"Horfe-Lughs," in imtion of Colma 's "Broad Grins," have humour, but are too long for extraction. The following fpecimen from the "Poet's Epitaph," a parody on fome fericus Lyrics on the fame thought, may fuffice. The perfon who reads. the Epitaph is addreffed, "Art thou a methodist ? begone! Was duly paid, Dame Nature's debt." Vol. II. p. 306. The latter is not quite new; we remember this epigram, per tontrà. "Tom's last great debt is paid, his life is o'er.` DRAMATIC. ART. 21. This is fo very flight a fketch that it is not eafy to characterize it. The author tells us that it is taken from Mrs. Opie's tale of "Love and Duty." But there is not time to develope fuch a tale in fo fhort a drama. The Count d'Anglade, who was condemned twenty years before by the Count d'Effars, for a murder of which he was innocent, here meets his perfecutor, and his own daughter; at the fame moment his innocence is made public, by the confeffion of the real affain, and his daughter is united to the Count's fon. But all this in a nut-fhell. Some attempts at comic humour are made by the lower characters; but much muft depend upon fcenery and mufic. ART. 22. The Doubiful Son, or Secrets of a Palace: a Play in five Mr. Dimond apparently has deeply ftudied the modern German drama; drama; fo much of violent fituation and extravagant action; fuch extended and minute stage directions can be derived furely from no other fource. If the play was acted, as the title expreffes, "with general applaufe," it must be owing to the skilful translation of all thefe verbofe directions into action. In the reading, they at once puzzle the caufe, and deftroy the intereft. This dramatist affures his readers that he defpifes literary fame, and affigns for it a reafon, which we hope does not mean all that it fecins to imply. "National monuments, he fays, "fhaded by the laurel and the bay, yield no dearer refting-place to him who fain would fleep for ever, than a turf-grave clafped by ofiers." We truft that he is not really fo much of a modern philofopher; if he is, we pity him. NOVELS. ART. 23. The Spirit of the Book. 12mo. 3 Vols. 11. 45. 1811. We feel it our duty to put as immediate and as effectual check as we are able to one of the groffeft impofitions upon the credulity of the public that has of late times appeared. The idea which this farrago of nonfenfe and falfhood pretends to hold out, is, that an illuftrious perfonage communicates, in a series of letters to her daughter, the particulars of her life and attachments be fore marriage, and her fubfequent behaviour and treatment. In the metropolis, and with thofe who are nearer the individuals defcribed and circumftances delineated, no great mischief can be apprehended; detection is at hand, and the contradictions and abfurdities immediately obvious. At a distance, and in the provinces, readers may gape and ftare, and wonder and believe. For fuch, therefore, and undoubtedly there are many fuch, we feel it neceffary to ftate, that this is entirely a catchpenny bu finefs, and that an unbecoming and unwarrantable ufe has been made of the most illuftrious names, for bafe and mercenary purposes. ART. 24. The Empire of the Nairs, or the Rights of Women, an Utopian Romance, in Twelve Books. By James Lawrence, Author of the Bufom Friend, Love an Allegory, &c. 4 Vols. 16s. Hookham. 1811. The Bofom Friend, Love an Allegory, and the other works of this author, may, for any thing we pretend to know to the contrary, have been tranflated into German, French, and all the European languages. If they do not merit fuch diftinction better than the prefent, much time and labour must have been neceffarily mifemployed, Scenes, characters and circumstances, offenfive to a delicate mind, feem to have provoked and exercifed all the talents which the author poffeffes. However fcanty and infignificant thefe talents may be, and we can undertake to affure the reader that they are neither important nor extenfive, he furely might have taken fome pains and beftowed fome portion of his time in learning the manners and cuftoms which he undertakes to delineate. He feems perfectly ignorant of Oriental manners, though among thefe the foundation of his extravagant tale is laid. There are manners, however, with which he appears to be intimately acquainted, but thefe are not of the kind which will qualify him to be either ufeful or popular as an author. -LAW. ART. 25. A Supplementary Appendix to Practical Remarks, and Precedents of Proceedings in Parliament, on Private Bills; com. prifing the Subftance of the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, made in Seffion 1811. By C. T. Ellis, Parliamentary Agent, of the Inner Temple. 8vo. 19 pp. Butterworth, &c. 1811. The first edition of the Practical Remarks, mentioned in the title page, was recommended in our 20th Vol. p. 440; and the fecond edition, in our 36th Vol. p. 306.-" On the 18th day of June, 1811, the Houfe of Commons made feveral new standing orders, and on the fame day all the ftanding orders, respecting private bills, were referred by the Houfe to a felect committee, to incorporate them together, and to examine and revife the fame, On the 21st day of June, 1811, the committee made their report, which on the fame day was ordered by the Houfe to be printed. All the orders, fo incorporated and revifed, are inferted at length in the Appendix to the Votes of Seffion, 1811. In this fupplement, befides the additional ftanding orders of the 18th day of June, 1811, the fubftance of the alterations made by the above committee, in the former orders as they now appear in the PRACTICAL REMARKS, is given; and references are made to the pages of the book, where the new orders and alterations wouldhave been inferted, if they had existed at the time the book was published." P. 3.