"Prior's Cloe was a poetical and ideal character-poor Pope was immoderately and oftentatiously fond of Patty Blount-and Swift, after having admired and courted the celebrated Stella near twenty Syears, married her, and was afterwards never in her company but when a third perfon was prefent.

"I would not infinuate that his Lordship was fo cold a lover as Swift, nor do I imagine him to be the libertine he wishes to pafs for. Like Lord Foppington in the play, he might think the reputation of an amour with a fine woman the moft delicious part of the bufinefs.

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"I never heard of any of his Lordship's fuccefsful gallantries, except that which brought Mr. Stanhope into the world. His contempt of the fex might poffibly arife from their diflike and averfion to him.

"That we may be enabled to furnish out a finished portrait of his Lordship, the Editor of the Characters has bluntly referred us to a gentleman diftinguished for elegance of manner, and many amiable qualities: It is true, be rides well, and ferves the King *. The gentleman has made no secret of a transaction which certainly reflects fome difgrace upon the noble Peer. But he does not wifh, I am persuaded, that any man's general character should receive its colour from a fingle action.

"The fact which the Editor alludes to is as follows: Lord Stanhope, during the Earl his father's life-time, borrowed the fum of £.6,000. from this gentleman's father, upon bond. The father died, and bequeathed the bond and growing-intereft, which at laft was accumu lated to £.12,000. to his heirs. The gentleman folicited payment of the money in vain for feveral years; he intreated, he urged, he threatened to commence a fuit at law against him. His Lordship at length offered to pay half the money. The friends of the gentleman perfuaded him to accept the propofal, rather than contend with a man fo artful and fo powerful. The gentleman took the advice of his

friends."

The Chriftian Hiftory; Being a New Arrangement and Verfion of all the Gospel Facts. With ten Differtations. By William Williams, Efq; late of St. John's College, Cambridge. 8vo. 55. Cadell.

We are told, by Mr. William Williams, that " in an exact compilation of all the circumftances relative to Chrift, difperfed up and down in his four hiftorians, will be found more of the fublime, the pathetic, the furprizing, the allegorical, and the moral; more perfect manners, more wonderful actions, more animated defcriptions, more ftriking epifodes, more noble machinery, than in any other compofition whatever; forming the fineft piece of ethic poetry in the univerfe." Admitting all this to be true, what a miferable compiler muft Mr. Williams be, who hath here fo put together thefe admirable materials,

* Vide Editor's Advertisement.

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as to deprive them of almost all their natural fublimity, pathos, and poetry! So tame and inanimated a compiler, indeed, we scarcely remember ever to have met with. Did not the experiments lie open before us, we could hardly have believed it poffible to degrade the bold and beautiful fimplicity of the common verfion of the Evangelifts into fo fpiritless and vapid a narration. We wish we could give greater commendation to Mr. Williams as a differtator: but, to fpeak the truth, he is as bad a critic, as he is a literary compofer, and a worse philofopher than either. And yet he is daring enough to enter the lifts against Mr. Locke, on the fubject of Human Volition: in which he comes off, as might be expected from so unequal a contest.

S.

Oratio de Re Medica Cognofcenda et Promovenda. Habita apud Societatem Medicam Londinenfem, Die 18 Januarii, Anno MDCCLXXVII. Autore Nathanaele Hulme, M. D. Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinenfis: Medico Domus Carthufiana, &c. Cui acceffit, Via Tuta et Jucunda, Calculum folvendi in vefica urinaria inhærentem, ab Hiftoria Calculoft Hominis confirmata. Proftant apud G. Robinfon, Paternofter Row, et P. Elmfly, in the Strand.

A well-written difcourfe on the practice of phyfic in general. The additional tract is alfo well worthy the perufal of practitioners: the method of practice pointed out appearing to be conformable to the beft theory, and agreeable to the moft fuccessful experience.

The Defection of our Brethren a Call to Chriftian Humiliation. A Difcourfe occafioned by the present unhappy Rebellion in America: delivered in a Country Congregation, Dec. 13, 1776, appointed for a General Faft, &c. Publifhed for the Benefit of the Norfolk and Norwich Hofpital. 6d. Chafe, Norwich. Our correfpondent, to whom we are obliged for a copy of this difcourfe obferves, and very juftly, that it deferves as much notice as many other difcourfes, we have mentioned, as delivered on the fame fubject.

Ode

Ode to Dragon, Mr. Garrick's House-Dog, at Hampton. 4to. 6d. Cadell.

