Literary Journals. 47 



It would swell this paper too much to give a list of the seve- 

 ral books which are reviewed in this monthly publication ; but 

 it may be said that each number contains the account of one or 

 more valuable works, which it is not likely will be found to 

 be reviewed in any other journal. It also contains some bio- 

 graphical notices, the first of which is an account of the life 

 of the Reverend Thomas Brande, by Dr. Samuel Annesley ; 

 and each number closes with a chapter entitled " News of 

 Learning," containing literary intelligence from various parts of 

 Europe. 



Each number has a neat title-page, with a curious wood cut 

 upon it, representing a full-length portrait of the editor (a Lon- 

 don divine) in a garden, with a bee-hive, and the bees regaling 

 themselves with the flowers. On the top of the print is the 

 motto " Sic nos non nobis mellificanms apes," and beneath it this 



couplet, 



All plants yield honey, as you see. 



To the industrious, chymic bee. 



In a corner of the same print is seen a student writing in a 

 library, with this motto over his desk, " Omnia in libris." 



In the third volume this print is omitted, in consequence of 

 the London divine having given up the editorship, and a print 

 of a large Raven, copied from John Dunton's sign in the 

 Poultry, is substituted. 



IX. 1692. " The Gentleman's Journal; or, the 

 Monthly Miscellany, consisting of (literary) news, history, phi- 

 losophy, poetry, music, translations, Sfc, to be continued 

 monthly." London, printed, and are to be sold by Richard Bald- 

 win, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-lane. This work is in 

 small quarto, and was regularly printed monthly, until three 

 volumes were completed, one volume in each year. The first 

 number bears the date of January 169|. The editor was Peter 

 Motteaux. I conceive this book must now be very rare, for 

 it is evident that Chalmers did not know it, or he would have 

 mentioned it in his " Life of Motteaux." The title-pages of the 

 latter numbers have a neat wood-cut of a bunch of flowers, with 



