cited with correctness, and arranged with tolerable perspicuity, must prove, in some degree,useful to the public, at least by facilitating in vestigation,and lessening the trouble and difficulty of multiplied references. It deserves our praise on another point,in whichit may prove an use ful example to future writers and compilers of professional works. It contains, in a single volume, (and that not a cumbrous one) more matter than is often to be found in two of the same size, and, what might, with only a common degree of attention to the art of book-making, have been easily spun out into four. We have considered this as a professional work, because, from the preface, it is evident Mr. P. intended that it should be viewed in that light; and the two last books of the three into which it is divi ded, are devoted to strictly professional subjects; but Mr. P. would not pardon us for neglecting to remark that, in the first of these divi sions, he appears to the world as an antiquarian, an historian, and a divine, in addition to his legal character. The limits of our publication will not allow us to affix very minutely the degree of praise due to him for the execution of these supererogatory offices. How ever naturally a work on the law of tithes may be supposed to induce a discussion on their first principles, and however closely such a discussion may be connected with a history of religious establishments, we cannot conceive that those adjuncts were at all necessary in the present case, and therefore think that a proper exercise of that discrimination which we have before suggested to be an essential quality in writers on professional subjects,would have taught Mr. P. to have omitted his first book entirely, with a view to the real be nefit and advantage of his brother-lawyers. Considering him in the adseititious characters we have noted, Mr. P. has thrown no new light on subjects which have given food for the spirits of discussion and controversy during the last two centuries. He affects great li berality and candour, and lays himself open to no peculiar censure for any of his tenets. He agrees that the best title to tithes is that founded on the law of the land, and not that de jure divino; but, not content with giving this as his opinion, he goes on to quote fathers and councils very unmercifully, from which, if he forms any conclusion, it is one very different from that which he sets out with stating. Indeed his law and his religion seem not to be very cordial friends to each other at bottom, though they are apparently engaged in a very amicable urion. He allows indeed that the dreadful judgment which followed the case of Ananias and Sapphira ( the oldest tithe cause in the books) was not so much founded on the subtraction of tithes as on the crime of perjury, of which they were guilty de facto, notwithstanding their equivocation and evasion. We forbear any further comments, that we may not draw down on ourselves and the public, by any indiscreet objections, a postliminious preface' to the Law of Tithes, which we earnestly deprecate. We have already said that the arrangement and contents of the latter part of the work are such as will probably render it of service to the public, and we are particularly pleased to observe that, in treating of legal points, the author avoids all that pomposity and verbiage of style, which, on that account, we can pardon in his preface and prelíminaries. We heartily wish that all professional writers would follow bis example in this respect; we should not then be so often offended with the perplexities added by an affected phraseology to the natu ral difficulties of an intricate point of law. The book wants a table of contents, which is an important omission. MISCELLANEOUS. ART. 27.-A musical Grammar, in four Parts: 1. Notation, Rhythm. By Dr. Callcott 12mo. 8s. boards. Birchall. AN extract from the preface to this work will inform the reader of its object and extent. "The design of the following work is, to compress in a small vo Jume, the leading principles of practical music. From the great analogy which exists between music and language, the author has presumed to adopt a classification first suggested by the German theorists, and to entitle the whole a Musical Grammar He has endeavoured, by examples selected from the best authors, and intermixed with musical characters, to render the instructions more satisfactory than if they were merely verbal; and he only regrets that, in many instances, they could not be made more extensive, without injuring the due proportion of the parts and the portable size of the book. The author takes this public method of announcing, that he has. not abandoned the design formed nine years ago, of compiling a Musical Dictionary. His original plan merely professed to comprehend an abridgment of Walther, Rousseau, &c., but, when the friendship of Mr. Kollmaan (Organist of the German Chapel at St. James's) had assisted him with some valuable treatises, he found it necessary to relinquish the idea of immediate publication; and, unwilling that many more years should elapse without shewing the world in what manner his researches had been conducted, he ventures to lay before the public a specimen of what may be expected from his labours." The work is extremely well executed both in arrangement and perspicuity of expression. Those who have written on the elements of music, have been usually self-taught. Hence their treatises have for the most part been deficient in system. Forgetting that what is familiar to themselves, is to the reader, for whose use they write, a terra incognita, they frequently anticipate their own definitions, and use terms before they have explained the meaning of them. In this respect the grammar (as it is rather affectedly called) before us, is unobjectionable. Dr. Callcott adopts, and we think very sensibly, the notation of the Germans to distinguish the same note in different octaves. He explains all the musical graces of the German and Italian schools, with examples annexed. His remarks on musical accent are written in the clearest manner we have yet seen; and those who study thorough bass and composition will find the principles of them laid down here with less perplexity than perhaps in any other work. Dr. Callcott's justly acquired celebrity cannot fail to gain this book the attention it deserves from the musical reader. ART. 28.-History of the Campaign of 1805, in Germany, Italy, the Tyrol, &c. By Wm. Burke, late Army Surgeon. 8vo. Ridgway. 1806. THEY who are desirous to read a second time what appeared in the French bulletins and the news-papers of the day, will have an opportunity of doing it in this production of Mr. Burke, who we are informed was an army surgeon, but who seems to know no more of the matters on which he undertakes to write than is known by John Doe and Richard Roe, and the rest of his majesty's liege subjects at large. The state papers in an appendix form the best part of the work. We hope some better informed person will give us a history of the famous campaign of 1806; ART. 29.-The Speech of Randle Jackson, Esq. addressed to the Honourable Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the State of the Woollen Manufacture of England, on Behalf of the Cloth Workers and Sheermen of the Counties of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Wiltshire, Somersetshire and Gloucestershire. