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ing in the judgement to assist the memory, removes a portion of tediam and disgust, both to the student and preceptor." In the execution of this judicious design, he can obviously claim no higher praise than that of clearly and correctly analysing the grammatical maxims; and this we freely award him. The work is not to be complimented, however, on its uniform typographical accuracy.

Art. XXII. The Constable's Assistant; being a Compendium of the Duties and Powers of Constables and other Peace Officers; chiefly as they relate to the apprehension of offenders, and laying informations before Magistrates. By the Society for the Suppression of Vice. 8vo. pp. 48. Price 1s. Rivingtons, Butterworth, &c. 1808. IT is by no means necessary for us to accredit by our approbation a work which has been revised and recommended by Mr. Const, and published by the Society for the Suppression of Vice," Neither can it be necessary to remark, what is so notorious, that the duties and powers of Constables, though very extensive and important, are in few instances well understood, or adequately discharged. We hope this publication may have a considerable effect in correcting the evil; and in promotion of this object, we shall recommend it to the public, by adopting a sentence from Mr. Const's opinion. "It contains sufficient instruction for the Peace Officer to act with advantage to the Community, and with safety to himself: his duty is strongly and clearly marked; and if he acts in conformity to the directions herein contained, it must materially tend to the improvement of the morals, and consequently to the ultimate comfort, of those, who may be affected by the coercion it promotes."

Art. XXIII. A Father's Advice to his Son at School. 12mo. pp. 58. Price is. Matthews and Leigh. 1807.

MANY very good practical admonitions will be found in this small

and unpretending pamphlet ; they are such, indeed, as are perfectly obvious to any reflecting person, and as every sensible parent or tutor is continually urging on the attention of the young; the child, therefore, to whom they are in any degree novel, must have been very unfortunately associated and instructed. In some cases, nevertheless, a compendium of these familiar cautions and directions may not be entirely without

its use.

Art. XXIV. Poems written at Lanchester; By John Hodgson, Clerk. 8vo. pp. 133. Price 5s. Akenhead, Newcastle; Longman and Co. 1807.

THE ingenious adoption of Cicero's words to Catiline," tu lucem

aspicere audes ?" &c. as a motto, gave us a favourable idea of Mr. H. which his book partly confirms. The principal poem is called' "Woodlands" its direct subject is the agricultural improvements carried on by a friend and neighbour of the writer, but it digresses, in emulation of many excellent poems, into a variety of other topics, descriptive, moral, and political. If we cannot praise the brilliance and distinctness and vigour of the author's conceptions, we may acknowledge their frequent claims in respect of originality, and the correct moral tendency of his sentiments. An address to Divine Providence under the very improper

name of "mysterious fate," we are willing to excuse as an oversight. We could also enumerate many blemishes in the composition, such as redundant metre, ungrammatical phrases, quaint words, prosaic lines, and aukward cadences; but the space will be better occupied by a specimen of the author's production. Addressing Spring he exclaims,

O time of love! of unabated bliss!

Why dost thou travel, with such envious haste,
To wed with summer and despoil thy cheek
Of virgin bloom? Thy way is strewn with flowers,
And, lest the flinty earth thy beauteous feet
Should bruise, a grassy carpet over-spreads
Its bosom. Down thy polished shoulders play
Ringlets of unshorn locks, and not a hand
Has dared to rend thy vesture. Stop, O, stop,
Thou genial season! Nay thy speed increase:
Go as thou wilt, for summer's ardent heat,
And winter, dreary with his frozen nights,
Alike inflame the human breast. No change
Of season can our bosoms cool. The shears
Of time may clip the tender wings of love,
And age may scatter o'er our furrow'd brows
His hoary ashes; but, as long as life

Pours its warm current through the heart of man,

Some throbs of tenderness shall there be felt. pp. 17, 18.

