and the lovers of Oriental poetry, with partial tranflations from his works. Mr. Hindley has now ftill further contributed to our gratification, by felecting fome of the Gazels, or Lyric compofitions of Hafiz. Mr. H. modeftly calls his performances Paraphrafes, but they will be found to be very elegant and harmonious fpecimens of verfification. We infert the firft. "PARAPHRASE. "In roses veil'd the morn displays "See, fpangling dew-drops trickling chace "Fresh from the garden fcents exhale, "While now beneath the bow'r full blown, Come youths perform the task affign'd: Shall guests at this glad feason wait? "Ye love-fick youths, come, drain the bowl: Kiffes more sweet than lufcious wine, Like HAFIZ, fip from cheeks divine; 'Mid fmiles as heav'nly Peries bright, And looks that pierce like orient light." P. 32. Some introductory obfervations are prefixed, containing an apology which hardly feems neceffary for this undertaking, and explanatory of its difficulty. The Gazel is a fort of unconnected compofition, and compared by Hafiz himfelf to pearls when firung at random. We are much pleafed with the publication altogether, which will prove a very elegant and acceptable addition to all libraries, of which there are now many, where a fpace is reserved for fpecimens of Oriental literature. ART. ART. 20. Lacrymæ Hibernicæ; or, the Genius of Erin's Complaint: Ballad, with a Prefatory Addrefs to the Right Hon. the Earl of Hardwicke, the reported Viceroy elect of Ireland; and a Pair of Epigrams.", By Laurence Halloran, D. D. 4to. 19 pp. 15. 6d. Jordan. 1801. The Divinity that ftirs within this angry Doctor, is not at all apparent in the prefent publication. If we miftake not, we have lately feen him in a milder form*, but here all is rage and wrath. What his provocations may be, we know not, but certain we are, that he bears them more like a man of war, than a preacher of peace. In his attacks upon perfons whom we believe, on better evidence than his affertion, to deferve very different language, the threat of perfonal vengeance is not obfcurely intimated, amidft much coarfe and violent abufe. His Ballad breathes the fpirit of implacable difaffection to the English government; and his Pair of Epigrams are truly a pair, for one is as bad as the other. ART. 21. Unio five Lamentatio Hibernica. Poema Macaronico-Latinum; and an Ode to Peter Pindar. 4to. Is. Wright, Cobbett, &c. 1801. From the Ode to Peter Pindar, and from the glimmering of light which pervades even the cloud of macaronic poetry, we are inclined to believe this writer capable of better things. It ought furely to be understood, at this day, that to write macaronic verfes is to write nonfenfe. It is fo eafy, that to write nothing is hardly more indolent, and certainly is more creditable. It is neither ingenious in contrivance, nor pleafing in effect. The Poem is ironical, the Ode is epigrammatical; both are well intended, and, we hope, announce fuperior efforts to come. ART. 22. Harveft, a Poem: containing fome Obfervations efpecially adapted to the prefent Seafon. By Mafon Chamberlin. 8vo. 14 PP. 6d. Clarke. 1800. one. This little Poem feems to have been written at the commencement of the harvest of last year; which at first was fuppofed to be a good It applies, however, much more to the prefent time, when the harveft is manifeftly one of the moft plentiful that has been known for many years; confequently the writer's well-meant admonitions to be thankful to Providence come with additional force. He alfo very properly warns us against abufing the bleffing of returning plenty, by improvident walte. His morality and piety deferve praife; and we with it was in our power to speak as highly of his poetry, or give fuch a fpecimen as fhould recommend it. The first part of the Poem fcarcely rifes above mediocrity, and the conclufion falls below it. * Vol. xvii, pp. 319, 320. N 2 ART. ART. 23. Parodies on Gay. To which is added, The Battle of the Bufts; a Fable Attempted in the Style of Hudibras. Small 8vo. 52 pp. 19. J. Hookhain. The author of these Parodies and imitation, appears to have more love of humour than talents for it. His verfification is generally fmooth and neat; but the turn of thought has not enough of point and vivacity. Of the Parodies, the firft ftrikes us as the beft. The Battle of the Bufts (fo far as we understand it) is formed upon an idea nearly fimilar to Swift's Battle of the Books, but is far from being carried on with the fame ingenuity. The Hudibraftic rhythm and terminations are, however, not ill imitated. ART. 24. The Fate of Bertha. A Poem. By William Lucas. 4to. 29 pp. Weftley. 1800. The Preface to this Poem is fo modeft, that we are not inclined to treat the Poem itself feverely. The tale is a melancholy one; but fome of the chief circumftances are too improbable (not to fay impoffible) to create a strong intereft. The author feems to have a tolerable ear for verification, but not much genius for poetry. DRAMATIC. ART. 25. The Daf of the Day, a Comedy, in Five Acts; as performed, with univerfal Applaufe, by his Majesty's Servants of the Thatre Royal Norwich. By Francis Lathom, Author of Mn and Manners, Myftery, Sc. &c. The Second Edition. 8vo. 102 PP 25. Payne, Norwich. 1800. We form no great expectations of provincial dramas, and confequently the prefent has not difappointed us. It is moral and decent ; further this deponent faith not:" for ingenuity of plot, vivacity of dialogue, brilliancy of wit, and archness of humour, are out of he question. It has, however, one negative merit; that of being lefs farcical and abfurd than most of the pieces called comedies, which have lately been produced in London. ART. 26. King John, an Hiftorical Tragedy, altered from Shakespeare, as it was acted at Reading School for the Subscription to the Naval Pillar, to be erected in Honor of the Naval Victories of the prefent War. 8vo. 82 pp. Smart and Cowflade, Reading; Bremner, &c. London. 