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siders those of Marc Antonio as distin-. 
guishing a memorable era in the art: clo- 
sing with a few remarks on the uses of 
modern Engraving, and on the prevalence 
of certain popular mistakes respecting 
those uses. 
The sixth Lecture is divided under two 
heads: first, the auspices under which the 
art of Engraving has hitherto existed in 
England: “secondly, the means which 
have been resorted to for its cultivation; 
including a consderation of those advan- 
tages which have been withheld from it. 
Here perhaps we might have been better 
pleased with the continuation of historical 
detail, than the mtroduction of contro- 
verted fact: though few will be so hardy 
as to deny the truth of some of the Lec- 
turer’s remarks, 
JURISPRUDENCE. 
To The Law of Shipping and Navi- 
gation, from the Time of Edward ILI. to 
the End of the Year 1806,” by Mr. Reeves, 
we have a very useful manual, It com- 
prizes, in fact, a History of what are 
usually termed the Acts of Navigation ; 
which is properly divided into three pe- 
riods: the first, containing the laws made 
from the earliest appearance of any such, 
down to and including the act of naviga- 
tion made in 1651, during the time of the 
Commonwealth. The second commen- 
eing with the famous act of navigation 
passed in the twelfth year of Charles the 
Second, and containing all the laws pas- 
sed down to the time of making the peace 
in 1783. The third, commencing after the 
peace, and containing all the laws which 
have been made down to the year 1806. 
Mr. Comyn’s “Treatise on the Law re- 
lative to Contracts and Agreements not 
under Seal,” will be found one of the most 
useful for professional practitioners which 
has appeared. It is accompanied by 
Cases aud Decisions. 
Mr. Ditton’s “ Essay on the History 
and Effects of the Coronation Oath,” ap- 
pears to have arisen out of recent circum- 
stances. It is intended as an attempt to 
prove that the effects of that most solemn 
obligation are not to impede in any re- 
spect the exercise of the royal preroga- 
tive, in assenting to any bill proposed by 
parliament for the further relief of Lis ma- 
jesty’s catholic subjects. 
BIOGRAPHY. 
In this class we have not so many 
works to mention as usual. . 
Mr. Pewnrneton’s “ Life of Mrs. 
Carter,” exhibits a singular instance of 
@ woman possessing extensive learning, 
at @ time when, generally speaking, fe- 
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male accomplishment was but of. rare 
occurrence. She was born in 1717; and 
beside the languages which are generally 
called ‘“ learned,” understood the French, 
Italian, Spanish, German, and Hebrew. 
In 1788 she commenced author, by pub- 
lishing a small volume of Poems. She 
also supplied two papers to Dr. Johnson’s 
Rambler; translated one or two works 
from the Italian, and Epictetus from the 
Greek. Her life, like that of the gene- 
rality of scholars, appears to have been 
but little chequered in its incidents; and 
Mr. Pennington would probably have 
viven the memoir of it greater interest if 
he had compressed his materials. Hav- 
ing lived to the advanced age of eighty-. 
eight, Mrs.Carter died in Clarges-street, 
February the 19th, 1806. The Essays 
in Prose, together with her Notes on the 
Bible, and Answers to Objections con- 
cerning the Christian Religion, subjoined 
to the Life, add nothing new to Mrs. 
Carter’s reputation. 
A more interesting work will probably 
be found in Mr. Rircnie’s “ Account of 
the Life and Writings of David Hume.” 
In the “ Life of Thuanus,” the iilus- 
trious historian of France, we have a 
third specimen of Biography, by Mr. 
Coriinson, of Queen’s College, Oxford. 
Thuanus, who was the son of the first 
president of the parliament of Paris, left 
behind him a History of the World, from 
1545 to 1608, written in very elegant 
Latin. It was printed several times in 
different countries abroad, but never once 
without castrations, Thuanus having de- 
livered the truth too boldly. In 1733, 
the first publication of it agreeably to the 
authow’s copy was printed, at the ex- 
pence of Dr. Mead, in seven volumes 
folio. To the lovers of history and 
Thuanus, the Life here given will prove 
an acceptable present. 
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. | 
If the order of time is to be considered, 
the first work entitled to notice in this 
class must be the “ Travels of Bz: 
DON DE LA BrocevuiERE, Counsebi 
Jirst Esquire-Carver to Phihppey 
Duke of Burgundy.” They pre 
tracted from a manuscript in tl 
Library at Paris, as well as 
modern French, hy M. LeGrand @A 
and are here translated by the same gen- 
tleman to whom the world is already in- 
debted for English Versions of Froissart 
and Joinville. The first object of the 
traveller was a pilgrimage of devotion to 
Palestine; but falling sick at Jerusalem, 
he conceived a. project which certainly 
. gives 