Another poem of some length, called "Longovicum, a Vision," refers, not in the most intelligible manner, to the ancient state and history of Britain; it is chiefly interesting as an occasion for introducing some curious particulars concerning the antiquities of Longovicum, which Mr. H. agrees with Camden in fixing at Lanchester, though Horsley contended that Lancaster was the Longovicum of the Notitia Imperii.

A few shorter poems are subjoined, under the title of Odes, which do not particularly attract either commendation or censure.

Art. XXV. The Importance of the Sabbath; a Sermon, preached in the Holy Trinity Church at Kingston-upon-Hull, before the Magistrates of the Town, on Sunday, October 18, 1807, being the day appointed by charter for the Mayor's entrance upon his office. By John Scott, M. A. 8vo. pp. 59. Price 1s. 6d. In an inferior form 9d. Browne, &c. Hult; Seeley. Hatchard. 1807.

THIS is a truly excellent publication; we do not speak of its very

manly and respectable cast of composition, but of the striking truths, the faithful expostulations, and the forcible arguments which it contains on a subject of incomparable importance. We would recommend it with the utmost warmth to the notice and practical attention of all magistrates, heads of families, and persons of influence. It would be injustice to the author and the public to attempt any analysis of the sermon, or to quote sentences where we would gladly transcribe pages. On the nature, the uses, and the abuses of the Sabbath, Mr. S. introduces many judicious and impressive remarks, with frequent quotations from Paley; he enumerates several local abuses, which we are glad to find the magistrates who heard the Sermon are labouring to correct, and he points out among other remedies, the revival of family worship, the erection of a “free VOL. IV.

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church," the formation of a Society for the suppression of vice, and the institution of Sunday-evening lectures in the churches of Hull, (of which there are only three, he observes, to a population of 30,000 souls!) An appendix is added, which ably vindicates the two last measures from censure and misrepresentation.

Art. XXVI. The Crisis. By the Author of Plain Facts. Third Edition, pp. 115. Price 28. Stockdale, 1807..

THIS is a very animated declamation in favour of that system of policy, which looks to a continuance of war as the only means of safety for the country, in the present awful crisis of its destinies. The author is of course a warm defender of the expedition to Copenhagen ; his opinions in general would obtain more favour from considerate men, if he wrote with less vehemence, if he railed somewhat less at our formidable enemy, and evinced fewer symptoms of party spirit. We should be sorry indeed to see a person of his temperament intrusted with the helm of Britain, in such a moment of tempest, darkness, and peril. Art. XXVII. Christian Memoirs; in the form of a new Pilgrimage to the Heavenly Jerusalem: containing, by way of allegorical narrative, a great variety of Dialogues on the most interesting Subjects, and Adventures of eminently religious Persons. By W. Shrubrole, late Minister at Bethel Chapel, Sheerness. Third Edition corrected, with the Life of the Author. 8vo. pp. xlviii. 402. Price 8s. boards. Baynes, Williams and Co. 1807.

THE third Edition of this work, which is well known for its piety

and ingenuity, owes considerable obligations to the author's son. He has attempted, 1. "To give clearness and precision to the style of the work, in those parts of it which appeared involved and obscure. 2. To ameliorate some descriptions of circumstances and characters, wherein the colouring appeared too high, the features too harsh, and the whole representation too strong. 3. To divest the work of some peculiarities of a limited and local nature, which originated from the author's cordial attachment to the circle of his intimate friends, and his desire to do them honour." We fully justify the editor in making these requisite alterations, and are indeed persuaded that a number of eaders will deem them still too few, rather than too many. A memoir of his father's active and useful life, drawn up with filial affection, in a very respectable style, is an appropriate and interesting addition to the work... Art. XXVIII. The Traveller's Guide through Ireland: or a Topographical Description of that Kingdom; containing an Account of the Extent of each Country: of its Mountains, Rivers, Vales, and general Aspect: of its Minerals, Fossils, Woods, and Animals; of its rural Industry and Manners of its Towns, Manufactures and Trade; of its Antiquities, elegant Mansions, &c. Accompanied with an elegant Map. By the Rev. Joseph Robertson. 12mo. pp. 340. price 6s. bds. Denham, Edinburgh, Vernor and Co. &c.

