Vor. VI.] 
and deteftable. Such a picture of man- 
kind is unfair, and in our opinion it is 
not very creditable to the author; it is a 
reflection on his Creator. Mr. LLtoyp’s 
*© Edmund Oliver” has confiderable me- 
rit: it is levelled at the Godwinean phi- 
lofophy ; with a fimplicity of ftory, and 
no uncommon coincidence of events, it is 
rendered interefting from the extent 
which pervades it: and what is of infi- 
nitely more difficulty than plot-making, 
the delineation of character. ‘* Derwent 
Priory”? will amute a leifure hour, and 
the fame may be faid of Mr. Parsons’ 
§* Anecwlotes of two well-knéwn Families.” 
“¢ Janthe’’ is the produétion of Mifs 
EMILY CLaRK, grand-daughter of the 
late Colonel Frederick, fon of Theodore, 
king of Corfica: fuch is the fympathy cf 
monarchs and great men, that the defcend- 
ant of the untortunate Theodore is now 
impelled to exercife her talents in fupport of 
herfelf, her fifter, and her mother! - May 
this honourable employment meet the 
reward it merits! Whatever be the faults 
of Ianthe as a compefition, it will intereft 
every man of feeling, from the proofs 
which it difplays of the amiable uncor- 
rupted mind of its young author. But 
fanthe is rather above than below the 
ordinary run of novels. ‘* More Ghojts.”” 
Fair readers, be not frightened: thefe 
Ghofts are conjured up by one of your 
own fex, for objects of inftruétion and 
amufement, not of terror; they are in- 
tended to diffipate the horrors which fome 
of their. hideous, iron-clanking brethren 
! ave excited in the palpitating bofoms of 
young females at their boarding-{chools ; 
and the adventures of fvefe Ghofts lead 
to many juft reflections on the errors of 
education, and the irregularity of the 
pafiions. This novel is written by the 
wife of an officer, who Jabours with her 
pen for the fupport of herfelf and her young 
offspring. ‘ Duffeldorf’”’ is a romance by 
ANNA Maria MACKENZIE, who is a 
very forry imitator of Mrs. RADCLIFFE. 
“¢ The Step-mother’’ is a tale of foine 
merit. Mils Krne’s ** Waldorf” evinces 
genius } it is far from being a novel of 
high merit ; the errors are numerous, but- 
it affords good ground for fufpeéting that 
the author has talents, has taite, and has 
feeling, which, if properly cultivated, 
may enable her to produce fomething of 
a very fuperior kind. Mifs Tomuins’ 
‘© Rofalind de Tracy,” Mr. BELLANCY’s 
<¢ Sadinfki,” .** Geraldinay’ “© Statira,” 
&c. complete the catalocue., We ought 
to fpecity that “ The Caftle of the Rock” 
is not ill written, and that Mrs. Huci.’s 
“* Ifidora ‘of Gallicia,” difplays confider- 
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able invention. It is time that we fhould 
proceed to 
EDUCATION. 
Mrs, Lanprn has publithed ‘ Tie 
Plan of Education” which fhe profefles to 
puriue in her academy in Sloane-ftreet ; 
it is a very extenfive one; the fubje&s of 
her inftruétion are numerous, nor do or- 
namental improvement and external deco- 
ration ufurp an undue proportion of her 
care. Moral and intellectual attainments, 
the graces of the mind, and the affections 
of the heart, are attended to with a be- 
coming preference. If the plan which is 
chalked out with fo liberal a hand be 
fairly and fully adopted—we certainly 
have no reafon to fufpeét that it is not fo 
—then Mrs. LANDEN’s acadeiny is very 
much fuperior to the ordinary boarding-~ 
{chools of the metropolis and its environs. 
Mifs Jonzshas publithed an ‘* Analyfis 
of Education, and Plan of a Seminary for 
Young Ladies ; with the form of morning 
and evening prayers ufed at Sutton-houfe.” 
Thefe fort of publications are extremely 
ufeful to parents, who, before they fub- 
mit a child to the care and education of a 
governefs, are thus enabled to obtain in- 
formation relative to the fort of care, and 
the fort of education fhe is likely to re 
ceive. Mifs Jones fhews herfelf to be a 
woman of good underftanding, and it 
feems to us, that her mode of education 
in general, and the means, in particular, 
which fhe adopts for the government of 
children, are very proper. The courfe of 
jnftruétion which Mr. Evans fketches in 
his “ Effzy on the Education of Youth” is 
liberal and judicious; the fame encomium 
may be paffed on Mr. CarLow’s “ Out- 
lines of a Plan of Infiruction adapted to the 
varied purpofes of adive Life.” Mis. 
Godwin’s ** Leffous for Children” are part 
of a feries which that unfortunate woman 
intended to have written for the inftruétion 
of her daughter: it were fuperfluous te 
enlarge on their excellence. The Abbé 
Gaultier has long fince obtained celebrity 
for his attempts to facilitate the procefs 
of education; his “ Ledures graduées 
pour les Enfaus,” (progrefiive Leffons for 
»Children) will augurent his fame: we 
cannot help thinking, however, vhat his 
{cheme of inftruétion is fomewhat too ar- 
tificial—by which,we mean to be under- 
ftood that it has too much artifice and 
contrivance in it:—we like his funda- 
mental principle, however, of endeavour- 
ing to render inftru€tion a picafure, and 
not atafk to children. Under the head 
of education we may rank the Rev. Mr. 
Gitpin’s ** Moral Contrafts:’ Mr. 
G1xPin has long been known, and long 
7 U been 
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