thor in compiling it. It confifts of an ill-connected medley of observations, arranged in certain chapters or fections, in which the Author treats of light, of found, of motion, of affimilation, of contrast, of perfonification, of character and expreffion, and of gracefulness. All that we can learn with respect to his plan is, that his defign was, to trace the progrefs of beauty, from its beginning in the fenfes, to its fecond fource of perfection in the mind; both centering in the confciousness of life or fenfibility.'

A ftrange and aukward kind of construction occurs frequently in this work. Mellow and gentle tones of colour affociate with, and difpofe to, the gentle and delicate of internal feelings, &c.'-' The violent of the fenfes ever affociating with, and difpofing to, the violent or difagreeable of internal fenfation. Bitter or four things, &c. affect the bofile or difcordant of paffion."We read, too, of mellow, foft, and gentle founds, as beft adapted to exprefs the gentle of fentiment.' We read likewife of a thing being congenial to life, or to the kindly and delicious of paffion ;-and of the pleafing of fense affociating, in all things, with the pleafing of fentiment."

As to the Reflections,' we fhall content ourselves with transcribing the Author's final paragraph, in which he obferves, that it has been inftanced, through the whole of this performance, that fenfibi lity, as directed by reason, conftitutes virtue.'-We have no inclination to controvert this affertion, or to transcribe any of the inftances contained in twelve fections, from which it is deduced. Art. 21. ABC Dario Mufico. 8vo. I s. 6d. Bath, &c, Sold by Bladon, &c. in London. 1780.

This unfeeling and cankered critic, has arranged the names of va rious musical compofers and performers, refiding in England, in al phabetical order; and has annexed their fuppofed characters, which he has generally comprised in the space of ten or a dozen lines; though he has fometimes thought fit to condense them within three or four. Within fuch fcanty limits he comprizes not only the praise or damnation which he is pleafed to bestow, but likewife fometimes fayours us with fhort hints of the life and conversation, or with an account of the perfonal or mental defects of the fubjects of his work..

Thus, to give an example from one of his longest articles-without, however, propagating his fcandal by naming the perfon-after expending the first ten lines in fpeaking of the country, &c. of a certain celebrated compofer and performer, and owning that his execution and expreffion are warmly to be applauded,' he devotes the remaining nine to the giving us the following lights refpecting his fature and his temper, which must certainly prove very edifying to the inquifitive mufical reader.

Perhaps he has not more bile than is ufually given by nature; but compreffed into fo fmall a compafs as his frame, it overflows; and if we had not fomewhat lefs malignity, envy, and ineffectual detraction, than he ('tis faid) exercifes, he would not have experienced the candour with which we have given his portrait.'.

Speaking of a certain capital performer on the violin, he tells us that his execution is rapid and clean, his tones full and even, particularly fo fince his good fenfe permitted that great mafter Giardini to new-model the frings and bow of his inftrument.Here too the

reader

reader is edified in another, and certainly much less exceptionable

manner,

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In Signor Pacchierotti-[we can have no motive for concealing his name]-the delight, as we learn from all quarters, of every perfon poffeffed of afte and fenfibility, this unfeeling Cenfor does not diftinguish a fingle characteristic mark of excellence. We hear not a fyllable of his tafte, expreffion, feeling, fancy, and variety of em. bellishments; but we are readily told that he fings horribly out of tune. This fnarler may have been fo informed; or, with a monochord at hand, may have been capable of noticing occafional flips of this kind, by no means unufual to vocal performers in this Baotian climate of ours-but he is utterly infenfible to the excellencies that overbalance these occafional tranfgreffions.

A country reader would at once conclude, from his fhort character of Mrs. Wrighten, that she is crooked and ugly. Out of four lines and three quarters, in which her character is comprised, this truly polite Critic devotes nearly three, to tell us that he is a very great favourite with the public, in spite of a bad perfon, and plainnefs of face." Those who have not, as well as those who have, opportunities of feeing the lady, will confider the Author as a brute.

Of one perfon he tells us, that he received the first rudiments of time, by turning over the leaves of the organ-book, above fifty years ago, at V. for Mr. G. then organift.'-Of another he fays, that he fhould have omitted his name, if it had not concluded the alphabet; and a third he pronounces to be a regularly rude, rugged, rough rafper.'

Having given thefe fpecimens of the knowledge, candour, tafte, feeling, politeness, and good-nature of this Abecedarian, we leave the Reader to estimate the value of his decifions in the other articles of his horn book, as it may very juftly be called, though not fo harmless a performance.

Art. 22. A Tour to the Caves, in the Environs of Ingleborough

and Settle in Yorkshire-In a Letter to a Friend. 8vo. 15. Richardfon and Urquhart. 1780.

