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a new edition is publifhed of that mine 
of military knowledge, ‘* General Monk's 
Obfervations on Military and Political 
A ffairs.”’ 
AGRICULTURE. 
In Agriculture, the moft important 
publication at prefent before us. is, Mr. 
MARSHALL’s “ Rural Econcmy of.the 
Weit of England.” His reports are 
faithful, and his obfervations made with 
the judicious eye of a philofophical far- 
mey: the work is a valuable addition to 
the author’s former publications of the 
fame kind. Dr. HunTreER, of York, has 
publithed « A New Method of raifing 
W heat, fora Series of Years, on the fame 
Land.” Mr. Linpiey has, ina fingle 
fheet, prefented ‘the public with the 
Plan of an ‘Onchard. im-whieh the 
moft advantageous method of planting 
fruit-trees is laid down, anda full alpha- 
betical lif of fruit-trees is given. ‘Thefe 
who keep horfes for labour or pleafure, 
will find an ufeful abridgement of a work 
of Profeffor St: Bell, under the title of 
“The Sportfman, Farrier, and Shoe- 
fmith’s New Guide.’ Little informa- 
tion is to be had from Mr. DiLLon’s 
s Foreign Agriculture, or, the Ule of 
Oxen in Tillage. 
MEDICINE. 
Medical publications continue to be 
numerous: we fhall barely mention the 
following ufeful: works: Mr. Lara’s 
* Dictionary of Surgery ; ‘* Hints on 
the propofed Medical Reform;’’ Dr. 
SmyrxH’s Account of the Experiments 
made on board the Union Hofpital-fhip, 
to determine the Effeét of Nitrous Acid, 
in deftroying Contagion ;” Dr. Fow- 
LER’s ‘* Medical Report concerning the 
Rheumati{m,’ containing much new 
informaticn; Mr. Brycz’s ** Account of 
the Yellow Fever; Dr. SomMERVILLE’S 
** Memoir on the Medical Arrangement 
neceffary to be obferved im camps ; Mr. 
SuTTON’ ss Fnceculator 4" sand: Dr: 
WoopviLie’s ‘“ Hittory of Inocula- 
tion.” A publication, entitled ‘“* Me- 
dical Extracts,” contains many facts, 
but prematurely attempts to convert me- 
dicine from ‘an art into a fcience. “An 
ufeful affiftant tothe young medical prac- 
titioner, will be found in Dr. NisBeEr’s 
§© Clinical Guide. ° 
LAW. 
The head of Law furnifhes one of the 
moft curious and valuable works in our pre- 
fent enumeration: ‘*T he Inftitutes of Hin-- 
doo Law ,;” a literal tranflation, executed 
under the eye of the late SirW.Jowes, of 
a code of laws which that accurate en- 
quirer found to haye exifted in its pre- 
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fent form about goo years before Chrif” 
and to have been originally promulgated 
at a much earlier period. This code, 
with many childifh and abfurd inftitu- 
tions, unites fuvlime notions of the 
Deity, the doctrine of a future ftate, and 
pure principles of morality, which will 
not fail to render it an objeét of very 
curious and important fpeculation to the 
philofopher, and may probably contri- 
bute more: towards elucidating the an- 
cient hiftory of the Eaftern world, than 
any other Oriental work which medern 
refearch has brought to light. Pafiing 
from this valuable relic of antiquity to 
mcedern books of Englifh Law, we meet 
with the following. new publications ; 
Mr. H. BLacksToONE’s “ Reports of 
Common Pleas and Exchequer, from 
1790 to 17963; Mr. SELLON’s * Prac- 
tice in the Courts of King’s Bench and 
Common Pleas; Mr. Nrcous’s “ Brief 
Expofhtion of the Laws relative to Wills 
and Teftaments.”’ Mr. WatkKINs has 
_publifhed, with valuable notes, a new 
edition of ** Gilbert’s Law of Tenure.” 
The praétice of delivering public lec- 
tures on law is laudably refumed in the 
Seciety of Linceln’s-Inn3 anda * Syl- 
labus of a Courfe of Leéiures,” intended 
to be delivered in their Hall, by M1- 
CHAEL Noxan, Efgq. bas lately been 
publifhed, which promifes confiderable 
benefit to ftudents in law. 
“The Hiftcry of the Trial of Warren 
Haftings, Efq.’’ drawn up, at great length, 
trom authentic documents, is a valuable 
memorial of one of the moft fingular and 
interefting events in the hiftory of the 
Englifh Courts : ameng other trials, have 
‘been publithed, thofe ot Lord Cornwallis 
and the Bifhop of Bangor. . 
HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY. 
The Hiftorical and Gecgraphical de- 
partments, which, in the prefent fketch, 
may be conveniently taken together, af- 
ford few valuable articles. The clafii- 
ca] ftudent will learn, with pleafure, that 
{o able a compiler as Mr. AD Ams, author 
of a late excellent work on Roman Anii- 
quities, has provided *¢ A fummary of 
Geography and Hiftory,” defigned. to 
conneét claffical learning with general 
knowledge, and containing a gieat va- 
riety of ufeful information. We cannot 
encourage cur readers to expeét a full 
folution of the difficulties refpeéting 
chronology, which perplex the ftudents 
of ancient hiftory, from Mr. WALKER’s ~ 
‘ Analvifis of the Searches into.the Ori- 
gin and Progrefs of H:ftorical Time ;” 
a fuller dricuffion of the fubjeét is, how- 
ever, promifed in a fubfequent work. 
A large 
