cannot determine; but it must be regarded as irrefragable wherever the new method of inoculation is adopted. As, in the elegant preliminary difcourfe of the tranflator, there are, along with a general account of the fate of inoculation in France, a few obfervations on this performance, we shall only remark, that Dr. Gatti differs from other inoculators in oppofing the expediency of any preparation, ás fuperfluous, where the conftitution is perfectly found.

13. The Hortonian Mifcellany: Being a Collection of original Poems, Tales, &c. By W. Adkins, Gent. 8vo. Pr. s. 6d. Bingley.

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This patriotic bard celebrates the praises of Horton, in Buckinghamshire, the village where he lives, in feveral of his productions; particularly one which he stiles,

An ode extem-pe-ro-ry

To Horton's honour, Horton's glory.'

But his poems, we are afraid, will not redound to the honour and glory of the village. Nor is it likely that Colnbrook will become famous by a tale in this collection, which begins in the following ftrain :

• Colnbrook was, I once did hear,

The first mart town in Buckinghamshire.'

Nor is it more probable, that the name of the late duke of Cumberland will derive additional honour from fuch rhymes as thefe ;

Who would, like him, with mighty f-wn-y cope,
Thruft back fedition down the wretch's throat,
And free the people from the Scottish yoke ?'

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The poet himself, who feems to be a gentleman of humour, configns his poems to very proper ufes in the following verses: Then these very fame lines, will just suit the times,

I mean for to bottom mince-pies.

Or if in the mean while, they should chance to get foil,-!
By too often perufing my scrowl,

Why then, at the worst, if too dirty for cruft,

They'll fure finge the flew of a fowl:

But yet from the fpit, do preferve a small bit,

To light your pipe over the wine;

That Bacchus may cry, a true vot'ry am I,
Thus to offer my works at his fhrine.'

The capital piece in this Collection is Colin and Phœbe, a burletta.

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14. Mifcellanies in Profe and Verfe, original and tranflated. By the Rev. William Rayner, B. A. of Caius College, Cambridge, and Curate of Worlingworth in Suffolk. 4to. Pr. 3 s. 6 d.

Johnson.

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This collection confifts of an Epiftle from a Young Lady to her Friend. Four Pfalms paraphrafed. A Letter from Eufebius to Lorenzo, exhorting him to a timely Repentance. A Description of the Spring, and the Praises of a Country Life, from Virgil's 2d Georgic. The Parallel, or Venus mistaken. An Answer to this Question, How far Beauty ought to influence the Paffions.' Three Eclogues of Virgil tranflated. Hickerthrift, a mock heroic Poem, from the Latin. Damon and Celia, a Song, in imitation of Horace and Lydia; and other poetical pieces. In profe, A Letter of Advice from Ifocrates to Denonicus. The Narrative of Harit, an Eaftern tale, tranflated from the Arabic into Latin by Golius, and from thence into English and a Discourse upon the Fall and Redemption. Thefe are juvenile productions, not distinguished by any remarkable indications of genius.

15. Cooper's Well. A Fragment. Written by the honourable Sir
John Denham, Knight of the Bath, and author of the celebrated
Poem of Cooper's Hill, found among ft the Papers of a late noble
Lord. Dated in the Year 1667. 4to.
Pr. 25. Moran.

This dull piece of obfcenity is an aukward imitation of Sir John Denham's Cooper's Hill. It is fo ftupid, and fo falacious, that its author has more reason to dread the Beadle than the Reviewer.

16. The Patriot. A Pindaric Addrefs to Lord Buckhorse. 40. Pr. 2s. 6d. DodЛley.

We

This writer has a confiderable fhare of poetical merit, but it is pity he has employed his talents upon a party subject, and that too so temporary, that it is forgot as foon as read. fhall not pretend to fay, whether fome man of quality is not fatirized under the appellation of lord Buckhorfe; but the author fufficiently difcovers that he is no ftranger to the Greek and Latin poets, especially Homer and Pindar. Of this the reader may form fome judgment by the introductory fix lines,

* While you, my lord, great Drury's weal fuftain,
Light ev'ry walk, and open all the lane,
With ftrength of arm plead Blackboy-Alley's caufe,
Adorn with manners, and improve with laws;

* Vide Hor. Epift. 1. Lib. 2. Cum tot fuftineas, Sc.

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and inconveniences (to call them no worfe) in the laws lately paffed relating to public highways and turnpike-roads. All we can do is to recommend them to the confideration of those concerned, whofe intereft as well as duty it is to fee them remedied.

23. The Generous Guardian: or, the History of Horatio Saville,
Efq; and Mifs Louifa C
In Two Volumes.
Pr. 5. Vernor and Chater.

12mo.

This novel is a wretched imitation of Fielding's Tom Jones, but without its originality or humour. Towards the end, the author lofes fight of his original, and becomes intolerably bad. He fends one of his heroes to the Eaft, and another, who is fuppofed to be a very old man, to the Weft Indies, and brings them back again with as much ease and as little ceremony as if they had moved from the dining-room into the drawing-room. 24. Five Letters on feveral Subjects, religious and hiftorical, in

which the injurious Complaints and Mifreprefentations of the Popish Writers are occafionally confidered. By Dr. Pye. 8vo. Pr. 1s. 6d. Bathurst.

This zealous author, in his first letter, vindicates the English prelacy from the charge of inattention to the present growth of popery; and bestows fome ftrictures upon the bishop of Meaux's polemical talents, and other writers of his caft; together with

a detail (to use the doctor's own words) of fome very fingular caufes, to which the fuppofed prevalence of popery in this kingdom hath with fome artifice been affigned by a fet of writers, who have hung out protestant colours, to deceive the party they mean to betray."

Letter the second treats of Antichrift. Here the author feems to be of an opinion, that the resemblance between the pope and Antichrift is not fuch an abfurdity as fome people affect to call it. The third letter treats of the gunpowder plot, the reality of which Dr. Pye has established past contradiction. The Irish maffacre is the subject of the fourth letter; and it is here brought home to the Roman Catholics, in oppofition to the extenuations of Mr. Brooke and the Free Examiner. The fifth letter treats of religious intolerance, which he fhews to have been the predominant character of popery in all times and in all countries. It likewife contains fome obfervations on the late and prefent broils in Poland, and the state of the diffidents there.

Through all thofe letters the doctor has been very industrious in collecting proofs of what he advances; and we think the caufe of proteftantifm is under confiderable obligations to his labours.

Eneid of Virgil, tranflated by Babler (the);
Alex. Strahan, efq. commen- with extracts

dation of, with fpecimens Bagatelles; character and speci-

124 mens of

Aldwinckle,a candid Examination Baltimore (lord), his tour to the
of Mr. Madan's conduct as a Eaft. See Tour.