Given by way of Appendix to Mr. Weft's Guide to the Lakes; see Review, Vol. 59. p. 70. It does not appear that this Tour to the Caves is written by the Author of the Guide, &c. for the Dedication is fubfcribed with the initials J. H.

This Account of the Caves will not fail to excite the Reader's curiofity. Some of them are not lefs remarkable than the celebrated caverns in Derbyshire, which every body vifits.

Art. 23. A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Madan. concerning the Chapter of Polygamy in his late Publication entitled THELYPH THORA. By a Layman. 8vo. s. Fielding and Walker. 1780. The modeft Author profeffes his incompetency to hold a contention with Mr. Madan on the ground of critical learning. His object is, to throw fome information in the way of the plain and unlettered and to oppof, as far as lies in the power of an obfcure citizen, the dangerous confequences that may arife from the publication of Mr. Madan's treatife. The Author's piety and good intentions will excufe the defects of this performance; and we fincerely recommend it to the perufal of thofe for whofe ufe it was profeffedly intended.

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Art. 24. Remarks upon the eighth Section of the fecond Volume of Mr. Warton's Hiftory of English Poetry. 8vo. Is. T. Payne. 1780. If any thing could tempt us to tranfgrefs that line of moderation, which inclination as well as duty marks out to us, it would be the petulance of fuch a writer as this. The manner in which he has attacked Mr. Warton, merely for differing from him in opinion on a matter of very trifling confequence, is equally rude and indecent. Had he been defending the validity of title-deeds to a family eftate, he could fcarcely have been more angry, or have treated his adversary with greater illiberality or infolence than he has poured out upon this worthy and learned Profeffor, for calling in question the authenticity of Rowlie's Poems.

We meet with little in this Writer's arguments that has not already been fuggefted by others who have treated the fubject before him. Our fentiments on this matter are well known; if there be any variation in them, it is, that the interpolations of Chatterton are not fo numerous as at first we suspected.

MEDICA L.

Art. 25. Practical Obfervations on the Treatment of Consumptions. By Samuel Feart Simmons, M. D. &c. 8vo. 2 s. Murray. 170. In this performance the Author does not profefs to give a systematical treatife on the subject; but confines himself to fome general obfervations, relative to the symptoms and progrefs of the pulmonary confumption, and the remedies that have hitherto been the most commonly employed in the treatment of it: adding fuch other remarks as have occurred to him in the courfe of his own practice. We have in a former article* noticed the fingular obfervation made by the Au. thor, refpecting the appearance of the teeth in this difeafe. This circumftance was firft communicated to the Author by the learned Profeffor Camper. He fuppofes this appearance to attend every fpecies of confumption; and the Author himself has, from repeated and attentive obfervations, been induced to think it is the diftinguishing characteristic of a genuine phthifis, or of a pre difpofition to it. Of thofe, fays the Author, who are carried off by this disease, the greater number will be found never to have had a carious tooth. phænomenon may ferve to put us upon our guard, but ought not to make us defpair of fuccefs. I have very lately feen a young gentleman recover, who had this tranfparency in a high degree, together with other fymptoms of incipient phthifis.'

This

The practical obfervations, with refpect to the curative indications in the different periods of this disease, and to the remedies that have been proposed for the relief of it, are fuch as fhew the Author to be a fkilful and judicious obferver; and accordingly merit the attention of practitioners, who cannot fail to receive with pleasure any new lights refpe&ting a diforder fo frequent and fo fatal as the pulmonary confumption.

Art. 26. An Account of the Life and Writings of the late Alexander Monro, Senior, M. D. F. R. S. Delivered at the Harveian Oration at Edinburgh, for the Year 1780. By Andrew Duncan, M. D, &c. &c. 8vo. Is. Edinburgh. Sold by Dilly in London. This biographical commemoration of a truly great man is a laud

* See Rev. for last month, p. 391.

able

able tribute of refpect and gratitude, and will, we doubt not, be acceptable to the medical public. It would, however, have been more inftructive and interefting, if the ingenious Writer had fomewhat more particularly difcuffed the merits of the late Dr. Monro, as an improver of the theory and practice of medicine. This, indeed, would have required a larger compafs; but without it, the piece fcarcely answers to its title, as the Reader will probably be disappointed in his expectations from the account of the writings of the cebrated Profeffor.

A fhort and elegant Addrefs to the Students of Medicine,' by Dr. Webster, on delivering the Harveian prize to Dr. Arthur Brough ton, of Bristol, for his paper on the Coagulable Lymph, is fubjoined.

