eate their duty, the laws in being are fufficient to remedy most of the abuses intended to be removed by thefe Projectors. MISCELLANEOUS. R-d Art. 2. Letters wrote to the King of Pruffia, by a Man of Quality, now upon his Travels through England. Published at the Request made to the Author by feveral Perfons of Distinction here. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Hooper and Morley. It is the fate of renowned Heroes, like that of celebrated Beauties, to be peftered with Letters, Odes, Madrigals, &c. in fhort, to be naufeated with nonfenfe, in every fpecies of compofition. Heroes and Beauties are alike the Toaft of every Fool, and the Theme of every Blockhead. We do not remember to have feen a more impudent puff than the title-page of the pamphlet before us. This pretended Man of Quality, who is upon his travels through England, and who claims correfpondence with the King of Pruffia, is fome dull Scribe, who has fpun out a feries of Letters, without a single reflection etther new or entertaining. To appear like a man of fashion, he has interlarded his pages with fcraps of French and Italian, and affects great knowlege of the manners and customs of the Continent. His profeffed defign is to give the King of Pruffia an exact account of the English nation; a task for which he fhews himself by no means qualified. He has retailed fome few common place obfervations on the characters of the Englifh; then, with all the freedom of a man of quality, he makes a defultory bound, and argues in favour of a standing army, with all the fervility of a Polish peasant. R-d Art. 3. A Treatise on the better Employment, and more comfortable Support of the Poor in Workhouses. Together with fome Obfervations on the Growth and Culture of Flax. With divers new Inventions, neatly engraved on Copper, for the Improvement of the Linen Manufacture, of which the Importance and Advantages are confidered and evinced. By William Bailey, Member of the Society for promoting Arts and Commerce. 8vo. 2s. DodЛley. The fabjects confidered in this Treatife are of the utmost importance, as they tend to promote the trade and comme ce of the kingdom in general, and the happiness of the poor in particular. It has for fome time been a general complaint, that the Workhouses erected for employing the Poor, have been far from anfwering their original intention, and that a reformation is abfolutely neceffary. To effect this defirable end is the intention of Mr. Bailey's plan; which, if carefully followed, will render thefe houfes proper fchools to train up the children of the poor to religion, fobriety, and industry, who 'would otherwife be brought up in floth, ignorance, and vice. They • They will likewise be nurseries for Spinners, Weavers, and other artificers in the woollen, linen, and cotton manufactures, and give ⚫ occafion to the exercise of many other trades and useful employments. And when industry is thus planted in different counties and parishes, it cannot be doubted but it will foon take root, and spread by degrees over the whole kingdom. ་ The fick and feeble Poor will be relieved, and comfortably fupported, with all forts of neceffaries, and phyfic proper to their feveral complaints, and due and regular attendance given them by Phyficians and Nurses. The ftrong and robuft will be well fed and cloathed, by the pro⚫fit of their own labour; the infirm and tender will be employed only ⚫ in fuch work as they are equal to, and as may be conducive to their health and happiness. • Infants will be preferved from filthinefs, difeafes, and prematur • death ;-and controverfies and expenfive law-fuits for obtaining of fettlements, with the trouble and expence of removing straggling Poor, will in a great measure cease.' These are surely motives fufficient to induce those who have the care of the Poor committed to them, to make trial of the method laid down by Mr. Bailey; efpecially as the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, has offered large Premiums for encouraging attempts of this kind. It is indeed urged, that moft proposals promife more in theory, than they actually perform in practice. But fuppofe this to be true with regard to the plan before us; yet furely if only a few of thofe advantages refult from it, they are inducements fufficient for carrying it into execution. Some difficulties would doubtless attend it, and fome care would be neceffary in the Guardians of the Poor to establish it. But the former might be cafily furmounted, and furely no public fpirited perfon who has the leaft remains of moral virtue, will refufe his affiftance to eftablish a plan which promises so many advantages to Society. With regard to the obfervations on the improvement of the linen manufacture, they juftly merit the attention of all who are defirous of promoting the wealth and happiness of this kingdom: efpecially as our neighbours on the Continent are at prefent endeavouring to eftablish the woollen manufacture in their respective countries. R-1 Art. 4. Enarratio & Comparatio Do&trinarum moralium Epicuri Stociorum. Differtatio, quæ Præmium, à viris Honorantiffimis Ed. Finch, Tho. Townsend Baccalaureis Med. Cantabrig. propofitum, retulit, In Scholis publicis recitata. Kal. Julii, 1754. A Johanne Fofter, A. M. Coll. Regal. Socio. 4to. 6d. T. Payne. In this ingenious Differtation, the principles of the Epicurean and Stoic Philofophy are briefly flated, and accurately compared. -The Ne The Author obferves with great judgment, that it is the business of Philofophy to point out the way to fome certain END to which all our thoughts and actions fhould have reference. With respect to this appointed END, both fects, fays he, were in the wrong as they did not extend their views beyond the narrow limits of mortality. vertheless, from thefe erroneous principles the Epicureans drew juft confequences, and the Stoics falfe ones. The one taught that Virtue alone was fufficient to Happiness; the other, that it was only its chief ingredient: the one recommended the impracticable task of rooting out our affections; the other, perfuaded us only to moderate them. The fyftem of the former, was more for the glory of human nature; that of the latter, more agreeable to truth. He takes notice of the calumny which each feet threw upon the other, and of their wilful mifrepresentations of each others tenets. In the conclufion, he obferves, that the antients feparated Ethics from Divinity and that though the Stoics often spoke with reverence of a God, they nevertheless drew no deductions from the contemplation of the Divine Nature, which might tend to open the view of a future ftate, and improve the morals