and events are pretty clofely copied from hiftory; and the Poem is probably the worfe for it. Some uninterefting narratives and weak paffages would doubtless have been omitted or altered, had Mr. Glover lived to have given the last polish to this work. To difmifs a poem of fuch length as the prefent, and written by the author of Leonidas, without an extract, would fhew too little refpect to his memory; we shall therefore felect one that will do no difcredit to it. It may be proper to inform the reader, that a Grecian princefs, having enquired of a Perfian fatrap concerning Sandauce, Xerxes' filter, is told that he was then mourning at the tomb of Ariana, whose fate is fo elegantly defcribed in Leonidas, and preparing a grave for her husband Autaratus.

-Not diftant flows

The fount of forrow, fo we ftyl'd the place,
Frequented oft by Ariana's grief;
There oft her head difconfolate he hung
To feed inceffant anguifh, ne'er difclos'd
Unlefs in fighing whifpers to the ftream;
Her laft abode is there. The myrtles fhed
Their odours round, the virgin roses bloom;
I there have caus'd a monument to rife,

That paffing ftrangers may her name revere,
And weep her fortune; from her early grave
May learn, how Heav'n is jealous of its boons,
Not long to flourish, where they most excel.
A marble manfion new erected nigh
Her faithful flaves inhabit; who attune
To thrilling lutes a daily fun'ral fong.
He leads, he ftops. On gently-moving air
Sweet meafures glide; this melancholy dirge,
To melting chords, by forrow touch'd, is heard.
Cropp'd is the rofe of beauty in her bud,
Bright virtue's pureit manfior is defac'd;
Like Mithra's beams her filken treffes fhone
in luftre gentle as a vernal morn;
Her eye reveal'd the beauties of her mind
The flave, the captive, in her light rejoic'd
Lament, ye daughters of Choafpes, wail,
Ye Ciffian maids, your paragon is loft!

Once like the fresh-blown lily in the vale,
In Sufa fair, in radiancy of bloom
Like fummer glowing, till confuming love
Deform'd her graces; then her hue the chang'd.
To lilies pining in decay, but kept

The fmile of kindness on her wafted cheek.
Lament, ye daughters of Choafpes, wail,
Ye Ciffian maids, your paragon is loft !

ray

O ray of wisdom, eye of virtue, form'd
To fpread fuperior light, the dazzling brand
Of love malign obfcur'd thy eagle fight;
Thy vital flames are vanish'd, ours remain,
As lamps to endless mourning in thy tomb,
Till we rejoin thee in a land of blifs.

Lament, ye daughters of Choafpes, wail,
Ye Ciffian maids, your paragon is loft!

The fong concludes. Sandauce from a bank
Of turf uprifes, refting on her flaves;
A pallid vifage, and a fainting ftep,
She brings before the fepulchre and fpake:
O Ariana! liften from thy tomb,
To me in woe thy fifter, as in blood!

By diff'rent fortunes both were doom'd to waste
An early bloom in forrow; O admit
Autarctus first a neighbour to thy clay,
Me next, who feel my vital thread unwind.
O Heav'n! my humble fpirit would fubmit
To thy afflicting hand-but every fount
Of health is dry'd; my frame enfeebled finks
Beneath its trial. When the inhuman priest
Condemn'd my children to his cruel knife,

The freezing theers of fate that moment cut
My heart-ftrings; never have they heal'd again;
Decay'd and wither'd in the flower of life,
My strength deferts my patience: tender friends
Provide another grave. For whom? burfis forth
Emathia's queen, and threw her clafping arms
Around the princefs; whofe difcolour'd hue
In warm affection flushes at the fight
Of Amarantha, as a languid rofe,
Shrunk by the rigour of nocturnal frofts,
A while reviving at the tepid rays

Of wintry Phoebus, glows. For me, fhe figh'd,
For me, that bed of endless reft is made.
Com'ft thou, neglectful of thy nuptial blifs,
To poor Sandauce's burial! foon the hour,
When of the fun thefe fickly eyes must take
Their iaft farewel, may call thy friendly hand
To close their curtains in eternal night!'

The reader will perceive fome ftriking paffages in the quotation we have given him; and fimilar ones, though we must confefs more fparingly introduced than we could have wished, are scattered through the poem.

Medical Commentaries for the Year 1787. Vol. XII. By Andrew Duncan, M. D. 8vo. 7s. in Boards. Elliot.IT This with no little concern that we fee an useful work, and a refpectable author, finking in public estimation, efpe

cially as we are ourselves obliged to ufe repeatedly the language of admonition, and even of reprehenfion. We fufpected that he once paid fome attention to our remarks; and we hope that he will not now mifconftrue what is defigned for his advantage. We mean not to say, that the books and papers are improperly chofen; but we must be allowed to obferve, that the remarks on the ufe of the fpiritus vitrioli dulcis in fevers, the three works on the red and quilled bark, by Drs. Skete, Irving, and Kentish, are not of fo great importance as to fill nearly one third of the part appropriated to books. As to Dr. Reynolds' account of the ufe of fugar of lead, we believe it might have been of importance, if, inftead of one grain, he had given ten for a dose. We have seen this repeatedly done with advantage, affifted only by the occafional use of ol. ricini, to prevent constipation. Of fome other books we may remark, that Fontana fur le Venin de Vipere was published in 1781; Strack's Obfervationes de Febribus intermittentibus, in 1785; and of course not proper objects for an account of the publications of 1787. Dr. Blane's, Quarin's, and Bacheracht's works are almost the only ones which are within the limits that the author laid down for himself, and which are objects of general attention.