Art. 27. Obfervations on the Means of preferving the Health of Soldiers; and of conducting Military Hofpitals. And on the Dif eafes incident to Soldiers at the Time of Service; and on the fame Diseases as they have appeared in London. By Donald Monro, M. D. Phyfician to his Majefty's Army, and to St. George's Hospital; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at London, and of the Royal Society. 8vo. z Vols. 10 s. Boards. Murray, &c. 1780.

In our Review for October 1766, an account was given of the first edition of this work, in one volume, then entitled An Account of the Difeafes which were most frequent in the British Military Hofpitals in Germany, &c. It now appears in fo enlarged a form, that we think ourfelves obliged to take notice of it as a new publication.

The Author has now divided his work into five parts. The firft treats on the means of keeping foldiers healthy in different fervices and climates. The Second contains very particular directions with refpect to the fitting up and conducting military hofpitals. In the third a fhort account is given of the health of the troops encamped at Coxheath in 1778 and 1779. The fourth, and molt confiderable part, confifts of obfervations on the diseases prevalent in the military hofpitals of Germany during the last war, and in the late camp hofpitals in England. The fifth is a pharmacopoeia for military use. The diseases treated of in the fourth part are, putrid and petechial fevers; the putrid fore throat; the dyfentery; cholera morbus; inflammatory fever; inflammatory angina; pleurify; peripneumony; cough and confumption; influenza; rheumatism; autumnal remitting fever; ague; jaundice; fmall- pox; fcurvy; lues venerea; and fome others.

It would occupy too much of our room and time to give an analysis of matter fo various and extenfive. We fhall therefore only observe in general, that the work, in its prefent ftate, forms the most complete fyftem of military medical practice we are acquainted with, and cannot fail of being peculiarly ufeful at this unhappy juncture.

In a poftfcript are fubjoined fome remarks on Dr. Millar's Tables, fo far as the returns of the German military hospitals form a part of them. And it seems clearly proved, that his mifreprefentations, for the purpose of decrying the practice of others, were as flagrant as thofe by which he puffed off his own fuccefs. (See Monthly Review for Auguft 1777)

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Art. 28. Free Obfervations on the Scurvy, Gout, Diet, and Remedy; &c. &c. By Francis Spilfbury, Chymift. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Wilkie. 1780.

We confefs ourselves vanquifhed at laft. Mr. Spilfbury has written fo much beyond our powers of reading, that we cannot, in confcience, pretend to exercise our cenforial authority upon him. Nay, fo thoroughly are we humbled, that were he to appear before us with a book in one hand, and a bottle of his drops in the other, we should cry out with Lear,

If you have poison for me, I will drink it.

Art. 29. Hiftories of Gouty, Bilious, and Nervous Cafes; with the fafe and ealy Means by which they were remedied; related by the Patients themfelves, in fundry Letters to John Scot, M. D. 8vo, 6 d. Becket. 1780.

Without pretending to the fpirit of prophecy, we may boast of a prediction very speedily and cafily fulfilled. We ventured to foretel, that this writer's Enquiry into the Origin of the Gout*, would prove the precursor of a noftrum; and lo! here it is. The pamphlet confifts of the moit obliging and fatisfactory teftimonies to the merit of Dr. Scot's pills, from Capt. J. G. the Right Honourable Lord Blank, an Honourable Colonel of the fame family, Sir W. M. Bart. &c, &c. And our worthy publisher, Mr. Becket, promifes to gratify any curious enquirers at his fhop with a fight of the originals of thefe important epiftolary documents.

MATHEMATICS, &c. Art. 30. The Advancement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; or, Defcriptions of the ufeful Machines and Models contained in the Repofitory of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Illuftrated by Defigns on Fifty Copper-plates. Vol. II. Carefully revised and corrected by Alexander Mabyn Bailey. Folio. 21. 12 s. 6 d. fewed. Walter, &c.

1779.

In the 47th volume of our Review, we gave an account of the first volume of this work, as published by Mr. William Bailey †, in the year 1772. In that Article, we fufficiently explained the defign and plan of Mr. Bailey's undertaking. This fecond volume, published by Mr. Bailey junior, contains drawings, defcriptions, and explanations of many new kinds of ploughs, with other implements of hufbandry,-machines for improvements in manufactures,-mills, models, and other mechanic inventions.

RELIGIOUS.

Art. 31. A Letter to the Rev. Sir Harry Trelawny, Bart. A. B. occafioned by his Sermon preached at Taunton, May 26, 1779, before an Affembly of Proteftant Diffenting Minifters. By Thomas Reader. 8vo. 6d. Buckland. 1780.

When Sir Harry Trelawny firft appeared on the fpiritual theatre, the Methodists miftook his enthufiafm for inspiration; and, in the intoxication of their triumph for fo rare an acquifition to the Tabernacle, they cried out, What hath the Lord wrought!

* See Review for June laft.

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