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their taftes. But even the whole of this 
merit, fuch as it is, does not belong to 
the author, as he has laid many preced- 
Ing writers, Voltaire in particular, under 
contribution. No book can be put with 
more adgantaze into the hands of young 
perfons than the Travels of Anacharfis, 
but thofe of Antenor contain fome’ licen- 
tious paffages, which render it unfit to be 
entrufied to them. 
«A Mifcellany by S. WuvyTeE and 
his fon E. A. WuvtTe:” the principal 
article in this colieétion is 2 vindication of 
the charaéter of the late Mr. Sheridan, 
from an attack made on him by Dr. 
Johnfon, probably never meant to be 
made public; but which the indifcreet 
garrulity of Mr. Bofwell had refcued 
from oblivion. 
Mrs. SHERIDAN’S “ Ode to Patience”’ 
has confiderable merit. This mifcellany 
alfo contains an attempt to trace the ftory 
on which the Myfterious Mother was 
founded, to its origin, which appears to 
us very unimportant ; and proves, what 
every body knew before, that Burger’s 
Leonora refembles an old Englifh ballad. 
There are many other articles which 
evince the authors to be men of reading 
and ingenuity, but which we think hard- 
ly of fufficient confequence to entitle 
them to publication. 
“The Royal Tribes of Wales,’ oy 
Parirr Yorke, Efq. of Erthig: this 
is a very fenfible and judicious work ; 
and although parts of it are neceffarily 
dry, it 1s occafionally enlivened by anec- 
dotes and hiftorical information, which 
will intereft the general reader. A cu- 
rious article of this work is the genealogy 
of his prefent majefty George the Third, 
which is traced through all its ftages, up 
to Cadwalader, the laft king of the Bri-. 
tons, by which it appears that he ts the 
right heir in lineal tucceffion to the Bri- 
tifh, Cambro-Britith, Anglo-Saxon, An- 
glo- Norman, Englits and Scottith kings. 
“Fhe Works of Sir Wm. Jones’’ 
occupy fix quarto volumes, and are ‘pub- 
lithed by his widow, who appears to 
have been entrufted with his mann‘criprs 
for the purpofe- of publication. Befides 
thefe MSS. the prefent colleétion com- 
prehends all the works which were pub- 
lithed in the life-time of the author, and 
Lord Teignmouth’s difeourfe, delivered 
before the Atiatic Seciety in Calcutta, in 
May 1794, which gives a very full ao- 
Retro/peet of Dome/ftic Literature... ATi /cellanies. 
count of his enlarged views and literary 
labours. It was our intention to have 
taken av ample notice of this moft {plen- 
did publication: but in turning over the 
pages we have already written, the num- 
der of them alarms us, and we yield reluc- 
tantly to the fummons which commands us 
toretire. It is fcarcely neceflary to add, 
that thefe volumes contain an invaluable 
treafure of eaftern fcience, philology, and 
hittery, and that few can read them with- 
out intereft and advantage. 
The “ Walpoliana’’ ‘form two elegant 
little volumes: thefe anecdotes, &c. col- 
le€ted by a gentleman of the firft tafte 
andtalents, have, many of them, contri- 
buted'to enrich the pages of our journal. 
‘Fo the number, the éditor has now 
added others, together with various frag- 
ments of original letters, chiefly on fcien- 
tific or literary fubjeéts, from the pen 
of Horace WALPOLE, of whom ‘*a 
biographical fketch”” is given “in fu- 
gitive crayons,” which, if we may form_ 
a judgment from the refemblance, was 
certainly drawn from life. Two vign- 
ettes, one of Strawberry-Hill, and the 
other of its noble owner, adorn the title 
pages of thefe volumes, which contain, 
moreover, fac-fimilies of the hand-writ- 
ing of the Earl of Orford and of Mr. 
Gray the poet. a 
We are very glad to find that Major 
OuUSELEY goes on with his ‘* Onental 
Colle@tions :’”’ four more numbers are 
publifhed, which bring the work down 
to December 1797- They contain much 
curious and interefting marter.. . 
The laf publication which we have’ to 
notice is ‘ Panrographia,” by EDMUND 
Fry, Letter - Founder: this fingular 
work contains copies of all the known 
alphabets in the world, with an explana- 
tion in Englith of the peculiar force of 
each letter. In order to avoid {welling 
the book to too great a fize, the author 
confines himfelf to thofe forms alone 
which are in common ufe; omirting thofe 
minute variations which are only found 
in particular infcriptions. He treats very 
litrle of the hiftory of the different alpha- 
bers, referring to thofe authors who had. 
before treated of this point; rhis barrennefs — 
we very much lament. In other refpects 
the work is well executed, and muit have 
colt Mr. Fry great labour and no incon- 
fiderable expence. . 
FRENCH 
