Retrofpeét of Domeftic Literature—Mifcellanies. 
ties, by Prifcilla Wakefield.”’ Altho’ Mrs. 
Wakefield makes too much wifdom iffue 
from the mouths of babes and fucklings— 
alrhough the remarks which her young let- 
ter-writers make to each other, on men 
aad manners, are far above what can be 
expected from fuch young perfons ; this 
work is certainly to be recommended on 
the {core of the information which it com- * 
municates, and the intereft it is likely to 
excite: it gives a view of the European 
ftates and kingdoms, colle&ted ‘from the 
writings of Brydone, Coxe, Moore, Rad- 
eliffe, Southey and Thickneffe. 
Dr. Mavor’s ** New Speaker ; ‘or, 
Englifh Clafs Book,” confifting of, I. Mo- 
ral and inftruétive effays. II. Narrative 
and pathetic pieces. IFI. Dialogues. 
IV. Orations andHarangues. V. Epitles. 
VI. Mifcellaneous Pieces. WII. Select 
poetical Varieties. Io which are pre- 
fixed, a fhort fyftem of rhetoric, and an 
eflay on enunciatiou, or delivery, chiefly 
abftraéted from Blair’s Leétures, for the 
ule of {chools. 
In conjanétion with Mr. Pratt, Dr. 
Mavor hastalfo publithed a fmall volume 
ef “ Claffical Englith Poetry.” 
Mrs. TrimMer has given a flatter- 
ing, but fincere teftimony to a work en- 
titled <* A Geographical Companion to 
Mrs. Trimmer’s Scripture; Ancient and 
Ensglifh abridged Hiltories, with Prints, 
calculated to render the Study of Hiftory 
more intere(ting to Children, and to ferve 
as an eafy Introduftion to the Knowledge 
of the Earth. In three parts. Part I. 
2greeing with Scripture Hiftory. Part II. 
withAncient andRomanHiftory. Part III. 
with Englith Hiftory.”’ 
Miss SomerviLLe’s * New Chil- 
dren in the Wood,” ‘* Mary Woodbine 
and her Sifter Lydia,”’ and ** The Birth- 
day,’ are adapted to the capacities of 
younger children. 
*< Coujugata Latina; or, a Collection 
of the pureft and moft ufeful LatinWords, 
diftinguifhed intoClafles, according to the 
times of their occurrence, and arranged 
according to their Derivations, with their 
Significations and, fyllabic Quantities: 
comprifing- three thoufand werus, chiefly 
felected from Terence, Czfar, Virgil, 
Horace and Ovid. To which is fub- 
joined, an alphabetical Index of all the 
Words in the Conjugata, by Tuomas 
Haicu, A.M.” This is a very ufeful 
and ingenious work, 
Miss EpGEwortuH"s ‘ Moral Tales 
for Young People,” are extremely amu- 
fing and inftructive. 
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“© The Parents Friend; or, Extraés 
from the principal Works on Education, 
from the ‘Time of Montaigne to the pre- 
fent day. Methodifed and arranged, 
with Obfervations and Notes by the Edi- 
tor.” An ufeful and laborious compila- 
tion. It is time that we proceed to the 
laft divifion of our retrofpeét, namely 
~ MISCELLANIES. 
«‘ Literary Leifure; or, the Recrea- 
tions of Solomon Saunter, efq.”? Thefe 
mifcellaneous volumes are written after 
the manner of the Spectator and other pe- 
riodical papers: Mr. Saunter has fet be- 
fore his guefts a great variety of dithes, 
fweet, favoury and fimple: many of them 
are extremely well cooked, and ferved u 
with confiderable tafte: befides thefe, 
which may be called sade-difhes, Mr. 
Saunter has accommodated fome old En- 
glith appetites, with a few folid joints of 
great excellence—plain, roaft, and boiled. 
He muft havea very fickly or fattidious 
ftomach whe cannot contrive to make a 
good dinner off fomething or other; and 
he muft be a very fulky ungracious gueft 
who will not acknowledge his obligation 
to the matter of the feaft. 
The following is a well felec&ted compi- 
lation <“* Inftruétive SeleStions; or, the 
Beauties of Sentiment. Being ftriking 
Extraéts from the beft Authors, ancient and 
modern, in profe and verfe, on a great va~ 
riety of Sifbjects, divine, moral, literary 
and entertaining, on a new methodical 
Plan. Alfo a Lilt of the beft Books on the 
principal Subjects, and the Names of the 
Authors annexed to the extracts, by the 
Rev. G.G.Scraggs, in two volumes.” 
“¢ The Field-Engineer’s Vade-mecum, 
‘by J. Landmann, Profeffor of Fortification 
and Artillery to the Royal Military Aca- 
demy at Woolwich.” This work con- 
fits of an excellent fyftem of practical 
geometry on the ground, and an introduc- 
tion to reconnoitring: the intelligent au- 
thor lays down a fhort courfe of the ap- 
plication of practical geometry to the tra- 
cing out of works on the ground, either 
permanent or field fortification, with the 
method of taking heights and diftances, 
and of furveying, without any other in- 
{truments than the chain, or cord and 
ftaves ; he then proceeds to point out fuch 
parts as may form an introduétion to the 
method of reconnoitring a traét of country 
in which militasy operations are to be 
carried on. The following, alfo, is a 
well-executed compilation, ** A New 
and enlarged Military Diétionary; or, 
Alphabetical Explanation of Technical 
Terms ; 
