Effac'd the veftige of my earliest fears, But time to youthful forrow yields relief, As brighter gleams the fun when paft the April fhow'r. Of fpacious play-ground, and of wholefome air, Neither can we, without obvious injuftice to our readers, forego the opportunity of prefenting them with the following fonnet: "Ungrateful he who pluckt thee from thy ftalk, Poor faded flow'ret, on his careleis way, Thy modeft beauties dew'd with evening's gem, Deep fighing, points the fair frail Emma's tomb, "Like thine, fad flower! was that poor wanderer's pride! O, loft to love and truth! whose selfish joy Tafted her vernal fweets, but tafted to destroy." Thefe fpecimens are the productions of Mr. Lovell's pen, whom, indeed, the larger portion of the volume belongs. But, that his friend and coadjutor is in all refpects worthy of him, is amply proved by other poems, as well as by the following fonnet. "As o'er the lengthen'd plain the traveller goes The tranfient joy which memory beftows; Or glance o'er pleasures past; or think of blifs to come. But But ah! reflection vainly we employ But happy, as it flies, enjoy the prefent hour." Mr. Southey is about to publifh an epic poem, on the subject of Joan of Arc, for which enterprise he feems fairly qualified, and to which undertaking we wish fuccefs. ART. 23. Tetelestai. The final Clofe. A Poem. In Six Parts. By David Bradberry. Svo. 102 pp. 2s. 6d. Rivingtons. The first thing which will ftrike the reader of this extraordinary performance, will be its whimfical dedication, which, but for its length, we would tranfcribe. It is formally addreffed to the fovereign of the univerfe. Nor will any one be lefs furprised with the fingular ftructure of the verfe, of which the following is a fpecimen. "Th' unequal globe no longer fwiftly rolls; But fcrooping brazen thunder on her poles; Thus warns her final Terftice come, And hangs amidst the raylefs gloomOf darkness abfolute;" "In vain the wish-though all her wishes one; One spark upon her fent ; Her parts loud thunder rent; And hideous crash, Burft all around! ART. 24. Hair Powder; a plaintive Epiftle to Mr. Pitt. By Peter Pindar, Efq. To which is added (with confiderable Augmentation) Frogmore Fête, an Ode for Mufic. for the First of April, vulgarly called All Fools Day. 4to. 2s. 6d. Walker, 1795. At length the mighty Pindar bites the duft, that is, he attacks the powder; though, if it were interpreted that he is dead, we fhould not know how to deny it, for certainly there are not the smalleft figns of life in these poems. The abuse is there as ufual; but where is the wit? ART. 25. Two State-Papers, with a Preface, by a Whig; and a Poffcript, by a Tory. 12mo. 20 pp. IS. Owen. 1795. This is a facetious paraphrafe in verfe, on Citizen John Harrison's letter to Mr. Grey, which was produced and read in the Houfe of O2 Commons, Commons, as well as the impudent report of Barrere, on the engagement of the first of June. It is by no means deftitute of spirit and humour. ART. 26. Ode fur la Guerre, par B. Frere Cherenfi, auteur du Hero moderne, et de la Comedie intitule l'Amant Timide. 12 mo. 15 PP: London. No Publisher. A complimentary dedication to Lord Stanhope in English, introducing fome lines, in good French, on the miferies of war. DRAMATIC. ART. 27. The Mysteries of the Cale, a Dramatic Tale, in Three Acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Written by Miles Peter Andrews. 8vo. 25. Longman, 1795. Without the moft fcrupulous attention to the dramatic unities, the Myfteries of the Caftle are developed with fufficient contrivance to intereft the attention of the reader or fpectator, while the intereft fo excited is kept alive to the conclufion, by the vivacity of the dialogue. We cannot but obferve, however, that to Hilario, who is in the dramatis perfonæ ftyled the friend to Carlos, are affigned, without much propriety, the manners of a buffooning fervant; whofe mirth is furely unfeafonably difplayed at a moment when his friend is lamenting over the fuppofed death of his mittrefs. The girls going to market, and the Falconers, may with equal propriety be introduced into any other drama. NOVELS. ART. 28. The Victim of Magical Delufion, or the Mystery of the Revolution of Pl. A Magico-Political Tale, founded on hiftorical Facts, and Tranflated from the German of Cajetan Tschink. Py P. Will. 3 Vol. 12mo. 9s. Robinfon, 1795. They who delight in the marvellous will read these volumes with eager curiofity. The plan feems fimilar to that purfued in a publication called the Necron'ancer, which we noticed in a former Review. A multitude of frange, unaccountable, and aftonishing deceptions, are practifed, as if by magic; but afterwards explained to be wholly compatible with human kill and adroi nefs. In thefe books an inexperienced young nobleman is fingled out, as the object of these practifes, in order to facilitate a far fetched project of bringing about a revolution in Portugal. He becomes an eafy dupe, and finally the victim of the plot. The perutal will excite furprise; but, unless the volumes afford more amufement to others than they have to us, they will have been tranflated to very little purpose. ART. 29. The Ghost-Seer, or Apparitionist; an interefting Fragment, found among the Papers of Count O. Fram the German of Schiller. 