The fubftance of this pamphlet has more than once been laid be- He fometimes endeavours to impose upon the Reader by mere quib- < a Upon the whole, it is to be feared, that the public has only been amufed with fubtleties and refinements, with refpect to the conduct of the Expedition, while the material points have been difregarded. Vid. our last, F. 92-93. MISCELLANEOUS. R-d Art. 5. An Effay on Criticism. In the Courfe of which the Theory The Reader will form fome idea of this pamphlet, when he is told, B Art. 6. Memoirs of the principal Tranfactions of the last War The importance of Nova-Scotia and Cape-Breton are here placed N 3 foever foever the merit was of planning the reduction of Louifburg, fome ac knowlegements are certainly due to thofe who carried the icheme into execution. To the then Governor of Maffachufet, as being the first mover and grand conductor of this enterprize, the Author is very liberal of his compliments; but he seems in a great measure to have forgot the brave officers who feed the defign at the hazard of their lives,-In fhort, if we may be allowed to speak our fentiments, we mult confider this publication as one among the several apologies for the conduct of Governor Shirley. Ն Art. 7. The Conduct of Major-General Shirley, late Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces in North America, briefly flated. 8vo. I s. 6d. Dodsley. Mr. Shirley, whofe conduct has been variously reported, has here a good deal to fay for himfelf;-but as thofe who have curiofity enough, with regard to this fubject, to wifh for any particulars of this controverfy, would hardly be gratified with what our limits might afford them, we beg leave to refer to the pamphlet itself for further information. Art. 8. The Art of Converfation, or Polite Entertainer. Calculated for the improvement, and defigned to establish morality on the foundation of good fenfe, and to fix the wavering notions of good manners in the minds of both fexes. Recommended * as a genteel help to modern difcourfe. Illuftrated with several curious anecdotes on different fubjects. By a Perfon of Quality t. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Ryal and Withy. A new edition of the title-page of a thing published in the begining of the year 1754, then entitled, The Book of Conversation and Bekaviour. See Review, Vol. X. p. 307. Quere, by whom? + Quere, of what quality ? Art. 9. The Hiftory of Amanda. 12mo. 3s. Amanda is an agreeable fort of a body ;---quite a gentlewoman, compared to Mira, (fee our laft, p. 93) and fome other trollops, who have had the affurance to appear in public, under the affumed names and characters of people of fashion :-but let not Amanda, however, plume herself too much on this preference; for, notwithstanding the decency of her appearance, and the decorum of her behaviour, the muft not think herself qualified to keep company with Madam Clariffa, or Miss Western :-ladies of the first diftinction in the records of romance. Art. 10. Memoirs of a Young Lady of Family, &c. 12mo; 3 s. Scott. An infipid, flimfy, uninterefting tale; which, were it not that a ferap or two of Latin feems to contradict the fuppofition, one might fufpect fufpect to be the work of fome novel-ftruck chamber-maid: for fuch, its feems are now become free of the worshipful company of Adventure-makers. We are led into this conjecture by the inaccuracy of the Writer's language; which, though not in general contemptible, is here and there sprinkled with vulgarifms, only to be expected from a fcribbling female: fuch as, p. 171, He could not bring him/elf to think that I favoured, as yet, any one else's pretentions.'-P. 165, ⚫ I laid in the fame room with my benefactress.'-by which it might poffibly be understood, that the young lady who tells the ftory, had gracelefly laid an egg in the chamber of her benefactress. Nor is this an accident or error of the prefs; but the common language of the narrative; for we find the fame impropriety in other parts of the book, for inftance, page 189, I laid in her apartment:'-Page 155. She ⚫ ordered a tent-bed to be put up in her room, for me to lay upon.'A hen might have said so with propriety. Art. 11. Inftitution of the General Company for the Culture of the Vineyards of Alto Douro. 8vo. 1s. Gardner. As this relates merely to the late establishment of the above mentioned company, in the city of Porto, in Portugal, our Readers will expect no farther account of it. Art. 12. A New Scene for the Comedy called The Knights: or fresh Tea for Mr. Foote. 8vo. 6d. Dublin printed, London reprinted, by Wilkie. A droll fatyr on fome public fpeakers in the Houfe of Commons of Ireland. Art. 13. A genuine Narrative of the deplorable Deaths of the Englib Gentlemen, and others, who were fuffocated in the BlackHole, in Fort William, at Calcutta, in the kingdom of Bengal ; in the night fucceeding the 20th day of June, 1756. In a letter to a friend. By J. Z. Holwell, Efq; 8vo. 1 s. Millar. A most fhocking tale; affectingly, and well told, by a principal perfon among the unfortunate fufferers ;-one of the few who had the happiness to furvive a trial which one would have thought it imposfible for human strength to fuftain. POETICAL. Art. 14. Arimant and Tamira: An Eaftern Tale. In the manner of Dryden's Fables. By a Gentleman of Cambridge. 