The author ridicules the contest betwixt Foote and Macklin, which he reprefents as a concerted scheme, to draw customers to both fhops.

V. Folly predominant; or, the Town taken in. With the palpable deception, and frothy orations of four public orators, three of which fuddenly springing up, like mushrooms, muft foon decay. To which is added, A differtation upon the impoffibility of curing lunatics in Bethlem, &c. By Peter BilLings, M. D.

Dr. Billings has little to fay about the four orators. His chief defign is, to acquaint the public, that he is the fole pro⚫feffor of the cure of lunatics, by a new method,' &c. and that he is to be heard of at the peruke-maker's, next door to Mr.Taylor, the occulift, in Hatton-garden. Tho' we never heard of Dr. Billings before, yet it appears, that he is not a fictitious perfon; and we apprehend, from this performance, that those who apply to him as a mad-doctor, will really find him fuch. VI. The Laws relating to Mafters and Servants. With brief notes and explanations. 8vo. Is. Baldwin.

This pamphlet may be useful, particularly to artificers, and all others who employ labourers: a compendious view is also given of the laws relating to apprentices.

VI. A brief Narrative of the apprehending, trial, and condemnation of Whispering Backbiter. Written by the author, in the country, in a letter to his friend in town. 8vo. 6d. Swan, &c.

An allegorical reprefentation of the odious nature of malicious flander, &c. Written fomewhat in the manner of Jobs Bunyan; whence we have been led to fufpect its being an old piece reprinted.

VII. The Spy; or, Pafquin at Oxford. Containing, among a multitude of other articles, the remarkable petition of Taper Blaze; Mr. Braun, a great interloper; grievances of the cooks; watch-plot; pretender worfe than the bottle-conjurer, &c. &c. 8vo. Is. T. Chandler.

Dull, farcical buffoonry; in imitation of the witticisms of Tom Brown; as the tit e-page feems of Henley's advertisements. VIII. Informations, and other papers, relating to the treafonable verses found at Oxford, July 17, 1754. 8vo. Is. Rivington.

IX. The Principles of the French Grammar abridged. By Mr. Reftaut, advocate in the parliament of Paris, and king's council. To which are added, Exercifes adapted to the rules of French conftruction, with obfervations on them; as alfo a collection of French compliments, entertaining ftories, and

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examples of letters on different fubjects, in French and Eng lifh. By John Peter Le Camus, teacher of the French language. 8vo. 25. Nourfe.

Monf. Reftaut's advertisement, which is prefixed to this publication, contains a modeft and candid account of his useful performance. This little book,' he fays, is only a very plain extract from another of a much larger fize, intitled, The general and rational principles of the French grammar.-Nothing has ⚫ been here inferted, but what is adapted to the capacities of children, in order to prepare them to speak and write with propriety. In the laft chapter are thrown together feveral obfervations,' which compofe a kind of French Syntax in miniature, where children may learn to develop the conftruction of a sentence, and to account for the mutual relation of words. To this we shall only, add, that it feems justly calculated to answer the above purposes, and that the precepts are delivered with perfpicuity and concifenefs.

น X. ΞΕΝΟΦΩΝΤΟΣ ΛΟΓΟΣ ΕΙΣ ΑΓΗΣΙΛΑΟΝ, ΙΕΡΩΝ, Η ΤΥΡΑΝΝΙΚΟΣ, ΛΑΚΕΔΑΙΜΟΝΙΩΝ ΠΟΛΙ ΤΕΙΑ, ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ, ΚΑΙ ΠΟΡΟΙ, Η ΠΕΡΙ ПРоΣОANN. Grace et Latine. Recenfuit Bolton Simpfon, A. M. Coll. Reg. Oxon. Socius. 8vo. 5s. Hawkins.