NOTWITSTANDING the unusual number of press-errors, and of complete bulls, which disfigure this volume, we can recommend t as comprising much valuable information in a compendious form. Mr. R. has taken pains to collect his materials, and many of his descriptions are executed in a spirited style.

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Gentlemen and Publishers who have works in the press, will oblige the Conductors of the ECLECTIC REVIEW; by sending information (post paid,) of the subject, extent, and probable price of such works; which they may depend on being communicated to the public, if consistent with its plan.

The Rev. Mr. Dibdin has just completed the printing of his third edition of an Introduction to the Knowledge of rare and valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics; which will be published in the course of next month, in two crown octavo volumes. This third edition contains thirteen ad litional aneient Classical Authors, viz. M. A. Antoninus, Apollodorus, Apuleius, Aristides, Aurelius Victor, Ausonius, Herodian, Josephus, Maximus Tyrius, Oppian, Orpheus, Photius, and Theophrastus, with biographical notices of some of the most eminent English and foreign editors of the classics: these biographical memoranda are thrown into the notes, and relate chiefly to our own editors. The Greek bibles and testaments, as well as the lexicons and grammars, have been considerably enlarged; and in the Au thors common to both editions, many errors have been corrected, and omissions supplied, as well as the more recent editions inserted.

The Rev. Mr. Howes of Norwich, will shortly publish his Continuation of Critical Observations on Ancient and Modern Books, containing the true State of the History and Chronology of the Empire of the Medes, from the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empires down to the Persian Kingdom, founded by Cyrus, amounting to two hundred and fiftysix years; and proving from the contemporary existence, coincidence of date, reigns and other circumstances, that the six Assy rian kings mentioned in Scripture were the very same persons with the first six kings of the Medes enumerated by Ctesias, although under different names, as given to them by the Persians, on the east of Babylon, from those ascribed to them by the Assyrians and Jews on the West of that country, agreeably to a hint given by Prideaux; as appears by the harmonious testimonies of Polyhistor, Herodotus, the Era of Nabonassar, Eusébius, and Scripture, when compared with the account of Ctesias, as abridged by Diodorus.

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This day is published, in four handsome volumes, 8vo; a new and improved edition, being the sixteenth, of that valuable and standard work, Dr. Prideaux's Old and New Testaments Connected, in the History of the Jews and neighbouring Nations, to the Time

of Christ. To which is now, for the first time, added, a full and interesting Life of the Author, which contains his own defence and illustrations of certain passages in the Connection. The whole embellished with a new and correct map, and a fine portrait of the author.

Very shortly will be published," to complete the above work, "Shuckford's Sacred and Profane History of the World," connected with his Creation and Fall of Man; with notes, and revised and corrected, by Adam Clarke, A. M. embellished with new and correct maps, in four handsome vols. 8vo. uniform with Prideaux's Connections. This work was nearly completed some months ago, but entirely consumed in the fire in Fleet Street in August last, together with Harmer's Observations, enlarged by Adam Clarke, A. M. which work was also just completed, and is now reprinting.

The publication of Dr, Gregory's Bible has been deferred until May or Jane next.

A gentleman, who resided some years in the West Indies, has just put to press an Account of the Island of Jamaica and its Inhabitants, principally drawn up from personal knowledge and observation.

On the first of March, 1808, will be pub lished, in quarto, to be continued monthly, Part I. price 10s. 6d. of a general Collection of Voyages and Travels, forming a com plete history of the origin and progress of discovery, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time, preceded by an historical introduction, and critical catalogue of books of voyages aud travels, and illustrated with a number of engravings. By John Pinkerton, author of Modern Geogra phy, &c.

This work will be printed in demy quarto, and it is expected will be completed in ten or twelve volumés.

