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An Hiftorical and Claffical Dictionary: containing the Lives and Characters of the most eminent and learned Perfons, in every Age and Nation, from the earliest Period to the prefent Time. By John Noorthouck. 2 vols. 8vo. 12s. Cadell.

Mr. John Noorthouck appears not to be the worst book-maker of the times: from a number of errors, however, which he has fallen into, and miftakes which he feems to be unqualified for correcting, we cannot recommend his performance to fuch ftudents as would wish to acquire an accurate knowledge of the lives and characters of eminent or learned perfons. In fome particulars, we must add, Mr. Noorthouck is the less excufable, fince many recent publications and indeed almost all the periodical pamphlets abound in ufeful hints for fuch a dictionary. As it might appear partial or invidious to enter into particulars, we fhall only obferve, that the very publication which Mr. Noorthouck obliquely reprobates, in the conclufion of his account of the great Dean of St. Patrick's, would have afforded him, if he had deigned only to confult the index of it, abundant materials for fupplying the deficiencies of his own book.

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An Efay on the Nature and Caufe of the (fo called) Worm-Fever. By Samuel Mufgrave, M. D. F. R. S. &c. 8vo. 6d. Payne. A judicious practical Effay on a diforder that is frequently imputed to worms, when it proceeds from other causes; particularly from a morbid affection of the bowels, proceeding from improper food, fuch as green fruit, &c.

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Medical Obfervations and Inquiries. By a Society of Phyficians in London. Vol. v. 8vo. 6s. boards. Cadell.

This volume contains near forty articles, many of them refpecting fingular and important cafes in phyfic and furgery, that have come lately under the cognizance of the first practitioners in London.

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A Collection of Plans of the Antiquities of England and Wales. By Francis Grofe, Efq. 4to. 10s. 6d. boards, Hooper A fupplemental volume to Mr. Grofe's antiquities; the more neceflary to perfons poffeffed of that elaborate and elegant work, as perfpective views of building convey to few an adequate idea of its parts and proportions.

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The Diabo-Lady: or a Match in Hell. A Poem. Dedicated to the worst Woman in her Majefty's Dominions. 4to. is. 6d. Fielding and Walker.

An additional inftance, to the many, which have lately offered, of that licentious abuse of the prefs; which makes the trueft friends to its liberty juftly apprehenfive that, fooner or later, fome arbitrary miniftry will argue, from such abuse, against the use of it, and lay it under a defpotic reftraint.

The Diabo-Lady is a counterpart to the Diaboliad; of which we gave fome account in our laft Review. Certain it is that the vices of the prefent age are flagitious enough to afford a plea for the fevereft fatire, if fuch vices were not too flagitious to be the proper object of it. The views of the fatirift should be amendment, not punishment; now there is little reafon to fuppofe perfons fo wicked as to be diftinguifhed by an exaltation to the first rank in Hell, within the reach of refor mation. Again, if the fatirift even means caftigation, and to damn the criminal to fame; he ought to confider whether it be ftrictly poetical juftice to damn even the worst man or woman in his majesty's dominions, in this world and the next too. A true fatirift will give the Devil himself no more than his due.

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Mild Punishment found Policy, or Obfervations the Laws relative to Debtors and Felons, &c. By William Smith, M. Di 8vo. Is. 6d. Bew.

Dr. William Smith here points a number of defects in our laws relative to debtors and felons; to few of which, however, much man, who knows any thing of the matter, and hath paid any attention to the fubject, can be a ftranger. We are forry, notwithstanding, to fay, that we think moft of his remedies inadequate and his expedients futile; particnlarly thote respecting the regulation of public proftitutes: in which there is a degree of feverity very inconfiftent with the spirit of philan thropy generally pretended to by this writer.

The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Efquires. No. 4. Containing Defigns of fome public Buildings. Folio, imperial paper. l. 1s. Becket.

A magnificent work, publifhed in numbers, that does no lefs honour to the taste of the encouragers of fo capital a publication, than it does to the mafterly architects, who are the authors of it.

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Selecta Poemata Anglorum Latina, seu fparfim edita, feu hactenus inedita. Accurante Eduardo Popham, Coll. Oriel, Oxon. nuper Soc. Vol. II. 12mo. 3s. fewed. Dodfley.

This third is, we understand, the laft volume, which the ingenious editor intends to publish, of this collection. We are, by no means fond of modern Latin poetry; there are, neverthelefs, fome excellent tranflations, from our English poets, contained in this mifcellany; which have given us great pleafure in the perufal.

Sermons preached at Lincoln's-Inn, between the Years 1765

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1776: with a larger Difcourfe, on Christ's driving the Merchants out of the Temple; in which the Nature and End of that famous Tranfaction is explained. By Richard Hurd, D.D. Lord Bifhop of Lichfield and Coventry. 8vo. 5s. in boards. Cadell.

Thefe difcourfes are extremely various; fome of them rifing into the perplexities of fcholaftic divinity, and others finking down to the petites morales of the bon ton. In both cafes, however, the ftile and manner of treating them are fuch as might well be expected from the " polished HURD."

