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of virtue, has publifhed a novel, entitied 
“The Depraved Hufoand & the Philojophic 
Wife,” intended .gs an antidote to Del- 
phine. We highly refpeét the intentions 
of this lady ; but her efforts are fuperfiu- 
ous: the poifon is fo naufeous that it will 
never be {wallowed. The religion of Del- 
phine is as deteftable as its morality. 
“¢ Fulietta; or, the Triumph of Mental 
Acquirements over Perfonal Defects.” 
This is an interetting and inftruCtive 
tale, told in correct and impreflive ‘lan- 
guage 
D> 
“* The Infidel Father,’ is a novel from 
TAINE, and is avery pleafing, well-intend- 
ed performance. 
‘< The Orphans of Llangloed’’ is a mo- 
dern tale of confiderable merit. The 
fame may very fairly be faid of * The 
Black Knight, an Hijftorical Tale of the 
eighth Century.’—** The Lottery of Life; 
ov, the Romance of a Summer,” by Mr. 
LyrtLeron ; Celina; or, Tale of Myftery, 
by Duksay DuMENIL,”’ and a novel, en- 
titled ** Hlame’? may be a put into the. 
hands of perions wha are ac dicted to this > 
fort of reading. sai 
We {hall conclude our notice of novels 
the fermonizing pen of Mrs. Wes'r, and and romances with acknowledging the 
is too ftrongly marked, hike her other writ- amufement we have derived froin a peru- 
Ings, with the fpirit of the Methodilt fal of Miss SLEatTH’s ‘* Who's the Mur- 
febool, derer 2” a novel which evinces in the au- 
Mrs.CHaRLoTrse Smiru has publifhed thore{s confiderable talents. 
two more volumes, 1V. and V. of ** The Mifs Sleath is converfant in Italiah 
Letters of a Solitary Wanderer.” fcenery, which fhe fketches with a warm 
The beauties of this lady’s performances “and animated, pencil; her characters are 
are too well known to be repeated here. well fupported, and are fufficiently uncom- 
The prefent volumes will not be read with- mon to excite intereit. After the pains 
out intereft. which are taken to prevent Varano trom 
‘“« Aftonifhment''!! a Romance of a Cen- being introduced, to the lovely Cecilia by 
tury ago, by FRancis Larxom.” the vigilant de Sevignac, it 1s not a little 
We have before expreffed our opinion fingular and inconfiftent in the latter to 
that Mr. Lathom enjoys confiderable propofe a journey, in which the lovers are 
talents: but his object feems to be to write to be in the perpetual prefence of each 
much, and fo long as this is the cafe he is other? Mis Sleath has a richnefs of lan- 
not likely to write well. guage which does not often iffue from the 
<¢ Attala, from the French of M. Minerva prets. : 
DE CHATEAUBRIANT, with explanatory It is time that we fhould notice the few 
Notes.” books which have lately appeared on 
This little tranflation has been already EDUCATION. 
publifhed, and admired for its intereft and ‘An Effay on Education; in which 
fimplicity : the prefent edition is printed are particularly confidered the Merits and 
with much ‘neatnefs and ornamented with Defects of the Difcipline and Inftruchon in 
beautiful plates by Heath. 
Mrs, MiuuiKin’s * Plantagenet; or, 
Secrets of the Houfe of Anjou,” is vefpecta- 
bly executed. 
our Academies, by the Rev. WiLLIamM 
Barrow, L.L.D. F.A.S. &c. 2 vols.” 
Thefe volumes prefent us with the refult 
of the author’s own obfervation and ex- 
** Monckton; or, the Fate of Eleanor,’’ perience: Dr Barrow has examined the 
4s a novel to which is prefixed a ‘* Ceneral {ubje&t in all its bearings, and difplays a 
Defence’ of Modern Novels. great deal of folid judgment and found 
This is really an Herculean tafk! The tenfe. His work is materially different 
novel itfelf has the merit of mediocrity. in many refpects from thofe of the Edge- 
The fame may be faid of Mifs Marian worths, the Hamiltons, and the Mores, 
Moore’s ** Ariana and Maud.” different as they are from each other. Dr. 
“« Memoirs of a Family in Switzer- Barrow belongs to the old febool, he in- 
land.” dulges himfelf in no fancitul fpeeulations 
_ This is not to be confounded with the —blows no gaudy foap-bubbles. His 
profanum vitlous : the characters are ex- Effay may be read and read over again 
ceedingly well drawn, the incidents well with advantage, 
arranged and natural, and the pureft mo- MifsHaTFieLD haswrittena few ‘* Le?- 
rality is every where inculcated. The ters on the Importance of the Female Sex ; 
author feems to have ftudied human na- with Objfervations ou their Manners and 
ture attentively and with advantage: his Education.” sy 
portraits are drawn from life. We applaud the benevolence of this 
“« The Reprobate’ is a novel tranflated lady’s intention, but can beftow little praite 
from the original of AuGUsrus La Fon- on the execution of her tafk :common- 
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