Retrofpec? of Domeftic Literature—Mifcellanies, 
and an arrangement of them into claffes, 
“orders, genera, and fpecies. The fecond 
part confifts of philotophical obfervations 
and inquiries founded on the preceding 
analyfis. Wesecommend this work to 
the attentive perufal of him who fee's.a 
with to be initiated in that moft impor- 
tant of all {ciences, the knowledge of him- 
felf. 
«© The Mifcellaneous works of Hucu 
Boyp, the Author of the Letters of Ju- 
nius; with an Account of his Life and 
Writings, by L. D. CaMPEELL.” It 
certainly required no {mall portion of mo- 
dett affurance, to affert peremptorily in the 
title-page a fact, which, after a perufal of 
Mr. Campbell’s attempts at proving, full 
appears highly queftionable. The direct 
proof which Mr. Campbell has been ena- 
pled to bring is very flight, and whatever 
force it may have, we think it is fet afide 
by the internal evidence of Mr. Boyd’s 
writings. Junius could never have writ- 
ten the Freeholder, and the Indian Ob- 
ferver. 
«¢ The Fir Principles of Field-fortifi- 
cation; tranfiated from the German of 
Struenfee, by Captain WiLLiam Nico- 
tay.” Inthis work, we are prefented 
with the whole fcience of field-fortifica- 
tion: indeed few works contain fo much 
matter in fuch fmall compafs: the tran- 
flator is intitled to the thanks of the En- 
glifa public. hah 
«© The Complete Military Library.” 
This f{plendid work is comprehended in. 
two large,volumes, quarto, decorated with 
upwards of eighty copper-plates, confift- 
ing of the coloured uniforms of all the 
Britifh army, of maps of the’Britifh fettle- 
ments abroad, of plans of celebrated for- 
tifications, of battles, of fieges, of manceu- 
vres, &c. &c. price four guineas and a 
half in boards ; and is a comprehenfive 
fyftem of modern military ta€tics, accord- 
ing to the laft improvements and regula- 
tions, foreign and domettic ; felected and 
tranflated from expenfive, {carce, and va- 
luable books and journals in the German 
and French languages ; or communicated 
by officers of rank and experience in the 
Britith fervice. ‘i - 
‘s A Defence of the Profeffion of an 
A&tor.” There is fomething irrefiftibly 
ridiculous in the pompofity of this pam- 
phiet ; the author certainly needs no aflu- 
rance from us, that an actor, who per- 
forms his or her private as well as public 
characters with refpeftability and eclat, 
will at all times be received and courted 
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by the moft polifhed and beft fucies 
ty. 
. Mr. Joun STEVENS, in the fervice of 
the Eatt India Company, has publifned 
a very ingenious ‘¢ Method of Afcertain~ 
ing the Latitude in the Northern Hemi- 
fphere, by a fingle Altitude of the Polar- 
ftar, at any Time, with Tables computed 
for that Purpofe.”’ 
Sir Tuomas FRANKLAND’s ¢¢ Cautions 
to Young Sportfmen’’ have for their be- 
nevolent object the prevention of thofe 
- dreadful accidents which arife from care- 
leffnefs in the ufe of fire-arms. 
«¢ The Principles of Englifh. Farriery 
vindicated ; containing Strictures on the 
erroneous and long exploded Syftem, lately 
revived at the Veterinary College ; inter- 
fperfed with curfory Remarks on the 
Syftems of Solleyfell, De Saunier, La 
Fofle, &c. &c. in which is fully difplayed 
the Superiority of Englith Farriery over 
that of Foreign Nations ; by Joun Lane, 
A.V. P. late of the Second Regiment 
of Life Guards.’? However good the 
wine may be, of which, in the prefent 
inftance, we confefs ourfelves incompetent 
to judge, it muft be confefled that the 
author has thought it neceflary to difplay 
the bufb. oi 
Mr. Wawnsety has communicated to 
the public fome “¢ Thoughts on Poor- 
Houles, with a, View to their general Re- 
form, particularly that of Salifbury, &c.?* 
They are evidently the refult of much re- 
flection and experience. 
Mr. Wansey’s ‘* Hints, refpe@ing 
the Education of Children in a Work- 
houfe’’ are particularly valuable, and, ins 
deed, the whole of his pamphlet well 
merits attention. 
Count TuivitLe has written “ An 
Effay on the Means hitherto employed for 
Lighting Streets, and the Interior of 
Houles ; and on thofe which may be fub- 
ftituted with Advantage in their Snead.” 
The object of this author is to increafe the 
effects of light, and diminith its expence. 
Alter a free ule of fcientific words, and a 
wery learned account of the caufes why 
our lamps in the ftreets of the metropolis 
emit lefs light than they might be made 
to do, without any additional expence, the 
Count ftates his own {cheme of ijlumina- 
tion, which is illuftrated by a variety of 
figures, and of which we underftand that 
an aétual trial is now making by order of 
the Magiftrates. His fchemeis this: in- 
ftead of {pheres or portions of {pheres em- 
ployed as initruments of refraction or re- 
flection, 
