Retrofpedt of Domeftic Literature,— Medicine, Surgery, €c. 
TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES, 
_ Mr. Kune has publiffred a fecond vo- 
kame of his “* Munimenta Antiqua :"— 
this very learned and elaborate continua- 
tion partakes of the character which dif- 
tinguifhed the work in its commencement, 
and of which we took notice on a former 
occafion.—[ Monthly Mag. Vol. X, 604.] 
it is a curious and valuable produstion, 
and whatever eccentric opinions the author 
may have occafionally introduced, he will 
éver be eniitied to the thanks of the pub- 
lic for the learning and labour which he 
has befiowed im the examination of ancient 
culties in Great Britain, and the invettiga- 
tion of the progrefs of its architecture, 
ecclefiaftical as well as military. 
‘¢ An Hiftory of the original Pari(h of 
Whalley, and Honor of Clitheroe, in the 
Counties of Lancaiter and York. By 
THoMas DuNHaM WHITAKER, LL.D. 
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, with | 
Maps and Plates.” The plates are: exe- 
cuted with great tafte and elegance : as to 
the volume—mercy on us! itis a huge 
one— 
—— Ingens—cui lumen ademptrm! 
‘¢ The Hiftory of Bath, by the Rev. 
RicHarp WARNER.” 
many lit le excurfions with this gentleman, 
and have ever found him an inftructive, 
as well as a mo(t agreeable companion.— 
The prefent volume is extremely intereft- 
ing: but the Antiqudrians fay that Mr. 
Warner is not fteady enough to walk up- 
on their flippery ground : he has loft his 
balance feveral times. 
_ “© Glig Gamena Angel-Deod ; or, the 
Sports and Paftimes of the People of Eng- 
land: including the roral and domeftic 
Recreations, ‘May-games, Mummeries, 
Pageants, Proceflionsyand pompous Spec- 
tacles, from the earlieft Period to the pre- 
fent Time. Illuftrated by Engravings 
felected from ancient Paintings; in which 
are reprefented moft of the popular Diver- 
fions. By Josepy Strut.” This is 
a very curious work: from miniature 
paintings !n manuferipts, and from other 
fources, Mr. Strutt has given us a very 
diftinct idea of the manners and amufe- 
ments, and con‘equently of the characters 
of our forefathers ; for, as he properly ob- 
ferves, ‘ In order to form a jut eftimation 
of the character of any particular people, 
it is abiclutely neceflary to invefligate the 
{ports and paltimes moft generally preva- 
lent ameng them. War, policy, and other 
contingent circumftances, may effectually 
place men, at different times, in different 
points of view ; but when we follow them 
tato their retivements, where no dilguile is 
We have taken” 
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neceflary, we are moft likely to fee them 
in their tue ftate, and may belt judge of 
their natural difpofitions.” The work he- 
gins with a copious introduétion, in which 
the author goes fo far back as to recount 
the games and amutfements of the Anglo- 
Saxons: the boly of the work itflf is di- 
vided int» four ports. 1. Rural Exercifes 
practifed by perfons of rank; 2. Rural 
Exerciles generally practifed; 3. Paftimes 
ufually exercifed in towns and citics, or 
places adjoining to them; 4. Doneftic 
Amufemen‘s of varous kinds, aiid paftimes 
appropriated to partcular fealoas. There 
is alfi an appendix, conta ning an account 
of the manufcripts from which the plates 
have been taken. 
MEDICINE—-SURGERY, &c. 
It was the cuftom of that venerable prac- 
titioner Dr. Heberden, to note down the 
circumftances of every cafe ‘which he at~ 
tended, and record its progreffion, as well 
from the patient’s own account, and that 
of his attendants, as from his own obfer- 
vations. Thefe rough notes were care- 
fully perufed about once a month, and 
fuch particulars as were impertant, and 
likely to be ufeful, he transferred into 
another book, and arranged them under 
the tities ef the re{peétive dileafes to which 
they belonged. From this book he com- 
piled, in the 72d year of his age, thofe 
valuable commentaries on the hittory and 
cure of difeafes, which have been recently 
publifhed in a pofthumous volume, by 
Dr. WiL.LIAM HEBERDEN. From a man 
whofe m:dical knowledge was kept alive 
and in action by very extenfive practice, 
and who, to a folid judgment, united the 
utmoft accuracy of obfervation, much is 
to be anticipated; and, certainly, the 
“© Commentarit de Morborum Hiftoria, 
et Curatione,”” will not difappoint the 
general expectation. ‘ 
“© Obfervations on the Increafe and 
Decreafe of different Dileates, and parti- 
cularly of the Plague, by W. HeBeRDEN, 
jun. M. D. &c.” It is obvious that the 
weekly bills of mortality, to whatever 
imperfection they may be fubje&, muft be 
tthe fourdation on which alone fuch an 
enquiry 2s the prefent can be inftituted.— 
From thefe bills Dr. H. has drawn fome 
important deduétions. More perions have 
died by the fmail-pox fince the introdac- 
tion of inoculation than before, in a pro- 
portion of about five tofour. It appears, 
notwithftanding, from the printed accounts 
ot the Small-pox Hofpital, that, while by 
the natural {mall-pox there dies one in 
fix, from the inoculated fmall-pox three 
hundred and ningiy- ning out of four hun- 
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