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A Hiftory of the Walcheren Remittent, commencing with its advanced State, when moft dangerous and deftruétive to the Soldiery, and concluding with its very favourable Termination, effected by thofe Means firft propofed by the Author only to the Legislature, and to the late and present Army Medical Board; with the Morbid Appearances on Diffection; alfo the Sequels, fanæmnia, acholia, Egyptian Ophthalmia, &c. Elucidated by Diffections. By Thomas Wright, M. D. and M. R. I.A. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

A Treatise on fome practical Points relating to the Difeafes of the Eye. By the late John Cunningham Saunders, Demonftrator in Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hofpital, and Founder and Surgeon of the London Infirmary for curing Difeafes of the Eye. To which is added, a fhort Account of the Author's Life, and his Method of curing the Congential Cataract, by his Friend and Colleague. J. R. Farre, M. D. Royal 8vo. fl. 1s. coloured Plates. 11. 11s. 6d.

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An Effay on Scrophula, in which an Account of the Effect of the Carbonas Arumoniæ, as a Remedy in that Difeafe, is fubmitted to the Medical Profeflion. By Charles Armstrong, M. D. 4s.

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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Dr. Marsh is printing an Appendix to his late publication on the Confequences of neglecting to give the Prayer Book with the Bible.

Mr. Saumarez will publifh in a few days a Work on the Philofophy of Phyfiology, and of Phyfics; comprehending an examination of the modern Syftems of Philofophy.

Some Account of a Journey into Albania Roumelia, and other Provinces of Turkey, during the Years 1809 and 1810, by Mr. C. Hobhoufe, will fpeedily appear.

A fecond and much enlarged Edition of Remarks on the Parish Regifter Bill, by the worthy Vicar of Bolton, will fhortly be published, containing, outlines of a proposed Parish Regifter Bill; and of another for Diffenters.

Mr. Bulleck is printing an enlarged Catalogue of his Museum now removing to the new Building in Piccadilly. The Ifle of Palms and other Poems, by Mr. Wilson of Magdalen College, Oxford, will be publifhed in a few days.

A new Grammar of the Spanish Language, by Mr. L. I. A. Mc. Henoy, a native of Spain, will fpeedily appear.

The Third Volume of Mr. Britton's Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, with feventy Engravings is nearly ready for publication.

A fplendid Volume is alfo announced by the fame Author, entitled, the Fine Arts of the English School. The Work will contain twenty four Engravings, with a fuitable portion of Letter Prefs. The Plates are engraved by Scott, Pye, Cardon, &c. from Pictures by Sir J. Reynolds, Weft, Gainsborough, &c. &c. Others from Sculpture, by Banks, Flaxman, &c.

Letters on Marriage, on the Causes of matrimonial Infidelity, and on the reciprocal Relations of the Sexes, by Mr. H. Ť. Kirchener, in two fmall Volumes, will appear in a few days.

Mr. Fletcher, of Blackburne, will fhortly publish, Remains of the late Rev. E. White, of Chefter, from Papers in the poffeffion of the late Mr. Spencer, of Liverpool."

Sketches of Cottage Characters by the Author of the Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, are printing in two duodecimo Volumes.

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BRITISH CRITIC,

For MARCH, 1812.

Ὅτι ἕνα λαβεῖν καὶ ὀλίγους ῥᾷον, ἢ πολλοὺς εὐφρονοῦντας καὶ δυνα μένους νομοθετεῖν καὶ δικάζειν. Ariftot. Rhet.

For it is easier to find one or few, than many who think right. ly, and who are able to prescribe laws and pass sentence.

ART. I. Hiftory of the Reformation in Scotland: with an introductory Book, and an Appendix. By George Cook, D. D. Minifter of Laurencekirk, and Author of an Illuftration_of the general Evidence establishing the Reality of Chrift's Refurrection. Three Vols. 8vo. 11. 11s. 6d. Hill, and Conftable and Co. Edinburgh; Longman and Co., &c. London. 1811.

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HISTORY of the Reformation in Scotland was a defideratum in ecclefiaflical literature, which Dr. Cook has ably fupplied. There are indeed few fcholars, certainly very few theological scholars, who are ignorant of the origin and progrefs of that reformation; but fuch as have an accurate knowledge of it, muft have collected that knowledge from a variety of works. It is true, that Knox, the great Scottish reformer, wrote a hiftory of the tranfactions in which he bore fo confpicuous a part; but fuch libercics appear to have been taken with his work by David Buchanan, the editor, and by others, that it is certainly not entitled to the fame credit, that it must have univerfally obtained, had it been published in the Itate in which it was left by its

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author. Archbishop Spottifwood too published a Hiftory of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland; but that work, though certainly preferable to Knox's in its prefent ftate, is in fome particulars inaccurate, and in many defective. We have likewife a variety of other ecclefiaftical hiftories of Scotland, including the principal events of the Reformation, and fome of them very valuable ; but these are all compofed in a ftyle which has no attraction for the generality of readers.

Mr. Hume, Dr. Robertfon, and Dr. Gilbert Stuart, have indeed adverted to the great change of religion, fo intimately connected with the political tranfactions of which it was their object to write the hiftory; and the laft of these authors published, in a separate work, a fhort Account of the Scottish Reformation. But though their flyle is fufficiently attractive to engage every reader's attention, their details of ecclefiaftical affairs, not even excepting Stewart's, are too concife to be fatisfactory. The field was therefore ftill open to Dr. Cook; and it is our bufiness to make our readers acquainted with what he has reaped from it for their benefit..

The introductory book confifts of two chapters, in the former of which the author proves, that the Scottish fovereigns, and the Scottish Church, refifted the incroachments and ufurpation of the court of Rome, longer and more fuccefsfully than perhaps any other church and flate in Europe. Popery, however, prevailed at laft, and appears to have had, in Scotland, more pernicious effects on the civil government, the adminiftration of juftice, the morality and intellectual improvement of the people, and the happiness of life, than in almost any other country that fubmitted to its domination. For all this Dr. Cook accounts in a manner at once perfpicuous and fatisfactory. In the courfe of his researches he has occafion to treat of the introduction of Chriflianity into Scotland, which he feems inclined, on the authority of Ferdun, Buchanan, Holingfhead, and others, to attribute to the Culdees. In this we think he is mistaken. Of any eftablishment of Culdees in Scotland, we have no account

This has been completely proved by archbishop Spottiswood and bifhop Sage, the latter of whom fcruples not to pronounce, that Knox was not the author of the work which is attributed to him.

+ Skinner's Ecclefiaftical Hiftory is certainly a work of value, though the learned author has bestowed no labour on his ftyle.

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