518 Retrofpet of Domeftic LiteratureEducation.. Mifcelantes. [Sur 
Hugh Trevor;? the dialogues are fup- 
ported «with the: fame vivdcity’as in the 
. former, and the fentiments are expreffed 
with the fame ftrength and terfenefs: nor 
has Mr. Holeroft’s invereracy ‘againit 
eftablifhments in’ any degree fubfded. 
«“ Love at firft fight !’’—but five volumes 
of it are rather too many.~—Mirs: Gunning 
has trafflated this novel from the French, 
with “additions and alterations: here are 
plenty of plots, and love-fick lafles with- 
eut end! Mrs. Gunning’s fiyle is eafy 
and natural; and it is acknowledged that 
fome of the charatters are finguiar and 
friking. » “ Jofceflina,” by Ifabella Kelty, 
affords. rapes, robberies, and murders, in 
delightful abufdance, swith the mott 
eharming variety. of horrors imaginable ! 
«The Church of St. Siffid’ is a well- 
written. and incerefting work, but fome- 
what diffufe; the former part of this 
obfervation will apply ro Mrs. Charlron’s 
« Andronica,”’ Dwo novels have been 
tranflated from the French of Dideror, 
with confiderable vivacity, ‘The Nua,” 
“and “ James. the Fataliit:’’ an each of 
thefe works are fome mafterly delineations 
of chara€ier,, but the pen of Diderot is not 
remarkable ror as chaftity. ** The Count 
de Santerre,”. abounds with high-wrought 
defcriptions, and although the incidents 
are confufed and extravagent, it fhows a 
capability in the “ Lady” whe wrete it, 
for a fimpler end lefs exceptionable per- 
formance. Among the vaft number of no- 
vels and romances which “crowd upon 
our fight,’ may be feletted as a work of 
inftruétion and entertainment, “ A Gof- 
fip’s Story and a Legendary Tale :”— 
«« Henry Somerville’ is cowfiderably above 
the ordinary: run of novels, and the “* Let- 
ters of Madame de Montier, collected by 
Madame. Le Prince de Beaumont” have a 
reoral and inftructive tendency ; they are 
neatly tranflated. by Mifs Newman. 
«« Clara Duplefis and.Clairant,” is a tranf- 
jation from the. German, and like other 
German produétions, is more remarkable 
for wild and. fantaftic imagery, than 
found fenfe or-moral tendency, 
ee EDUCATION. 
-The merited ceiebriy of Dr. Darwin 
will excite an.univerfal defire to perufe 
his “ Plan for. the Conduét of Female 
Education in Boarding Schools.” The 
doftor’s work is written in a -plain and 
perfpicuous ftyle ; ic embraces an exren- 
five variety. of objeéts, connected with the 
moral and polite accomplifhments of young 
ladies, nor has he negleéted to enforce the 
neceffity--of~ philefophical and-literary” at- 
guirements, to the completion of his pu- 
pils: As. would naturally be expedied, 
health and corporeal habits are the fubjeé 
of minute attention. In “ Mental Amufe- 
ment,” effays, allegories, und ‘tales, are 
employed to inculcate humanity ahd con- 
vey inftruétion. “Mr. Lindky Murray’s 
* Englith Exercifes,” may fairly be re- 
commended as affifting to the ‘aéquifition 
of an accurate and feientific knewledge of 
our language. Mr... Browne’s “ New 
Claflical Dictionery,”” may be conSidered as 
an abridgement of Lempiere’s: but this 
latter furely was fufficiently concife > It is 
the laudable obje& of ** Dialogues in a 
ibrary,” to-conneét the ftudy of natural 
philofophy with the doéirines of revealed 
religion ; they are written in an eafy, in- 
telligible, and emufing manner. A very 
ufeful introduétion to the fludy of entemo- 
logy mav-be found in “ A fhort Biftorv 
of infeéts,extraéted from works of eredit ?” 
to each order ts annexed a plate, contain- 
ire one fpectmen of every genus;of which 
latter; a {hort account is given, and the 
moft remarkable infe€ts are enumerated, 
which belong to it: A great number of 
books are continually publifhing, princi- 
Paliy by emigrants, as introduéticns to the 
ftudy of the French language. The Abbé 
de Leizac’s ‘* Art de- parler et d’écrire 
correG&i:ment la Langue Frangoife,” is te 
be felc€ted from the’ mafs, «as ‘a work of 
peculiar merit and utility. The Abbé has 
unfolded the principles vf grammar, in a 
moft criticelt- and) fctentific manner: he 
writes a per{picuous ftyle, and difplays ne 
common fhare of tafte and difcernment. 
MISCELLANIES. 
Some few publications of confiderable 
merit, are of a nature which could not pro- 
perly be arranged underany of the preced- 
ing beads. Dr. Dawfon’s ** Prolepfis Phiio- 
loy:z Anglicane’; or Plan of a Philologicat 
and Synonimical Diétionary ef the Englith 
Langvage,” is an. ingenious ~ perform- 
ance, well meriting attention! As it is. 
quite. impoflible to:convey.an adequate faea 
of the plan which this mgenious philolo= 
gift in bis preliminary pamphlet has laid 
down to be purfzed in> the. diétionary 
which he announces, without offering ar 
extract, and entering on the fubje&t mere 
minurely than is confiftent with the bird’s- 
eve view Of literature which we profefs te 
afford; it is only in our power, to: tate, 
that the deétor’s objeé& 1s to-correétythac 
inaccuracy in the ule of terms which con- 
founds our ideas, and is the.parent of ever=: 
lafting difputions, by reducing words as in- 
botany, entomology, and other branches of 
“natural hiftory, to their refpective genera 
and /pecies, and by offering definitions, 
ev which 
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