to reject Chriftianity, if he enquires, argues, to fay the leaft, no great knowledge of human nature. But allowing the affertion to be well-grounded, it is furely a ftrange method of making a deift fenfible of his error, to tell him he is a DUNCE. Our author fays further, that the lives of deifts cannot be good; fo that they are both criminal and dull, or, in other words, knaves and blockheads. His motive for fpeaking fo plainly, he tells us, is CHARITY: the deifts may, perhaps, thank him for his love, but it is not likely to prevail upon them to alter their fen. timents, or their conduct. However, tho' our author discovers no great judgment in this work, yet he gives many proofs of a brilliant imagination: his colouring is generally ftrong, his fentiments ftriking, and his language animated. He has thought proper to conceal his name, but few of his readers will be at a lofs for the discovery of it: to which his bookseller has, indeed, given a leading hint, by conftantly advertising the justly admired NIGHT THOUGHTS, along with the CENTAUR. R XVII. Advice to Pofterity, concerning a point of the last importance. Written by a friend to liberty and property.

8vo. 6d. Freeman.

A bitter invective against a certain great JUDGE: feemingly on account of the determination of a late trial concerning Richmond-park.

XVIII. Gallica Fides; or, French Policy. Containing memoirs of all the depredations, encroachments, cruelties, and oppreffions of the French, and their Indian allies, on the inhabitants of the British plantations in North America; with the battles, fkirmishes, and other hoftilities on the banks of the Ohio; digefted in a series of facts, from the conclufion of the peace in 1748 to the present time. Also a geographical defcription of Nova Scotia, New England, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; with an account of their several products, customs, and conftitutions. Likewife the fpeeches of their governors, and proceedings of the affemblies, relative to the perilous fituation of our colonies upon that continent. And the French political creed. Intermixed with variety of letters and obfervations, in confirmation of the facts related. Very neceffary to be understood at this time, when a war with France seems inevitable. 8vo. Is. 6d. Cooper.

A mere collection from news-papers, pamphlets, &c. of what almost every body knows already.

XIX. The Complete Drawing-book. Containing many and curious fpecimens under the following heads: 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads with the various paffions of the foul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beafts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landfkips, views, and ruins,

with out-lines to each plate. Made easier to the comprehenfion of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made. public. The whole neatly engraved on one hundred copperplates from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best mafters. To which are annexed, Proper inftructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art. 8vo. 5s. Sayer.

We apprehend this book is proper to be put into the hands of the learners of this useful and elegant art.

XX. Second St. Paul in Equity-hall, to Felix, Cæfar, and all: What his rational preacher would plead to a king, miniftry, parliament, court, juftices, juries, &c. towards a fcientific difplay of his religion, by ftrict demonftration; with scripture ; and a reply to all objections; that the traducers of the difcourfes, advertisements, and conduct, may be eternally felf-condemned and felf-exposed; afking no favour but to be rightly understood, and honeftly treated. By John Henley, M. A. late rector of Chalmondifton, Suffolk, and chaplain to the late Lord Molefworth. 8vo. 6d. Corbet.

It is fufficient for this performance, that we inform our readers, it comes from the pen of the noted Orator Henley. XXI. Letters on the English Nation, by Battista Angeloni, a Jefuit, who refided many years in London. Tranflated from the original Italian, by the author of the Marriage-act, a novel*. 8vo. 2 vols. Ios. Scot.

As it is fuppofed by fome naturalifts, that every earthly production hath its counter-part, or resemblance, in the fea; fo, in the literary world, it hath been averred, by fhrewd obfervers, that every good or popular book has its counterfeit, or pyratical, imitation. Thus, Baxter's LAST words produced MORE LAST words of Richard Baxter; the WHOLE duty of Man, begat ANOTHER WHOLE duty, &c. and thus, to Voltaire's and Le Blanc's letters concerning the English nation, do we owe the letters now published under the ideal name of Battista Angeloni.

