jects. 1. The use of reason in matters of region. 2. The power of man to do the will of God. 3. Original fin. 4. Election and reprobation. s. The divinity of Christ. And, 6. Atonement for fin by the death of Chrift. By a lover of the gospel. 1 d. Johnson. — Contains more good fenfe, and rational divinity, than is to be found in many bulky volumes. M. A familiar illuftration of certain paffages of fripture relating to the power of man to do the will of God, original fin, election and reprobation, the divinity of Chrift, and atonement for fin, by the death of Christ. By a lover of the gospel. 4 d. Jobafon. Á fupplement to the preceding pamphlet. M. The triumph of truth; being an account of the trial of Mr E. Elwall, for herefy and blafphemy, at Stafford affizes, before Judge Denton. By the author of An appeal to the ferious and candid profeffors of Chriftianity, &c. id. Johnson.—Mr Elwall was tried, in 1716, for writing a book, intitled, "A true teftimony for God, and his facred law; being a plain, honeft defence, of the first commandment of God, against all the Trini tarians under heaven, Thou shalt have no other ged at me." At this trial he afferted, and vindicated, the doctrine of the divine unity. A reputable jury, directed by a fenfible judge, acquitted the criminal. —— It is well known, that the three preceding tracts come from the pen of Dr Pricftley. M. Religious correfpondence; or, The dif penfation of divine grace, vindicated from the extremes of libertine and fanatical principles: in a feries of letters to a lady. 2 vols. 65. Hay. The doctrine of common fenfe, which has of late fo much engaged the public attention, is here called in to fupport that fyftem of faith which is ufually termed orthodox. This fyftem, which the writer Byles, "The doctrine of grace in the gopel," he thinks may be referred to the good fenfe of an intelligent perfon, with no lefs faccess than the truths of morality and natual religion; and he apprehends, that on this appeal, the evidence of its truth will a mount to certainty. In fupport of this pofition, he exhibits at large his opinions concerning the grace of the gofpel, the manner in which men receive this grace, and the docwines of Christianity refpecting regeneration, converfion, fanctification, perfection, divine fiftance, and final retribution; and this, ot with the tedioufnefs of argumentation u faal in polemical writings, but in a bold and nervous flyie, by no means deftitute of the graces of compontion. The chief force of qur author's artillery is levelled againft Dr Pretty. M. - Sacred controverfy; or, A defence of the Chriftian faith, as it was once delivered to the faints: in which the objections of Mr Shrubfole to the apostles doctrine of Christ, The church-member's directory; or, A gofpel-church defcribed: wherein is confidered its form, founder, and foundation; as also, the materials with which it is built; the work and fervice thereof; the officers belonging to it; their characters, qualifications, and duties; in whom the right of chufing them, and the power of admitting members, is vefted; the method of their admiffion; and the ground of church-authority for excommunication. By Archibald Bell. 25. E. Johnfon. Relates to the Independent form of churches. The author condemns, by autho rity of feripture, thofe minifters who preach the fermons of others, Jer. xxiii. 30, "I am against the prophets, faith the Lord, that fteal my words every one from his neighbour." The book is not ill written. M. Hiftory, Law, Politics, &c. A folemn declaration of Mr Daniel Perreau; addreffed to the public. Written by himself, and published at his dying request. 1 5. Evans The unhappy brothers, to the laft moment of their lives, protested their innocence of the crime for which they fuffered the juft penalty of the law. It were dreadful to difbelieve thefe folemn declarations, and awful appeals to Heaven; and yet, what man in the full poffeffion of his fenfes, can credit them! Let us hope that time will throw fome light upon thefe dark proceedings. M. The Nonconformift's memorial: being an account of the minifters who were ejected or filenced after the Restoration, particularly by the act of uniformity which took place on Bartholomew day, Aug. 24. 1662.; con taining a concife view of their lives and characters, their principles, fufferings, and printed works. Originally written by the Rev. and learned Edmund Calamy, D. D. Now abridged and corrected, and the author's additions inferted, with many farther particulars and new anecdotes, by Samuel Palmer. To which is prefixed an introduction, containing a brief hiftory of the times in which they lived, and the grounds of their nonconformity. Embellished with the heads of many of thofe venerable divines. 2 vols. 16 5. Harris. An effay on public happiness, investiga ting the state of human nature, under each of its particular appearances, through the feveral periods of history, to the prefent times. 