As to the execution of the work, it is of course a compilation, and seems to have owed but little to Mr. B.'s pen, except a larger proportion of blunders than cominonly occurs even in this branch of the book-making business. We will only give one specimen; and it may fairly be taken as a specimen, for a man, who can commit one enormous blunder, will be almost sure, if he has room enough, to commit a hundred. Under the head of Oratory, Mr. B. says, "Tone of voice teaches us to speak or read so loud as to be heard by those about us. Unless there is some schoolmaster or professor of elocution at Kingston, known by the name of Mr. Tone-of-voice, we really cannot comprehend Mr. Brown's meaning.

Art. XXVI. The Fantoccini, or Great Public Puppet show, as exhibited by Signior Tintaraboloso, described in a Poetical Epistle from Griffith Llewellyn, to his Cousin, Rice ap Shenkins. With illustrative Notes, historical and critical. By the Curate of Aberistwith. 12mo. pp. 91. price 3s. 6d. Maxwell and Co. 1809. W HATEVER ingenuity there may be in this amusing political jeu d'esprit, we can perceive but little utility. The occurren ces and personages to which it seems intended to refer the reader, should rather be made the subject of pensive or courageous animadversion, than the butt of wit or the occasion of levity. So far as it has any moral tendency, that tendency is entirely good. We cannot give a more satisfactory idea of the plan, than our readers will probably deduce from the title. The versification is sprightly, and sufficiently neat. The poem finishes with the following lines:

The curtain now dropp'd, and the man made an ending,

By thanking us all for our patient attending;
And he said, that he hop'd we were all of us willing
To say, he had shewn us enough for a shilling.'

Very true; but unluckily he has charged us three and sixpence !

Art. XXVII. An Address to Christians of every Denomination, particularly to the Society of Friends, on the Duty of promoting the Education of the Poor. By a Christian Friend. 8vo. pp. 35. price 1s. Black and Co. 1809.

THIS publication is not altogether unsuitable for the purpose intimated in the title. It urges several just arguments to demonstrate the peculiar obligation of Quakers to promote the education of the poor; while it strenuously inculcates the importance of educa tion in general, Of its efficacy, we would not be too sanguine in our hopes; but its design and tendency are intitled to the most cordial approbation.

Art. XXVIII. Poems on Various Subjects. By Henry Richard Wood, Esq. 12mo. pp. 128, price 5s. bds. York, Todd; Longman and Co. 1809. POEMS of moderate merit are numerous; but performances of super

lative genius, and publications of extreme imbecility, are almost equally rare. To one of these scantier classes the work before us belongs; and those who are desirous to know which, but unable to guess, must submit to the drudgery of reading it for themselves.

ART. XXIX. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION.

Gentlemen and Publishers who have works in the press, will oblige the Conductors of the ECLECTIC REVIEW, by sending information (post paid,) of the subject, extent, and probable price of such works; which they may depend upon being communicated to the public, if consistent with its plan.

Mr. Bowyer (who some time since published those parts of Sir Robert Ainslie's celebrated collection of drawings which related to Egypt, Caramania and Palestine) has just issued à Prospectus for publishing the remaining parts of that Collect on. The present Work will consist of Views in Turkey in Europe, and will include Bulgaria, Romania, Wallachia, Syria, the islands in the Archipelago, &c. &c. Among them will be a correct representation of the celebrated Temple of Jupiter Ammon at Swah in the Deserts of Lybia, discovered in 1799; some curious and highly interesting delineations of the ruins of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, and a large and accurate View of Constantinople and its Environs. A considerable part of this work will consist of Views in Countries of which there are no other Drawings extant. The present Publication, which will include the whole of Sir Robert Ainslie's unpublished assemblage of Drawings, will be executed in the same style and of the same size as Mr. Bowyer's Views in Egypt, &c.

Splendid editions of Mr. Scott's Poems of Marmion and the Lay of the Last Minstrel, with embellishments from the pencil of Westall, will be published in a few weeks.

tament, handsomely printed in two large volumes octavo, will be published in the course of this month.

New Editions, with considerable and im. portant additions, of Mr. Lawrence's Philosophical and Practical Treatise on Horses, and of his General Treatise on Cattle, the Ox, the Sheep, and the Swine, are in their course through the press.

Speedily will be published, in quarto, printed by Ballantyne, British Georgics, by James Grahame, author of the Sabbath, Poems, &c.

A View of Spain, comprising a Descriptive Itinerary, or Topographical Delineation of each Province, and a general ståtistical account of the Country, including its Population, Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce and Finances, its Government, Civil and Ecclesiastical Establishments, state of the Arts, Science, Literature, its Mappers, Customs, Natural History, &c. &c. by Alexander de Laborde, translated from the French, will be published this Month.

Early in June will be published, price 4s. in boards, (with a portrait of the author) the Life of Joseph Samuel C. F. Frey, Minister of the Gospel to the Jews, written by Himself.

Mr. Frey has also prepared for the press, and will shortly publish by Subscription,

Mr. John Playfair, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, is preparing a second edition with additions, of his Illustrat ons of the Huttonian The-An English-Hebrew Grammar. Price to ory, in quarto, with engravings.

The Earl of Lauderdale is engaged in an Enquiry into the Practical Merits of the System for the Government of India, im.der the Superintendance of the Board of Control.

