any obfervations from which they, who are not artifts, will derive particular fatisfaction. There is no great novelty of remark; and, where there is, it feems liable to controversy.

ART. 53. The profitable Planter. A Treatise on the Cultivation of Larch and Scotch-Fir Timber; fhewing that their excellent Quality (efpecially that of the former) will render them so extensively useful, as greatly to promote the Interefts of the Country. With Directions for planting in various Soils and Situations, by a new and expeditious Method: alfo for the Management of Plantations. To which are added, ufeful Hints, in regard to Shelter and Ornament. By W. Pontey, NurJery-man and Planter. 80. 96 pp. 35. 6d. Huddersfield printed; fold by Vernor and Hood. 1800.

With this tract is given a fpecimen of the larch wood, of about 35 years growth, which is certainly a fine, and apparently useful, fpecies of deal. Every encouragement to planting, and every improvement that can be made in it are, we are fully convinced, national benefits; and, therefore, we recommend the obfervations of Mr. Pontey to the notice of all perfons who may be in fituations where they carr apply them to practice.

ART. 54. Clafical Biography, exhibiting alphabetically the proper Names, with a fhort Accoun of the feveral Deities, Heroes, and other Perfons, mentioned in the ancient Claffic Authors, and a more particular Defcrip tion of the most diftinguished Characters among the Romans; the Whole being interperfed with occafional Explanations of Words and Phrafes: dfigned chiefly to contribute to the Illuftration of the Latin Claffics. By Alexander Adam, LL. 1). Rector of the High School, Edinburgh. 8vo. 6s. Cadell and Davies. 1800.

The excellent Claffical Dictionary of M. Lempriere, which has paffed through a variety of editions, feems to preclude the neceffity of any fimlar publication. We do not by any means think that there is any additional informa ien in this volume, which would justify our particular recommendation. Many eminent names are difmiffed with very abrupt notice; for example, all that is faid of Herodotus is, that he was the firit who aderned hiftory, but did not fludy harmony in his periods. That the book must be very useful as far as it goes, it would be unjust not to affert, but it is equally fo not to declare that, as a whole, it is inferior to M. Lempriere's work. It profeffes, indeed, to confine itself principally to the Roman claffics.

ART. 55. Memoirs of the late Rev. Samuel Medly, compiled by his Son; to which are annexed, Two Sermons, and a Variety of Mifcellaneous Pieces in Verje. 8vo. 6s. Johnson. 1800.

To a tribute of filial piety, we must neceffarily feel an inclination of complacency and kindness; but it is not always judicious to ob

trude

trude upon the public what are called memoirs of private and obscure individuals. This volume commences with a biographical sketch of the grandfather of Mr. Medley, who went in the fuite of an ambaffador to Conftantinople, and who appears to have been a pious and welldifpofed man. Next follows an account of Mr. Guy Medley, who was tutor to the Duke of Montague, and afterwards Attorney. General in the island of St. Vincent. He returned to England, and "became acquainted with the things of God;" but, from the time of his "converfion to God," he experienced many painful afflictions. From the above phrafes it may eafily be feen what is the nature of this publication; which, we doubt not, will be very acceptable to the friends of the author, and his deceased parent; but we must question whether it will be fo generally to the world.

ART. 56. Cary's New Guide for aftertaining Hackney-Coach Pares and Porterage Rates. Being an actual and minute Admeasurement of every Street which is a Carriage-Way throughout the Metropolis: Showing not only the whole Length of each Street, but also the Distance between each Coach-Turning leading out of the fame, and thereby affording the Means of afcertaining, with the greatest Precifion, the Length of any Routes however Indirect, throughout the Whole of this Survey; which, for further Accommodation, is extended to Hampstead, Highgate, Illington, &c. &c. Sc. To which are alfo added, Abftracts of the Hackney-Coach and Porterage As, a copious Index, Se. 8vo. 3s. 6d. A whole-fheet Map, to accompany it, may be had at 18.6d. Carey, 181, Strand. 1801.

Nothing can be more completely formed for accuracy of informa tion, on fuch a fubject, than the plan of this work: against which we fee but one thing likely to operate; which is the indolence of purchafers, who will often confent to pay beyond what is juft, than to fit down to the calculation of miles, furlongs, and poles. Be this as it may, the book in itself is good, and well deferves to be recommended. When cafes are frong enough to demand a reference, it will give an anfwer with a precision not otherwife to be obtained but by applying at the coach-office. It may ferve also to resolve many other questions of utility or amusement in which diftances are concerned.

