tell how, in a discourse on encaustic painting, and a proposition to substitute it for copper-sheathing in our navy.

In another passage, Lucretius having made an allusion to the beauty of Helen, and the war of Troy, his translator takes occasion to dissert thus learnedly in the notes.

• The effect of love is variously defcribed, as well as accounted for, by the poets. Generally, however, the inftrument fuppofed to be employed, is either a dart from the eye, producing a wound, as in v. 36. of the prefent book; or elfe a fpecies of fubtle and irrefiftible flame, eroding and confuming the bofom, as in the prefent paffage. In the opening of Book IV. of the Æneid, Virgil introduces both these metaphors.

• Vulnus alit venis, et cæco carpitur igni.

She feeds her wound, and pines with fecret fire.

Petrarc follows our poet's latter image alone in the enfuing de

fcription.

I che l'efca amorofa al petto avea

Qual maraviglia se di fubito arfi?

What wonder, that I burn and smart,

Since love's keen torch inflames my heart?

Solomon has beautifully and boldly introduced another fyftem of imagery, the elegance, and indeed the meaning of which, has feldom been fufficiently explained. Under his creative powers, the fafcinating fair becomes the furrounding wall of a fortified city; which was often erected with confummate skill, beautified with all the ornaments of architecture, and over different parts of which were projected towers or turrets for the purpose of repelling the affailing foe; in whofe conftruction and finish the tafte of the artift was principally exerted, and which were hence frequently denominated towers of ivory or of filver. The triumphant fair being thus generally refembled to the beautiful and ornamental wall of a defenfive city-her white and fwelling bofom is next compared to the white and fwelling turrets projected from its furface,-to thofe elegant, but dangerous prominences, which were equally formed for the purpofe of attack or repulfion, and which no man, in either cafe, can approach without extreme peril. With this introductory explanation the paffage I refer to is equally exquifite and obvious.

Call her a wall-" and " two towers of filver

Will we build upon her.

I myself am a wall,

And my bofom refembles two towers. Chap. viii. 9. 10. For a ftill further illuftration, the reader may confult my version and notes upon this elegant fimile.-Sacred Idyls, p. 59. and 206.

1. 87.88. These are but fair specimens of the excursive disposition of this commentator, and are taken without selection ad aperturam libri. His medical and metaphysical lucubrations are still more copious and irregular.

Upon

Upon the whole, this book is very dull, and, as a translation, very flat and unpoetical; yet it is evidently the work of a man of no ordinary vigour or intelligence: it contains a very correct edition of Lucretius, with more information on the subject of his poem, than could be gathered from all his other commentators put together. The version is sometimes pleasing, and sometimes vigorous; and Mr Good's own speculations, though often intruded rather awkwardly, are by no means despicable. It is a book, in short, which nobody but a reviewer will ever read through; but which, we think, all scholars would like to possess; and which, if it were a little cheaper, we should recommend all but poor scholars to buy.

QUAR

QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,

From January 1807, to April 1807.

ANATOMY.

Anatomical Examinations complete; or, Series of Anatomical Quef tions, with Anfwers. 2 vol. foolfcap 8vo. Ios. 6d. boards.

AGRICULTURE.

Hints to Planters. By Francis Dunkinfield Aftley, Efq. 8vo. 26. 6d. bound.

The Experimental Farmer. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

ARCHITECTURE.

Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Hot-Houfes, Green-Houfes and Aquariums, Confervatories, &c. By G. Todd, Surveyor. With 27 Folio Plates, coloured. 21. 12s. 6d. boards.

BIOGRAPHY.

Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelfon; with the Circumftances preceding, attending, and fubfequent to that Event; the profeffional Report of his Lordship's Wound, &c. By W. Beatty, M. D.; with a Portrait. 7s. Fine, 10s. 6d.

Account of the Life and Writings of Hugh Blair, D. D. one of the Ministers of Edinburgh, &c. By John Hill, LL. D. 8vo. 6s. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home, of Kames, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and one of the Lords Commiffioners of Jufticiary in Scotland. By Lord Woodhoufelee. 2 vol. 4to. 31. 35. Fine, 51. 58.

Biographical Index to the Houfe of Commons, containing brief but correct Notices of the Lives, the Family and Party Connexions, the Senatorial Character and Conduct, and other useful and fatisfactory Particulars relative to all the Members of the prefent Commons Houfe of Parliament, revifed to the 1ft of March; drawn up and printed as a Companion to the Court Kalendars and Pocket Peerages. 10s. 6d. boards. 118. red.

DRAMA.

The Fall of Mortimer, a Tragedy. By the Right Honourable Morris Lord Rokeby. 2s. 6d.

The Theatrical Review, No. I. 1s.; to be continued monthly. Mufical Dramas; with felect Poems and Ballads. By J. Raunie. 78. Falfe Alarms, or my Coufin; a Comic Opera. By James Kenney.

2s. 6d.

Solyman, a Tragedy, in Five Acts. 2s. 6d.

Curfew, a Play, in Five Acts. By the late John Tobin, Author of the Honey Moon.

29. 62.

The

The Laughable Lover, a Comedy, in Five Acts. 2s. 6d. Shakespear's Dramatic Works, with explanatory Notes. One large Volume 8vo. 30s. boards.

The Young Huffar, or Love and Mercy, an operatic Piece. 18. 6d.

