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Christian Benevolence, A Sermon preached before the Teachers and Superintendants of the Sunday School Union, Sheffield, and published at their Request, together with an Address to the Children; By Joseph Gilbert, Rotherham. 8vo. price 1s. ***Articles on the following works are in preparation, and will certainly appear in the early numbers of the ensuing year;-Mosheim's Commentaries.-Williams on Equity and Sovereignty ;-Good on Job;-Robinson's Prophecies of the Messiah ;-Copplestone's Prelectiones;-Mrs. Hamilton's Popular Essays; Baron Grimm's Correspondenee ;-Bridges's Natural Philosophy; Fox's Letters to Dr. Pye Smith ;-Stewart's History of Bengal ;-Marsh's Answer to Milner's Strictures; -Norris on the Bible Society;-Southey's Life of Nelson-Cogan's Disquisitions, &c. &c. THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR DECEMBER, 1813. Art. 1. Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. LL. D. F. R. S F. S. A. late President of the Royal Academy. Comprising ori ginal anecdotes of many distinguished persons, his contemporaries; and a brief analysis of his discourses. To which are added, Varieties on Art. By James Northcote, Esq. 4to. pp. 418. clxvii. Price 21. 12s. 6d. Colburn. 1813. WE E are always glad to see a book, professing to give us many original anecdotes of distinguished persons.' For, besides that love of chit-chat and gossiping, of hearing and retailing news, which, we believe, is inherent in all, from the philosopher down to the chambermaid, it is of real utility to be admitted to the table, and closet, and study of those whom in general we are only permitted to see in the constraint and sunday-clothes of public life. We want to know by what arts of study they attained to their eminence, in what we may copy them, and where we may avoid their errors. We want to know whether the opinions they professed in public stuck to them in private, whether their admonitions be the fruits of their own experience or the mere sports of theory. In short, every thing relating to the characters and opinions and conduct of men, is of use to men. At the same time, we confess that we have not the same indiscriminate rage for knowing every thing, about every body, that some people appear to have. For instance, we care very little about any one's lineage, or the place of his nativity; are perfectly indifferent about who married whom, and whose son who was; what day of the month any one was born on, and whether it was rainy or sunshiny the first day he went to school. Then we have a perfect horror of VL. X. X x grandfathers and grandmothers; and should no more think of looking into parish registers, or the obituaries of old Gentleman's Magazines, than of digging among the bones and rottenness of a church-yard. However, other people may be more curious than we are; and to them it may be gratifying to learn--that Sir Joshua had a paternal uncle, John, the elder brother of the family, who was a canon of St. Peter's Exeter, and held a fellowship of the College at Eton, and to whom Exeter College in Oxford is much indebted for the bequest of a very valuable library, and a considerable part of his fortune, of which it became possessed by his death in 1758;'-that' Sir Joshua's fourth pupil was Mr. Hugh Barron,' a personage, who, it seems,' was a native of the metropolis, and born somewhere near Soho, in which vicinity his father had an official situation in the Westminster Dispensary, as apothecary to that establishment;'-that in the year 1779 died a former pupil of Sir Joshua's of the name of Dusign, whose father was a colonel in the army, and his mother daughter of the Earl of Hindford, a Scottish peer;' and many other particulars, equally instructive and entertaining, of persons equally notorious. Would it not have been gratifying also to have known who was Sir Joshua's first taylor, on his coming up to London? Mr. Northcote indeed seems to think no one too insignificant to hitch into his book; let a name but come across him, and we are sure to have a birth, parentage, and education.-Facts, however, are not enough; we must have conjectures founded upon them. Thus a Mr. John Astley is mentioned, of whom Reynolds used to say, that Astley would rather run three miles to deliver his message by word of mouth than venture to write a note.' We dare say few readers will care to see this singularity of Mr. John Astley's accounted for: but Mr. Northcote cannot pass such an important thing over so easily. Probably, says he, 'his education had been neglected; however, he afterwards became a very rich man by an advantageous marriage which he contracted with a wealthy lady of quality.' Then he and Mr. Malone get puzzled sometimes. That Reynolds's' sponsorial appellation' was Joshua there is no doubt; but the register of Plympton, has, by some negligence or inaccuracy, deprived him of this baptismal name; for in that record it appears that he was baptised on the 30th of July, and he is styled "Joseph son of Samuel Reynolds, Clerk." What a fine play of fancy follows! It is difficult to account for this error in any other way than that which Mr. Malone has given, by supposing that the name was written originally on a slip of paper in an abbreviated form Jos. son of Samuel Reynolds," and was at a subsequent |