2 vols. 10 s. boards. Cadell. The author of this work is M. le Chevalier de Chatellur, brigadier of the armies of his Moft Chriftian Majefty. His inquiry commences with a short account of Egypt; then he turns to the Affyrians, Babylonians, Medes, and Lydians; then to Greece, and Italy; and he gives a view of the religious quarrels in the fourth century; a melancholy view of the ftate of human nature In the fecond volume he confiders the lot of humanity in modern times, the feudal government, and the influence of the revival of learning upon the condition of mankind. He ftates the progrefs already made towards the establishment of the welfare of fociety; examines into the prefent condition of the moft enlightened nations; fhews, that agriculture and population are the trueft proofs of the happiness of the people; and laftly, points out the wounds of humanity, which fill remain to be clofed. The tranflator has fubjoined a confiderable number of excellent notes and citations from Greek and Latin writers. C The fpeech of the Duke of Manchefter, against the bill for prohibicing all intercourfe with the colonies 1s. Kerfley.The arguments, in fubftance, the fame with thofe in the Lords proteft. [xxxvii 673.] Remarks upon the retolutions of the Houle of Commons, with respect to the poor, tagrants, and houfes of correction. By a jurtice of the peace within the county of York. 6 d Nicoll Solid and judicious. No friend to county-workhoutes. M. God's controverfy with the nations: addreffed to the rulers and people of Chriftendom. I s. Conant. Defigned to fhew, that "the rod of the Almighty hangs over us,' or "that fome great work of Providence is on the wheel for repentance and fharp viStation." C. A view of the feveral fchemes with refpe& to America, and their comparative merit in promoting the dignity and intereft of G. Brirain. 15. Owen.Atter enumerating the various fchemes that have been propofed for terminating the difpute with America which are no less than fixteen in number, the author proceeds to examine their feveral merits, and determines in favour of the pian fuggefted by Mr Burke, [reftoring the colonies to the fituation they were in before the ft.mpact, and waving, by an act pt the giflature, the exercife of taxation, as inexpedient], as the moft fimple, comprehenfive, and effectual. The view which he takes of thofe fchemes is wide, and clearly delineated; but his objections have not always fuch a degree of validity as to acquit him of predilection in favour of that which he would adopt. C. The principles of a real Whig; contained in a preface to the famous Hotoman's Franco-Gallia, written by the late Lord Molesworth; and now reprinted at the request of the London Affociation. To which are added, their refolutions, and a circular letter. ૩ ત Williams. Brith conftitutional liberty. Preached at Briftol, Nov. 5. 1775. By Caleb Evans, M. A. 6 d. Buckland. This difcourfe, in favour of our civil and religious liberties, feems to have been particularly seasonable, at a time when Mr Wefley's Toryifm is making fo rapid a progrefs through the country. M. A fermon preached at St Matthew's, Bethnal Green, Nov. 12. 1775. By John Wefley, M. A. 6d. Hawes -Preached, and, we fuppofe, publifhed, for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the foldiers who lately fell near Bolton. M. Some reafons for approving the Dean of Gloucester's plan of separating from the colonies. 6 d. Conant -An ironical amplification on the advantages which would ac crue to G. Britain by a total feparation from ber colonies; to which the author fubjoins, in the fame ftrain, the additional propofal of a feparation likewife from Ireland. C. Seaionable advice to the members of the British parliament concerning conciliatory measures with America; and an act of perpetual infolvency for the relief of debtors. I 5. Bew. Endeavours to perfuade to conciliatory measures with America, uper the principles of policy, humanity, and neceffity; and to an act of infolvency upon the two former of thefe confiderations. C. The law of liberty. A fermon on American affairs, preached at the opening of the provincial congrefs of Georgia. By John J. Zubly, D. D. I s. 6 d. Almon. In the civil wars of the last century, The battles of the Lord! was the general cry; and this raifed a flame of enthufiafm in the populace. The fame kind of poйical phrenfy is now excited in America by the magic found of Liberty! Dr Zubly's is, in the main, a rational and moderate difcourfe, yet not without a little of the old leaven. "Many Americans," fays he, "look upon the prefent me afores as a deep-laid plan to bring in the pretender" If they have hitherto been fighting to keep him out, it is pity they are not undeceived. But the Doctor, like a political cratitman, countenances this ridiculous notion. C. Natural Natural History, Medicine, Mathematics, &c. The Vegetable Syftem, vol. 26. and laft, By Sir John Hill. Folio. Trueman, &c.This very voluminous work is now completed. The advertisement numbers its engra vings at 1600; the price is 38 guineas plain, or 160 guineas coloured. M. The English Lepidoptera; or, The Aures liaa's pocket-companion: containing a catalogue of upwards of four hundred moths and butterflies, the food of their respective caterpillars, the time of changing into chryfalis, and appearance in the winged ftate; alfo, the places where they are ufually found; with a concife defeription, &c. By Mofes Harris, author of the Aurelian, or, Hiftory of Eng With infects. 