This appears to be a very correct edition of the felect pieces of Xenophon, mentioned in the title-page. The following is Mr. Simpson's own account of it. In hac editione quid præftitum fit, quibufve auxiliis munitus, hanc adornavi, paucis accipe. -Verfionem Leunclavianam, jam caftigatam et emendatam, ferè fecutus fum. Annotationes et varias lectiones à Leunclavio, Stephano, Porto, et Cl. Hutchinfono in Agefilao præcipuè, (addito femper auctoris nomine) mutuatus fum. Ex egregio opere N. Cragii de republica Lacedæmoniorum plurima infuper deprompfi. Indicem denique verborum et phrafium ad calcem operis adjeci. Hæc funt, de quibus, lector benevole, te monendum effe velim.. R XI. Confiderations on the ufe and properties of the Eolus, a new-invented portable machine, for exchanging and refreshing the air of rooms, &c. 4to. 6d. Newbery, &c.

'Mr. Tidd, one of the domeftics to her royal highness the princess of Wales, having invented a portable machine for exchanging and refreshing the air of rooms, in a manner ⚫ much more commodious than any hitherto ufed, or known. begs leave to offer to the public in general, and to the nobi lity and gentry in particular, the following account of it.

This machine, which may properly be called an Eolus, ⚫ from the heathen god of air, is adapted in its dimenfions to ⚫ fupply the place of a fquare of glafs in a fash-window, and is executed in fo fmall a compafs, as to project but a very little way from the fash, and in fo neat a manner, as to be ⚫ an elegant ornament to the place where it is fixed. It works ⚫ with

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* without the leaft noife, requires no attendance, and occafions ⚫ neither trouble nor expence to keep the fame in order. It has likewife this peculiar property attending it, that it may be managed fo as to throw in exactly fuch a quantity of fresh air as fhall be agreeable; and is conftructed on fuch principles, that it immediately ceafes working, of its own accord, 6 as foon as either the door or window is opened, and begins again of itself the moment they are fhut; tho' it may be ftopped and prevented working at pleasure.

But tho' this machine conftantly refreshes and exchanges the air, in the manner mentioned, yet it does not let it in with a guft, ftream, or draught, as happens when a door or window is left open; but diffufes and Spreads it in an equable manner over the whole room, fo that there is not the leaft hazard, or even poffibility, of catching cold, to the moft delicate.'

The above is Mr. Tidd's own account. For us, we have not feen his machine; but he has printed a number of refpectable names *, as approvers of, and fubfcribers to, his defign. His terms are, the gilt and ornamented, at three guineas; the plain, at two guineas: one half to be paid at the time of fubfcribing, the other on the delivery of the machine.

XII. The Traveller's Companion through the Netherlands. Containing an account of all particulars worthy the obfervation of a stranger. And occafional remarks on the customs of the inhabitants, ftate of their trade, forces, revenues, &c. Together with neceffary directions, relating to the manner and expence of travelling. And the different roads to Antwerp, Bruffels, Paris, Franckfort, Hanover, Aix-la-Chapelle, &c. 8vo. 3s. bound.

bound. Bladon.

This book feems to be defigned for the ufe of thofe who visit the Netherlands, to whom the work may also afford fome entertainment; tho' it may yield but little of the latter to fuch as chufe to travel only in their closets.

XIII. Tables for Silver. Containing, 1. Thirty tables for old plate; each table fhewing, at one view, the value of any quantity, from one penny weight to two hundred ounces, at one price, beginning with two fhillings and fix-pence. 2. Sixtyfour tables for Spanish filver; each table fhewing, at one view, the value of any quantity, from one penny weight to eleven hundred ounces, at one price, beginning at five fhillings, and ending at five fhillings and eight-pence. 3. Fifty-two tables for new plate, to ten fhillings. Alfo a table of fixteenths. 25. Johnson, in Fenchurch-street; Scott, in Change-alley; and Willon and Durham, in the Strand.

Particularly Dr. Hales.

XIV. The Trial of Elizabeth Canning, fpinfter, for wilful and corrupt perjury, at Justice-hall, in the Old Bailey, held by adjournment on Monday the 29th of April, Wednesday the 1ft, Friday the 3d, Saturday the 4th, Monday the 6th, Tuesday the 7th, and Wednesday the 8th, of May, 1754. before the right hon. Thomas Rawlinson, efq; lord mayor of the city of London; Sir Edward Clive, knt. one of the juftices of his majesty's court of common-pleas; the hon. Heneage Legge, efq; one of the barons of his majesty's court of exchequer; William Moreton, efq; recorder; and others, the juftices, &c. Taken in fhort-hand, by Thomas Gurney, Samuel Rudd, and Isaac Harman, all eminent short-hand writers, appointed by the court for that purpose, and after being carefully examined together, and faithfully transcribed by the faid Thomas Gurney, many years fhort-hand writer at the faid court, printed by the authority and appointment of the right hon. Thomas Rawlinfon, efq; lordmayor, for John Clarke, under the Royal Exchange. Folio, 6s.