Sermons on the following Subjects; viz. The Divine Omniprefence; The Afcenfion of Chrift; The Obligation to fearch the Scriptures; The Blessedness of thofe to whom to live in Chrift, and to die, is Gain; Our Time's in the Hand of God; the Shortnefs and Frailty of Human Life; the Character of the habitually Religious God's crowning the Year with his Goodness. By Thomas Amory, D. D. 8vo. 5s. boards. Buckland.

The fermons, here published, are, in number, twenty; thirteen of which were tranfcribed for the prefs, by the author; the other feven being fuch as had been feparately printed many years ago. They relate to the most important points of fpeculative and practical religion; without entering into difficult and perplexing paffages; about which Chriftians of different denominations fo violently difagree.

The whole Works of Flavius fofephus. Containing, 1. The Life of Fofephus, as written by himself. 2. The Antiquities of the Jewish People; with a Defence of thofe Antiquities, in answer to Apion. 3. The Hiftory of the Martyrdom of the Maccabees; and the Wars of the Jews, with the neighbouring Nations, till the final Deftruction of Jerufalem by the Roman Power. 4. hccount of Philo's Ambay from the Jews of Alexandria_to the VOL. V.

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Emperor Caius Caligula. The whole newly tranflated from the Original Greek. By Ebenezer Thompson, D. D. and William Charles Price, LL. D. N° 1. Price 6d. Fielding and Walker.

In behalf of this publication we have received the following

note:

Gents,

To the LONDON REVIEWERS.

Although it hath not been ufual for the Reviewers to take notice of books published in weekly numbers, they are in general not lefs important or interesting than others; it would be fetting a good example, therefore, for the London Reviewers to take notice of these things, among which none deferves better their recommendation than the new anflation of Jofephus, by the Doctors Thompson and Price: the propofals of which are tranfmitted you, inclofed.

Y'. humble.

Philo-biblius.

In answer to the above, we muft confefs, that the many impofitions on the reader, by the publication of certain books in weekly numbers, call aloud for proper redrefs. At the fame time, as it is a mode of publishing which is convenient to many, it were a pity it fhould not be fubject to proper animadverfion. We have accordingly looked over the first num ber of this new tranflation; but find it differ fo little from the old one by L'Eftrange, that it was hardly worth while for the booksellers to employ (or perhaps to create) two learned doctors on purpose to make a new verfion from the original Greek. We fay create, becaufe, although we have made a very minute enquiry after the doctors Ebenezer Thompfon and William Charles Price, we cannot find any body, but the publishers, who ever heard of their names before.

The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Teftament; with Notes explanatory, critical, and practical, felected from the Works of feveral eminent Authors. Folio. 31. 35. Fry.

Of the notes annexed to this bible little is to be faid, as they are but few, and thofe very concife. As to the Bible itself, we must do the printer the juftice to own, that the typographical execution of it is, as he truly afferts, fuperior to any thing of the kind, ever printed in this or any other nation..

A Sermon preached before the House of Lords, in the Abbey Church of Westminster. By Richard, Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. 4to. Is. Cadell.

The character of Bifhop Hurd is fo well known as a preacher, that we need only fay that the present fermon is by no

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means unworthy of his great abilities, the dignity of his auditors, or the importance of the occafion.

A Sermon preached before the Honourable Houfe of Commons, on Friday, Dec. 13, 1776, being the Day appointed to be obferved as a Day of Solemn Fafling. By John Butler, LL. D. 4to.. Is. Cadell.

An humane and charitable difcourfe, well adapted to the occafion, and worthy of a Chriftian divine.

Sermon, preached before the University of Dublin, on Friday the 13th of December, 1776; being the Day appointed by authority for a General Faft and Humiliation. By Thomas Leland, D. D. Senior Fellow of Trinity College, and Vicar of St. Anne's, Dublin. 4to. Conant.

Among the many fenfible and pious difcourfes, preached on the day of the late general faft, the fermon before us claims particular attention. Our readers will judge from its exor dium.

JUDGES, Chap. xxi. Ver. 2 and 3.

And the people came to the houfe of God, and abode there till even before God, and lift up their voices and wept fore;

And faid, O Lord God of Ifrael! why is this come to pass in Ifrael, that there fhould be this day, one tribe lacking in Ifrael?

"The fpectacle here prefented is interefting and affecting. On this day, we may contemplate it with advantage, fo as to receive inftruc tion. when inftruction feems moft neceffary, from thofe things which happened for examples," and were written for our admonition." "A defperate civil war, commenced between Ifrael and one offend mg tribe, had been carried on with mutual flaughter and various fuc ceis; and clofed in the almoft total excifion of thofe men, who had defied the authority of their national government. The people, how ever provoked at the cffenders, however elated by fuccefs, in the midst of victory, looked back on the havock they had made, in grief and conflernation. In the day of wrath, they had "marched through the Jand, in indignation." Their weapons were red: but they foon reflect ed that it was in the blood of their countrymen and brethren. They were humbled, they were afflicted; they proclaimed a faft; they lay proftrate before the throne of mercy with one voice, with one heart, they poured forth the effufions of a relenting fpirit. Too violently agitated to debate the juftice of their quarrel, too deeply pierced to difcufs the occafion, to condemn the authors, agents, or fomenters of it, they gave free courfe to their remore; they implored the divine affiftance, to close the public breach, to heal thofe wounds their nation had now received, and to difpofe the hearts of all to peace and reconciliation. Such was the conclufion of their civil ftrife.

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