whom it was written, as we cannot lavish praise on the author of it, either for the entertainment or the inftruction he has afforded us. The ftory contains little variety, if the marvellous part of it be extracted, and we have not found ourselves much interested for the hero of it, although he is reprefented as the dupe of execrable fraud and the victim to hopeless love. 53. The General Election. A Series of Letters chiefly between iwa Female Friends. 2 Vols. 12mo. 55. ferved. Walter.

If this novel becomes a favourite with our ufual novel-readers, we fhould congratulate them on their change of tafte. Though Mifs Sidney and Mifs Fielding, the writers of the Letters before us, deals chiefly in politics, it must be confeffed, that the difcuffion of fuch fubjects is to be preferred to that of the tender ones fo plentifully difperfed throughout most of the modern novels.

$4. The Prudent Orphan: or the History of Mifs Sophia Stanley. 2 Vols. 12mo. 55. ferved. Rofon.

55. The Morning Ramble; or Hiftory of Mifs Evelyn. 2 Vols. 12mo. 55. fervid. Noble.

65. He is found at Laft or Memoirs of the Beverley Family. 2 Vols. 55. ferved. Noble.

57.

The Hiftory of Mademoiselle de Beleau; or the New Roxana, 12mo. 35. Jerved. Noble.

58. The Capricious Father or the Hiflory of Mr. Mutable, and bis Family. 12mo. 55. Sewed. Noble.

To give an account of each of these productions feparately would be to bestow upon them a degree of attention to which they have not any claim. The general cenfure of demerit is obviously applicable to the whole; and whether they be confidered with refpect to fable, fentiment, defcription, or other circumftances, they are expofed to the reprehenfion, if not the contempt, of criticifm. Violation of probability, penury of incidents, languor of expreffion, and inconfiftency of character, are almost every where confpicuous; we shall therefore refign them to that oblivion which is the natural portion of such productions.

59. The Adventures of a Cork-Screw. 12mo. 35. Sewed. Bell. Though this production cannot be admitted to any uncom mon degree of merit, it may prove equally entertaining with others of the kind, which have not been ill received by the public.

MISCELLANEOUS: ɓai A Letter to Nobody; on the Negligence and Misconduct of Ecclefiaftical Superiors, and particularly of a Modern Bishop. 8vo. 15. Kearfly.

The principal articles, in which this writer charges the bihops with negligence and misconduct, are confirmation and or dination: from thence he proceeds to pluralities, non-refidence,

&c. On thefe topics he produces the fuffrages of ancient writers, and throws out many fatirical invectives against the fu perior clergy. But there feems to be nothing material in his obfervations, which has not been repeatedly advanced by preceding writers. And with respect to the general charge, neg ligence and mifconduct may be alledged, with equal justice, against every profeffion, every order of men in fociety, from the king to the beggar.

61. Remarks on a Voyage to the Hebrides, in a Letter to Samuel Johnfon, LL. D. 800. is. Kearfly.

In general, thefe Remarks are not deftitute of foundation, though they appear to be as much dictated by acrimony as

acuteness.

62. Genuine Memoirs of Me Perreau's; (now under Confinement.) With many curious Anecdotes relative to Mrs. Rudd. 8vo. Is. 6d. Allen,

It is ufual to defer an account of the lives of thofe who are accufed or convicted of capital crimes, till they have paid their debt to the violated laws of the community. But in the prefent inftance, the term of publication is anticipated, and premature memorialists feem to vye with each other in obtruding upon the world the hiftory of two unfortunate perfons, which has little other claim to the attention of the public, than the im portance it may be thought to derive from the industry of the biographers.

63. Genuine Memoirs of the Maff. Perreau. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Jew Kearfly.

These Memoirs, are written in the form of Letters, and have fo much the air of a novel, that we doubt not they will afford fome entertainment. The characters are drawn in a fively manner, and the narrative intermixed with fuitable reЯections.*

64. The Female Forgery: or, Fatal Effects of Unlawful Love. Being a minute and circumflantial Account of the late extraordinary Forgery by the Me. Perreau's; with Mrs. Carolina Rudd's affecting Narrative of her fatal Connection with Daniel Perreau; drawn up and corrected by her own Hand. To which is added, the Pathetic Elegy, which he has lately fent to him in the New Prifon, preparatory to his Trial. 8vo. Is. 6d. Bew.

To this pamphlet is prefixed the portrait of a lady, in an attitude expreffive of great agitation of mind, and defigned, we fuppofe, for that of Mrs. Rudd. But having never feen the original, we must refer to herself for the fimilitude of the reprefentation, as well as the authenticity of the Elegy annexed to the narrative.

65. The Fashionable Tell-Tale. 2 Vols. 12mo. 55. ferved. Noble. This production is not unentertaining. Had the author lefs frequently larded his jefts with the unbecoming, how

ever fashionable, ufe of oaths or execrations, it would have
been more agreeable.

66. A Philofophical Differtation on the Diving Veffel projected by
Mr. Day, and funk in Plymouth Sound. To which is added,
An Appendix, fhewing the various Methods of weighing Ships in
general. By N. D. Falck, M. D. 4to. 2s. 6d. Law.

Dr. Falck here delivers a distinct account of all the circum-
ftances relative to the experiment which was last year undertaken
to be performed by the unfortunate Mr. Day, who perished in
the attempt. With respect to the causes of its failure, the au-
thor is of opinion, that the adventurer was not provided with
a fufficient quantity of air, to ferve the purpose of respiration
for twenty-four hours: that the atmofphere of the fummer fea-
fon was too rare an air for the cold region into which he de-
fcended that the cold of the latter must have probably chilled
his whole mafs of blood into a ftate of coagulation; and
that the contrivance for difengaging the ballaft must have ex-
pofed him to the greateft danger. As the immediate caufe of
the failure of this experiment, however, Dr. Falck affigns the
weakness of the chamber, which he thinks was infufficient for
refifting the preffure of the water.-Those who are defirous to
be further informed on the fubject of the diving veffel, may
have their curiofity gratified by this differtation, in which the
author discovers fome ingenuity.

67. The Reply to Thomas Walker, Efq. By Robert George
Fitzgerald, Efq. 8vo. 15. Parker.

We have always confidered the public as wholly unintereft-
ed in this perfonal controverfy, and fhall therefore only ob-
ferve, that the Reply is not deftitute of spirit.

68. The Hiftory of England, from the Invafion of Julius Cæfar,
to the calling of the Parliament in 1774. 14 Vols. By Jofeph
Collyer. 12mo. 1. 1. Johnfon.

The author of this Hiftory does not affect the air of an original
writer on a subject which has been of late years fo frequently
treated. The work, however, is far from being undeferving of
approbation; and its moderate price may render it convenient
for many readers.

ERRAT A.

In the Rev. for April, p. 293. daily bread' fhould have been
printed in Italics. P. 338. read, ridicule the cafe of the au-
thor of the Confeffional.' P. 343. read divide pronouns into
perfonal.' In the Review for May, p. 380, read, the widow
of a gentleman of the law of that name.'

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