Of the choice of original effays we shall make no obfervation, because we know the difficulty to which an editor, in Dr. Duncan's fituation, is expofed. Some of the effays are, however, of real practical importance. In the cafe of rabies. canina, which terminated fatally, after mercurial falivation. had been induced, it must be remarked, that the falivation was very rapidly brought on. Dr. Bennet's hiftory of a dropfy of the pericardium, mistaken for an aneurifm of the heart or larger veffels, reflects honour on his candour, without bringing the leaft imputation on his skill:-the account of the fcurvy in Siberia; of the pepper medicine in the ulcerated throat of the Weft Indies, and of the ufe of the flowers of the arnica, in paralyfis and amenorrhæa, are of real utility.

The medical news is, in many inftances, very trifling: we with that this part of our author's work was greatly shortened. The greater number of the publications, announced to be almoft ready, had reached us before the promise in the Medical Commentaries.

To this volume is added, an original memoir of Dr. Webfter, in which he endeavours to fhow, that condenfation is the only cause of heat in nature. In the greater number of operations in which heat appears, or is produced, condenfation is particularly confpicuous: but it can scarcely be called a caufe; it is often only a concomitant effect of the feparation of heat; and it has been in general well known, and repeat

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edly obferved, that in the change of ftate from vapour to fluid, and from fluid to folid, heat becomes obvious to the senses, while in the oppofite changes it is loft. We perceive little novelty, and no very confiderable ingenuity in Dr. Webfter's opinion, when stated properly.

We must conclude with repeating, that our esteem for Dr. Duncan, and our wish to render his work valuable, and worthy of his character, has drawn from us, fomewhat unwillingly, these remarks. Perhaps we may have expected too much, and confequently this part of the work may to us have appeared to fink proportionally low; yet, as we think the plan good, we wish that the execution was unexceptionable. As we have mentioned the objections freely, we ought alfo to remark, that much useful information may be found in this volume; and that to the younger ftudents, and more fecluded practitioners, it will be particularly valuable.

DR.

Defences of Unitarianifm for the Year 1787, containing Letters to the Rev. Dr. Geddes, to the Rev. Dr. Price, Part II. and to the Candidates for Orders in the Two Univerfities, Part II. By Jofeph Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Johnfon. R. Priestley has changed the form of his Defences, and defigns to publish an annual volume with a title fimilar to the prefent. The laft yolume of Letters to Dr. Horne, &c, is to appear as the volume of Transactions for 1786. We hoped that we had seen an end of a controverfy, tedious in its progrefs, and which promised little utility in its conclufion. We did not confider the irritable nature of our prefent author; we did not reflect that many of his opponents had the laft word. But ftill fome comfort remains. Every year, he fays, brings this controverfy nearer to its termination.' We rejoice at it, though we fear that this prophecy means only that it will not be eternal; for he adds, that the attention to it abroad and at home, is continually increafing now if the future can be judged of by the past; if experience adds to wifdom and fagacity, this increasing attention, if we except the influence of inspiration or revelation, will have an oppofite effect. The more it is attended to, the greater number of controverfialifts there will neceffarily be.

The tranfactions for the year 1787 confift of an answer to Dr. Geddes, and we think a judicious and a fatisfactory one. gave nearly a fimilar opinion in our review of his Letter. The next object of our literary Entellus is Dr. Price, who, in the appendix of his Sermons, had ftated fome of Dr. Priestley's arguments, that the public might form their own opinions, on

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the subjects of their difference. In this ftatement Dr. Prieftley finds fome things to correct, and fome things to which he chufes to reply.

Our author next addresses again the Candidates for Holy Orders; and, in thefe Letters, he groups a croud of antagonists, and fome opponents, who have rather alluded to his opinions than attacked them directly. In this group, we diftinguish particularly Mr. Howes, who has again appeared in the lifts in the appendix to his fourth volume, Mr. Madan, the author of the Letter by an Under-graduate, and Dr. Croft, author of the late Bampton Lectures. Some others we cannot distinguish in the crowd. The under graduate Dr. Prieftley has anfwered diftinctly, without perceiving the humour of the affumed character. If he is however right, when he mentions the reputed author, we think him too fevere in charging that author with a direct falsehood. The perfon who affumes a character is not a liar when he tells the audience what that character is. He concludes, that the deception is understood; and Dr. Priestley we fuppofed was too acute not to have perceived at once, that the under-graduate's gown concealed a writer of fome rank and importance. Who he is, we prefume, has been hitherto only gucffed at; and we shall not tranfcribe the tale of rumour, till we have a better foundation for it.

In these Defences, we perceive the fame active eagerness, the fame acutenefs in the reply, the fame earnestness in advancing fresh proofs. Dr. Priestley is an Antæus that rifes with fresh fpirit from the ground, and attacks his numerous opponents with the fpirit alfo of a Briareus. We cannot fay

that he is always fuccefsful; but we are well pleafed to add, that thefe Defences are conducted with more temper than his former ones.

Four Tracts.-I. On the Principle of Religion, as a Teft of the Divine Authority. 11. On the Principle of Redemption, whether if premial it is agreeable, or if judicial contrary, to divinę Reftitude. III. On the Angelical Meffage to the Virgin Mary. IV. On the Refurrection of the Body, as inferred from that of Chrift, and exemplified by Scriptual Cafes. With a Difcourfe on Humility. By Robert Holmes. B. D. 870. 45. Cadell. HESE Tracts are written with great neatnefs and precision; they add no inconfiderable credit to the author's character, and deferve our commendation. The firit is on the principle of religion. All religion is founded in love or fear of the Deity; and by fear is meant not that reverence which partakes of dread, but real apprehenfion of punishment: in short, it confines to one being thofe feelings which, in moft reli

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