ART. 57. A Synopfis of Handry; being curfory Obfervations in the feveral Branches of Rural Oeconomy, adduced from a long and practical Experience in a Farm of confiderable Extent. By John Banifter, Gent. of Horton Kirby in Kent. 8vo. 471 PP. 75. Robinfons.

$799.

The author's intention was, "not to obtrude these remarks upon his readers under the notion of a complete treatife on husbandry, but to enumerate and methodize fuch obfervations as had occurred to him in the course of his practice." P. vi. The Preface cenfures, very properly, thofe mere fpeculators in hufbandry, who abound in the prefent times, and who commonly either wafte a finall fortune, or diminish a large one. Among the qualifications neceflary to form a

good

good husbandman, is reckoned a thorough knowledge of the profeffion, which is to be attained on no other terms, than by conftaną practice, and an early acquaintance with the bufinefs; in thort, by baving been bred a farmer from early youth." P. xi. To this we may well affent. But when Mr. B. goes on to ftate, that in order to obrain a perfect knowledge of his business, he must be endued not only with frang natural abilities, but with bright parts," (p. xiv.) he feems to be defcribing the requifite qualifications, not for a farmer, but for a lord high chancellor. If our firit-rate farmers were all thus accomplished, well indeed might we exclaim, "O fortunato's minium agricolas." The Poll fcript informs us, that more than a dozen years have elapfed fince the writing of the Preface. The work is perhaps the better for this circumftance; being undebased by those mischievous projects and schemes of innovation in our lars, which have lately rendered agricultural books, and particularly those confidered by the Board of Agriculture, obje&s of jealoufy and alarm to a great part of the community; as threatening danger not only to the quiet and property of ecclefiaftical perfons, but to all property whatever, and to the quiet even of the state itself. See the General Vienus of Brown, Middleton, &c. &c. &c.

It is not poffible, within a moderate compass, to give any other than a general account of this work. The author's "curfory Obfervations" are indeed written currente calamo, with a pen which once put in motion can hardly be stopped. The matter might have been compreffed within one third of the space; and the book would then have prefented to agriculturifts many oblervations very deferving of their attention.

With

ART. 58. Kearley's Traveller's entertaining Guide through Great Britain; or, a Defcription of the great and principal Cross-Roads; marking the Distances of Places from London, and from each other. a concife Topographical Hiftory of the Cities, Towns, chief Villages, Antiquities, Seats, &c. 8vo. 638 pp. befides ample Indexes. 6s. Kearfley. 1801.

The common plan of road-books is here confiderably improved, by inferting a topographical account of every place that occurs in each route. The accounts in general are thort, but, being printed in a fmall-type, contain very frequently a valuable quantity of information. There is alfo a very laudable diftincine's preferved in the mode of enumerating the places, and afcertaining the diftances, fo as to make it more easy to be confulted, perhaps, than many works which convey much lefs inftruction. We perfectly fubfcribe to the affertion of the compiler, in a fhort Preface, that "those who travel upon business, thofe who make periodical vifits to watering places, those who ramble into Wales, or who vifit the Lakes, or who traverse the lefs cultivated tracks of the north, will find their time agreeably beguiled, by mak ing this little volume the companion of their travels."

ART.

ART. 59. An Abridgment of Mr. Ruddiman's Rudiments and Grammar of the Latin Tongue, with his English Rules of Construction entire, and the Campiler's Notes, and Illuftrations; to which is prefixed, A bort Vocabulary, English and Latin. By George Chapman, LL. D. 12mo. 25. 6d. Cadell and Davies. 1799.

Mr. Ruddiman's Grammar ftill has the preference in the schools of Scotland; this Abridgment, therefore, inuft be an acceptable manual for the younger claffes educated under fuch a fyftem. Some things are added at the end, which can be of ufe only to the higher forms; fuch as decerpta ex Catonis diftiehis; but, on the whole, it is a good Grammar, and does Dr. Chapman much credit.

FOREIGN CATALOGUE.

FRANCE.

ART. 60. Notices et extraits des manuferits de la bibliothèque nationalt et autres bibliothèques, publiés par l'Inftitut national de France; faisant fuite aux notices et extraits lus au comité établi dans la cidevant académie des infcriptions et belles lettres. Tome V. in 4to. Paris.

