe one word this Gentleman fays.

Art. 20. A Free-Mafon's Anfwer to the fufpected Author of Jachin and Boaz. 8vo. Is. Cooke.

A Bookfeller's jobb; a farce upon a farce.

Art. 21. The Book of Coach-Rates, or Hackney-Coach Directory. Defcribing above 4000 Fares within the Cities of London and Westminster, and Bills of Mortality.—According to an accurate Measurement. 12mo. Is. Owen.

Very useful within the London Bills of Mortality.

Art. 22, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves. By the Author of Roderick Random 12mo. 2 Vols. 6s. Coote. Better than the common Novels, but unworthy the pen of Dr. Smollet.

Art. 23. An Hiftorical and Gritical Account of the Lives and Writings of the living Writers of Great-Britain and Ireland; wherein their respective Merits are difcuffed with the utmojł Candour. 8vo. 1s. No Publisher.

Compiled with the judgment of Giles Jacob, and written pretty much in Jacob's ftyle. It gives very poor, imperfect and erroneous

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accounts of the few perfons whom the Compiler has taken the liberty to mention, the number of whom, we apprehend, fcarce amounts to an hundredth part of the prefent race of Authors; and even among the few whofe names are inferted, are feveral who by no means deferve to be diftinguished as Writers: people, of whom we may fay, with old Lintot, that they have been Authors these twenty years to their Bookfeller's knowlege, and no man's elfe.

Narrative of the deplorable Phrenzy of John Dennis.

Art. 24. The prefent State of Denmark, in relation to its Government and Laws, its Trade and Manufactures, its Revenues and Forces. Compiled from the public Archives, and other authentic Materials. Being an exact Defcription of that Kingdom, as iţ now exifts; and different from any Account hitherto published in the English Language. In a Series of Letters mostly written by Monfieur Roger. 8vo. 5s. Ofborne.

The Editor of these Letters, in his Dedication to Earl Bothmer, the Danish Envoy at the British Court, confiders them as a proper antidote against the mifreprefentations in Lord Molefworth's "Partial and mistaken account of Denmark, as it was fuppofed to have been in the year 1692."

Monfieur Roger, we are informed, was a man of independent fortune, a Republican of Geneva; who had travelled through moft parts of Europe and the fentiments of fuch a perfon, on a monarchic fate, will probably, as the Editor obferves, excite curiosity.

M. Roger, however, though a Republican by birth, feems to have entirely reconciled himself to monarchic principles during his travels, or he would not have engaged fo warmly in defence of abfolute monarchy, as it exifts in Denmark; nor made fuch refined diftinctions between defpotifm and defpotifm, as he has introduced in his first Letter.

We must be naturalized to abfolute government, before the diftinctions established by M. Roger can be allowed." If by defpotifin, fays he, is underflood unlimited monarchy, the conftitution of Denmark is certainly defpotic." Wherein then does this defpotifm differ from that of the barbarous Powers of the Eaft, who, according to him, are" are accustomed to look upon their will as the only measure of right and wrong," more than what arifes from the general difference in manners? Acts of oppreffion will be as fenfibly felt by a people in fome degree civilized, as the wanton cruelties of an Emperor of Morocco are, by favage Hords, as ferocious and unfeeling as their Lord; and however M. Roger, or others, may refine upon fubtilities calculated to quiet the natural antipathy which a finall share of understanding will excite againft fubjection to unlimited power, if the administration of one perfon, vefted with fole authority, is fo hild and reg lar as he reprefents that of Denmark to be, it is rather A compliment to the prefent adminiftrator than to the conftitution.