¥796.] Acriculture et Natural Hiftory 65 Chronolocy, &c. 
cinal Ufe and Produétion of Factitious 
Airs; Dr. Smyth’s “ Defcription of the 
Jail-Diftemper;”’ and, far above the reft, 
Dr. Darwin’s “ Zoonomia,’” a work, 
whofe charagéters are too numerous, and 
Merits too various, to be exhibited in this 
curfory fketch, but which may certainly 
be pronounced one of the moft important 
productions of the age.—In aNATOMY, 
a {fplendid and curicus work prefents it- 
felf, “ Onthe Mechanifm of the Horfe’s 
Foot.”’—-The only work in CHEMISTRY, 
which at prefent claims our attention, 
is a very ufeful “ Diétionary of Che- 
miftry,” drawn up by the induftrious and 
judicious Mr. Nicholfon; unlefs we add, 
Dr. Peart’s inaccurate and obfcure ‘“ At- 
tack upon the new Antiphlogiftic Doc- 
trine.”’—-Without having recourfe to the 
papers of the feveral philofophical fo- 
cieties, an account of which would re- 
quire details too extenfive for our limits, 
we find nothing to report on the head of 
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, but a con- 
cife, intelligible, and practical “* Intro- 
duction to Spherics and Aftronomy.” 
AGRICULTURE. 
The fcience of AGRICULTURE, fo 
imperfeétly underftood, has received fome 
improvement from Mr. Kirwan’s inge- 
nious treatife *‘On Manures,” in which 
the feveral kinds of foil are accurately 
def{cribed,and the immediate caufes of fer- 
tility philofophically inveftigated. Some 
ufeful practical remarks, but without 
much novelty, will be found in ‘“ Eifays 
on Agriculture,” a work chiefly adapted 
to the foil and cultivation cf Lincoln- 
fhire. The monied men may pothibly 
gather fome vufeful information from Mr. 
Harper's “ Obfervations on the North- 
American Land-Company.” 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
To NATURALISTS, Dr. Babington’s 
‘wery comprehenfive and fyftematic “ Ar- 
rangement of Minerals,’’ will be highly 
acceptable: they will alfo be gratified 
by the fecond volume of Lewin’s “ Syf- 
tematic Arrangement of Birds;” -and by 
“<The Naturalift’s Calendar,” with Ob- 
fervations in various Branches of Natu- 
ral Hiftory, extracted from the papers 
of the late ingenious and accurate Mr. 
White, of Selborne, and judicioufly ar- 
ranged by Dr. Aikin. Both the natu- 
raliit and ANTIQUARY will find much 
entertainment in an elegant fet of en- 
gravings, accompanied with defcriptions, 
of “ Remarkable Ruins, and Romantic 
Profpedis of North Britain, with Ancient 
Monuments, and fingular Subjects of 
Natural. Hiftory, by Mr.: Cordiner,”’ 
455 
Abundant amufement and itiformation of 
the fame kind will alfo be found in Mr. 
Ledwich’s ‘* Continuation of Grofe’s An- 
tiquities of Ireland;” and in “ Mifcel- 
Jancous Antiquities,” intended as a Con- 
tinuation of the Topograpbica Britannica. 
The inquifitive diver into the depths of 
Alfiatic lore, may be much afhfted by 
Oufeley’s “ Perfian Mifcellany,”’ a work 
defigned to facilitate the reading of Per- 
fian manufcripts; aad interfperfed with 
curious information. 
CHRONOLOGY. aha 
In CHRONOLOGY, an attempt has 
been made by Mr. Betham, to improve 
upon Anderfon’s ** Royal Genealogies,” / 
in a new fet of ‘ Genealogical Tables 
of Sovereigns,’ a work of manifeft 
utility ; but, from the omiffion of hifte- 
rical minutes, merely a dry fkeleton. 
HISTORY. 
In History, the moft important 
publication which offers itfelf to our no- 
tice, is Mr. Maurice’s Hiitory of Hin- 
doftan. 
diffufe and florid; but the information 
it contains, collected from fources 
dately difcovered, or difficult of accefs, 
may entitle the author to liberal patron- 
age. If he difeovers, throughout, too 
impatient a defire to find a perfe& agree- 
ment between the Indien and the He-. 
bréw antiqu’ _,es, the- intelligent reader 
vill eafily feparate the hiftorian’s fatts 
from the {peculations of the theologian 5 
and, whatever he may be inclined to 
think of the latter, will not fail to fet a 
juft value on the induftrious exertion 
“which has colle€ted and arranged the 
former.— The modern hiftorian will be 
furnifhed with fome vaiuable materials 
towards the hiftory of North America, 
from ‘‘ Interefting State Papers,” rela- 
tive to that country; lately publilhed. 
Much light is caft upon the recent affairs 
of France by Mifs Williams, in her 
«¢ Letters,’ containing fketches of the 
French Revolution. In the four lak 
volumes fhe has drawn a dreadful picture 
of the horrors and miferies produced in 
France by the fyftem of terror; and has 
brought down a ferics of events, during 
which liberty ftood trembling on the 
brink of anarchy, to the eftabliihment of 
the conftitution of 1795. Major Tench’s 
‘© Letters, written in France,” is an en- 
tertaining work, in which the prefent 
manners and difpofitions of the French 
people are delineated with candour and 
difcrimination. 
BIOGRAPHY. 
The moft {fplendid branch of literary - 
hiftory, 
The ftyle of this work is too- 
