Mr. Painter has added some obfervations on the game of draughts; he has given 30 felect games in which he fhews the manner of moving the pieces to the best advantage.

**This article fhould have appeared fooner; but the pamphlet did not come to our hands till within these few days.

Art. 52. The New Polite Preceptor: containing the Beauties of Englith Profe. Selected from the Writings of the most eminent Authors, in order to form the Style, and promote a literary Emulation in the Youth of both Sexes. By the Editor of the Sunday Monitor. 12mo. 35. E. Johnfon.

Collections of admired paffages detached from approved writers, are become very common; and no wonder, fince the only difficulty in compiling them, is the invention of a new title.-If fuch publications are not to be ranked among the most useful, they, at least, afford entertainment to the generality of young readers, who are always fond of Mifcellanies.

Art. 53. A Collection of Pamphlets concerning the Poor, with Abstracts of the Poor's Rates; Expences of different Houfes of Industry, &c. and Obfervations by the Editor. 4to. 5s. Boards. Elliot and Co. 1787.

The pamphlets here republished are, 1. Some proposals for the employing of the Poor, efpecially in and about the city of London. By Thomas Firmin. First printed in 1678. 2. Bread for the Poor; or, a method fhewing how the Poor may be maintained, and duly provided for, in a far more plentiful and yet cheaper manner than they now are. By R. D. Printed in 1698. 3. Giving alms no charity. By Daniel de Foe. Printed in 1704. 4. A Letter to the Citizens of Glasgow, containing a fhort view of the management of the Poor's funds. By a Citizen of Glasgow.-Printed in 1783. The Editor has added fome pertinent reflections on our poor rates, and has given large abstracts from the returns made by the overfeers of feveral places to the houfe of commons, in 1776.

The republication of the first three pamphlets may prove acceptable to the Public at the time when a revifal of the poor laws is in contemplation. They all contain many ufeful hints, and may be deemed valuable, as exhibiting the ftate of the poor, and fhewing the means that have been used for supplying their wants, &c. &c. Art. 54. The Afiatic Mifcellany; confifting of Tranflations, fugitive Pieces, Imitations, original Productions, and Extracts from curious Publications. By Sir W. Jones, and William Chambers, Efq; and other literary Gentlemen, now refident in India. Crown 8vo. 3 s. fewed. Wallis, &c. 1787.

Of the original Calcutta edition of these Afiatic Mifcellanies, we have given an ample account in our Reviews for May and June last. This pocket edition contains the fame pieces, except the paper on the Arabian Aftronomy, and Thevenot's Account of his Journey from Cairo to Suez, which feem to have been defignedly omitted, on reafons fimilar to what we remarked, when we noticed thofe papers in the article above referred to.

Art. 55. A fhort Account of the Marratta State. Written in Perfian, by a Munthy, who accompanied Col. Upton in his Embaffy to Poonah. Tranflated by W. Chambers, Efq; Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. To which is added, The Voyages and Travels of M. Cæfar Fredericke, into the East Indies, &c. 8vo. 2s. Kearsley., 1787. : Re-printed from the Afiatic Mifcellany above mentioned. Art. 56. Rana Comice Evangelizantes; or the comic Frogs turned Methodift. 8vo. I S. Macklew. 1786.

The pretended Editor (who, no doubt, is the Author), in his previous advertisement, ftyles this work an abominable rhapsody!? and he has in thefe words juftly characterised the performance. We never knew fatire worse applied! Under the pretence of attacking fanaticism and bigotry, every thing facred, and awful, even the very day of judgment, is expofed to ridicule !

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Learn, ye dunces, not to fcorn your God!" POPE.

MEDICAL.

Art. 57. Short Directions for the Management of Infants. By T. Mantell, Surgeon and Practitioner in Midwifery, at Dover. 12mo. 25. Becket. 1787.

The great number of books on the fubject of nurfing, might have induced us to think that little more remained to be added. Though Mr. Mantell has not advanced many new thoughts, yet his directions are good, and suited to the clafs of readers for whom they were chiefly intended: they are however rather too concife. Art. 58. Medical Cautions, chiefly for the Confideration of Invalids, &c. The fecond Edition: to which are now added two Appendices. Publifhed for the Benefit of the General Hofpital at Bath. By James Makittrick Adair, M. D. Member of the Medical Society, and Fellow of the College of Phyficians at Edinburgh. 8vo. 6s. Boards. Dilly. 1787.

In our brief review of the first edition of this work, we made fuch remarks as we thought it merited. In this edition, we obferve the effays to be confiderably enlarged, efpecially that on regimen,' which, by its plan being extended, affumes the appearance of a new work. Two effays are added under the form of Appendices.

The nature of the work has led the Author to animadvert on a variety of medical abuses. As he has not always executed this task with fufficient moderation, he has unluckily expofed himself to the attacks of empirics, and, in fome measure, to the cenfure of regular phyficians. A great part of the preface is employed in repelling thefe attacks, which ought, if prudence had prevailed, to have been treated in a different manner. Private piques and quarrels are uninterefting to the Public, and it is beneath the dignity of the profeffional character to carry on a controverfy with the venders of noftrums.

The originality of the work, and the ingenuity and humour which the Author frequently manifefts, especially when he addrefles himself to his learned fifters, the Lady Doctors, may be agreeable to See Review for Sept. 1786. p. 227.