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Stockdale. 1806. IN this speech Mr. Jackson proves himself the strenuous and able advocate of the cloth-workers and sheermen, who have been threatened with a loss of employment by the introduction of the gig-mill and the sheering frame. Though we do not assent to all that he has said respecting the use of machinery, yet we are willing to allow that he has made out a strong case; and that humanity' seems to second the arguments which he has advanced. By the use of the gig mill, three men may perform the work of twenty-four ac cording to the common mode of dressing the cloth by hand. Hence it is evident that gig-dressed cloth may be afforded cheaper than cloth dressed by hand; and that, consequently, supposing the cloth which is dressed by the mill to be as good as that which is dressed by hand, the use of mill must be regarded as highly beneficial to the community. Here then the interest of the community is opposed to the interest of particular individuals. This will usually be the case in the first employment of all inventions for the abridgment of labour; and though the wise and virtuous statesman will do all in his power 1 to alleviate the condition of the sufferers, and to enable those who are deprived of one species of employment, to find subsistence in another, yet he will prefer the greater good to the less, and consider the interest of the community before that of the individual. What is true of the gig-mills will apply to the sheering frames, or to any other species of machinery, which expedites the production and lessens the cost of manufactures. Mr. Jackson indeed endeavours to prove that the use of the gig-mill and of the sheering frame are injurious to the cloth; that the one stretches it too much, and that the other makes incisions in the web. Supposing these defects, real, they may readily be remedied; but we are convinced that the operations of well constructed machinery, which are not affected by the passions of the mind, and the numberless causes which alter the disposition and powers of individuals, must be more equable and regular than those of the human hand. There always will be a variety of employments to which machinery cannot be applied, and which will. always be sufficient to furnish occupation, and consequently subsistence, to the population of the country. Temporary evils inay and usually wit, as in the present instance, result from the adoption of measures the most extensively and permanently beneficial: but these evils are inseparable from the present state of things, and ought not to be suffered to impede the progress of the arts, or the continually. increasing improvements of rational and civilized men. ART. 30.-The Rights of Stock-brokers, &c. defended against the Attacks of the City of London. By Francis Baily. 8vo. 1s. Richardson. 1806. BY the sixth of Anne, c. 16. all persons, exercising the office and employment of a broker within the liberties of the city of London, are to be admitted to do so by the mayor and aldermen ; and to pay an annual sum of forty shillings to the chamberlain. But Mr. Baily contends, and, we think, with considerable plausibility, that the particular class of persons, who are named stock-brokers, do not come within the meaning of the act. The question however is involved in doubt; and the city of London, who have had one case decided in their favour, seem more determined to enforce the impost, than the stock-brokers are to try the question a second time. Perhaps the arguments of Mr. Baily may succeed in animating his brethren to appeal once more to the glorious uncertainty of the law. ART. 31. Festuca Grammatica, the Child's Guide to some Principles of the Latin Grammar, in which the original and natural Delineation of the Verb is restored, and the Government of Nouns is reduc ed, by Means of the English Particles, to six certain Rules most easy to be comprehended by Children; with a Phraseologicon of the regular Latin Syntax, shewing its very extensive Analogy with the English to be a true and most ready Medium through which to initiate a young English Scholar in the Latin Tongue. By the Rev. Richard Lyne, Author of the Latin Primer. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Law. 1807. A MERE title-page! ART. 32. Du Mitand's Grammatical Tables of the French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish Danish, English, Russian, Latin, and Greek Languages, arranged according to their relation with each other, and digested agreeably to that Plan of Uniformity, set forth in the Prospectus for simplifying and as similating the System of Grammar in general; the said twelve Tables with their corresponding Grammars, having throughout the same Definitions, the same Divisions, and the same Denominations, as may be ascertained by comparing together in different Languages, the Squares to which the same Numbers or Figures are affixed, and which contain nearly the same matter. To be had at the Author's, No 67, Chancery Lane, and at Messrs. Dulau and Co. Soho Square, 128. each on canvass, or 15s. on pasteboard, 1807, FROM the perusal of the prospectus of this work, reviewed in our No. for September 1805, we were induced to form a more fa vourable opinion of it, than the execution will justify. The labours of Mr. Du Mitand certainly display considerable ingenuity, with which however their utility by no means keeps pace. We conceive it to be utterly impossible to learn a language from the concise tables here presented to the public. Like the different games of geography, grammar, &c. which have been formed by Frenchmen in this country, with counters, they seem intended to cheat people into the idea that a language may be acquired by easier methods than Consulting the works of long established authors. It is however only right to add, that the grammars of the different languages, which are to correspond with, and assist in the explanation of the tables, now under inspection, do not yet appear to be published, and till we see them, perhaps we ought not to pronounce a definitive judgment. ART. 33. An Analysis of the Experiment in Education made at Eg. more near Madras, comprizing a System alike fitted to reduce the Expence of Tuition, abridge the Labour of the Master and expedite the Progress of the Scholar, and suggesting a Scheme for the better Administration of the Poor-laws, by converting Schools for the lower Order of Youth into Schools of Industry. By the Rev. Dr. Andrew Bell, A.M. F.A.S, F.R.S. Edin. Rector of Swanage, Dorset, late Minister of St. Mary's, Madras, Chaplain of Fort St. George, and Director and Superintendant of the Male Asylum at Egmore. 3d Edition. 8vo. Cadell. 1807. WE have contemplated this plan of education with pleasure, and hail the adoption of the system in several of the charity schools in this metropolis with high satisfaction. The plan is very good, and might be adopted in other seminaries; but he must be a sturdy master of an academy, who would venture to make the first experi ment. CORRESPONDENCE. W. I. is requested to continue his labours, |