26. Robion. To perfons who have a tafle for applying to this branch of natural history, this book will no doubt be useful: the author fays he found it fo ne ceflary, that he always carried a copy of it in his pocket, ever fince he began to collect the different fpecies of the Lepidoptera: it is now, we are told, fo revifed, and properly arranged, that it is truly a compendium and repalitory of his researches for almost thirty years diligent application. It is divided into eight columas; containing, 1. A catalogue of the English names of moths and butterflies, which are ranged in alphabetical order, for the more eafy finding any fubject inqui red for; 2. What the infects feed upon in the caterpillar ftate; 3. The times of the transformation into the chryfalis; 4. The times when it appears in the winged state, and the length of time it has lain in chryfalis; . How much the fly measures, or expands, from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other, in inches and parts of an inch; 6. The places where the infects are commonly found, in the winged ftate; 7. A fhort defeription of the upper fide of the wings, intended to affift the memory of the reader, and that he may the better diftinguish one from another; 8. The Linnean names, with the number annexed to each infect as it is numerically placed in that author, in his 12th edition The variety of nature is truly aftoniling. We have here an account of 415 diferent fpecies of this tribe of infects! M. An exact relation of the famous earthquake and eruption of Mount Etna, or Mont Gibello, A. D. 1669. To which is added, a gemaine letter, written to a late Noble Peer, purpofing to defcribe the laft great eruption, as well as a journey to the very fummit of Mount Etna, in the year 1767. 1 s. 6 d Wilie This compilation confifts of a letter from the Earl of Winchester to Charles II. delenbing the great eruption of Mount Etna in 1669; together with a more circumftantial Banat ve of the fame event, republished from farct pamphlet. To thefe is added, an original letter, figned W. B. E. addreffed to the late Lord Lyttelton; the author of which exerts all the powers of his pen, which is fomewhat too luxuriant even for fo great an occafion, in defcribing the last remarkable eruption of that mountain. M. Philofophical empiriciẩm: containing remarks on a charge of plagiarifm refpecting Dr Hs, interfperfed with various obfervations relating to different kinds of air. By Jofeph Priestley, LL. D. Is. 6d. Fobufon. The charge of plagiarifm, from which Dr Prieftley has here condefcended to vindicate himfelf, is ridiculous in its origin, and totally unfupported by facts or probability. This publication refutes fome prevailing mistakes concerning the doctrine of air C. Experiments and obfervations on different kinds of air. Vol. 2 [xxxvi 371.] By Jo. feph Priestley, LL. D. 6 s. boards. Johnfon 'nicated in this volume, may justly be confidered as fome of the most curious difcoveries in philofophy; and they not only extend the bounds of natural knowledge, but promife fuch an influence in the cure of difeafes, as never before was fo much as conceived in idea, from the earliest ages of medical fcience. C. The numerous obfervations commu American husbandry. Containing an account of the foil, climate, production, and agriculture of the British colonies in North America and the Weft Indies. By an Ame rican. This work 2 vols. II S. Bew. contains fome very obvious errors, which we think the writer must have avoided, had he really vifited the feveral colonies to which his account extends. - If we might judge of the reft of the work from what he fays of the Weft Indies, we.fhould pronounce it a compilation haftily put together, after raking for materials in a book called Political Fays, and every other tract that has contained any thing relative to colony-husbandry. M. A treatife on the medical qualities of mercury. By N. D. Falck, M. D. 3 s. 6. boards. Law. Contains many judicious obfervations, and ingenious fuggeftions in the cure of difeafes. C. An eltay on gleets. By J. P. Mara', M. D. I S. Williams. Difapproves of the ufual practice in treating gleets C. A treatife on the nervous fciatica, or nervous hip-gout. By Dominicus Cotunnius. 3 s. Wilkie.The obfervations contained in this treatife were made in the hospital of incurables at Naples, where the author's practice appears to have been remarkably extenfive and fuccefsful in the cure of the fciatica. The author obferves, that the fpecics of the fciatica are various, according to the different parts in which the pain has fixed its refidence. Of thofe, however, he confiders two as particularly deferving attention. One is, where the pain is felt in the hip, and extends no further; the other, where it runs along, as it were, in a track, and is propagated down to the foot, on the fame fide. The former he diftinguishes by the name of the arthritic sciatica, and the latter by that of the nervous; the last of which only is at prefent the object of consideration.