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en it with difcernment and -good fenfe. 
“ The Refuge” is written by the author 
of the ** Guide to Domeftic Happinefs,”” 
who. in this, as in his former work, dif- 
plays much good fenfe and cbfervation. 
“ A Prefent for a little Gil” is neat, 
and, no doubt, will be an acceptable vre- 
fent to the young people for whom it is 
intended. The cuts are executed with 
unufual neatnefs and accuracy. The 
** Youth’s Mifcellany” confifts of original 
effays, moral and literary; they are in- 
tended “to promote a love of virtue and 
learning, to correét the judgment, to im- 
prove the tafte, and to harmonize the 
mind.” It is fufficient to fay, that they 
are well calculated to promote the import - 
ant opjeéts which the author profeffes to 
have in view. | Mrs. PILKINGTON’s 
** Obedience rewarded, and Prejudice 
conquered,” is an wfeful little work. 
‘© The New Children’s Friend” is tranf- 
fated chiefly from the German, and cor- 
sefponds more completely than common 
with its utle page, which announces the 
volume to contam ‘ pleafing incitements 
to wifdom and virtue, oP ed through 
the medium of anecdote, tale, and adven- 
ture; calculated to entertain, fortify, 
and improve the juvenile mind.” Mrs. 
SAUNDER’s ‘Little Family” is a work 
of very confiderable merit ; 1t blends, as 
all books for children fhould do, inftruc- 
tion with amufement and morality. It 
may pollibly be objected, that fome of 
Mrs. S’s obfervations are too refined for 
the comprehenfion of children in general. 
“* Moral Biography ;”’ a wretched per- 
formance, propofes to’ give the lives of 
perfons eminently diftinouifhed for their 
virtue and talents: it is ‘deficient in lan- 
guage. fentiment, and anecdote. “ Paf- 
toral Leffons’’ are intended as an accom- 
companiment to Mrs. BarRBAULD’s 
** Hymns in Profe,” to which, however, 
they are by no means equal. 
Our readers will, perhaps, be relieved 
to fee, that we are, at laft, come to the 
fubjeét of Mifcellaneous Literature. 
After which they fhall receive a re{pite 
of fix months. 
MISCELLANIES. ' 
Among ‘the mifcellaneous publications 
is to be diftinguifhed, as a werk of claf- 
fical- merit, the fecond volume of Mr. 
UvEDALE PRICE, on the “> Piétu- 
| {que, | and on the Ufe of ftudying Pic-, 
tures, for the Purpofe of improving real 
Landf{capes 3”? this latter fubje ect is very 
warmly inculcated, and is never once loft 
ficht of throughout the whole work. 
Mott ef us recelle&t, that, in the frit yo- 
Retrofped of Domeftic Literature.—Mifcellanies. 
‘ther. 
[Sup. 
lume, Mr. P. fucceeded in proving the 
piturefque. to poffefs as diftingt and ex- 
clufive a charaéter, as either the Yablime 
or the beautiful. Its moft efficient caufes 
were ftated to be roughnefS, intricacy 
(which implies fudden and unexpected 
varlation), and irregularitv. Thus 
holds a fort of middle ftation between 
beauty and fublimity, and is evidently 
founded o# principles oppofite from e7- 
Beauty, on fmoothnefs, cn foft, 
undulating outlines, on owing forms, 
and almoft infenfible variation ; on ideas 
of frefhnefs and of youth. The piétu- 
refque, in addition to the conftituent 
principles already mentioned, is founded 
on ideas of age, and decay. Fhe fub- 
hime alfo, although it pofeffes fome pro- 
perties in common with the picturefque, 
difers from it in many efiential points ; 
in greatnefs of dimenfion, ideas of infi- 
nity, eternity, darknefs, terror, ftillnefs, 
and in many other qualities, which are 
feparately the foundation of fublimity, 
but of which not one enters xeceffarily 
into the compofition of the picturefque. 
From this enlarged view of the fubjeét it 
appears, that the word piéturefque is not 
to be narrowed in its application, and con- 
fined, as its etymology might indicate, to 
thofe objeéts alone which may be reprefent- 
ed with effeét on the canvais. Far from 
it : a piece of mufic, light and ptayful, with 
fudden unexpected variation in point of | 
time and key, &c. may be called pitiue 
réfgue with equal accuracy, as 
That ‘rich ftream” which‘ winds along,”* 
"4 Deep, majeftic, {mooth, and ftrong,” 
may be denominated /ublime ; or the foft, 
melodious melancholy of a Scotch air, 
ge The application of piétur- 
e{quenefs to poetry, the lyric particularly, 
in oppofition to the /ublimity of the ode 
and the epic, or the polifhed beauty of the 
fonnet and the elegiac meafure, is obvi- 
ous, and equally correét ; as alfo is its 
application to the different objets of art 
and nature, fuch as trees and ‘waterfalls, 
buildings, birds and beafts, &c. 
Mr. Price’ s fccond volume contains 
three effays, full farther iliuftrative of the 
fubjeét, and explaining the mode of re- 
ducing to praétice the theory of his former 
voiume. The firft cflay is on artificial 
water, and on the method-in which pic- 
turefque banks may be praétically formed. 
In order to gain a jut i idea how the banks 
of artificial pieces of water fhould be 
formed, Mr. P. molt judicioufly begins 
with enquiring how thofe of natural 
lakes and rivers are formed. This is 
quite a novel enquiry; at leaft the ap- 
plication 
