ftruct; and there are readers, to whom literary amufement is as neceffary as any other fpecies of occafional relaxation. To the elegant Itinerary of Mr. Bonnor*, no objection can be made, except that it muft, of neceflity, proceed too flowly to accommodate the travellers, who, in their various excurfions, would be glad of fuch a companion. From picturesque views let us make a tranfition to the theory of picturesque Beauty, which Mr. Price has now illuftrated by a fecond volumet. Without agreeing in all points with this ingenious fpeculator, it is but juft to say, that he has ably illuftrated many parts of his very pleafing fubje&t. The amufements of a liberal mind will be feen alfo in the Literary Hours, by Dr. Draket; and the Wreath of Mr. du Boiss, though we condemn the example of tranflating claffical poetry into English profe, has fufficient merit to entitle it to notice. As an effort to bring into one point of view all the known alphabets of the world, Mr. Fry's Pantographia deferves attention: fuch a work cannot eafily be rendered perfect, but the effort is meritorious, and attention will always be fuggefting improvements. The Oriental Collections of Major Oufeey, are now gaining a form and magnitude, which will entitle them to a place in every learned library; we fhall in future therefore only notice the volumes as they obtain completion, which is our ufual practice with periodical works, though we have deviated from it in favour of one in its nature formed for literary patronage rather than popular circulation." Dr. Fitz-Gerald's learned work on the Biblical He brew**, mult clofe our prefent enumeration. We have looked back with pleafure to many books which, but for this recapitulation, might have paffed * No. III. p. 301. 4 No. II. p. 17311. p. 121. + No. V. ** No. III. p. 258. No. VI. p. 593. too too rapidly from our minds, urged by the conftant fucceflion of new productions, velut unda impellitur undâ. A good book, once reviewed, is to us an old friend, and we are happy to fee our friends as rapidly increafing now, or nearly fo, notwithstanding the augmented price of paper, as at any preceding period of our labours. E. TABL E TO THE BOOKS REVIEWED IN VOLUME XIV. N. B. For remarkable Paffages in the Criticifins and Extracts, fee the INDEX at the End of the Volume. of a corps of volunteers Bond's vifitation fermon ib. Ciceronis Tufculanæ, à Neide Booker's Hop-Garden, a poem 667 Bonnor's copper-plate perfpective fermon 684 ib. Coad's cure for corruption 683 Britain, Great, tefts of the national 444 - on the interference Courfer, le botaniste cultivateur 680 Courcy's, de, fermon Bromwich's doctrines of the church. |