528. 
incorporated a revifion of the following 
works which have appeared upon the fub- 
ject: Obfervations on Modern Gardening 5 
the elegant poem, entitled, The Engli/b 
Garden; the Village Memoirs, a novel, 
containing firi€tures on landfcape garden- 
ing; Walpole’s Zreatife on Medern Gar- 
dening; and Price’s Effay on the Pidtu- 
re/que. An appendix is added on Bowers, 
fhewing them to have been retired cham- 
bers or refidences, and not.arbours, as Mr. 
Walpole fuppofes them to have been. 
Mr. BARRY has publifhed A Levter to 
the Diletianti Society, refpecting the Obten- 
fron of certain Mazters neceffary for the im- 
provement of Public Taffe, and for accam- 
plfoing ihe original Views of the Royal 
Academy of Great Britain. ‘This is the lak 
time that Mr. Barry will fign himielf, 
«’ R.A. Profeffor of Painting to the Royal 
Academy.” it is well known, that his 
“Miajefty has thought proper to erafe, with 
his own hand, the name of Mr. Barry 
from the lift of Royal Academicians! But 
it is not for us.to make comments on a 
meature of this fort. Mr. Barry’s ftvle of 
writing is not the moft courteous and con- 
ciliating ; he ridicules, with a degree of 
afperity not very palatable to the fubjeéts 
of it, the fubfcription formed by indivi- 
duals to learn the Venetian colouring, as 
if ic were dull mechanifm. He afterwards 
enforces, with. much and very honourable 
zeal, the importance of a -colleétion of 
ancient art, that fcholars may attain ex- 
cellence by ftudying the mafter-pieces of 
their predeceffors. Mr. Barry breathes 
an enthuliaftic prayer for the faivation of 
the papal government, as the afylum and 
repofitory of all the arts which humanife 
‘fociety. The pontifical republic at Rome 
he ftyles the ‘ univerfal treafury and 
theatre for the culture and fupport of the 
education of Europe; where throwing 
afide all privilege, rank, and claims of fa- 
mily and primogeniture, every thing was 
devoted to the general promotion of intel- 
Jeét. All its honours, and rewards, its 
mitres, purple hats, and tiara, acceflible to 
all, to every condition, where fuperior 
worth and ability.could be found, diffufed 
fuch a fpixit throughout Europe as was 
beft calculated to wreftle with the brutal 
ferocity of the dark gothic ages, and fooner 
or later could not fail of being attended 
with the’ moft extenfive falutary effeéts.’’ 
fn this letter to the Dilettanti Society, Mr. 
Barry has incorporated fome interefting 
anecdotes of Mr. Burke, Sir Jofhua Rey- 
nolds, Mortimer, Huffey, &c. &c. 
Noe. DEFENnsaNns, Efquire, has pub- 
lithed A Plan, preceded by a flort Review 
Retrofpelt of Domeftic Literature..Lathematics. 
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of the fine Arts, to preferve among us and 
tranfmit to Pofterity, toe Portraits of the 
mofi diftinguifbed Charadiers of England, 
Scotland, an? Ireland, fince his Majefty’s 
Acceffion to the Torone; alfo to give Encou- 
ragement to Britifb Artifts, and to enrich 
and adorn London with fome Galleries of 
Pidtures, Statues, Antiques, Medals, ana 
orber valuable Curiofities, wilbout any Ex- 
pence to Governinent. Mr. Defenfans’ 
plan is to appropriate the Britifh Mufeam 
to the purpofe of receiving portraits of 
eminent men, and fpecimens of art: the 
exhibition to be open nine months in the 
year, and to be infpeéted by the public at 
large on the payment of a fixed fum. He 
is of opinion, that the expence of the in- 
ftitution would be defrayed by the curio- 
fity of the public: this is much to be 
queftioned. An open exhibition of this 
fort, moreover, would almoft of neceffity 
interfere with the retirement of the pre- 
fent Mufeum. Why fhould they have any 
connection with each other? why not 
erect feparate galleries for the admiffion of 
thefe portraits? The hint, however, which 
Mr. Defenfans has thrown out is worth 
attention: that government fhould name 
the fubjeéts who are to be honoured with 
a place in this gallery is, perhaps, excep- 
tionable: government would foon have 
the nomination of the artifts, and the whole 
{cheme wouid prefently degenerate into a 
mere job. _ ; 
M.ConstTANT DE MASSsouUL’s 7réa- 
tife on the Art of Painting, aud the Compo- 
_ fition of Colours, Sc. is a compilation from 
Frefnoy, Depiles, Leonardo da Vinci, 
&c. The object of the prefent publication 
is to inform the public that the original 
author has a manufactory in Bond Street, 
where ladies and gentlemen may be furnifb- 
ed with every artrcle neceffary for painting 
and drawing. From the prefent fubjeét 
we proceed to 
MATHEMATICS. 
Dr. Hurtron, profeffor of »mathema- 
tics in the Royal Military Academy at 
Woolwich, has publifhed, in two 8yvo. vo- 
Jumes, 4 Covrje of Mathematics, which he 
has compofed, and more efpecially defigned, 
for the ufe of the gentlemen cadets in that 
ufeful inftitution. Dr, Hutton’s eminence 
in this branch of {cience has been univer- 
fally acknowledged, and‘the prefent work 
will. by no means derogate from the cele- 
brity which he has foarduoufly earned: the 
objet which he feems to have had chiefly 
in view is fuch an one as muft lay every 
pupil under great obligations to him : it is 
that of tendering eafy and familiar a moft 
difficult and abltrufe fubjeét. The firft 
volume 