XV. An Extract of the Bons Mots, or witty sayings of little Father Andrew. To which is prefixed, the rife and progress of Fanfenifm, and the occafion of ifluing the Bull unigenitus, &c. 8vo. 6d. Baldwin.

The book from whence this extract is taken, is, we are told, a fmall piece written in French. The tranflator has prefixed the fhort history of Janfenifm. Little Father Andrew lived in the time of Levis XIV. and being accused by the Jesuits before the archbishop of Alby, in Languedoc, of preaching herefy, vindicated himself and his doctrine, in a difcourfe which he difguifed under the form of a dream, which he told his audience had happened to him the night before. This audience was extremely numerous, it having been given out by the Jesuits, whom the cunning father (attacking them with their own wea pon) had flattered with the expectation of his publicly, that day, retracting his former principles: instead of which, he, under favour of this difguife, found means feverely to lafh his accufers, and their whole order; and that in a manner whence they could take no advantage against him, it being only his dream : Which dream is the part here translated.

XVI. The Life and Adventures of James Ramble, efq; Interfperfed with the various fortunes of certain noble personages deeply concerned in the northern commotions, in the year 1715. From his own manufcript. 12mo. 2 vols. 6s. Baldwin.

The editor of thele adventures, which differ, in all refpects, very much from those of another Ramble, published about the fame time, affures us, in his preface, that the chief circum

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ftances in the narrative are facts, under a little neceffary difguife. He has had the PRUDENCE to refer us, for the proofs of his facts, to the distance of forty years before his publication; and the ART fo to disguise his facts, that few, if any, we believe, can obtain, from the public anecdotes of those times, the leaft direction to the family, or name, of this authentic memoir-wri. ter; who, we are told, is ftill living. Of thefe grave affurances of historical veracity we should, however, have taken no notice, had they been lefs folemnly urged.For the reft, fuffice it that we only mention a difappointment we met with, in perufing this performance. In other books of the kind, lately published, we have generally been treated with obscene, or low ideas, poor, or bombaft language, inconfiftent characters, and impoffible occurrences: from most of which, we think, James Ramble, efq; has kept himself pretty clear. XVII. Navigation; or, the art of failing upon the fea. Containing a demonftration of the fundamental principles of this art. Together with all the practical rules of computing a ship's way, both by plain failing, mercator, and middle latitude, founded upon the foregoing principles. With many other ufeful things hereto belonging. To which are added, Several neceffary tables. 12mo. 3s. 6d. Innys.

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This treatife is executed in a very concife, tho' intelligent manner. The author is Mr. William Emerfon, who lately published a treatise on mechanics. It muft not, however, be fuppofed, that every thing requifive to our understanding the art of navigation is comprised in this epitome, geometry and trigonometry being entirely omitted; which the reader is fuppofed to be pre viously acquainted with before he perufes this work. B XVIII. A Series of Letters to and from a Member of Parlia ment, relating to a scheme for the repair and prefervation of the clay-roads; in a method, for the most part, new, and by far lefs expenfive, than any now practifed. In which are interfperfed fome pertinent obfervations upon highway-officers, turnpikes, and broad wheels. Humbly fubmitted to the im partial confideration, and candid cenfure, of perfons concerned in any kind of wheel-carriages. 8vo. 6d. Griffiths.

The fcheme to which thefe letters relate, is not communicated to the public therein. The author's intention in this publication, feeins to be, merely to fhew the expediency of fume better scheme than any hitherto publicly known, for the repair and prefervation of clay roads; and to intimate that he has, from a course of experiments, difcovered an effectual method for accomplishing this valuable purpofe; which he is inclined to carry into actual execution, as foon as fome adequate See our account of this entertaining work in the APPENDIX to our last volume.