That these letters were originally written in the language wherein they are now prefented to the public, is an undisputed fact; indeed they bear not the leaft mark of the genius of that language they are faid, in the title, to be tranflated from.

Confiflently with what might be expected from such a scheme of impofition, the reader, who chufes it, may find the worthiest characters abused, and our nobleft inftitutions of civil and religious polity infulted, in many pages of these unworthy volumes.

Sheltered under the forged name of a foreigner, and the affumed profeffion of a Jefuit, (in the choice of which, we are perfuaded, the heart of the author was at least as inftrumental as his head) this daring writer has attacked the most respectable * See Review, Vol. II, p. 395.

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perfons, ftations, dignities. In his marriage act, the whole body of the legislature, the right rev. bench, and the highest officer in the law (diftinguifhed, throughout Europe, among the first characters of the age) were the objects of his malignity. Nou, in this new performance, the reformed, proteílant church herfelf is ftruck at, and with her, her beft friends and brightest ornaments. Our prefent happy government too, and every noble, manly principle by which it hath, hitherto, been fo gloriously defended, are hamefully vilified; and the friends of liberty reprefented as a fet of wretches, engaged in the vileft fchemes of factious wickednefs; while Jacobitifm is mentioned with respect, and Toryifm applauded and recommended, as the nation's laft refource, the only remedy left for recovering to the Crown its loft prerogatives; to the People their expiring li berties!

The dedication of this exquifite piece of authorifm, containing forty-fix pages, is filled with the groffeft abuse of the first minifter of ftate: the preface, of fourteen pages, is taken up with one continued falfhood about the pretended author. The letters themselves are of a miscellaneous kind; not a few of them feem intended merely as vindications of popery in general, and encomiums upon its moft abfurd fopperies, and profane impofitions on the understandings and confciences of mankind. The rest are on critical, moral, or political fubje&ts; in all which the author fhews a rancorous, infolent, dogmatical turn, that muft continually difguft even the moft candid reader. As an inftance of his judgment, as well as his modefty, we need only mention, that he affirms, Addijon wanted tafte in all things---was a baby in his pretenfions to knowledge of a fuperier kind---and a school boy in fublime poetry. Let. 29. He speaks of Mr. Pope in much the fame ftrain.

If the reader likes this fpecimen, let him purchase the vo lumes; in which he will find enough of the fame fort of criticilm and cenfure,

XXII. Chit-chat; or, natural characters, and the manners of real life, reprefented in a series of interefting adventures. 12mo. 2 vols. 5s. Dodsley.

To fay the best of this performance, it contains nothing indecent or offenfive to the chaste and modeft ear; but, at the fame time, it must be confeffed, the reader of taste will here find nothing to excite and keep up his curiofity, engage his attention, or intereft his heart. The author has involved about half a dozen couple of infipids, in certain uninterefting adventures and difficulties, out of which they are extricated at laft ;--and all is conducted in the modern way, without energy, humour, or spirit.

XXIII. The Matrimonial Preceptor: a collection of examples and precepts relating to the married ftate, from the moft celebrated writers, antient and modern. 12mo. 3s. Payne.

The

The public is here prefented with an elegant and valuable collection of preceptive and exemplary papers, relating to the previous choice and after-conduct of a married life; for the direction of both fexes. They are gathered from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, Rambler, Adventurer, the late Profeffor Fordyce's Elements of Philofophy, and his much efteemed Dialogues on Education, with feveral other valuable authors. The whole forming an excellent and entertaining domeftic mifcellany. It is the firit book of the kind we have feen, and we expect not to meet with a better collection.

XXIV. The Novel from which the play of The Merchant of Venice, written by Shakespear, is taken. Tranflated from the Italian. To which is added, a translation of a novel from the Decamerone of Bocaccio. 8vo. 6d. Cooper.