The prefent volume contains 43 extracts or notices of MSS. in the Arabic, Perfian, Turkish, Tartar-Manchou, Greek, Latin, and French languages, together with fome inedited and interefting pieces. Mr. Langlès, in the notices communicated by him on the history and code of Djenguyz khân (Genghiskan) and on a Latin-Chinese-Manchou Dietionary, gives us, refpecting the character of this conqueror and legiflator, hitherto fo imperfectly underftood, as alfo concerning the advantages to be derived from the knowledge of the Manchou language, details equally new and important. Meffrs. Amelhon, Camus, and Levêque, likewife make us acquainted with, and appreciate different historical monuments, more or lefs worthy of attention, between the ninth and twelfth century; we have here alfo fome account, which will be continued, of an immenfe collection of ancient Greek chemifts, or rather alchymifls, which exifts in the national library, by Mr. Ameilbon. The above-mentioned Leveque and Camus, have alfo been employed on critical and bibliographical fubjects; the former in the defcription of the celebrated MS. of Anacreon, heretofore belonging to the Vatican, but now transferred to the French library; the fecond, in two notices on a MS. not lefs valuable, of Ariftotle's Hiftory of Animals, which before made a part of the library at Venice; and on feveral MSS. and editions of Manuel Phile, a naturalift of the fourteenth century. These three notices show all the various readings found in thefe MSS.

The

The twenty-five notices, by the late Mr. Legrand d'Auffy, on poems, romances, treatifes of morality, and, more efpecially, fatires of the middle age, form that part of the volume which will probably be the moft interefting to the generality of readers. It is terminated by a notice or memoir of Mr. Laporte Dutheil, on a poem in the Provençal language, with fome account of the author, a troubadour of the fourteenth century; and by the publication of twenty-nine letters of an orator of the lower empire (Theodorus Hyrtacenfis) which now appear for the first time. The fequel of thefe letters, to the number of ninety-three, will be published in the next volume.

Befides Arabic, Perfian, and Turkish characters, of various forms and fizes, this volume contains a fragment of the Code of Genghiskan, of thirteen pages, in the original language; it likewife presents a model of the Manchou characters, the firft of this kind which have been engraved in Europe, by Didot, under the direction of Mr. Langlès; and five plates exhibiting different ornaments of MSS. fac-fimiles, and four figures of animals, taken from a fuperb MS. of Manuel Phile, Efpr. d. Journ.

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ART. 61. Hiftoire abrégée du cabinet des médailles et antiques de la bibliothèque nationale, &c. par A. L. Cointreau, ancien premier employé au dit cabinet, durant 27 ans confécutifs. Paris, An IX. 1 Vol. in Svo. of 248 pp. with a Plate.

Gafton d'Orleans, in the different places to which he was banished, as the punishment of his perpetual intrigues, occupied himself in the ftudy of botany and of antiquities. At his death, his golden medals formed the commencement of the collection fo much celebrated afterwards under the name of the Cabinet du Roi. Colbert employed Faillant to collect medals. Carcavi, Rainfan, Morel, Oudinet, and Simon, claffed and greatly enriched this collection. Mr. de Boze, who had the care of it for thirty-five years, depofited in it his own treasures, thofe of the Abbé Rothelin, of Mr. de Beauveau, of Mahudel, of Foucault, the intendant of Normandy. In 1754 he died, and both the Academy of Belles Lettres, of which he was fecretary, and the Cabinet of Medals, would have fuffered an irreparable lofs, if he had not had for his fucceffor Mr. Barthélémy. Recommended alike for his paleographic difcoveries, and by his Voyage du jeune Anacharfis, Barthélémy faw the Cabinet much encreafed, in the forty years during which he bad the direction of it, both by his own acquifitions, and by the medals of Cary, by thofe of Clèves, by the inmenfe collection of Pellerin, by a part of that of Ennery, by thofe of Petitot, by the antiques from the treafure of St. Denis, by thofe of the St. Chapelle. and by the cabinet of medals and antiquities of St. Geneviève. Since the death of Barthélémy, the celebrated Tabula Ifiaca has heen transferred to this Cabinet trom Turin, and the very indifferent collection of medals from the Vatican. It is afferted that this Cabinet is as rich as all the reft of Europe together.

After this hiftorical introduction, Mr. Cointreau gives a notice raifonnée of a great number of Greek and Roman medals. He defcribes