—If we may judge from fome expreflions in this treatife, the translation has not been executed by a perfon acquainted with medical writings. But the work is perfectly intelligible, and claims the attention of the faculty, on account of the obfervations it contains. C. Obfervations upon the shoeing of horfes: together with a new inquiry into the caufes of difeafes in the feet of horfes. In two parts: 1. Upon the fhoeing of horfes. 2 Upon the difeafes of the feet. By J. Clark, farrier. 3 s. Cadell The first part was formerly publifhed, but has received confiderable improvements. What now chiefly demands attention is the fecond part, in which the author treats, apparently with great judgement and experience, of the difeafes of the feet of horfes. C great benefit to the poor of the city. C Abstract on the mechanifm of the motions of floating bodies. By M. de la Craix, commiffary-general of the marines. &c. Tranf lated from the French, and published by Admiral Knowles, and now reprinted. z. Robson. The advertisement of the transla tor and publisher, whose knowledge and experience in these matters render him a very competent judge, will be a fufficient account of this pamplet: "This little treatife contains more knowledge in the art of ship-building than any book hitherto published that I have met with. The principles the author proceeds upon are just and true; I have verified them by a number of experiments, and they agree exactly with the calculations he gives: but what proved most fatisfactory to me, was their answering perfectly well when put into practice, in feveral line-of-battle fhips and frigates that I have built whilst I was in Ruflia." M. A memoir, intitled, " Drainage and navigation but one united work; and an outfall to deep water the firft and necessary step to it." Addreffed to the corporations of Lyune-Regis and Bedford Level. By T. Pownal, Efq; M. P. 1 s. Aimon, &c." From a view of the errors and ill fuccefs of partial remedies, on mistaken principles, Mr Pownall, who appears to have ftudied the fubject of drainage with no ordinary degree of attention, recommends a more enlarged fcheme of carrying off waters from a flat country; taking the operations of nature for our guide, inftead of perfifting obftinately in theories which only terminate in dearlybought difappointments. M. Strictures on the gout with practical advice to the gouty people of G. Britain. By Annals of gaming; or, The fair-player's Samuel Wood, a recovered arthritic. 1s. 6d. fire guide. Containing original treatifes on Bell. Mr Wood is very explicit in what Whift, Hazard, Tennis, Lanfquenet, Picrelates to the theory of the difeafe; but his quet, Billiards, Loo, Quadrille, Lottery, practical advice turns entirely on the recom- Back-gammon, &c. To which are fubjoin mendation of three noftrums, amounting to ed, all the operations, legerdemains, tricks, 11. 9 s. for the medicinal courfe of a year. C. fhuffles, cuts, or any possible indirect means An inquiry into the nature, caufe, and that can be introduced at thofe games. By a cure, of a fingular disease of the eyes. By connoiffeur. 2 s. 6 d. Allen. To tell J. P. Marat. 7 S. Williams. This dif- us, that fharpers will cheat at all games, by cafe is reprefented to be a tumefaction of arts hardly poffibly to be detected, affords the mufcles of the eye, excited by the fharp- little fecurity to thofe who frequent fuch nefs of mercurial medicines, and frequently company. The fure guide for the fair-player, mistaken for the gutta ferena. The cure is, never to play with ftrangers; and not eis faid to be performed by bleeding, lenient ven with friends, for fuch fums as expofe purgatives, and relaxing topical applica- people to the temptation of forming mean tions. C. defigns on the pockets of their companions, or to an anxiety for their own. The money flaked ought to be confidered in no other light than as mere counters, to reckon up the games won or loft; and for this innocent purpose, the smallest denominations of coin are fufficiently valuable for if the money itfelf becomes an object of attention, what was originally intended as a facial paftime, becomes a fordid befinefs. M. Of the improvement of medicine in London, on the basis of public good. 19. Dil ly. We are here prefented with the plan and defign of the General Difpenfary, its progrefs, finances, the ftate of the poor in the city of London, with the advantages of the Difpenfary to domeftic fervants, &c. The inftitution of this charity is, doubtlefs, Lighly laudable, and may be productive of Fine Arts, Belles Lettres, Criticism, &c. The art of drawing in perfpective made eafy to thofe who have no previous know ledge of the mathematics. By James Fergu fon, F. R. S. 35. Cadell. This little