We have heard much of Mr. Garrick's handfome treats at Hampton but we did not know before, that they fo much refembled a mifer's feaft, as to be watched by a Dragon; or that this furly guardian, instead of being kicked like a dog, was to be foothed by doggrel verses.

A Letter upon Education. Tranflated from the French of a Royal Author. Small 8vo. 2s. Nourse.

A tract imputed to the King of Pruffia, but we believe without good foundation; as there is nothing new or fingularly important, either in the matter or manner.

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The Art of Converfing. Tranflated from the French. 4to. 15. T. Lewis.

A proper mixture of precept and example, very much refembling a French converfation. Sunt verba et voces, præteraque nihil.

Madge's Addrefs to Chriftopher Twift-wit, Efq. Bath-Laureat and Millar's Plumian Profeffor. 4to. is. 6d. Bew.

Who Kit Twift-wit is, we know as litttle of, as we know of Mrs. Madge; but if the Bath-Laureat can tag rhimes no better than his addreffer, he has little pretenfions to the honorary fees of his profefforship.

An Address to the Inhabitants of St. Ann, Weftminster, by the Rev. Thomas Martyn. 8vo. 1s. Corrall.

On the difpute, that has fome time fubfifted between Dr. Hind, the Rector, and Mr. Martyn, the Curate of St. Ann's. It is of confequence to the Clergy, as it contains an account of the legal decifion between them, relative to the pretended right of the former, to dismiss him, after due ordination.

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The

The Lion extricated; or, the Jackall's Defeat. A Fable. 4to. Is. Almon.

A political, allegorical, party, piece of, what its author might probably call, poetry. But, if it were not for the fiction, or rather falfehood, it contains, it would not have the léaft pretenfion to poetical merit.

The new Paradife of Dainty Devices: confifling of original Poems, by different Hands. 4to. 2s. 6d. Almon.

A dainty collection of dogrell verfes, that may entitle their authors to a place in the publisher's New Paradife, altho' they ftand no chance of promoting them to any degree of elevation on Parnaffus. A cauftic critic of our acquaintance, indeed, fays this miscellany is very properly named; the New Paradife meaning nothing more than the Paradife of Fools.

Henry and Eliza. A Tale. 4to. IS. Bew.

A Tale, founded on truth, and by no means the more poetical on that account. It has, however, fome poetical merit, is written in the Elegiac ftrain, and in the measure of Gray's famous Elegy in a Country Church-yard.

Armstrong's actual Survey of the great Pofl-road, between London and Dover. With the Country three miles on each fide. Drawn on a Scale of half an Inch to a Mile. 8vo. 3s. Sold by the Bookfellers.

A neceffary continuation of the Author's Survey of the poftroads, from the North to the South of Great Britain; the former part of which, viz. from Edinburgh to London, was published some time fince *.-In this pamphlet is contained, alfo, an account of the regulations of the pofts, with the prices, and manner of travelling poft, in France, and other inftructions, particularly ufeful to Englifamen vifiting the Continent.

See London Review, for Auguft, 1776.

Metallurgie

Metallurgie Chemistry. Tranflated from the German of C. E. Gellert, by John Seiferth. 8vo. 6s. in Boards. Becket.

A work of merit in its kind, comprifing a general fyftem of mineralogy, more confiftent and fcientific than any we remember to have feen. If the tranflator had been as well acquainted with the English language, as he appears to be with the fubject of the work, it would have appeared with more reputation to himself and pleasure to his readers.

Heath-Hill, a defcriptive Poem. By W. Hurn. 4to. 2s. 6d.

Robinson.

"Here pure description, holds the place of sense."

POPE.

The Gamblers. A Poem. Canto II. 4to. 1s. 6d. Hooper. For fome account of the firft Canto of this Poem, fee our laft Review. This fecond Canto is written with equal fpirit.

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The Economy of Beauty, in a Series of Fables; addreffed to the Ladies. By Dr. Cozens. 4to. 10s. 6d. Walter.

This production is dedicated to the Princefs Royal of England, and contains a general fyftem of female inftruction; conveyed in no unpleafing manner, although the fentiments are, for the most part, trite and common, as the poetical garb, in which they are dreffed, is not the moft neat and elegant. At leaft Dr. Cozens's fables will fuffer much in comparison with those of the late Mr. Moore, on fimilar fubjects.

To our CORRESPONDENTS. LETTERS from CORRESPONDENTS, with ANSWERS in

our next.

*** A compleat Supplement of all the English Books and Pamphlets, that have hitherto escaped our Notice or been neceffarily deferred, will be certainly given in the Appendix to the present Volume.