The Peerage of Scotland, by Sir Robert Douglas, of Glenbervie, Bart. con mued to the present Time, by J. P. Wood, Esq. in two vos folio, is in the press. The first edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage, the result of "the most assiduous application for many years, am a painful inquiry into the public records and ancient chartularies," published in 1764, having become scarce, a new edition of that work is offered to the Public. The Editor states that he has made every endeavour to obtain accurate information in order to complete and correct the work to the present time.

A new edition of Griesbach's Greek Tes

Subscribers, 8s. in boards, to be paid on delivery: the work to contain about 200 pages, 12mo.

Observat ons on the Fungus Haematodes, or Soft Cancer, by James Wardrop, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, is nearly ready for publication. This Work contains the history, and appearance on dissection, of the Fungus Hæmatodes, or Soft Cancer, in several of the most important Organs of the Body; it is illustrated by Cases and Plates.

A Treatise on the Diseases and Management of Sheep, with Introductory Remarks on their Anatomical Structure, and an Appendix containing Documents exhibiting the value of the Merino breed, and their progress in Scotland, will soon appear from the pen of Sir George Stewart Mackenzie, of Coul, Bart.

Sr Brook Boothby, Bart. has in the press the English sop, a Collection of Fables, ancient and modern, in Verse; trauslated, imitated, and original, in two post

octavo volumes.

Mr. Galt is preparing a work illustrative of the Life of Cardinal Wolsey, and those Corruptions in the Church which led to the Reformation, and the general Change which then took place in the Political System of Europe.

The Rev. Melville Horne, Minister of Christ Church, Macclesfield, will shortly publish, in a duodecimo volume, an Investigation of the Definition of Justifying Faith, the damnatory Clause under which it is enforced, and the Doctrine of a direct Witness of the Spirit, held by Dr. Coke and other Methodist Preachers.

Mr. Greig of Chelsea, has announced a work on Astronomy on a new p.an, intended to render that Science more simple and easy. The chief Constellations are to be exhibited on separate Maps, with Remarks,

&c.

lish in quarto, Researches into the Origin and Affinity of the Greek and Teutonic Languages.

Speedily will be published in roya? quarto, the first volume of Hakluyt's Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries of the English Nation, with many curious and valuable Additions which have never appeared in any former Collection. The second volume will appear at the interv of three months from the publication of the first volume.

In the press, The Histo. y of Scotland, by Robert Lindsey, of Pitscotte; edited from ancient and authentic Manuscripts, by John Graham Dalzell, Esq. 8vo. with a Portrait of King James V. from an original Picture.

Dr. Carey has in the press, and will speedily publish, an easy and familiar Introduction to English Prosody and Versification, on a novel, but simple Plan, which he has for some time successfully pursued with his private Pupils, and lately introduced into the Female Seminary at Canonbury, Islington-Besides Descriptions and Analyses of the different species of English Verse, and preparatory Exercises in Scanning, it contains Practical Exercises in Versification, progressively accommodated to the various Capacities of Youth in the successive Stages of scholastic Education; the whole calculated to produce correctness of Ear and Taste, in reading or writing Poetry -For the convenience of Teachers, a Key to the Exercises will be added.

Walter Nicol, Designer of Gardens, Hothouses, &c. Author of the Forcing Fruit and Kitchen Gardener, the Practical Planter, &c. is preparing a Work intitled the Villa-garden Directory, or Monthly Index of work to be done in Town and Villagardens, Shrubberies, and Parterres; with Hints on the Treatment of Shrubs and Flowers usually kept in the Green-Room, the Lobby, and the Drawing Room. Mr. Anderson, Author of a Tour in Zea-Carey is also preparing for the press au land, is preparing for publication, a Dane's Excursion in Britain, to consist of two or three smali octavo volumes.

The Rev. D. Washbourn of Wellingborough, is revising and correcting Bishop Reynolds on Ecclesiastes, &c. which will appear in the course of a few Months.

Sir John Carr has for some time been employed in revising his Poems for the press: they will form an octavo volume, with a fine Portrait from Westall. A few copies will be printed in quarto, the size of Caledonian Sketches.

The Dramatic Works of John Ford, with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes, will soon be published by Henry Webber, Esq. in two volumes, octavo. The same Gentleman is also engaged on a Work, intitled Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, published from ancient Manuscripts, and illustrated by an Introduction, Notes, and a Glossary: this work will make three volumes crown octavo.

Mr. A. Murray, F. A. S. E. and Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, will soon pub

Dr.

easy Introduction to Latin Versification, on a nearly similar plan.

The Crede of Piera! Plowman is printing in a small quarto volume, with a black letter type, the text accurately revised from a collation of the printed copies, and occasionally corrected by an inspection of the existing Manuscript. A Historical Introduction will be prefixed, and the Poem copiously illustrated by Notes etymological and practical.

Archdeacon Illingworth intends to re. publish his Topographical Account of Scampton, with additional Anecdotes and Portraits.

A new edition of Xenophon's Memorabilia, by Boswell, is in the press; to which it is intended to add Socratis Apologia, and the Notes of the last edition of Schneider, and to omit the Latin versión.

In the press, a Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind, in ancient and modern Times, by Robert Wallace, D. D. late one of the Ministers of Edinburgh. Second edition, revised and corrected, by George Wallace, Esq. Advocate, octavo. The arst

Art. XXX. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.