work confifts of a fet of eafy rules and directions for drawing many plane and folid figures in true perfpective, viewed by the eye, illustrated with several plates of the figuies neatly executed, and preceded by proper deGui-ions in the fubject itself, as well as by fome geometrical definitions and problems, with other occafional obfervations for the ufe of fuch as have not already learned that science C. Stenography; or, A concife and practical fyftem of thort-hand writing. By W. Williamfon, teacher of that art in London, late of Edinburgh. Ios. 6 d. Brown.This scheme of fhort-hand is the most simple we have met with; making ufe of only twenty. two characters; fixteen for confonants, and fir for th, ch. fo, fis, ing, tion; and laying down no other fundamental rules than thefe four: "That words must be written accor ding to their found, without regard to fpel. ling; That vowels are not to be written but to the reginning and end of words; and then to be expreffed by a dot; which is to be ufed in common for all vowels, without regard to the place in which it flands; That ali words, except where the point for vowels is used, are to be written without taking off the pen; and, That words or fentences may be abbreviated at pleasure, by writing only the radical parts or firft letters of words, or wholly leaving out fuch words as the fenfe will eafily fupply. M. : The tutor's obfervations on memory With plain and practical rules for improving and exercising it; and brief hints on compofition. For the use of schools. 15. Hay. Contains fome juft remarks, and plain directions. M. An eafy introduction to English grammar, intended for the inftruction, encouragement, and afe of young learners. By Thomas Joel. 15. Law. May be used with advantage by young learners, the perfons for whom it is intended. M. 25. A new compendious grammar of the Latin tongue; wherein the elements of the language are plainly and briefly comprised in English, &c. for the ufe of fchools, and pri. vate gentlemen. By W. Bell, A, B. Marray.The plan followed is that of the celebrated Mr Ruddiman: but Mr Bell has attempted to fupply what he thought wanting in the Rudiments of that writer; that is, rules for the genders of nouns, the preterper fect tenfes of verbs, the quantity of fyllables, &c. C. A new compendious grammar of the Greek VOL. XXXVIII. tongue; wherein the elements of the language are plainly and briefly comprised in English, for the ufe of schools and private gentlemen, whether they have been taught Latin or not. By W Bell, A. B 25 Murray In this grammar the declension of nouns and verbs is illuftrated by a variety of examples, and the English fubjoined to the Greek; the characteristics, augments, and formation of the tenfes, are diftinctly explained; the rules of fyntax are plain and concife; and the short account which the author has given of the ac cents, the dialects, the poetic licences, profody, &c. cannot fail of rendering those branches of grammar very intelligible and easy to the learner. C. Six Olympic odes of Pindar: Being those omitted by Mr Weft. Tranflated into Englifh. With notes. 2 s. White. This author appears to be a man of taste and abilities. His annotations bear the marks of learning and critical fagacity. C. The royal ftandard English Dictionary; in which the words are not only rationally divided into fyllables, accurately accented, their part of fpeech properly diftinguished, and their various fignifications arranged in one line; but likewife, by a key to this work, comprising the various founds of the vowels and confonants, denoted by typ graphical characters, and illustrated by examples, which render it intelligible to the weakest capacity, it exhibits their true pronunciation, according to the prefent practice of men of letters, eminent oratots, and polite speakers in London; upon a plan perfectly plain, and entirely new. To which is prefixed, a com prehenfive grammar of the English language. By W. Perry, author of the Man of Business, and Gentleman's Affiftant. 35. WilkieIntended to ferve the purposes of a spellingdictionary, an expofitor, and a directory in pronunciation. C. The royal golden inftructor for youth throughout the British dominions, in order to furnish them with a complete knowledge of their mother-language; being a copious abridgement of the royal univerfal British grammar and vocabulary, &c. &c. By D. Farrbe, M. D. ts. 6d. Rivington. Notes and various readings to Shakespeare, part i containing All's Well that ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, As you like it, Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Henry IV. a Henry IV. With a general gloffary. 4to 10 s. 6 d. boards. Dilly - -Thefe coftive annotations on nine plays, have been the labour of seven years. By an equal dispatch of Mr Capel's obfervations on the remaining dramas, the whole of thefe excellent remarks will not occupy more than feven or eight and twenty years of our fagacious critic's life; a life which he has fo entirely devoted to Shakespeare, that, in re F Speck |