were not overlooked; Mr. Falconer* in the first place, and afterwards Mers. Morritt and Francklin†, all hoftile to the Bryantian fyftem. Mr. Wharton's defence of Bruce, and oppofition to Mr. Brown, is a book of fome intereft and amufement. The Abbé Gualtier, long diligently employed in the inftruction of youth, has thrown fome light upon the art of making Abridgments§, and analyzing the fenfe of authors. The American Rush-Light, written by Mr. Cobber, with a punning allufion to the name of the perfon attacked, is tendered amuling, even on this fide of the Atlantic, by the abilities of the author; and relates fome very curious facts. In a tract, entitled the Effence of Malone, Mr. George Hardinge has thought proper to attack the biographer of Dryden; and for a few pages his banter is lively and amufing, but it owes the fize of a pamphlet to repetitions without end, and a minutenefs of criticiim, more fatiguing than the minutenefs of refearch to which it is oppofed. Among works fubfidiary to learning, Mr. Carey's Latin Profody** deferves a very honourable place. The diligence of the author in refearch, and his clearnefs in precept, will add pleafure to mftruction, whenever his book is ufed. The edition of Sheridan's pronouncing Dictionary, with the improvements of Mr. Salmontt, fhows to what degree judicious management may comprefs extenfive information; and affords a new proof of the indefatigable induftry of the author of Stemmata Latinitatist. We fhall conclude, by the mention of Mr. Noehden's German Grammar§§, a work, which in fome material points of inftruction, is either original, or fuperior to all its predeceffors. We close our prefent retrofpect with a wish, in which all readers will join: that, in a literary or in a political view, we may never have a worse half-year to look back upon, than that in which the prefent voJume was compofed. ‡ No. II. I No. VI No. II. p. 212. + No. P. 212. p. 691. No. III. p. 337 IV. p. 418. viewed in the Brit. Crit. vol, viii, p. 264. No. VI. p. 690. Re TABLE TO THE BOOKS REVIEWED IN VOLUME XVI. N. B. For remarkable Paffages in the Criticisms and Extracts, fee the INDEX at the End of the Volume. A. PAGE PACE AGUTTER's fermon on the Barruel. Abregé des mémoires du deaths of the righteous and wicked Jacobinifme 695 Bartell's obfervations on the town of Cromer 686 Aimé's narrative of the deportment to Cayenne 95 95 Bartholomew's hofpital, St. ac Allwood's literary antiquities of Greece 65 457 Beaujour du commerce de la Grèce 702 Angler's pocket-book Annefley on the danger of a premature peace 568 Annual regifter, the new, for 1798 575 Anquetil's fummary of univerfal hiftory 242 Anftruther on heat, electricity, and light 400 Antes on the manners and cuftoms of the Egyptians Anthology, annual, vol. ii. Antiquité, tradition des plus belles ouvrages, tom. xviii. Archæologia, vol. xiii. Afiatic refearches, vol. v. 147,272 Auckland, lord, fubftance of his fpeeches to prevent adultery 90 B. - 667 403 459 585 Bell on the ftate of military and naval furgery 397 Bellerman's manual of biblical li terature, tom. i. Germ. 462 Bevan's refutation of the mifreprefentations of Quakers, and life of Naylor 686 Bidlake's Summer Eve, a poem 42 Virginia, a tragedy 319 Bingley's tour round North Wales 237 Blair on the venereal difcafe, p. ii. 40 - 205 449 89 452 - 203 Lambert's fyftem of the world 246 102 703 204 452 |