ligious fellowship caufed me deeply to mourn; being cloathed with holy zeal, I called with a raised voice to thofe fleepy fpirits to arife and stand upon the walls of Zion, with fwords in one hand and working inftruments in the other, that the enemy might have been kept out, and the work of the Lord carried on in the earth. After this paffed away, I beheld a fuffering day approaching, to prove the foundation of the inhabitants of this nation, and that none fhould be able to ftand, but those whole foundation was laid upon the rock of ages.'

A Sermon preached in the Church of the unised Parishes of St. Fedaft Foter, and St. Michael-Le Quern, London, on Friday, February 28, 1794, being the Day appointed for a General Faft. By Francis Wollafton, Rector. 8vo. IS. Wilkies. 1794.

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From Luke xxi. 36, Mr. Wollafton takes a hafty view of the prefent pofture of affairs, the probability that great revolutions are now agitating by the hand of providence, and exhorts his hearers to prepare themfelves by watching and prayer.' He glances at the con duct of the French, and is of opinion that we cannot at prefent fheath the fword. • What Christianity certainly would advise in almost any other cafe, Chriftianity itself cannot advife now.' The remarks he makes on the growth of infidelity form the best part of this fermon.

The Hand of God acknowledged in the Lofs of endeared Relatives, and fuch affecting Difpenfations improved. A Sermon, occafioned by the much lamented Death of Elizabeth Bowden, who departed this Life November 15, 1793, aged feventeen years; preached at LowerTooting, in Surry, November 24, 1793. By James Bowden. 8vo. 9d. Johnfon. 1794.

The afflicted parent, and the pious refigned Chriftian, are equally confpicuous in this difcourfe. It is, indeed, affectionate, tender, and fubmiffive. The language we could have wished to have been polished with greater care. It is not enough to fay this fermon was not intended to be published: even in colloquial converfation, it would appear harth and inelegant.

A Sermon preached before the University of Cambridge, November 5, 1793. By Edward Pearfon, B. D. Fellow of Sidney-Suffex College, Cambridge. 8vo. 6d. Deighton. 1793.

The text of this difcourfe is taken from Proverbs xxiv. 21. My fon, fear thou the Lord, and the king, and meddle not with them that are given to change. The preacher fhows, by judicious ob fervations, the great danger of attempting to fubvert, by violence, and vindicates the Revolution of 1688 any eftablished government; from the objections that might be drawn from this general principle.

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The Spirit of the Times confidered. A Sermon, preached in the Englifh Church at Utrecht, February 13, 1793, the Day appointed by the States for the General Thanksgiving, Fafting, and Prayer. By W. L. Brown, D. D. Profeffor of Moral Philofophy, the Law of Nature, and Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, and Minister of the English Church at Utrecht. So. IS. Murray. 1793.

We have feldom read a more elegant and feasonable discourse, from Matthew xvi. 3. Can ye not discern the signs of the times.' From the figns of that period, our author turns to those of the prefent moment, when religion, government, arts, fciences, and tafte, are attempted to be fubverted under the impofing name of philofophy. His conclufions and advice are highly judicious: in every view, our author recommends due fubordination, an attention to religion, to order, and good government.

Hints preparatory to the approaching Faft. 12mo. 6d. Riving

tons. 1794.

Thefe Hints, though intended for general application, are chiefly directed to the clergy. The author delineates the different kinds of difcourfes which would be delivered on the Faft-day; pointing out the particular object of the feveral clafles of preachers, and recommending to their attention fuch a plan of fermons as is most conformable to the inftitution of a day of public humiliation and prayer. The Hints are fuggefted with good fenfe, and enforced with a becoming degree of freedom.

NOVELS and ROMANCES.

Hiftory of May-Flower, a Fairy Tale. 8vo. 2s. 6d. fewed. Wilkie. 1793.

When the Arabian Nights were first translated into French by Galland, they were read by every body with an enthusiasm of pleafure. Count Hamilton, author of the Memoirs of Grammont, and other publications, used to laugh at the eagernefs with which they were read, and to say that it was very easy for any man to produce fuch, if he chose to be extravagant enough. Some of his gay acquaintance dared him to the trial; upon which he wrote the tales known under the name of Contes d' Hamilton. They are extremely amufing, as they join to the fanciful extravagance of the Arabian Tales, which he at once laughed at and imitated, the gaiety and lighter graces, the wit and pleafantry of the Parifian bel-efprit. Fleur d'Epine is one of the prettieft. It is very well tranflated, though with confiderable retrenchments and additions, chiefly, we suppose, introduced to bring out the moral, the leaft circumftance, probably, C. R. N. ARR. (XI.) June, 1794.

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that count Hamilton concerned himfelf about; and it certainly may be read with much pleafure, and without fear of receiving any harm, by all young people who are fond of this kind of writing.

Caroline de Montmorenci; a Tale, founded in Fa&t. By La Marquife De *****, 12mo. 35. jewed. Longmans 1794.

This ftory, which is written in letters, confifts rather of a feries of detached epifodes than of one uniform narrative. It may, as is faid in the title-page, be really founded in fact; but we cannot say that it has any ftrong claim to intereft the reader, in refpect either of fentiment or information.

Amusement Hall; or, an Eafy Introduction to the Attainment of Ufeful Knowledge. By a Lady. 12mo. 25. Beards. Gardi

The fable of this little production is ingenioufly imagined; the dialogue fentimental, without either affectation or dulnefs; and it is interfperfed with interefting anecdotes from ancient history, on which the young ladies, to whom they are recited, never fail of making pertinent obfervations. The whole is well calculated for conveying ufeful knowledge in a familiar and pleafing manner.