12mo. 242 PP. 35. Vernor, &c. 1795. This publication is of the fame fchool as the above; but it is lefs confiftent, and more dull. The Italian ftory introduced in the narrative is well told, and not without intereft. The name of Schiller led us to expect more entertainment than we found. ART. 30. Such Follies are. A Novel. In 2 Vols. 6s. Lane, 1795. Mr. Seaforth, his wife, and eldest fon, are reprefented as ariftocrats, and no lefs foolish and wicked than our neighbours, of the distracted republic one-and-indivifible, would with all fuch perfons to be thought. Mr. Hanbury is a merchant, retiring from butinefs with a fplendid fortune, moft honourably acquired. Of courfe, he and his family are contrafted with the Seaforths. The flory is not worth detailing any further; and the moral of it, notwithstanding the falvo in the concluding page, is merely this-that" pride of blood is contemptible." Public inftructors fhould chiefly give fuch leffons as the exigencies of the times especially demand. Now we apprehend, that the leffons moft wanted in the prefent times are of an oppofite kind, namely, letfons of order, of just subjection, and of that rational fubordination, which is fo far from being unworthy of free men, that freedom itself cannot fabuilt without it. ART. 31. The Abbey of St. Asaph. A Novel. In three Volumes. By the Author of Madeline, or the Castle of Montgomery. 12mo. 95. Lane. 1795• Though we cannot affign to this work any high rank among books of the fame defcription, yet we are far from degrading it to the lowest place. The incidents are not managed with fuficient probability, the manners and fentiments are of the co: mon-place fort, and the language is often overftrained; as in vol. ii. p. 217, "The glittering ftars were breaking from the realms of ether." The author's chief aim is to be pathetic, in which he fometimes fucceeds very well; but more frequently goes beyond the due bounds, and rans into the terrible. Young novel-readers will be pleafed with this performance; and not altogether without reafon. For in many parts it applies very ftrongly to their feelings; and we are happy to add, that in no part has it any tendency to impair their morals, or relax their principles. ART. 32. Alf Von Deulmen, or the Hiftory of the Emperor Philip, and bis Daughters. Tranflated from the German, by Mifs A. E. Booth. In two Vols. Large 8vo. 300 and 305 pp. 125. Bell, Oxfordfreet. 1794. This is a tragedy, and a very deep one, in the form of a history, and in a feries of letters. The preface gives an account, illuftrative of this history, tranflated from a French author, of the terrible Secret Tribunal: but it contains no important particulars with which we were not acquainted before, and our readers, through our means. The date of the first of thefe letters, which is 1198, affords ample room to the author for mixing (according to a fashion which has lately prevailed) the fictions of fancy with the truths of hiftory. A good ufe, how ever, is here made of this liberty. We are prefented with a story, in which the misfortunes of virtuous love and friendship, and the dreadful mifchiefs of unprincipled ambition and intrigue, are fet before us in a manner uncommonly interefting and affecting. Ordinary novels exhibit the characters and paffions of perfons in common life, or a little exalted above it; but here we are concerned with Popes, Emperors, Princes, Princeffes, Counts, Bishops, &c. and their feveral characters are well difcriminated and fupported. That of the hero, Alf Von Deulmen, excites, in a very high degree, our compaffion and admira. tion. Since German authors can fupply books like this and Herman of Unna, our English novel-writers would, most of them, do wifely to undertake the study of that language. The ftyle of this translation is, in general, very good; but who for whom (as in vol. i. p. 34, l. z.) occurs too often to pass for an error of the press, 12mo. 155. By Mrs. Parsons, Au Lane. 1795. ART. 33. The voluntary Exile. In five Vols. thor of Lucy, &c. &c. Many defects may be pardoned in a novel-writer, who endeavours to amufe our fancy, with fome benefit, rather than any injury to our morals. By fuch a rule the author of this novel must be judged; and then we may with truth recommend her production, as affording a confiderable degree of entertainment, and ftill more of prudential and moral inftruction. Five volumes, however, are rather too heavy a tax upon the purfes of readers, and the patience of reviewers, especially when this bulk is attained by the introduction of fo many narratives foreign to the main ftory. Add to this, that it is neither wife nor hu, mane, to perpetuate ill-will betwixt England and America, which feems to be one tendency of the work. The ftyle is not generally faulty; but there are many overfights like the following, which admit of no excufe; "new scenes was planned," vol. i. p. 35; "their vifits was interrupted," p. 159; "as there has been fo many details," vol. ii, p. 89; "the difficulties thrown in your way has clouded your mind," vol. iii. p. 228. &c. &c. DIVINITY. ART. 34. A Sermon, preached at the Meeting-Houfe in Hoxton-Square, on the 15th of March, 1795, upon Occafion of the Death of the Rev. Thomas Toller, who departed this Life on the 3d Day of the fame Month, in the fixty-third Year of his Age. By Andrew Kippis, D. D. F. R. S. and S. A. To which is added, the Address delivered at the Interment of the deceased. By the Rev. Hugh Worthington, Junior. Published by Requeft. 8vo. 52 pp. IS. Brown. 1795. The chief topics of this fenfible difcourfe on 2 Tim. iv. 7, 8, are, the temper and behaviour of the faithful difciples of Jefus; and the happiness that will be conferred upon them in a future ftate. Mr. Toller, who was a minifter of the fame communion with the preacher, is faid by him to deferve the application of thefe general topics to his |