This tract contains fome original information and several useful remarks. One or two paffages in it we could with altered ot omitted, but, on the whole, it is worthy of confideration. ART. 25. MISCELLANIES. The Young Lady's and Gentleman's Atlas, for afifting them in the Knowledge of Geography. By John Adams, Teacher of the Mathematics, Edmonton. 8vo. 95. Darton and Harvey: 1805. A fhort introduction, concluding with definitions of the common geographical terms, and a defcription of each of the maps, excepting that of the two hemifpheres, which forms the frontispiece to the book, conftitutes the whole letter prefs of this elegant little volume. The maps are these. 1. Europe. 2. Afia. 3. Africa. 4. America. 5. England and Wales. 6. Scotland. 7. Ireland. 8. France, divided into departments. 9. Nether. lands. 10. United Provinces. 11. Poland. 12. Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. 13. Southern part of Ruffia in Europe. 14. Northern part. 15. Germany. 16. Switzer. land. 17. Spain and Portugal. 18. Italy and Sicily. 19. Turkey in Europe, with Hungary. 20. Hindoftan or India. 21. Weft Indies. 22. A general chart on Mercator's projection. 23. The western and eastern hemifpheres, placed as a frontispiece. As thefe maps occupy in general the space of two pages, and the first and laft unfold to a larger fize, they are by no means inconveniently fmall; and the peculiar neatnefs of the execution, with the additional aid of colouring, renders every thing in them. perfectly distinct. All things confidered, the volume is remarkably cheap, and may, with the greatest propriety, be employed to affift the enquiries of young ftudents. ART. 26. Mifcellanies, Antiquarian and Hiftorical. By F. Sayers, M.D. 8vo. 174 pp. 65. Cadell and Davies. 1805. These Miscellanies confift of fhort Treatifes or Effays; which, though, in general, little more than fketches of the refpective fubjects, fhow an inquifitive and excurfive mind. Ancient manners and languages feem to be a favourite ftudy of this author, and he throws out many hints both on Hebrew and Saxon literature, which fubfequent writers, who may have more leisure or more perfeverance, might improve. The meft fyftematic, and, in our opinion, useful treatise which he has produced, is that in which he traces the progrefs of English architecture through its different ftages, from the earliest to the prefent times. Were this differtation fomewhat enlarged, and illuftrated by drawings, it would be a convenient manual for travellers, and a pleafing introduction to this branch of knowledge. ART. cr ART. 27. The Rights of the Stock Brokers defended against the Attacks of the City of London: or Arguments to fhew that Perfons buying or felling Stock only by Commiffion, do not come within the Meaning of the Word Broker, mentioned in the 6 Anne, c. 16. To which is added, a Statement of the Proceedings on this Subject that have lately taken place in the Court of Requcfts. By Francis Baily, of the Stock Exchange. 8vo. 46 pp. 15. Richardfons. 1806. The question difcuffed by this author is, whether or not Stock Brokers are compellable by law to be fworn in before the court of aldermen of the city of London, and to pay forty fhillings a year to the chamber of the city, by virtue of the act of 6 Anne referred to? It feems that the author had refifted the payment of this annual ́ fum, after having complied with the first part of the requifition, that of being fworn as a broker before the court of aldermen, confequently he entered into the conteft at a difadvantage, and was compelled by the Court of Requests of the city of London to pay the fum demanded. He now, upon ftrong grounds, contefts the main queftion, arguing that the term of Brokers, used by the statute of Anne, cannot mean Stock Brokers, but relates to Exchange Brokers only, as thefe laft are the only brokers defcribed in former ftatutes, and as the claim of the corporation is founded on an act which passed many years prior to the existence of our funded debt, Unfortunately for thefe arguments, it has been decided in the court of King's Bench (Janfen v. Green, 4 Burr. 2103) that a Stock Broker is within the act of Queen Anne. But the author objects to that decifion, deeming that the cafe was not properly understood by the court; and he recommends a new trial of the queftion, or fome legislative provifion to fettle the difpute. Under fuch circumstances it would not be proper for us to give any pofitive opinion upon the point of law; but it is certainly argued ingenioufly, judicioufly, and temperately, by the author before us; and his work is well calculated to throw light upon a fubject interefting to many opulent and refpectable members of fociety. ART. 28. Letters of St. Paul the Apoftle, written before and after his Converfion. Tranflated from the German of the late Rev. John Cafpar Lavater, Minifter of the Goffel at Zurich. 115 PP. 3. Johnfon. 1805. 8vo. Had we not feen evinced in his other works the ardent imagi nation, and eccentric genius of Lavater, we fhould have been filled with aftonishment at the boldness of this fiction. To imagine the feelings of St. Paul, both before and after his converfion, and to express them in fictitious letters, to perfons whom it is Q q probable BRIT, CRIT. VOL. XXVIII. NOV. 1806. probable that he might have addreffed, is fuch a task as few men, except Lavater, would have impofed upon themfelves. Nor can we approve of the attempt. It is too arduous. The fentiments of Paul before his converfion may indeed be conjectured, but the expreffion of them must be offenfive to the feelings of a Chriftian. When he became an Apoftle, and must be supposed to have been ufually under the guidance of infpiration, then, to think and write in his perfon requires a courage which few well-intentioned men, as Lavater undoubtedly was, are likely to poffefs. The English editor, indeed, fays, "Whether the letters here given, which appear to have been recently difcovered, and written by the Apostle Paul, fome before his converfion, others after it, be entirely original, real, and genuine, and tranflated into Ger man with perfect fidelity, or whether they be the work of a poetic fpirit of conjecture, or of divination, and thus fuppofing them to be invented, may ftill be true, the editor will not pretend to determine." This is mere nonfenfe. No man of fenfe will fuppofe them to be either the one or the other: they are mere fiction, and not always probable fiction; nor does even the ftyle of the Apoftle appear to be well imitated. But this may be in part the fault of the tranflation. Multitudes of ancient MSS. contain letters fuppofed to have paffed between St. Paul and Seneca: but those letters, though much more fpecious than these, have long been given up as fpurious. That the fentiments expreffed in thefe letters are pious, and fuch as may to many minds be useful, we by no means deny: but we think they might have been more fuitably conveyed in fome other vehicle, rather than by adapting them to the perfon and fuppofed fituations of St. Paul. Wil. ART. 29. An Effay on the Character, Immoral and Anti-Chriftian Tendency, of the Stage. By John Styles. 