१ fectly known in this country, and the ingenious author was acknowledged to have the merit of rendering it acceffible to the public. To the prefent edition are added fome extraordinary cafes that have occurred in Mr. Rufpini's extenfive practice, and which ought to excite the attention of every individual to the prefervation of those useful organs that constitute the peculiar province of the dentist. ATreatife upon the Inflammation in the Breafts, peculiar to Lying-in Women: and also upon fome Diseases attending them, which are the Confequences of Negled, or Maltreatment. By J. Clubbe, Surgeon. 8vo. 25. 6d. Longman. This Treatife contains a full investigation of the fubject on which it is written. The author begins with an anatomical and phyfiological account of the ftructure and ufe of the breafts and uterus; after which he accurately developes the internal caufe, feat, and iffue of inflammation in the breafts of lying-in women, and then describes the method of cure, which is no lefs rational than it is well fupported by experience. To thefe Mr. Clubbe fubjoins obfervations on an inflammation of the breafts arifing from external causes. Advice to Lying-in Women; chify refpecting the Cuftom of Drawing the Breafts. By C. Cruttwell, Surgeon. 8vo. Dilly. This fenfible and practical writer warmly diffuades from the indiferiminate practice, fo generally ufed, of drawing the breafts after delivery. From repeated experience, he confiders this refource for alleviating the pain of the breafts as much more pernicious than ufeful; nor did he ever fee the omission of it either directly or indirectly prejudicial; an opinion which coincides with the principles maintained by the author of the preceding article. The advice given by Mr. Cruttwell to lying-in. women, in this pamphlet, merits their attention; but it might have been attended with greater advantage, had he been more fparing of technical and abftrufe terms. DIVINITY. Three Sermons, entitled T. Liberty when used as a Cloke of Malicioufnefs, the worst of Evils. 11. The Evil of Rebellion, as applicable to American Conduct, confidered. III. Great Britain oppreffing America, a groundless Charge. Preached on the Three preceding Faft Days, appointed to be obferved on Account of the American Rebellion, Preached at Twyford and Ouzlebury, Hampshire, by Cornelius Murdin, M. A. 4to. 15. Robfon. Thefe difcourfes feem to have too much of the appearance of political effays, for the pulpit; and more efpecially for a coun. try-congregation. But the author makes a modeft apology in the preface for the general tenor of his obfervations, and this objection no longer exifts, when they are offered to the public, The author fhews very clearly, that in the prefent difpute with the Americans, liberty has been often used as a cloke of malicioufnefs; that the conduct of the colonists may be properly termed termed a rebellion and that oppreffion, on the part of Great Britain, is a groundless charge. A Sermon on the late Faft, Feb. 10, 1779. Wherein the National Calamities are manifefted and a Remedy prescribed. 8vo. Trewman, Exeter. This author, obferves, that we receive the bleffings and the chaftifements of heaven with equal infenfibility; that our vices and our calamities feem to be gradually encreafing; and that if we turn our eyes toward Nineveh, Babylon, Egypt, or Rome, we may fee the natural and inevitable confequence of a national depravation of manners.-This discourse seems to be the compofition of a young writer. A Friendly Addrefs to the Jews in general, in a Series of Letters. Small 8vo. Brown. Is. 6d. ftitched. Thefe letters are faid to have been written for the benefit of fome Jews of the author's acquaintance, who came to advise with him about religion.' His arguments, if they can be called arguments, are calculated to fhew them their error, in ftill adhering to Judaifm, and, on the contrary to perfuade them to embrace Chriftianity. ་ No defcription can give our readers fo full and fatisfactory sa notion of this writer's taste and abilities, as the following fhort quotation. Oh firs! what can I say to you, elder brethren and fifters, to perfuade you to became Christians! oh that I had the pen of a ready writer! oh that I had the tongue of the learned! oh that I could be made wife, to win, at least, fome of you Jews over to the Chriftian faith! oh that the Lord would honour me fo far, as to make me an inftrument of some good to you Jews, the once favourite people of God!'