600 Retrofpect of Dome/tic Literature Drama and Education. 
THE DRAMA. 
We are happy to fee that the fecond 
wolume of Miss Barnuie’s “Series of 
Plays, &c. &c.’? has come to a fecond 
edition; we confider thefe as very able 
‘and delicate delineations of the paffions ; 
they evince an intimate acquaintance with 
the fecret {prings of human action; they 
difplay a powerful genius, guided by judg- 
ment, and corrected by tafte. 
The intention of Mr. Spence’s “Urania; 
or, the Hluminé,”’ is to laugh at the in- 
troduction of Ghofts, &c. We are forry 
Ht is not in our power to commend the 
execution. 
“¢ John Woodville, by C. Lamzg. To 
which are added Fragments of Burton, 
the Author of the Anatomy of Melan- 
choly.”? Colloquial profe and whining 
fentiment, feparated into lines of ten, ele- 
ven, or twelve fyllables. 
*¢ The Fafhionable Friends, a Comedy.” 
This play, we are informed, was found 
in manufcript, among the papers of the 
jate Earl of Orford ; and, having remain- 
ed five years without being claimed, was 
brought out at Drury-lane, where it was 
received with marks of great difapproba- 
tion. Although The Fafhionable Friends 
certainly does not difplay that imagina- 
tion and vigour of mind which would for 
@ moment induce us to believe that it was 
the production of Horace Walpole; yet it 
is far fuperior to many plays which have 
been brought upon the ftage, and received 
with the greateft applaufe. 
Mr. REYNOLD’s ** Folly as it Flies,” 
has been performed with confiderable fuc- 
cefs at Covent-garden: it is not deftitute 
of humour. ‘* The Poor Gentleman,” by 
Mr. Gecrce CoLman, the younger, 
has many comic incidents, and difplays 
confiderable merit. 
EDUCATION. 
Two fyftems of education materially 
differing from each other in many refpects 
have, within thefe laft two or three years, 
been prefented to the public for inveftiga- 
tion and adoption: we refer to thofe of 
Miss EpGewortu, and Mrs. More. 
A third has fince been fubmitted to feru- 
tiny, by a lady, the well-known author 
ef * Letters of a Hindoo Rajah,” and 
«* Memoirs of Mcdern Philofophers,”’ 
Miss HaMILTON, who has publifte3, in 
two 8vo volumes, fome *‘ Letters on Edu- 
eation,’’ in which we perceive many points 
wherein fhe agrees, and fome in which 
fhe differs from the principles laid down 
in both the difquifitions juft referred to. 
It is with the greateft pleafure that we 
have feen the {cience of education culti- 
vated with fo much fuccefs by that fex 
which has almoft the exclufive fuperin- 
tendance of our earlieft years; of thofe 
years when the mind receives with the 
greatet facility impreffions which are 
the moft lating, and fometimes mhich are 
indelible through life. We earneftly re- 
commend thefe volumes to the attention 
of governeffes, and all thofe who have un- 
dertaken the arduous and refponfible tafk 
‘ef tuition: but as the regulation of the 
paffions, and the cultivation of the minor 
moralities, and the loftier virtues; as 
thefe are perhaps rather to be expected 
from the conftant vigilance, the anxious 
domeftic inftruétion and the example of 
the mother, than from any precepts which 
the moft affiduous governefs can inculcate, 
we wculd more particularly recommend 
thefe letters to mothers, as affording fuch 
principles as are likely to furnith them 
with the means of regulating the pafiions 
and directing the affections of their off- 
{pring. Highly as we think of the me- 
rit of this work, it-has not our ungualified 
approbation: there are fome fentiments 
which we difapprove, and fome doétrines 
which we cannot affent to ; nor are we by 
any means difpofed to extol the prefent 
performance above the work of Mifs Edge- 
worth, which has alfo its exceptionable 
parts. We are defirous that the three 
fy{tems which we have mentioned fhould 
be compared and eftimated without pres 
judice; they have all their feparate excel- © 
lencies, and confequently may all be con- 
fulted with advantage. 
‘¢ Some Remarks relative to the Pre- 
fent State of Education in the Society of 
the People called Quakers, by GEORGE 
Harrison.” The. fociety to which this 
pamphlet is addreffed, is indebted to Mr. 
Harrifon for calling their attention to a 
fubject which appears to have been very 
much neglected: it appears that feveral 
fchools, formerly of the firft reputation in 
the fociety, and abounding with fcholars, 
have fcarcely any thing remaining but 
the walls: in fhort; the prefent flate of 
{chools in the fociety is in a general view 
deplorable.” 
wifhes to imprefs on the yearly meeting 
a deep fenfe of the neceflity, that fome- 
meafures, toward wiping away this ftigma, 
fhould be adopted. j 
“©The Juvenile Travellers ; contain- 
ing the Remarks of aFamily during aTour 
through thevprincipalStates andKingdoms. 
of Europe, with an Account of their inha- 
bitants, natural Produétions, and Curiofi- 
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Mr. Harrifon, therefore, . 
