Poems. By Elizabeth Fell. 4to. 4s. fewed. Robinson.

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Mrs. Fell is, we dare fay, a mighty good kind of woman; but diftinguished to more advantage by her piety than her poetry; fo that the crambo verses, addreffed to her namefake of Oxford, may with little variation be adapted to our poetess. As to your virtues, Mrs. Fell, With reafon good we like them well; But for your verfes, Mrs. Fell, The reafon good we do not tell; But we don't like them, Mrs. Fell.

Bagley, a Deferiptive Poem. With the Annotations of Scriblerus Secundus: To which are prefixed by the fame, Prolegomena on the Poetry of the prefent Age. 4to. 3s. Bew.

"Let thofe judge freely who have written well,"

faid Pope, the particular friend, if not a near relation to Martinus Scriblerus Primus; the neglect of which maxim, in this Scriblerus Secundus, perfuades us that he is, by no ineans, a legitimate descendant of old Martin.

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An Epifle from Shakespear to his Countrymen. 4to. Richardson and Urquhart.

More panegyrical flummery on Mr. Garrick. This, however, is rather an infipid and unfavoury mefs: to be relifhed only by fuch as are very fond indeed of fpoon-meat.

The Saints. A Satire. 4to. 2s. Bew.

A fevere and well-written fatire on the Methodifts and other pretenders to extraordinary piety, whom the fatirist treats as impoftors and hypocrites. We believe he is, in the main, right; though there is no general rule without exception. But whether the majority be greater knaves than fools or greater fools than knaves, we look upon his fatire to be entirely thrown away upon them.

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The Quaker. A Comic Opera. As performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. 8vo. 1s. Bell.

On the fubject of this little piece, we have received the folJowing card: IMPARTIAL'S Compliments to the London Reviewers; defires to have their candid opinion of the favourite petit-piece the Quaker; of which the Monthly and Critical Reviewers have given opinions fo very oppofite: the one commending it as abounding with ftrokes of morality," and the other condemning it and advising the reader, unless fond of "difgufting double entendre, and unnatural caricature, never to foil his fingers with turning over the leaves of that publication." The author of it, they add, appears to have been moved by no fpirit but that of folly."-In reply to Impartial, we have only to fay that doctors may differ from different motives. We do not fuppofe that the difgufting double entendres of the Critical Reviewers are precifely the fame as the firokes of morality hinted at by the Monthly. Perhaps they thought the whole of too little moment to engage their very particular attention. And, if they did they were excufeable. This piece was evidently meant only, to ufe the cant of the compofing tribe, as a vehicle for the mufic; and it is well known that fiddlers often put up with very paltry vehicles.

The Sheep-fhearing: a Dramatic Paftoral. In three Acts. Taken from Shakespeare. As performed at the Theatre Royal in the Hay market. 8vo. 18. Kearily.

An Extract from the Winter's Fale.

Fairy Tale. In two Alts. Taken from Shakespeare. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-market. 8vo. 6d: Kearfly.

An Extract from the Midfummer-Night's Dream; an attempt, like the foregoing, to exhibit Shakespeare in as puerile a light as poffible, to keep the frippery, ufually exhibited at the Hay-market Theatre, in countenance,

April-Day; a Burletta in three als. By the author of Midas. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-market. 8vo. 19. Kearfly.

A piece of buffoonery, not improperly taking its name from All-fool's day.

The Trifler; or a Ramble among the Wilds of Fancy, the Works of Nature, and the Walks of Men. vols. 3 and 4

The two first volumes of this work were published about two years ago. Amidft a number of real trifles they contain fome things not quite fo trifling; although we cannot much approve of this loofe, defultory and unconnected fpecies of writing.

The Hiftory of Amelia Harcourt and Louifa Darlington: 2 vol. 12mo. 6s. bound. Gardiner.

Some works that dull and even tenour keep,

We mayn't find fault indeed, but we may fleep.

And a hearty nap, reader, we have taken in the perufal of this delectable hiftory. Go thou and do likewife.

The Princess of Cleeves. An Hiftorical Novel. Tranflated from the French, 12mo. 3s. bound. Wilkie.

A much better novel, and better tranflated, than are most of the naturalized exotics of this kind, which make their appearance in this country.

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The Hiftory of Eliza Warwick. 2 vol. 8vo. 5s. fewed. Bew.

This hiftory is dedicated to the Reviewers, with great appearance of humility and fubmiffion, by its author, who declares herself to be a woman, and greatly an admirer of our critical abilities. We with, on account of her fex, that we

could

could return the compliment in favour of her literary talents: but, in conformity to her expiefs defire, we fhall not mortify her delicacy by the rudeness of truth, but pafs her by in filence.

Memoirs of the Marchiones de Louvoi. By a Lady. 12mo. 3 vols. 7s. 6d. fewed. Robinfon.

Said to be written by Lady Mary Walker, author of the Letters from the Duchefs of Crui; and worthy the pen of that fenfible and ingenious letter-writer.

The Hiftory of the Curate of Carnan. Taken from real Life. By an unbeneficed Clergyman of the Church of England. 12mo. 2 vol. 5s. Johnfon.

A tragi-comic relation of the hardships endured by the inferior part of the clergy of the church of England, and the difficulties attending the acquirement of ecclefiaftical promotion; both an opprobrium not only to the religious eftablishment of the country in particular, but to Chriftianity in general.

The Hiftory of Edward Prince of Wales, commonly termed the Black Prince, eldest son of King Edward the Third. With a Short view of the Reigns of Edward I. Edward II. and Edward III. And a fummary Account of the Inflitution of the Order of the Garter. 8vo. 5s. Bew.

A problematical kind of performance, that hath neither the precifion nor dignity of hiftory, nor altogether the levity of Romance: The author having left the reader altogether in the dark, with regard to the fources, whence he draws his information.

The

The Hiftory of Melinda Harley.

Robinson,

12mo. 2s. 6d, fewed.

"The more learned part of my readers," fays this novellift, "will, I hope, fhew a good-natured indulgence to fuch faults or mistakes in the language as may appear to them, though I flatter myself, that they will not be viewed with a microscopic eye."-They will not, we believe, by any readers who are learned at all; fo that, with fuch as are more learned this writer will more probably meet with the favour fhe folicits, as to her language. We will not anfwer she will meet with the fame indulgence either as to manner or matter, from the unlearned, who are by far the more numerous part of novel-readers.

Firft Lines of the Practice of Phyfick, for the Ufe of the Students in the University of Edinburgh. By William Cullen. M. D. vol. I. 8vo. 6s, Edinburgh printed. Sold by Murray, London.

This work is offered to the world rather as a fummary, or fyllabus, for the ufe of ftudents, than as a treatise for the information of practitioners. This firft volume relates to fevers and inflammations. When the publication is finished, we may give a more particular account of the whole.

The Elements of Euclid: in which the Propofitions are demonftrated in a new and shorter Manner than in a former Tranflation, and the Arrangement of many of them altered. To which are annexed, plain and Spherical Trigonometry Tables of Logarithms, from 1 to 10,000; and Tables of Sines, Tangents and Secants, natural and artificial. By George Douglass, Teacher of Mathematicks in the Academy at Ayr. 8vo. 6s. bound. Printed at Edinburgh, and fold by Richardfon, &c. in London.

Mr. Douglas has not fo much improved the Elements of Euclid, as published by the late Mr. Simpfon, to entitle his edition to fuperfede that of the latter. He has, notwithstanding, fupplied fome omiffions, and made fome tranfpofitions that are not injudicious.

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