4to. Is. Marsh. The fubftance of this tragical ftory is briefly as follows: Yamodin, King of Golconda has an only child, named Tamira, compleatly beautiful in mind and perfon; and addreffed by different neighbouring Princes, to whom her father finally declares, that no foreigner fhall fucceed to the crown of Golconda. Soon after which, to procure a defcendant from his daughter, he determines to bestow her on his N 4 brave brave and fuccefsful General Arimant, whofe character is very amiable in all refpects, being entirely agreeable to the people, and especially dear to the Princefs, whom he had long fecretly loved. The day of their nuptials is fixed, but before it arrives a raging peftilence invades the kingdom, and prayers being vainly offered up to their God Ram, for reaming it, the people, or rather the whole kingdom, demand, according to the execrable law or fuperftition of the Golcondans, the facrifice of a royal virgin, to appeafe Ram, and extinguish the plague. The King, who is extremely ford of his only child, ftruggles fome time between the duties of Prince and Parent, but feems determined in favour of his people, when the affecting prefence of Tamira, who intervenes on this occafion, makes him relent. But the Princefs, who feems as fully convinced of the efficacy of her death as every one elfe, determines to die for the people; which refolution her father confents to, confirms in the ufual form; and the following day is appointed for the facrifice. Arim..nt, hearing this, with the utmost horror, flies to the Princefs, who firft appears abfolutely bent on death: but having fuffered herself to liften to the effufions of love, grief, and distraction, in her dear Arimant, the finally confents to marry him directly, and he refolves to claim her as his wife the next day at the altar, the law prefcribing a virgin folely as the facrifice. This he does; to the utter indignation of the King, (who had juft turned his head afide, to avoid feeing the effufion of his daughter's blood) and to the allonishment of the whole affembly; who immediately feize Arimant, and devote him to death, as having impiously defrauded Ram of his facrifice. The Princess in vain implores her father for her husband's life. She then fupplicates the privilege of dying with him, like the wives at Coromandel; to which he is filent, but feems to affent by a nod. Arimant dies refolutely by the executioner, after having vainly endea voured diffuade her from death; and she throws herfelf alive on his funeral pyre, where their afhes are blended, Such is the thread of this horrid tale, which we hope, for the honour of human nature, is but a fiction. For fuppofing it true, never had fuperftition a more abfurd triumph in the facrifice of two amiable perfons, and in the confequent diftrefs of a whole nation, thus deprived of an heir to the crown. The versification throughout is smooth and equal, and the diction, upon the whole, not ill adapted to the elegiac narrative. As a fpecimen, we felect the poet's apoftrophe on the King's devoting his daughter to death; which apoftrophe may be confidered as the fole moral of the fable, though it is inferted near the middle of it, And think't thou then, deluded King, 'tis thine, Think't thou thofe Gods thou ftil'ft the great and good To that vain idol, whom thy fears adore. K Art. 39. Art.15. Poems on feveral Occafions, formerly written by John Free, D. D. The fecond edition, with addition of later pieces, &c. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Owen. This work, of which we do not recollect any former entire edition, (though Stigand was printed fingly fome years fince, Sufanna in 1730, and feveral of the political poems appear to have been firft printed in News papers, &c.) is a mifcellany on very different fubjects, and executed with different fuccefs. The verfes to the fair fex, from the Greek of Naumachius, and a few others, are not bad; many are entitled to the character of mediocrity; and others undoubtedly come fhort of it. As to the acroftics, and several juvenile conceits, we suppofe our Author intended to apologize for them, by his printing the word formerly in Italics in bis title-page. Among different occafions for meditating in verfe, we confefs we were diverted with the fubject of one of the Doctor's meditations, viz. On going to bed early in the morning, after fitting up all night difputing with an old Sceptic." What a coalition of zeal and good fellowship! and how unlikely to produce a dry difpute! notwithtlanding, it is not very clear from the good meditation itself, which, or whether either of the difputants gave out. Though we are too much traitned for room to give any specimen of the work, we may fairly affure our Readers, there is as great a variety for the price, under almost every poetical denomination, as could well be contained in about 200 pages. And befides the various regales for the meer English reader, there is a little Hebrew, fome Greek, and more Latin, for the fcholaftic. Indeed we might of courfe have credited our Author with erudition from his title; but as literary attainments, and inborn power in poetry are really distinct things, though we do not confider him among the humbleft verfifiers, we conceive he will be prudent in fitting down contented in a moderate station among the minor poets; and compenfate himself for any deficiency that way, by the folid reputation he enjoys, of being a truly well principled Englishman, and a very good natured man. K. Art. 16. Thoughts on the glorious Epiphany of our Lord Jefus Mr. Dodd feems very happy in the favours of a thorough orthodox Art. 17. Admiral Vernon's Ghoft. Being a full, true, and parti- The |