-The feveral heads of this APPENDIX arePrivate Bills in general-Inclosures-Turnpike Roads-Canals-Railways, Tunnels, or Archways-Ferries or Docks-Piers, Ports, or Harbours-Paving and Poor-Bridges-Small Debts, Whoever poffcffes the original work, Practical Remarks, will of courfe wish to fee this Supplementary Appendix; and all other perfons, interested in private bills, are advised to become poffelfed of the whole work, 1 ART. ANTIQUITIES. ART. 26. A Topographical Account of Tatterfball, in the County of Lincoln: illuftrated with Engravings. 12mo. 23 P. 25. Weir, Horncastle, 1811. In the advertisement prefixed, the editors fays, that "he lays no claim to the title of an author, much lefs to that of an histo. rian his object has been, to collect for the ufe of thofe who may vifit Tattershall, a.concife account of a place of deserved cele. brity, and to fupply a want which has long been a subject of complaint with the curious traveller." The merit of the following pages is, that the matter of them is compiled with care from authentic documents; and that, in a fmall compafs, is prefented an outline of the history of a feat of ancient baronial fplendor, fufficient to apprife vifitors of the claim to their attention which that place poffeffes." We ftrongly recommend this account to every one who feels an intereft in fuch fubjects. The drawings are fo accurate, and the engravings fo very neatly executed, that a double price might well have been fet upon the work. To the prefent noble poffeffor of thefe premifes, Earl Fortefcue, we refpectfully recommend a renewed attention to them. The mifchief done to them, in the year 1754, (by the neglect, as we have heard, of fome vulgar fteward) is shocking to any one who poffeffes tafte or feeling. P. 12. ART. 27. Objervations on the Tin Trade of the Ancients in Corn wall and on the ICTIS of Diodorus Siculus. By Sir Christopher Hawkins, Bart. F. A. S. With a View of the Mount. Svo 6s. Stockdale. 1811. The lovers of antiquarian refearch will find much learning modeftly exhibited, and much information agreeably communi cated in this tract. The geographical fituation of the Caffiterides and the antiquity of the tin trade in Britain, have often been the fubject of elaborate difcuffion. Nothing is more certain than that the most ancient weapons and utenfils which have been discovered, have all on analyfis been found to contain a certain proportion of tin; nor can any thing be better afcertained than that the Phoenicians had many hundred years before the Chriftian era exchanged the productions of the Eaft for the filver of Spain and the tin of Britain. With refpect to the real Ictis of Diodorus Siculus, it fatisfac torily appears from the authorities in this tract, that it could not poffibly be the Ifle of Wight. The diftance from the point of Cornwall where the inhabitants dreffed, melted, exported, and. fold the tin, renders this almost demonstrative. Neither do we think that I&tis could either be the Black Rock at Falmouth or Saint Nicholas 14and near Plymouth, All Mr. Polwhele's obfervations fervations as here introduced are entitled to much refpect, but we do not think that he has proved his point, though he very modeftly reprefents his ideas as merely theoretical. Whether the ingenious author of this tract has fufficiently made it appear that St. Michael's Mount is the place in queftion we will not undertake to decide. The arguments have an equal plaufibility, and at all events much interefting information has been obtained. POLITICS. ART. 28. Popular Opinions on Patriotifm, examined in Four Eys. 8vo. 23 pp. Ebers. 1810. "It Thefe effays contain many proofs of extenfive reading, and much strong argumentation. In the firft effay, it is proved, in oppofition to Lord Kaimes, that "the modification of benevo lence, which we call patriotifm, or the defire of benefiting our native. country, is natural to man; but his degrees of affection for other countries may vary." P. 5. In the fecond effay, it is shown to be probable, that "the power of habit, or, in other words, the affociation of ideas, caufes the love of our country." is a very important fact, and fhould always be remembered by thofe who take upon themselves the government of a country, that the patriotifm of a people is in proportion to the freedom and confequent happinefs they enjoy." P. 6. In this united kingdom then, patriotifm must abound more than in any country. And doubtless it does fo; though in thefe days, there are so many falfe pretenders to it, that the word patriot is often used to fignify a felff disturber of the public peace. True patriotifm has never blazed, where the laws were partial, or the life and property of the people at the command of a capricious defpot." P. 7. In a neighbouring country, therefore, there cannot be one spark of it. The conclufion of this effay exhibits fome very commendable fentiments. Some parts of the third effay, particularly the conclufion, must be read with caution. The concluding effay endeavours to "particularize the duties of patriotifm." Here we find many ufeful le ffons; and if the author will re-confider and prudently amend fome of his notions, he may, in another edition, render confiderable fervice to his country. AGRICULTURE. ART. 29. Cheap and Profitable Manure, &c.-Plain and easy Directions for preparing and Method of using an excellent Compoft for manuring arable, meadow, and pafture Lands, in general, in the cheapest Manner, from which greater Productions of Grain, &c. will be obtained than from any other Manure, at equal |