EDUCATION.

The Child's Monitor, or Parental Inftruction, in Five Parts; containing a great Variety of Progreffive Leffons, adapted to the Comprehenfion of Children. By John Hornfey. 3s. 6d. bound.

The Youth's Mentor. By an Experienced Schoolmaster. 2s. 6d. boards.

12mo.

An Effay on the Elements, Accents, and Profody of the English Language; intended to have been printed as an Introduction to Mr Boucher's Supplement to Dr Johnfon's Dictionary, By T. Odell, M. A. 12mo. 38. 6d. boards.

Exercifes upon the different Parts of Speech of the Portuguese Language, referring to the Rules of Vicyra's Grammar; to which is added, a Courfe of Commercial Letters, in Portugucfe. By J. Em. Mordente. 3s. 6d.

The Manual of Youth, in three Parts; 1ft, containing 60 Fables, with 120 Cuts; 2d, Remarks on Rhetoric, with various Examples on the different Styles, Figures, and Tropes; 3d, A large Collection of Extracts, in Profe and Verfe, selected from the most approved Authors, both English and French. By J. Oifeau. 8s.

The Complete Inftructor in Drawing. By W. Craig. No. 10. Roval Folio. 6s. 6d.

The First French Grammar; confifting of the Accidence of that Language, briefly expreffed, and perfpicuously displayed; containing every thing effential, and nothing fuperfluous. By M. l'Abbé Boffut. Printed on a large Type, and good Paper. Is. 6d. bound in cloth.

A Key to French Converfation and French Idiom; confifting of eafy and familiar Phrafes and Dialogues, English and French; adapted to the Memory of Children at an early Age. By M. P'Abbé Boffut. Is. fewed.

The French Syntax; with Illuftrations and numerous Exercifes annexed to every Rule, calculated to perfect the Student in all the Peculiarities of the Language. By M. l'Abbé Boffut. 2s. 6d. bound in Cloth.

Dictionnaire Univerfel des Synonymes de la Langue Françoife, recueillis par M. l'Abbé de Levifac. 6s.

Feftuca Grammatica: the Child's Guide to fome Principles of the Latin Grammar. By the Rev. Richard Lyne.

2s. 6d.

Fabulous Hiftories, defigned for the Inftruction of Children refpecting their Treatment of Animals. By Mrs Trimmer. 2 vol. with

A New Writing Copy Book, by which Children and other Perfons may learn to write a good hand in half the time it ufually occupies. 4 parts, 9d. each.

The Albion Catechifm.

1s. 6d.

FTHICS.

ETHICS.

An Ethical Treatife on the Paffions, in three Difquifitions. By

The Cabinet of Arts; being a new and univerfal Drawing-Book. No. I. Is. 6d. To be completed in thirty Numbers.

HISTORY.

A Biographical Hiftory of England, from the Revolution to the End of George the Firft's Reign; being a Continuation of the Rev. J. Granger's Work. By the Rev. Mark Noble, F. A. S. 3 vol. 8vo. 11. 7s. boards. Fine, 11. 168.

Hiftory of the Rife and Progrefs of the Belgian Republic, until the Revolution under Philip II., from the German of Schiller. By T. Horne, 4s. 6d.

Hiftorical Dialogues for Young Perfons. Vol. II. 4s.

Ancient History, for the Ufe of Schools; exhibiting a Summary of the Rife, Progrefs, Revolutions, Decline and Fall of the vari ous Nations of Antiquity, from the earlieft Records of Time to the Fall of the Roman Empire. By the Rev. John Robinson, of Chrift's College, Cambridge; Master of the Free Grammar School, at Ravenftondale, in Weltmoreland; Author of the Grammar of Hiftory, of the Archæologia Græca, &c. &c. &c. 12mo. 6s. bound.

Campagnes du Maréchal de Schomberg en Portugal, depuis l'année 1662, jufqu'au 1668. Par le Général Dumoriez. 4s. 6d. boards. Authentic Materials for a Hiftory of the People of Malta. By W. Eton, Efq. 6s.

Caledonia; or an Account, Hiftorical and Topographical, of North Britain, from the most ancient to the prefent Times; with a Dictionary of Places, Chorographical and Philological, in 4 vol. 4to. By George Chalmers, F. R. S. & S. A.

HORTICULTURE.

The Gardener's Remembrancer throughout the Year; to which is prefixed, a View of Mr Forfyth's Treatife on Trees. By James M Phail. Svo. 128. boards.

JURISPRUDENCE.

Confiderations concerning a Propofal for dividing the Court of Seffion into Claffes, or Chambers; and for limiting Litigation in fmall Caufes ; and for the revival of Jury Trials in certain Civil Actions. 45.

Expediency of Reform in the Court of Seffion in Scotland, proved in two learned Pamphlets, published in the Year 1786 and 1789, and now reprinted, to illuftrate the Neceffity of the Bill for better regulating the Courts of Juftice in Scotland.

Some Obfervations on the Conftitution and form of Proceedings of the Court of Seffion in Scotland, with Remarks on the Bill now depending in the Houfe of Lords for its Reform. By John Peter Grant, Efq. 8vo. 38. 9d.

Obfervations on the propofed Reform in the Administration of Civil Juftice in Scotland. By James Ferguffon, Efq. 8vo. 4s.

LAW.