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table Thirft of Gain in fome of our City Gentlemen, is lafhed with exquifite fpirit; for instance,

I know 'tis a maxim receiv'd in 'Change Alley,

(But their fcales with my ftandard fure never will tally) That nothing but Wealth without measure can raife you, For the fum you are worth-at so much they appraise you. Why these people are mad-VOLUNTEERS for a mad houseAh! JONATHAN'S! JONATHAN'st thou art a fad house! By one fingle fentence thy myft'ry's explor'd- (ADOR'D." "TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE LAUGH'D AT, AND Mammon

For fuch phrenzy as this what relief do we know ? Son of ISAAC! 'twou'd baffle the art of MONRO. ›

Let the wretches proceed then without moleftation,

Since they chufe to be damn'd-let them go to damnation.
I remember a griping old LOMBARD-STREET BANKER,
Whole heart was eat up by this Gold-loving canker;

His fraud and oppreffion fo flagrant became,

Men, women, and children, detefted his name;

Mobs with hiffes purfu'd, if he ftir'd from his portal,

Yet hear the confolement of this wretched mortal :

"Let them cat-call and hifs as they will," cries old HUNKS, So their hiffes and cat-calls invade not my Trunks."

It may perhaps feem odd that old Jacob Henriques fhould be here re prefented in the character of a rich man. We feared it was far otherwife with this honest Hebrew patriot, and that he had expended his fortune in schemes and advertisements for promoting the "glorification" of "Worthy Britain." However, we hope it really is as here in timated; in which cafe his feven bleffed Daughters may be all good fortunes and therefore we heartily with them all very good huf bands.

Art. 8. The Cub at Newmarket, a Tale. 4to. 1s. Dodley,

From the fprightly Preface we expected very high entertainment in reading the Poem; but the humour of the piece being chiefly con fined to the occafion and the place, we were much difappointed, as the meaning was scarce intelligible to us. However we believe this laughing performance will be well understood and approved by the Jockey-Club at Newmarket.

A fpecimen of this may be taken from what he fays to the Critics, by which we fuppofe may be underflood the Reviewers." Pray, good Gentlemen, be quiet. Do not apply your confounded fquares and compaffes to a performance, whofe beauty, if it has any,---confifts in a careless eafe. What have your grave countenances to do here? It is not at all becoming in people of your dignity and confequence, to keep company with Cubs. What the duce! can't a comical fellow take a hearty laugh, but one of you fage Philofopbers muft clap on a pair of damnation fpectacles, and ftare him full in the face, in order to find out pimples upon his nofe?"

Art. 9. The Exhortation, a Poem. 4to. 1s. Woodfall. Exhorts us not to be afraid of our foes, on account of Mr. Pitt's having quitted the helm of the ftate; for that we have men enough left, equally

equally zealous for Britain's welfare, or, in the words of the good old ballad, "five hundred as good as he." The Poem is a very dull and mean, but a well-intended performance, in the ftyle of the Bellman's Verfes, which are ufually very honeft, though very homely.

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Art. 10. The Defects of an Univerfity Education, and its Unfuitableness to a commercial People; with the Expediency and Neceffity of erecting, at Glasgow, an Academy for the Inftruction of Youth. In a Letter to J: M. Efq; From a Society interested in the Success of this public-fpirited Propofal. 8vo. Is. Dilly.

That the plan of Education purfued at our Universities in general is too narrow and confined, has been long complained of; and, we are perfuaded, there is juft foundation for fuch complaints. That young gentlemen should employ fo much of their time as they generally are obliged to do, in Logic, Metaphyfics, nice difquifitions about the origin of moral virtue, &c. &c. whilft, comparatively, fo little attention is paid to Hiftory, Geography, experimental Philofophy, the principles of Trade and Commerce, and many other ufeful branches of knowlege, is greatly to be lamented, and deferves the ferious confideration of all who have the best interests of their country at heart.