-To these fanatical interjections we beg leave to add another, in the language - of Horace, Ohe, jam fatis eft!' CONTROVERSIAL. A Review of the Doctrine of Philofophical Neceffity, illuftrated by Dr. Priestley. By the Rev. Jofeph Fisher. 12mo. 25. Nicoll. 1 The defign of this tract is to fhew, that the doctrine of philofophical neceffity, as lately maintained by Dr. Prieftley, is erroneous and inconfiftent; and that man is endued with a power of felf-determination and free-agency. In the course of this debate the author has advanced many juft and inconteftible arguments in favour of his opinion. The main point indeed is very clear, viz. the liberty of the human will. In every motion, and in every action, we fee it, we feel it, and, if we judge impartially, we can have no more reason to doubt it, than we have to question our own existence. But the plainest truths may be controverted, and volumes may be written, that have no other tendency, but to perplex and confound the com. common fenfe of mankind; and in this light we cannot but confider the treatife on Philofophical Neceffity. Immaterialism delineated: or, a View of the First Principles of Things. By Jofeph Berington. 8vo. 55. in boards. Robinfon. In this performance the learned author † has attended his adverfary, ftep by step, through his various intricacies and evolutions, with fpirit and affiduity. The different movements of thefe two opponents would make one imagine, that a metaphyfical difpute is, in many circumstances, like a country dance, or, as it is frequently called, a contre-dance; in which the parties turn right hands, and caft off; turn left hands, and caft up; gallop down and up; and calt off right and left, till they are tired of their amusement. Priestley and Price, Horley and Whitehead, Fisher and Berington have already figured in the dance; and many others, no doubt, will follow their steps. But we begin to fufpect that this, like other country dances, will be more entertaining to the parties than the fpectators. Free Thoughts on the Inconfifiency of conforming to any Religious Teft, as a Condition of Toleration, with the true Principle of » Proteftant Diffent. By John Palmer. 8vo. is. Johnfon. This writer obferves, that the true principle of proteftant diffent confifts in a total denial of the magiftrate's right of interference in matters of religious faith and opinion; that it is a grievous impofition in him to call upon men to fubfcribe to what they do not believe; and further, that he has no right to demand a declaration of what they do believe. He therefore infifts, that when the proteftant diffenter makes a declaration of his faith, as the condition of enjoying the civil protection, he does an act, which is repugnant to the nature of his profeffion, i. e. to his judgement and confcience as a dif fenter.' The refult of this reasoning feems to be this: that the dif fenter is not obliged to the legislature for extending the act of toleration, and requiring only a general declaration of his faith in the holy fcriptures; that he expects as much favour in the ftate, and as much protection in the public exercife of his miniftry, without any declaration of his Chriftian faith, as a clergyman of the church of England is content to receive, upon terms, which are certainly very reasonable, an open and explicit avowal of his religious opinions. MISCELLANEOUS. Lucubrations, civil, moral, and bistorical. Small 8vo. 1s. 6d. Sewed. Scott. Thefe Lucubrations are, as the author very properly calls them, a few scattered thoughts,' or fhort and fuperficial re The authors of Letters on Materialism, published in 1776. marks marks on cruelty to horfes, the Boftoníans converting their harbour into a tea-pot, their mode of tarring and feathering the cuftom houfe officers, the proceedings of the house of commons at that time, the conduct of our commanders in North America, the affair of Bunker's Hill, the convention at Saratoga, the memorable 27th of July, and other historical and political topics. A new Compendious Grammar of the Greek Tongue: wherein the Elements of the Language are plainly and briefly comprized in English. For the Ufe of Schools and private Gentlemen, whether they have been taught Latin or not. By W. Bell A. B. The 3d Edition with Additions. I 2mo. 15. Richardfon and Urquhart. We gave our readers an account of this grammar in 1775, when it was first published; and therefore fhall only add, that the prefent edition is improved by a variety of notes, and an Appendix, containing remarks on the nouns and verbs, with an illuftration of the primogenial ufe of the middle voice, and other valuable obfervations. Notes on the Tragedies of Efchylus. 