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mixes up incidents of the most horrid and 
improbable nature. We quote an example: 
“ There stood within a square a bloody man, 
Who with bar’d arm was brandishing an axe ; 
His fellows round laugh’d merrily to see 
How at a blow he had beat out the brains 
Of one who begg’d him slay him.—One by one 
They day upon the earth ; and he struck out 
Their brains—and still the standers by laugh’d 
loud 
And came to die in turn, till all were slain 
Save the blood-spatter’d slayer.” 
Such scenes as these are neither awful nor 
affecting', but can only shock and sicken 
the reader. The whole poem is in the same 
spirit of exaggerated and overwrought 
effect. The poem of Abradates and Pan- 
thea, which follows, has more merit; and 
proves that the author possesses talents of 
a very respectable order. 
Mr. Hone has produced another of those 
political and moral satires which will ever 
rank as chefs cTouvres, and which are al¬ 
together sui generis. His Butt is the ultra¬ 
royalist conductor of a Tory newspaper, 
known by the name of Dr. Slop ; and who 
appears to merit the severe castigation he 
has received, not merely for his violence, 
but for his tergiversation. But the satire 
applies generally to all the political and 
theological pharisees of the time, and can¬ 
not fail to be attended with the happiest 
effects. 
We have been much interested by a 
little pamphlet, entitled Brief Observa¬ 
tions on the present State of the Waldenses , 
^c^by G. Lowther, Esq. It will be re¬ 
collected by our readers, that the Wal¬ 
denses, a protestant sect inhabiting- a dis¬ 
trict of Piedmont, were the first body of 
separatists from the Papal supremacy, 
after the schism between the Greek and 
Roman churches. The present account is 
the fruit of the author’s personal researches, 
and we may confidently rely on its accu¬ 
racy. We regret that he has not given us 
a connected view of the origin and progress 
of this sect, whi ch would be highly inte¬ 
resting and instructive as the first link in 
the history of Protestantism. 
ANTIQUITIES. 
Part I. of Antiquities of Ionia, published 
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AGRICULTURE. 
Part II. of Essays on Practical Husbandry, 
and Rural Economy ; by Edward Burroughs, 
esq. 2s. fid. sewed. 
A View of Agriculture, Manufactures, Sta¬ 
tistics and state of Society of Germany and 
parts of Holland and France; by William 
Jacob, F.R.S. 4to. 11. 15s. 
ASTRONOMY. 
The Elements of Astronomy, with Methods 
for determining the Longitudes, Aspects, etc. 
of the Planets for any future time ; and an 
extensive set of Geographical and Astrono¬ 
mical Problems on the Globes; by S. Treeby, 
18mo. 3s. fid. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Lackington’s New General Catalogue of 
Books. 2s. 
Messrs. Clarke’s Catalogue of Law and 
Miscellaneous Books for 1821. 3s. 
BOTANY. 
The Elements of Physiological and System- 
atic Botany; by T. B. Stroud. 
The British Botanist; or, a Familiar In¬ 
troduction to the Science of Botany, 15 plates 
12mo 7s. 6 d. plain, 10s. 6 d. coloured. 
CLASSICS. 
The Medea of Euripides, literally translated 
into chaste English prose, with the Greek 
text of Person, the metres, Greek order, Eng¬ 
lish accentuation and notes; by T. W. C. 
Edwards, M.A. 
Select Translations from the %eek of 
Quintus Smyrnceus; by Alexander Dyce, A.B. 
small 8 vo. 5s. fid. 
COMMERCE. 
The Commercial Guide and Continental 
Negociator; being an accurate companion of 
Weights, Measures, and Monies—also a To¬ 
pographical description of every principal 
Port on the Continent, and a Treatise on 
Exchanges, <fec.; by James Sheppard, with 
3 maps, 8 vo. 12s. boards. 
DRAMA. 
A Squeeze to the Coronation, an Operatic 
Farce, in one Act; by James Thompson, 
esq. 2 s. 
EDUCATION. 
The French Speaker; or, tire Art of Speak¬ 
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the Phraseology and Literature of the Lan¬ 
guage, accompanied by a Selection of Idioms, 
and Instructions for conducting Epistolatory 
Correspondence; with suitable Specimens, 
and a Dictionary of Synonymes ; by M. S.A. 
Simeon, 12mo. 8 s. fid. bds. 
An Irisk-English Dictionary, with copious 
Quotations from the most esteemed Ancient 
and Modem Writers, to elucidate the meaning 
of obscure words: and numerous compari¬ 
sons of the Irish Words with those of similar 
orthography, sense, or sound in the Welsh and 
Hebrew Languages; to which is annexed a 
Compendious Irish Grammar; by Edward 
O’Reilly, 4to. 21. 12s. 6 d. bds. 
An Introduction to the French Grammar; 
or, the Accidence of that language made easy 
with gradual exercises on every declinable 
part of Speech, intended to prepare the pupil 
for the study of the French Syntax; by J. B. 
Mallett, 18mo. 4s. half bound. 
Tales of the Academy. 2 vols. 18mo. 6 s. 
half bound. 
A Greek and English Manual Lexicon to 
the New Testament, with examples of the 
Irregular Inflections, &c.; by J. H. Bass. 4s. 
Lives of Learned and Eminent Men, taken 
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of Children of four years old and upwards. 
18mo. 2 s. 6 d. half bound. 
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the double object of qualifying Students to 
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