What ordinary company, fays the Author of the piece now before us, what company of gentlemen is it, where metaphyfical difputes, or the logic of the fchools, are ever fo much as mentioned? Will a gentleman, by the deepest skill in them, make the better figure in the house of commons, or appear with the more dignity at the bar? Will his eloquence in the pulpit be the more perfuafive, or will he be the better skilled in the animal oeconomy? Will Metaphyfics infpire him with devotion, give him a higher relifh of virtue, or enable him to act with greater propriety in life? Or will the knowlege of them be of any advantage to the Farmer, the Architect, or the Merchant? We apprehend that none of these questions can be answered in the affirmative. And must acquirement, that are confeffedly of no use in life, that are never fo much as talked of in good company, waste a year or two of a young man's time? Is life fo long? Is time of fo little value, that there are not enow of useful ftudies to fill it up with? Muft recourfe be had to things which any. well-bred man would be ashamed to have it suspected that he had ever employed his thoughts about ?"

The Author enlarges a good deal upon this fubject, and what he has advanced upon it is, in general, very fenfible. Some will no doubt think that he treats Universities with too little refpect; be this, however, as it may, it does not affect the main point he has in view, viz. the Expediency and Neceffity of erecting an Academy at Glasgow, the defign of which fhall be, to give fuch a practical and compendious courfe of Education, as may, in fome meafure, qualify the Gentleman,

Gentleman, the Merchant, or even the Mechanic, to act with greater advantage in their respective stations. This point, in our opinion, he has placed in a very just and striking light, and we heartily recom mend the perufal of his fpirited performance to our Readers.

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Art. 11. Thoughts on antient and modern Travel. Humbly addreffed to every one concerned in the Education of young Gentle8vo. Is. Dodfley.

men.

A very pedantic, trifling performance, from which the judicious Reader will only learn, what is of very little importance to know, viz. that the Author is a great admirer of Berkeley's writings. If there fhould ever come a time, he fays, when men will read lefs and think more, Berkeley will then be placed next to Socrates in fame, as he was Berkeley, we are told, is the only modern who next in iftom.has not miltaken words for things, and fhadows for realities.

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Art. 12. Rules for the Choice of Hufbands. Addreffed to all the
unmarried Ladies of Great-Britain. By Diana Philips,
Williams.
Matron. 8vo. I s. -

This Pamphlet has the patch-work appearance of being the product of two different pens. The first part is stupidly illiterate; the fecond is better written, but more obfcene, and by no means fit to be recommended to the Ladies. The female name, inferted in the title, is evidently a piece of Author-craft.

Art. 13. The Accomptant's Companion: Or, The young Arithme tician's Guide. Being Being an eafy Introduction to Arithmetic, in whole Numbers and Fractions, Vulgar and Decimal, each Rule exemplified by a Number of Queftions to make the whole plain and familiar; Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots, and their Application to Ufe; Intereft, fimple and compound; Annuities, Rebate, and Equation of Payments. A Collection of Questions, with their Anfwers, ferving to illuftrate all the Rules. With Variety of Bills of Parcels, &c. to qualify Youth for Trade and Bufinefs. To which is added, an Appendix of Grofs-Multiplication, applied to Menfuration, as used by different Artificers. The whole defigned for the Ufe of Schools, and is recommended by feveral eminent Mathematicians, and Schoolmafters. By Thomas Harper, Master of the Academy in Healy-ftreet, Cavendish Square. 12mo. Fenner, &c.

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The Reader fees the Contents of this book in the copious Titlepage, which have been already treated of again and again. If new Compendiums of Arithmetic improved old Rules of Calculation, or altered the combinations of them, it might be useful to ftate the merits of the innovations; but Addition, Substraction, and the reft, ftill

continue

continue the fame.

Nevertheless, it may be ufeful to Schoolmasters to publish a book. Whenever Mr. Harper brings out another Edition, it is to be hoped the Errata will not make fo formidable an appearance.

Art. 14. A plain and eafy Road to the Land of Blifs, a Turnpike
Set up by Mr. Orator
Small Octavo. 2 s. 6 d.
Nicoll.

A dull and indecent Satire on the Methodists, in imitation, (as its Author, perhaps, imagines) of the celebrated Tale of a Tub, which it refembles in no refpect whatsoever; and reminds us of the man, mentioned in the ingenious treatife of the Profund, who pretended to write a Play in Shakespear's manner: bnt of the excellent model nó nearer refemblance could be found in the whole piece than the following compliment of falutation:

"Good morrow to you, good mafter lieutenant." This man, too, because he would appear like his original, has got the names Peter, Martin, and Jack!--But his production is not only contemptible for its ftupidity: it is also a filthy, obfcene thing, for which the dirty Author ought to be washed in the horse-pond.