The tranflator of this novel has thought it worth his while to offer it to the public, because the ingenious female critic, who wrote the three volumes, entitled Shakespear illustrated *, has omitted it in her work. The author of the book of novels, from whence the one before us is drawn, was Ser Giovanni Florentino, who lived about the time of Bocaccio.

XXV. Some Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Dr. Richard Mead, fellow of the royal college of phyficians at Lon don and Edinburgh, and of the royal fociety; and physician to his majesty. 8vo. Is. Cooper.

XXVI. Authentic Memoirs of the Life of Richard Mead, M. D. 8vo. Is. Whifton.

M. Mary, in his Journal Britannique t, took an early op. portunity of paying a juft tribute of respect to the memory of this learned phyfician, under the title of, Eloge du Docteur Richard Mead, a tranflation of the greateft part of which foon after appeared in one of the Magazines. With refpect to the two publications under our prefent notice, little mention may fuffice; feeing the compiler of the former acknowledges himself obliged to the above-mentioned ingenious journalist, for several anecdotes relating to Dr. Mead; and the latter is confeffedly no more than another tranflation of M. Mary's elogy, with a few additional particulars relating to the doctor's private connections.---The principal difference between the two accounts is, that in the firft, agreeable to its professed design ‡, more precision is ob

See Review, Vols. IX. and X.

+For the months of July and August, 1754

An advertisement prefixed to this piece informs us, that it was originally intended to have accompanied an English verfion of Dr. "Mead's Medica Sacra, tranflated by Dr. Stack;'-- and that its more ⚫ immediate defign was to exhibit a short hifty of the doctor's literary productions."

REVIEW, May 1755.

Dd

ferved

served with regard to this eminent author's writings; and the laft feems to furnish a more accurate detail of what concerns his family, &c.

XXVII. The Military Hiftory of Europe, &c. From the commencement of the war with Spain, in 1739, to the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1748. Containing all the transactions of that war by fea and land: alfo comprehending a concife and impartial hiftory of the rebellion in Scotland. By William Biggs, volunteer in the military tranfactions abroad and at home. 8vo. 6s. Baldwin.

As the tranfactions of this period are recent, and within every o: e's memory, who has read the Gazettes, and other collections of news, it is needlefs for us to enlarge upon this performance; which, instead of the military hiftory, might, with more propriety, be entitled a military journal of Europe, for the years above-mentioned, as it seems to confift chiefly of news-paper communications; among which Mr. Biggs has interspersed some remarks of his own one of them we shall lay before our readers, as a fpecimen of this gentleman's writing.---After having taken notice of the fuccefsful campaign Prince Charles of Lorrain made, in the year 1743, (in which, he tells us, the prince drove the French from poft to pillar) to complete thofe trophies,' fays our author, on his arrival at Vienna, he was bleffed with the fecond Archdutchefs Mary-Anne, fifter to the Queen of Huzgary, as his confort; having, on the 19th of November, advanced in ceremony to court, and made a demand of her, which day the efpoufals were celebrated, and the marriage was ⚫ folemnized the January following; where I fhall leave him to act the foldier in the enjoyment of Venus, as a coronation ⚫ to his celebrated laurels in the conflicts of Mars.'--

In his marginal note he formally ftiles the above, Re⚫ marks on Prince Charles of Lorrain. However, tho' no extraordinary writer, yet his materials are tolerably connected. XXVIII. Sculptura; or, the hiftory and art of chalcography, and engraving on copper: with an ample enumeration of the moft renowned mafters, and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving on mezzotinto, communicated by his highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatife, John Evelyn, efq; The fecond edition, containing some corrections and additions taken from the margin of the author's printed copy; an etching of his head by Mr. Worlidge; an exact copy of the mezzotinto done by Prince Rupert, by Mr. Houfton; a tranflation of all the Greek and Latin paffages; and memoirs of the author's life. 8vo. 3s. 6d. bound. Payne.

This work was originally publifhed in the year 1662, fince when its deserved reputation had chiefly confined it to the li braries of the more curious among the learned, fo that it has

been