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Mr. Woop has now completed his 
«¢ Colleétion of Decrees by the Court of 
Exchequer in Tythe Caufes, from the 
Ufurpation to the Prefent Time ;”’ a com- 
pilation which will be confulted by the 
lawyer and hiftorian with equal advantage. 
Mr. Kyp has publifhed a very ufeful 
«© Arrangement, under Diftin& Titles, of 
all the Provifions of the feveral Aéts 
of Parliament relating to the Affeffed 
Taxes.” 
«The Solicitor’s Inftru€tor in Parlia- 
ment, concerning Eftates and Inclofure 
Bills,” by Mr. Evcis, is an ufeful work, 
containing the ftanding orders of both 
Houfes of Parliament relative to fuch 
Bills, with plain and methodical directions 
for paffing them. uth 
~ Mr, Esprnassz has publifhed a fecond 
volume of ‘* Reports,” &c. from Eafter 
term 1796, to Hilary term 1799. 
Mr. DoNNISON RopeR’s “ Treatife 
upon the Law of Legacies,’ is a book of 
neceffary reference; the fame may be faid 
of Mr..Trpp’s “ Pra€tital Forms.% which 
is tobe confidered as an appendix to the 
author’s Book of Pra€ltuce of the Courts 
of Great Britain. 
New editions have appeared of feveral 
law works: ‘¢ The Crown Circuit Com- 
panion;’’ the ** Reports of Sir Edmund 
_$aunders;”” Mr. Poweuy’s ‘ Treatife 
on the Law of Mortgages;” Mr. Kyp’s 
é6 Treatife on the Law of Awards,” 
€ec. &e. &e. 
PoETRY. 
In this department of literature we 
shight notice a large number of publica- 
tions; ‘but we are forry to fay that the far 
zreater part of them are too poor and in- 
figoificant to merit enumeration. 
Mr. CAMPBELL has given us, in two 
pompous and expenfive quartos, ‘“‘ An In- 
troduction to the Hiftory of Poetry in- 
Scotland, from the beginning of the Thir- 
teenth Century down to the Prefent 
‘Time, together with a Converfation on 
Scotifh Songs.” The title-page to this 
publication prepares us for much curious 
and amufing matter; the author, how- 
ever, does not long keep us in fufpenfe, 
for dulnefs, want of tafte, and grofs igno- 
rance of this fubjeét, foon become evi- 
dent: ‘the Ayle is mean and ungrammati- 
cal, often unintelligible. Mr. Campbell has 
colleéted ainumber of Scotifh fongs, with 
moft of which we have long been ac- 
_ quainted, and has contrived by fome means 
ui other to-fill the pages of two tirefome 
volu mes. 
Mr. PoLwHeLe’s “ Grecian Pro- 
fpects,”’ is a poem which :proves the- au- 
Retrofpect of Demeftic Liter ature—Poeity. 
thor to poffefs a confiderable portion of 
claffical tafte and knowledge, as well as 
information as to the prefent ftate of 
Greece and the Grecian ifles. In endea- 
vouring to avoid any poverty or tamenefs 
of expreffion, the poet, however, is occa 
fionally bombaftic and obfcure. If at any 
future time Mr. P. will fubmit his Gre- 
cian Profpe€ts to a careful and laborious 
revifion, it will hold a refpeétable ftation 
" amidft contemporary produétions. 
«« MifceHanies, by Jas. H. BEATTIE, 
A.M. with an Account of “his Life and 
Character, by James Beattie, LL.D. witt 
a fecond Title, giving it as Volume II. of 
Beattie’s Poems.” We confider the au- 
thor of the Minftrel as one of the moft 
chafte and elegant poets of the prefent 
day ; and from the fpecimens given in the 
prefent volume, it might have been hoped 
that Mr. J. Beartie, with the advantage 
of fuch an inftru€tor, would in time have 
emulated his father’s celebrity. This 
amiable young man, however, was fum- 
-moned away at the age of twenty-two, 
leaving ‘behind him, uncorreéted, thofe 
mifcellaneous marks of genius, which the 
afflicted father, with a partiality not to be 
cenfured, has thought worthy to be pub- 
lithed in'conneétion with his own elegant 
effufions. The volume now prefented to 
the public confifts of various pieces, Latin 
and Englifh, fome in verfe, fome in profe, 
fome humorous, and fome grave. They 
certainly fhow confiderable abilities, 
though we cannot confider them as en- 
titled to'fo high a rank on our fhelves as 
Dr. Beattie has raifed them, by unitin 
them with his own compofitions. 
frs. Monrouieu’s ‘ Enchanted 
Plants,” are a colleétion of fables in verfe, 
py the means of which this lady has ex- 
hibited with much effe& the various paf- 
fions, jealoufy, love, envy, ambition, &c. 
which agitate the human heart. Her en- 
chanted plants are endued with reafon, 
fenfibility, and the power of fpeech ;“and 
through them are thefe moral leffons with 
much delicacy and elegance imparted. 
A very elegant tranilation has appeared 
of “Fables by the Duke of Nivernois ;”” 
the originals of which have long been very 
juftly celebrated for their delicacyand point . 
‘©The Farmer’s Boy,’ arural poem, by 
Ros. BLOOMFIELD, isa moft rare in- 
(tance of uncultivated genius. Robert was 
himfelf the Farmer's Boy, whofe labors he 
has deéferibed with fuch poetical embellifh- 
ment and correétnefs. His father, it 
feems, diéd when he was an infant, leay- 
ing a widow and fix children: Robert 
was two or three months only at fcheol to 
a ae ~ Jearn 