Lucy: a Novel. By Mrs. Parfens. 3 Vols. 12mo. 10s. 6d. fewed. Lane. 1794•

The heroine of this Novel is a Foundling, richly endowed with the gifts of nature, and of the most virtuous and amiable difpofition. The first seventeen years of her life are spent in the obfcurity of an old ruinous castle, in a remote part of Ireland; where the is protected by its two only inhabitants, a Mr. and Mrs. Butler, hutband and wife, who, after living many years in the poffeffion of a large eftate, are driven by a series of calamities to feek for refuge in the moft fequeftered retirement. By the death of thofe refpectable perfons, the unfortunate Lucy is left in the moft deplorable fituation; deftitute of all human fociety, and without any other fubfiftence than the milk of a cow, with which the had been nourished from her infancy. To avoid perfecution from a young libertine, by whom he had been accidentally difcovered, the makes her way to a village, at the diftance of fome miles, and implores the protection of a Father Mark; of whofe great humanity fhe had been informed by Mrs. Butler, and afterwards by a hernit, whom the had difcovered in a fubterraneous part of the caftle. On the recommendation of this worthy clergyman, fhe is taken into the family of a lady Campley, by whom he is treated with a degree of partiality and affection fuitable to her extraordinary merit. A feries

feries of furprising adventures fucceeds this period of her history, until, at last, her parentage becomes known, and she is happily married to the nephew of an Italian count, who was deeply enamoured of her charms.

The incidents in this novel are, in general, of a romantic nature; but conducted with great plaufibility. The characters are well fupported; the fentiments highly favourable to virtue; and it abounds with fituations extremely interefting to the tenderest feelings of the heart.

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Chemical Eays; being a Continuation of my Reflections on fixed Fire, with Obfervations and Strictures upon Dr. Priestley's, Fordyce's, Pearfon's, and Beddoes's late Papers in the Philofophical Tranfactions; and an Answer to the Reviewers. By Robert Harrington, M. D. 8vo. Is. 6d. Faulder. 1793.

"We with the man a dinner and fit ftill.'

In good truth, we have been fo long teized by affertions without proof, by experiments misunderstood, and arguments indecitive, that we fhall in future be contented with announcing Dr. Harrington's works, till we perceive them to become of more impor

tance.

On the Difeafes of the Teeth; their Origin explained, with fuccefsful Methods of removing their most prevailing Disorders, and managing the Teeth in the Infant State. To which are added, Obfervations on the Saliva. By Benjamin Walkey, Apothecary, and Proprietor of the Vegetable Dentifrice. Svo. 15. Shepperton and Reynolds. 1793

This is an advertisement, managed with more than ufual art, which we did not fully understand, till we obferved Apothecary' added to the name. In reality, the diseases of the teeth fometimes depend, it is faid, on fome fault in the blood;-and who so proper to give the alteratives, if the tooth-powder fails, as the author of the difcovery? We ought, however, to add, that Mr. Walkey appears to be far above the common rank, of advertifers. His pamphlet is written, in a manner indeed a little too confident; but, in general, with propriety, elegance, and good fenfe.

DRAMA TI C.

The Purfe; or, Benevolent Tar; a Mufical Drama, in one Alt, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. By J. C. Crofs. 8vo. IS. Lane. 1794.

A piece of one act, in which the chief incident is, that a boy taken into a great houfe falls asleep in a chair, with a letter from his

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mother in his hand. A failor returning from a cruize comes in, and reading his letter, finds he has fent all the money he could get to his mother; with which he is fo pleafed that he flips a purfe into his pocket. Upon this an accufation of his honefty is afterwards founded; but the failor, who proves to be his father, returns time enough to fave him.-The incident is borrowed from Berquin, who himself took it from the German, where the generofity to the fleeping page is related of the king of Pruffia. With regard to the work ing up of the piece, nothing can be more flightly put together.

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Obfervations on a Current that often prevails to the Weftward of Scilly; endangering the Safety of Ships that approach the British Channel. By James Rennel, Efq. F. R. S. From the Philofophical Tranfactions. Svo. 25. Nicol. 1793.

This is a fingularly useful tract, which, as it has not yet occurred to us in the Philofophical Tranfactions, we may shortly notice. There seems to be a current, fetting from Cape Finisterre and Cape Ortegal across the mouth of the British Channel, which carries fhips, fteering from the weft, towards the channel, in a parallel to the south of the Scilly Islands, either on them, or to the north of the islands. Mr. Rennel thinks the current follows the course of the fhore; but this is lefs probable than that it paffes through the bay. It is of more confequence to remark, that it feems to prevail most, after some continuance of wefterly winds. Some of our au thor's remark we fhall transcribe.

ift. Whatever may be the breadth of the stream, (which is at prefent unknown) if a fhip croffes it very obliquely, that is, in an E. by S. or more foutherly direction (as may easily happen, on finding herself too far to the northward, at the first place of obfervation, after she gets into the current), fhe will, of courfe, continue much longer in it, and will be more affected by it, than if the fteered more directly across it. She will be in a fimilar fituation, if the croffes it with light winds; and both of thefe circumstances should be attended to. And if it be true, as I fufpect it is, that the eaftern border of the current has a more northerly direction than the middle of it, this alfo fhould be guarded againft. I conceive alfo, that the ftream is broader in the parallel of Scilly, than farther fouth. here we may remark, that thofe who, from a parallel fouth of Scilly, have been carried clear of it to the north, when approaching it in the night, may efteem themselves fortunate that the current was fo frong; for had it been weaker, they might bave been carried on

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