12mo. liams. 8vo. 2s. 6d. 1806. This writer has evidently the beft intentions in the world, and his work contains many pertinent and fenfible obfervations, on the fubject of the Theatre and its amufements. But when he fets out with.afferting, that the hiftory of the Theatre, from its commencement to the present hour, furnishes us with a melancholy picture of human folly and degeneracy, he fays too much. The queftion has, however, often been difcuffed, and while we .lament with the author the bad tendency of many dramatic pieces, we could enumerate many which are replete with the nobleft leffons of virtue, and communicate, in the moft pleafing manner, the most admirable precepts and inftruction. ART. ART. 30. More Miferies. Addreffed to the Morbid, the Melancholy, and the Unftable. By Sir Fretful Murmur, Knt. 12mo. 55. Symonds. 1806. This looks fomething like poaching upon another perfon's manor; but, excepting that this author has not the claim of originality, fome of the miferies here recapitulated are, in all con fcience, miferable enough. As for example: "Condemned to fit in a room where a piano forte is tuning. "Forced, by politeness, to quit a comfortable party to at tend a crofs old maid to her lodgings, at the distance of two miles. "Wishing to wake early to be in time for a morning coach; waking, and on looking at your watch find you had not wound it up. The miferies in the fhape of mistakes, which two perfons of the fame name, refiding within four doors of each other, experience. "Asked by an abfent man to dinner; on arriving at his house, finding him just fet off for the country. "Hearing an ode of your own compofition, which you think pregnant with Pindaric fire and fublimity, called pretty. An epicure in venifon preffed by a party of twelve, equally fond of it, to carve. "Awakened out of your firft fleep, nearly fuffocated by the ftench of a candle juft expired in the focket. "A man preffed to publifh by his friends for the firft time, reading his work unmercifully lafhed by the Reviewers!". Ohe! jam fatis! ART. 31. Hiftorical Review of the Moral, Religious, Literary, Barr. 1806. Although the author of this Review commences his work at the earliest period of the English hiftory, he has brought it no lower than the death of Charles the First; but we prefume his intention is to continue the fubject in a fubfequent volume. That which is now before us contains a review rather of the characters and conduct of the rulers, than of the people of Great Britain, at the feveral periods to which it relates. Though not diftinguished by profundity of thought, or elegance of lan guage, but, on the contrary, often trite in its remarks and fometimes feeble or inaccurate in its expreffions, it deferves, generally fpeaking, the praife of perfpicuity, and almost always of impartiality. To very few, if any, of the author's reprefentations or remarks have we any material objection. Dr. A. appear throughout the friend of monarchical government (at leaft leaft in Britain) and of rational liberty: nor is there any ap. pearance of hoftility to our ecclefiaftical establishment. In his obfervations on the reign of Charles the First (the most elaborate, and, in our opinion, the best part of the work), the author preferves a juft medium between the undiftinguishing panegyrifts and the malignant detractors of that unfortunate Prince; and, while he admits, that there were originally just grounds of oppofition to many of his measures, reprobates the conduct of his enemies and perfecutors with juft feverity. Upon the whole, although we cannot confider this work as a complete or philofophical view of the English History and Character (a defideratum which will not be foon fupplied), yet, fo far as it goes, it may affift the ftu, dent of history in forming an estimate of the principal characters, and judging of the leading events recorded in the annals of England. Walker on Italian Drama.-Supplemental Remark to Brit. Crit. September, p. 294. SINCE we wrote our account of Mr. Walker's ingenious book, we have found reafon to believe, that the Philogenia and the Ephigenia of Ugolino Pifani, mentioned by him at p. 35, are the fame work, differing merely in this change of the name. Ephigenia is extant, as we mentioned, in the Harleian Collection of MSS, No. 3328; and the very fame comedy occurs again in No. 3568; except that the principal female character is, in the argument and throughout the play, called Philogenia. This change of name might eafily milead Sig. Signorelli, from whom Mr. Walker took his information. In the fame noble collection of MSS. at No, 3565, a fine copy of the Eccerinis of Albertino Muffato is alfo preferved; and in No. 3568 above mentioned is also a Latin comedy by Antonio Barrizio, entitled Canteriaria, which feems to have escaped the research of Mr. Walker. MONTHLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. DIVINITY, A Sermon A Defence of the Eftablished Proteftant Faith. preached in the Parish Church of St. Mary, Newington Butts, Surrey, Oct. 19, 1806. Being the Sunday following the Interment of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St. Afaph. With an Appendix, containing a Sketch of the Life of the Bishop. By Robert Dick nfon, Curate and Lecturer, Published at the Re, queft of the Congregation, 25. A Difcourfe occafioned by the Death of the Right Hon, Charles James Fox, delivered at the Unitarian Chapel, Effex, Atreet, Oct. 12, 1806, By Thomas Belfham. Is, The |