1800. In an Advertisement to the altered Play, the refpectable editor, Dr. Valpy, informs us, that, on perufing Cibber's Papal Tyranny (which is alfo an alteration of Shakespeare's King John) the more he compared it with the great original, "the lefs he found himself inclined to depart from Shakespeare, and to adhere to Cibber;" for that (befides another reafon flated) he wished to preferve all the fine paffages, of which Cibber had scarcely retained a line." He also adus, that "he wished to correct and modernize the verfification of the former, whenever he could do it without offending the ears or the tafte of his admirers." In his rejection of Cibber's alterations, we have no doubt he was perfectly right; hut (whether it arife from prejudice, or the habit of contemplating Shakespeare's excellencies, without attending to minute detects, we know not) we confess that, on comparing fome paffages, Dr. V. appears to us to have unneceffarily weakened Shakefpeare's powerful, though not quite harmonious, expreffions. The concluding lines, in particular, fall off from the fpirit and energy of the original. We doubt alfo, whether the first Act of the original might not have been, with fome alterations, preterved; as the character of Falconbridge, without fuch an introduction, lofes much of its interest. Upon the whole, however, the alterations are judicious, and well adapted to the ufe for which they were defigned, and the occafion which produced them. The Play is preceded by a fpirited Prologue, written by Mr. Pye. NOVELS. ART. 27. The Microcafm. By the Author of Viciffitudes in Genteel Life. In Five Volumes. 12mo. 11. Mawman. 1801. There was a time when these five volumes would have been comprized in two, and the bookfeller would perhaps, in his bargain with the author, have allowed his copy to be enough only for two fmall volumes. We exceedingly difapprove of this fort of impofition on the public, who are made to pay twenty fhillings, where ten would have been amply fufficient. The work itfelt is entitled to no extraordinary praite, nor liable to much fevere crit cifm; the ftory is tolerably well told, and the characters not ill fupported. On the whole, it is fomewhat above mediocrity. ART. 28. Clara. A Tale. Tavo Volumes. I 2mo. 1801. 8s. Kearsley. This is a most terrible and melancholy tale about Roderigos, and Rodolphos, and Baron Montalts, and St. Aubignys, and Alberts, and the whole catalo, ue of fuch novel names. There is, however, proof of a lively imagination, which might be better directed, and more ufefully exercifed. ART. 29. Martin of Fenrofe; or, the Wizard of the Sword. A Romance. By Henry Summerjett, Au bor of Leopold Warndoff, Jaqueline of Olzeburge, 4. &c. Three Volumes. Iz mo. Cobbett and Morgan, 13s. 6d. Did any of our readers ever meet with Jaqueline of Olzeburge, or with Leopold Warndoff, or with this author's etceteras? If they have, they may be glad to perufe Martin of Fenrofe. We have been given to understand that, in the fabrication of thefe goods, the author's principal care is to contrive and invent a good name for his work. We totally totally diffent from this mode of book-making. We think the author fhould finish his work, and then be anxious about a good name. When this is the cafe we fhall probably be more agreeably employed, than in merely giving the title of a book, and lamenting that we can do no more. MEDICINE. ART. 30. Obfervations on Mr. Home's Treatment of Strictures in tha Urethra, with an improved Method of treating certain Cafes of those Difeafes. By Thomas Whately, Member of the Royal College of Sur geons in London. 8vo. 112 PP. 2s. 6d. Johnson. 1801. Although the author of this tract holds opinions different from thofe published by Mr. Home, on the method of treating strictures in the urethra, and particularly advifes practitioners to be fparing in the use of the cauftic, being of opinion that, in many of the cafes in which recourfe is had to what he calls that harfh medicine, milder means would be equally or more efficacious, yet we obferve, with pleasure, that he every where treats his opponent with candour, and readily pays bio that homage which his genius and talents fo eminently deferve. The author begins with giving a brief account of the mode of treating strictures with the common bougie, which has prevailed fince the time of M. Daran, who made confiderable improvements in the Atructure, as well as in the method of ufing that fimple infrument, and is large in his extracts from the work of Mr. Sharp and the late Mr. Hunter, who further extended the knowledge and utility of the bougie. The fe great men were not unexperienced, he obferves, in the ufe of the cauff e, but they only employed it in extreme cafes, that could be fucce s'ully treated by no other means. Mr. Home, on the contrary, has extended the ufe of the cauftic to lefs defperate cafes, and by his kilful magement has frequen ly found, while its effects were more certain and peanent, the application of it was lefs painful than that of the common bougie. In oppofing this opinion, and with the view of fhowing that the application of the caufic may not be so safe and harr lefs as represented by Mr. Home, the author gives an account of experiments he made by touching the infide of the mouth, and of the orifice of the urethra, in perfons in health, with the lunar cauftic. Thefe however we pass over, as the refults from them, even had they been unfavourable, could not have been admitted in oppofition to actual experiments on ftrictures, made by Mr. Home and other practitioners, in which the cauftic has been found to be both fafe and efficacious. The author next examines a part of the cafes related by Mr. Home, in his Practical Obfervations on the Treatment of Strictures in the Ure thra, and shows that, even under his management, pain, fpafm, hæmorrhage, and ther inconveniences, were fometimes produced by the application of the cauftic. But it should be obferved, that the inftances here given are taken from the fecond series of Mr. Home's cafes, which are actually related with the view of guarding practitioners against the too indifcriminate and general use of the cauftic. "That I may not," Mr. |