ART. 37. A Scourge for the Adulterers, Duellifts, Gamefters, and Self-Murderers of 1810; including occafional Thoughts on Matters connected with the main Subject. By Petrus Pajquinus, C.P.M. Cenfor of Public Manners; of Ballyno'lichstein, in the Iland of Utopia. 8vo. 64 pp. 2S. J. J. Stockdale. 1819.

The intention of this author, which is to ftigmatize, and, if poffible, reform the corrupt morals of our own times and country, cannot be too highly praifed; but the execution of his purpofe by no means correfponds to the zeal with which he purfues it. Under the name of Utopia he, of courfe, defignates Great Pri tain; to the moral character of whofe Sovereign and that of many of his principal fubjects he gives honourable and just testimony. The adminiftration of justice, and the general character of the fu perior Clergy, are alfo mentioned with due refpect. The author himself, his defcent, and his progeny, are characterized by an un, fkilful and rather confufed allegory. Wit and truth (not laughter and truth) are the proper parents of fatire; and it is highly ab. furd, as well as derogatory to his (or rather her) character, to enumerate hardened guilt (one of the enemies it has to combat) as one of the progeny of fatire. The author very juftly reprobates the atheifm and infidelity fo prevalent in a neighbouring kingdom, and fo diligently inculcated by the late Thoma Paine; but he confounds the " Age of Reafon" (as we believe it was called) with the "Rights of Man" of that author. alfo condemns with due feverity the political maxims of Mr. Godwin and the immoral doctrines of Mrs, Woolftonecroft. On the profeffed objects of his fatire, expreffed in the title-page, he fays nothing very new or ftriking; but his remarks are certainly very well defigned; and his philippics on their respective vices, though not very eloquent in language, feem dictated by honeft zeal, and founded in truth.

He

ART. 38. The Speculum, or Art of Drawing in Water Colours: and Inftructions for Sketching from Nature; comprising the whole Procefs of Water-coloured Drawing, familiarly exemplified in Drawing, Shadowing, and Tinting a complete Landscape, in all its progreffive Stages; with Directions for compounding and ufing Colours, Indian Ink, Bifter, &c. By J. Haffell. 28. Edition. 12mo. 56 pp. Tegg, &c. 1810.

The illuftration to this useful little tract confifts of an outline of a landscape, about the fize of an octavo page, and folded. The whole process is step by step defcribed, in a very clear manner, beginning with the principal object, a cottage, and proceeding firft to complete the outline, then the fhadowing, and laftly the tint

ing. But between the first and fecond parts of this procefs is interpofed a fhort digreffion on fimplicity and other effentials of defign; and then directions for mixing colours. The direc. tions are certainly very clear, but we doubt whether any uninitiated ftudent in drawing will be able to apply them without oral affistance from fome more experienced artist. The fpeculum, however, may ferve as a kind of Grammar. Mr. Haffell is, by his own account a drawing mafter, and we should fuppofe a good one. The fale of his book appears to have been very rapid.

We have feen (perhaps by the fame author) a set of etchings in 4to., which exhibit diftinctly every step of fuch a procefs on feparate plates. If any thing could fuperfede the attendance of a mafter, that might do it,

ART. 39. Chesterfield Traveftie; or the School of Modern Manners, Embellished with Ten Caricatures, Engraved by Woodward from original Drawings, by Rowlandfon. 12mo. 70 pp. 45, Tegg 1808,

This is an ironical direction for behaviour; teaching things by their contraries. The most ftriking part of the book is the caricatures, which, though flightly etched, are given with spirit. The fubjects alfo are well chofen: viz. 1. How to walk the ftrects. 2. The art of Quizzing. 3. How to break a shop window with an umbrella. 4. How to keep up a converfation with yourself in the public streets. 5. Behaviour at table, in four compartments, &c. &c. There is little doubt that fuch embellishments will fell a publication of no great price.

ART. 40. Selections from the Moral Writings of Cicero; defigned chiefly for Young Perfons. By A. S. Hunter. 18mo. 2s. 6d. Murray, 1809.

This very fmall publication is printed with great neatness, and is the production of the daughter of the late Dr. Henry Hunter. "On a perufal of various tranflations (the fays) of the works of Cicero (for it is but candid to acknowledge that I am unacquainted with them in their original language), it occurred to me, that fome felections from his moral writings might form a ufeful and instructive little volume, particularly for young per fans, and I made them accordingly. My extracts are taken principally from Melmoth's translation of his Effays on Friend ip and Old Age; and from a collection, in French, of various paffages from his writings." Nothing more feems requifite to be faid to characterize this book, which they, who approve the plan, will eafily procure for their children,

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