A part, or quarter of a volume, price 10s. 6d. will be published on the first day of every month.

Each part will contain twenty-five sheets of letter-press, besides engravings.

The Strabo of the late Mr. Falconer is nearly ready for publication at Oxford. It forms two volumes in folio, with fine maps.

Mr. James Gartland has in the press a

work entitled the Commercial Mirror, comprising a great number of highly interesting and useful subjects.

A new work on the Policy of Great-Britain in respect to the Foreign Corn Trade, is expected shortly to appear.

Mr. William Perry, author of the Synonimous, Etymological, and Pronouncing English Dictionary, has a very useful work in hand for schools, called the Scientific Tutor; containing Elements, or First Principles of Mechanics, Hydrostatics, and Pneumatics or Doctrine of Air, with an Introduction to Elocution.

Mr. Britton has in the press a Catalogue Raisonnée of the noble Collection of Pictures belonging to the Marquis of Stafford at Cleveland House.

Mr. Edmund Aiken, Architect, will publish in the course of the present month, Designs for Villas and Rural Buildings.

Mr. J. L. Bond, Architect, has translated the Latin, work of Vitruvius, and Intends to publish it as soon as the necessary plates can be engraved to accompany the same.. These plates will be very different in their subjects and manner of treatment from any that have appeared either in this country or on the continent, and are calculated to gratify the eye of the connoisseur, as well as to inform the mind of the professed architect. The work will form one handsome volume in quarto, with notes historical, critical, and descriptive.

Mr. Frend's Evening Amusements for the year 1808, make their appearance this month in pursuance of his general plan. Mr. Frend gives the appearances in the heavens, for every hour of the night, by which any object that strikes an observer, may, by consulting this volume, be known. The subjects discussed by way of exciting the attention of young people, and teaching them to form true notions of the Planetary System, are, for this year, the motion of the planets in their orbits, and the paths of comets, to which latter, the appearance of the comet this year gave rise.

Mr. Jones, the author of an approved Greek Grammar, has for some time devoted his attention to the composition of a Greek and English Lexicon, as a desideratum in literature. In order to execute this arduous undertaking, upon principles that shall ensure credit to himself and be

nefit to the public, he has employed considerable time in studying the oriental tongues. Having thus explored the Greek roots where they are most likely to be found, his object is to trace them from their primary to their secondary senses; and he hopes by this method to reduce the explanation of terms the most coinplicated to a comparatively short compass. In the course of the winter he will publish a Dissertation on the Origin and Properties of the Greek Tongue, with Specimens of the Plan pursued in the Construction of his Lexicon. Some learned men have asserted, that the Greek has an intimate connection with the Shanscrit, both in its terms and in its structure; and it will certainly be a matter of much curiosity to ascertain how far the immortal language of Greece bears any resemblance to what the pride of the Brahmins styles "The language of the Gods."

Mr. W. Savage, will publish in the course of the present month, a small vo lume of Descriptive Poetry, selected from the best modern authors, and principally having reference to subjects in Natural History.

Mr. Walter Scott's new poem entitled, "Marmion, or Flodden Field," is printing at Edinburgh, and is in considerable for wardness.

The Historical and Romantic Ballads, edited by Mr. Findlay, are now ready for publication, in two volumes octavo. The greater number of these ancient poems have never before been published. fixed are some Remarks on the Early State of Romantic Composition in Scotland.

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Speedily will be published, a new edi tion of "The Dangers of the Country."

Part I. of a New British Encyclopedia, to be completed in the course of the present year, will be published on Monday, February 1, price 10s. 6d, entitled the British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; comprising an accurate and popular view of the present improved state of human knowledge. By William Nicholson, Author and Proprie. tor of the Philosophical Journal, and va rious other chemical, philosophical, and mathematical works.

I. The work will be printed by Whittingham, on fine yellow wore demy paper, in octavo, with double columns, and a beautiful new brevier type, in a superior tyle,

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