Art. 15. Longford, Earl of Salisbury. An Hiftorical Romance. 12mo. 2 Vols. 6s. bound. Johnfton.

William, firnamed Long-fword, (from his wearing a remarkable long one) was the natural fon of King Henry 11. by the celebrated Fair Rofamond. He made a diftinguished figure, as a military commander, in the reigns of King John and Henry III. in whole time. he died, as was faid, by poifon, treacherously given him by the famous Hubert de Burgh. The story of this gallant Earl's abfence from England, during the wars with France, his long detention at sea by adverse winds, and the bafe arts employed in the interim by Hubert's nephew, to feduce his fair Countefs, and to obtain a fraudulent poffeffion of his Earldom, is the foundation of this agreeable Romance; in which the characters of the perfons, the manners of the times, and the style of narration, agreeable to the ages of chivalry, the valour of knighthood, and the chafte pride of female honour, are all well fupported. The truth of history is artfully interwoven with agreeable fictions, and interefting episodes; and the whole has the appearance of being the production of fome elegant female pen, formed on an intimate acquaintance with thofe paragons of literature, the Romances of the 15th and 16th centuries: which, however extravagant and above nature, were always favourable to the cause of honour and virtue; and, fo far, preferable to many of the more natural productions of later times. There is alfo a certain pomp of diction, a richness, and at the fame time a fimplicity of expreffion, in this kind of writing, which feldom fails of captivating the Reader; and particularly impreffes younger minds, naturally warmed and attracted by the fplendour of the heroic virtues, and moved by the

Aineit affections of the human heart. In short, however the good old Romance may be now laughed out of doors, certain it is, that no fpecies of writing could ever emufe with less injury to the morals, and virtuous manners of the Reader.

Art. 16. A plain Argument to fhew, from the Theory and Practice of the Laws of England, that there is really no Law at all fubfifting among Britains for Security of their Properties; which greatest of all Grievances, with the proper Remedy thereof, is humbly submitted to the Wisdom and Confideration of the British Legislature. By a Clergyman of the Church of England. 8vo. Is. 6d. Crowder.

If this paradoxical Pamphleteer is really a Clergyman of the Church of England, we would ask him, Whether he does not claim his gown and caflock, and his broad beaver, as his own peculiar property; and whether, if any one should forcibly and feloniously steal the faid gown and caflock, and broad beaver, from his perfon, or from off one of the pegs of the veftry, fuch offender would not be liable to profecution, and on conviction fuffer death without benefit of clergy? If he answers in the affirmative, then here is a plain argument against bim, to fhew, from the theory and practice of the Laws of England, that there is really fome Law fubfiring among Britons for the Security of their Properties. We would ask him likewife, if any right to tythes he has, Whether the Law does not afford him a method of recover ing the faid tythes, and other ecclefiaftical emoluments, from his parifhioners? If he answers in the affirmative, here is another plain argument to fhew, that there is fome Law fubfifting for the Security of Property. We could multiply our queries till their extent fhould exceed the limits of the duli tedious pamphlet under confideration; but were we too minute in refuting fuch flagrant abfurdities, the ridicule would 'retort upon ourselves. In fhort, this whimsical Divine, if fuch be his function, has founded his plain Argument, as he is pleafed to call it, on a certain periodical work, called, The Lawyer's Magazine'; and the text and comment are worthy of each other.

and Art. 17. A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of England, from the Norman Conquest to the prefent Time. Confidered "with Regard to Type, Legend, Sorts, Rarity, Weight, Fineness, and Value. With Copper Plates. Folio. 12s. 6d. Snelling. We have already a Metallic Hiftory of England, from the revo lution to the death of George I. deduced from Medals ftruck on fig. nal occafions. This work is not to be confidered in the fame light with that, being limited to the confideration of the Silver Coin, as coin only; every Coinage being feparately specified under the diftinctions expreffed in the Title: which, to perfons not engaged in this particular fudy, appear to be curiously and accurately attended to. The Plates exhibit an entertaining view of English Money from the

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