4to. Dodley. These Notes make feventy pages in quarto, and are defigned to explain difficulties, or to point out beauties, in the tragedies of Æfchylus, We think ourfelves obliged to give our readers the following fhort extract, as it rectifies a miftranflation in a paffage, which we quoted in our Review for April, 1778. • Geryon was a king of Spain, killed by Hercules, fabled to have three bodies, because he had three armies, commanded by his three fons. Clytemneftra compares her husband to this giant, and fays, that if he had been flain, as often as was reported, this fecond triple Geryon (meaning Agamemnon under that name, for it were ominous to speak of the dead) might well boaft to have received his triple veft, meaning his three bodies, and to have died once in each form. Mr. Heath might never have heard, that Geryon, though he had three bodies, died more than once; nor does Pauw fay it; but this does not hinder Clytemneftra from making the fuppofition, and nothing more is intended: the word of fchylus are exprefs, Απαξ έκαςω κατθανων μορφωματι. And here, ut vineta egomet cædam mea, there is an inaccuracy in the traflation. It may be corrected thus: Was noised abroad, this triple-form'd Geryon, A fecond of the name, whilft yet alive, Thefe notes are fubjoined to the text, in the fecond edition of Mr. Potter's tranflation of Æfchylus, printed in two volumes octavo. Thoughts Thoughts on the prefent State of the Roman Catholics in England, and on the Expediency of indulging them with a further Repeal of the Penal Statutes. 8vo. 15. T. Payne and Son. In this tract the author apologizes for the penal ftatutes against the Roman Catholics, enacted between the firft of Elizabeth, and the twelfth of William III. observing, that the most moderate proteftant, who now wonders at the enacting of those ftatutes, had he lived in the times of Elizabeth and William (when confpiracies against the ftate were either really formed, or juftly apprehended) would probably have given his affent to them, with a full conviction of their propriety. However, he applauds the lenity of our courts of law, in moderating the rigour of thofe ftatutes by their decifions, and the fteps, which our legislature have taken in favour of Roman Catholic fubjects. Popish ecclefiaftics, and teachers of youth, cannot now, as fuch, be imprifoned; but the public exercise of their religion is no more allowed than it was before. They are permitted to purchase lands, or inherit them, in their own name, but the other difabili'ties (till continue. Even thefe privileges are confined to those who take an oath of allegiance to the Brunswick line, and renounce all the odious and antiquated claims of the court of Rome, which have long lain dormant, and never were allowed in the Gallican church. The fole difference between this oath, and that imposed by the 30th Car. II. is, that in the one they are expected to change and renounce thofe opinions, which they had imbibed from their birth, and which could have no influence on their political conduct; in the other, they difown only fuch tenets as might tend to make them dangerous to the state. Let us then confider how the prefent act operates in their favour. The principal relief confifts in depriving a Proteftant trustee of the power of ulurping the eftate of any member of the church of Rome; this is certainly a fenfible relief, and thankfully acknowledged by them as fuch; and every one must allow an extensive property leis dangerous in the hands of a man of principle-and education (though of the Romish perfuafion), than of one who may be induced, when temptation offers, to violate the moft facred truits. Thus far their diftieffes are really removed.' The author then proceeds to fhew in what inftances it might with a farther repeal of the penal ftatutes. On this head he chiefly confiders the inconveniences arifing from an impoffibility of engaging their younger fons, in either our military or marine; and the hardthip of double taxes. With regard to the former, he fays, Forbid to enroll themselves for the defence of a country, endeared to them by every tie of patriotifm and family connexion, they are forced into the service of our natural enemies.' With refpect to the latter, he thinks, that double taxes must be confidered as a very unneceffary burden on Roman Catholics; and but as a fmall relief to the Proteftant freeholders.' be proper to indulge the Roman Cathola A candid and fenfible performance, written upon a laudable motive, a concern for the rights of humanity. |