of mankind: from whence, their rule of conduct became as imperfect as that of Epicurus, who almost denied the existence of a Deity. From these confiderations, fays he, it evidently appears, how much Philofophy was deficient in ftrength and dignity, before Religion was introduced to bring it to perfection. This little tract is written in elegant and claffical Latin; but as it is a language with which many Readers may be unacquainted, we refer those who are defirous of further fatisfaction on this fubject to Mifs CARTER's excellent INTRODUCTION to her Tranflation of EPICTETUS. Art. 5. Outlines of a Syftem of Vegetable Generation. : R-d By Dr. Baldwin. No more,' says our Author, is attempted here, than to lay down the sketch, or firft defign of a method, in which this fubject may, perhaps, be traced fuccefsfully outlines which the inge'nious are invited to affift in filling. The courfe of Nature is here followed (faithfully if imperfectly) only in one plant; and what ' advances are made, have been the refult of a few months obferva⚫tion under a fingle hand: years, perhaps ages, are required to pur'fue it thro' the feveral orders of the vegetable fyftem !' The inquifitive Naturalift will, we apprehend, find in this performance, feveral hints that may be useful to him in the conduct of his researches: nevertheless it is future experience that alone must determine the rectitude of the Doctor's fyftem.-Indeed it is but justice to acknowlege, that the pen of this multifarious Writer is never more happily employed than in the purfuit of Nature, and Nature's Laws. L * Amaryllis Spotha multiflora, corollis Campanulatis æqualibus, genitalibus declinatis, Linn. Sp. 293. POETICAL. Art. 6. A Genuine and Particular Account of the late Enterprize on the Coast of France. By an Officer. In a Letter to a Friend. 8vo. I s. Griffiths. Authentic, and very well written. Art. 7. An Exact Account of the late Expedition, with the Particulars thereof. In a Letter from an Officer to his Friend in London. 8vo. 1s. Wilkie. This agrees, very nearly, with the foregoing account, as to the facts, but is a very different performance with regard to the manner in which the facts are related: it wants all the fpirit, and the genteel, ealy expreffion, for which the genuine account has been diftinguished. POETICA L. Art. 8. Odes of Anacreon. 4to. IS. Ruffel. This endeavour is a wretched Translation of the twenty-seven first Odes of Anacreon, which are here turned into English Rhyme, without the leaft particle of Anacreon's fweetness or elegance. Perhaps the oftentation of tranflating Greek, may have feduced fome Stripling to fo unequal an attempt, but if he had ever read any former tranflation of this Author, it is amazing how he came to publish a verfion which fhews him to have neither genius, ear, nor tafte for poetry; and fometimes, indeed, not English enough for tolerable profe. Yet if his purpofe were to fhew us, how greatly an excellent original may be degraded by an execrable tranflation, he has abundantly fulfilled it. We shall not, in defence of our cenfure, select the very worst [as he has mangled it] but one of the fhortest Odes of his murdering; and to extenuate the malice of it, as much as poffible, let it be committed only Upon his DRE A M. On purple tapestry, brifk and gay Art. 9. Olindo and Sophronia. K A Tragedy. The Story taken from Tao. By Abraham Portal. 8vo. Is. 6d. Graham. We have read this play with more pleasure than we have received from the perufal of any late performance of the kind, that hath ob tained the fanction of the Theatre, as Mr. Portal expreffes it. This piece was never offered to the Managers, we are told, from a perfuafion that a modern audience would never relish the ftrain of piety which runs through many of the fcenes. The Author was ewife juftly apprized of fome other circumftances which feemed likewife to difqualify his piece for fucceeding on the ftage: take the objections. in his own words. They [the Author's friends] have thought likewife fome of the 'fpeeches too long for rehearsal on the Stage. The latter of these objections I might, at the expence of a little labour, have removed; (though in its prefent circumilances it was judged unneceffary): But with refpect to the former and main objection, I am particularly ⚫ unfortunate; fince I can only afk pardon for a fault which I cannot 'bring myself to amend, or even repent of. These objections then remaining do, I am fenfible, render this play unpromifing for a Manager's aqprobation; but notwithstanding I flatter myself they do not lie equally strong against its publication: and though it might run the hazard of being dd in a theatre, it may afford a ratio⚫nal and agreeable entertainment in the Closet; where vicious fashion ' does not tyrannize, and where men need not blush to appear pleafed with natural fentiment, or touched with juft difirefs, though the former proceed from a mind tinctured with devotion, and the lat⚫ter be fupported on principles worthy a Man and a Chriftian: and I make no doubt, but that, if this performance fhould be found not ⚫ otherwife grofly deficient in language, paffion, fentiment, and in⚫vention, a large audience might be picked out for it in Great Britain, which would pardon the piety that enters into fome of the characters, nay, and like it better upon that account. Such therefore, when this piece is publifhed, it may poffibly find out wherever difperfed, and fo obtain the feparate fuffrages of a number fufficient to preferve ⚫ the Author's reputation, though they could not be collected into one place. Prompted therefore by this hope, I here yield up my virgin tragedy into the arms of the Public, hoping it will discover in her at least merit fufficient to entitle her to indulgence, if she has not ⚫ charms and beauties fufficient to win etteem and admiration. The Author concludes his preface with a paragraph relating to himself, which, when the merit of his performance is confidered, muft do him real honour. And now I have but one word more to add, which is, that (to the most fication of the Critics) the Author only fues for fame in forma pauperis. As he has been educated, and hitherto paffed his time, not in the learned and peaceful retreats of the Mufes, but in the rude and noisy shop of Vulcan, his performance is but the effort • of almost unaffitted nature; the folace and amusement of leisure ' hours.' We fhall here take our leave of this learned and ingenious difciple of Vulcan, with only a very short quotation from his truly moral and manly performance, in which he feems to have caft an indignant eye towards fome late famous COUNCILS of WAR, viz,` What |