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or, The Danith Invafion,”’ is a very fpi- 
rited performance, in which the charac- 
ters are confiftently fupported. 
The plan and execution of the poet- 
Jaureate’s “* Adelaide” are alike infigni- 
ficant. : 
An interefting work has been publifhed 
on the fubjeét of 
EDUCATION, 
tranflated from the German of M. 
Salzmann, entitled * Gymnaftics for 
Youth,” &c. The author deplores the 
‘ degenerated ftature and fluggith move- 
ments of the modern Germans, and at- 
tributes them altogether to the delicate 
treatment which they receive in infancy 
and youth. He gives an exaggerated ac- 
count of the hardihood and robuftnefs of 
his ancient countrymen, and attributes 
the ftrength and aétivity which diftin- 
guifhed them to the early hardfhips which 
they underwent: {pare diet—the flefh of 
animals, fometimes roafted, fometimes 
raw—{canty covering and laborious ex- 
ercife. The courfe which the author 
prefcribes of exercife for young men is 
exceedingly good, but probably requires 
rather to be enforced in Germany than in 
England. The fports of fchool-boys in 
this country are fufficiently various and 
invigorating. 
Mr. FRANKLIN’s “ Hiftory of An- 
cient and Modern Egypt,” &c. &c. is a 
cheap and very ufeful compilation. We 
believe we may fay the fame of Mr. Sar- 
mon’s “ Hiftorical defcription of Ancient 
and Modern Rome.” 
The author of * Scientific Dialogues” 
has mott fuccefsfully levelled to the capa- 
city of children of ten or eleven years of 
age, the firft rudiments of natural and 
experimental philofophy. This excellent 
little work confifts of two volumes; in 
the firft of which the general principles 
of philofophy, together with the ftruc- 
ture and ufe of the mechanical powers, 
are elucidated: in the fecond is given a 
very intelligent and familiar account of 
the moft interefting fubject of aftronomy, 
The ingenious author propofes, if the 
refent work fhould be encouraged (otf 
which there can be but little doubt), to 
publith four other volumes of a fimilar 
kind, comprifing optics, hydroftatics, 
pneumatics, chemiftry, electricity, and 
magnetifm. 
The Abbé GauLTIeER has publifhed 
the firft partof his s* Method of making» 
Abridgments, or Eafy and certain Rules 
of analyfing Authors :”’ the fecond part 
iS te contain the application of thofe rules 
Retrofpec of Domefic Literature.— Education. 
to various feleétions from thé bef au- 
thors. This work, from the novelty of 
its nature and the felicity of its execu- 
tion, will be highly ufeful. A tranfla. 
tion has alfo appeared from the French, 
of the fame author’s “ Amufing and 
inftruétive Converfation for Children.” 
The title of the following book will 
beft explain its nature and contents, ** The 
World in Miniature: containing a cus 
rious and faithful Account.of the Situa- 
tion, Extent, Climate, Produétions, Go- 
vernment, Population, Drefs, Manners, 
Curiofities, &c. of the different Coun- 
tries of the World, compiled from the 
beft Authorities ; with proper References 
the moft effential Rules of the French 
Language prefixed to the Work, and the 
Tranflation of the dificult Words and 
idiomatic Expreffions.” 
° Mr. DrumMMoND, a gentleman who 
has devoted many induftrious years to 
the too unprofitable tefk of tuition, has 
publifhed for the ufe of young perfons a 
little work of confiderable merit, en- 
titled, “* The young Ladies’ and Gentle- 
men’s Auxiliary in taking Heights and 
Diftances, containing the Ufe of Gun- 
ter’s Quadrant, and the Pocket-cafe of 
mathematical Inftruments for the Solu 
tion of right-angled Triangies, prepa- 
ratory to the Study of practical Aftro- 
nomy.” 
Dr. Mavor’s * Seleétion of the 
Lives of Plutarch abridged,” &c. is an 
ufeful work: Plutarch’s lives are too 
long a compilation for the ufe of fchool- 
boys, and the prefent abridgment is very 
judicioufly executed. 
The public is indebted to Dr. GRE- 
Gory for ** The Elements of a? polite 
Education, carefully feleéted from the 
Letters of the Earl of Chefterfield.” 
This work, in its integral ftate, has been” 
juftly and univerfally objeéted againft for 
the laxity of its morals. Dr. Gregory 
has carefully fupprefled any fentiments 
which might injure or pervert the mora- 
lity of youth; and has by this means 
prefented the rifing generation with a 
book from which more praétical- and be- 
neficial knowledge may be derived than 
from almoft any book of its fize with 
which we are acquainted. 
“© The School-room Party, out of 
School-hours,”’ is a little work which (as 
the title page juftly obferves) will be 
found, for young ladies and gentlemen 
of every defcription, a moft pleafing com- 
panion tothe Leverian Mufeum. 
The “ Memoirs of .Dick the little 
Poney” 