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many readers and we efteem Dr. Adair for his (as we verily believe) well-meant and fincere endeavours to abolish every species of empiricifm. But before that bane of fociety can be thoroughly eradicated, many abuses in what is called the regular practice muft, we apprehend, be reformed; and the English nation cured, if poffible, of its endemical disease,-credulity.

Art. 59. Obfervations on the new Opinions of John Hunter, in his late Treatife on the Venereal Disease. Part III. By Jeffe Foot, Surgeon. 8vo. 35. Becket. 1787.

The two former parts of Mr. Foot's Obfervations we have already noticed. This third part is, like the others, replete with juft remarks on Mr. Hunter's Treatife. Mr. Foot's cenfures on tranfplanting teeth, perfectly coincide with our own fentiments on that fubject, and are evidently the dictates of benevolence. Whoever will fuffer a tooth to be tranfplanted after having read the reprefentation here given of the confequences of that dangerous practice, must be poffeffed of no fmall defire for beauty. We hope these wellwritten arguments will totally abolish fo deteftable an operation. If it is neceffary, for the fake of fpeaking, to fill up a vacancy in the fore-teeth, artificial teeth anfwer the purpofe very well; they can be neatly made, and exactly fitted by a good artift.

We muft again repeat our difapprobation of Mr. Foot's virulent ftyle. Mildness is a great recommendation to a good cause, and is molt especially commendable in a difputant.

Art. 60. An Efay on Humanity; or a View of Abuses in Hofpitals, with a Plan of correcting them. By William Nolan. 8vo. 15. Murray.

Mr. Nolan is angry with the fervants, officers, phyficians, furgeons, and legiflators of hofpitals; they are remifs in their duty, cruel to the patients, and fruftrate the intentions of benefactors, by increafing, rather than leffening the miseries of the unfortunate people who are committed to their care. To reform these abufes, Mr. N. recommends a committee to vifit the hofpitals, and oblige all the officers not only to do their duty, but every act of humanity that may be in their power.

Art. 61. Medical Remarks on natural, Spontaneous, and artificial Evacuation. By John Anderson, M. D. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Murray. 1787.

After making fome pertinent obfervations on evacuation in general, this rational writer proceeds to treat of the several evacuations feparately. Each of thefe is again judicioufly fubdivided, and the diagnoftic fymptoms are accurately enumerated. Dr. Anderson's remarks on the inteftinal evacuation feem, in our opinion, to be the moft material part of his ufeful publication; they are evidently the refult of attentive practice and just reasoning. What is said of perfpiration, is no lefs worthy the attention of the medical reader; and indeed the whole pamphlet will be found ferviceable to the practitioner.

* See Rev. Vol. lxxv. p. 303. and lxxvi. p. 75.

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Art. 62. On Confumptions, and their Cure. By N. Godbold. 8vo. Is. Almon.

We must confider this as Mr. Godbold's advertisement of his Vegeable Balfam; the nature and virtues of which are best known to himself.

THEOLOGY, &c.

Art. 63. The Divinity and Pre-existence of our Lord and Saviour Fejus Chrift demonftrated from Scripture; in answer to the first Section of Dr. Priestley's Introduction to his Hiftory of early Opinions concerning Jefus Chrift; together with Strictures on fome other Parts of that Work; and a Poftfcript relative to a late Publication of Mr. Gilbert Wakefield. By John Parkhurft, M. A. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Payne. 1787.

Mr. Parkhurst does not examine, at length, the validity of Dr. Priestley's appeal to the Fathers, but keeps the controverfy comcerning the perfon of Chrift chiefly upon the ground of Scripturelanguage. His principal argements in defence of the doctrine of the Trinity, are drawn from the plural termination of the word commonly used in the Jewish fcriptures to denote the Creator of all; whence he concludes that the doctrine of a plurality in Jehovah is taught in above two thousand places in the Old Testament; and from the appellation of Jehovah given to the Meffiah by the Jewish prophets. He likewife quotes many paffages from the New Teftament, which, as he understands them, exprefsly teach that Jefus was very and effential God.' We find nothing, in what Mr. Parkhurst has advanced, fufficiently new and fatisfactory to merit a particular quotation. The paffages of fcripture to which he refers have already been frequently examined by writers on both fides of the question, and explained in a manner fuited to their respective fyftems. His reafoning from the miracles of Chrift, to prove his proper divinity, will, we apprehend, be generally thought inconclufive.

The Author's remarks upon Mr. Wakefield, are chiefly intended to defend the plurality of the Hebrew name of God against the ob fervations of that able linguist, and caft no new light on the main question.

In fhort, it appears to us, that Mr. Parkhurft will be acknow. ledged, on all fides, to have done but little towards bringing the prefent controversy to an iffue.

Art. 64. Reafons from Prophecy, why the fecond Coming of Chrift, and the Commencement of the Millennium, is immediately to be expected. 8vo. 6d. Sold at the Millenium Prefs, Spitalfields. Some honest man, who has probably little to do with what is now paling on this globe, here amufes himself with computing the time, when Chrift will begin his reign of a thousand years on earth, and concludes from many calculations, and from earthquakes, meteors, hurricanes, rainbows, and haloes, that the millennium will begin immediately. For our parts, we own, we are too much taken up with attending to what is, to have leifure for vifionary fpeculations concerning what is to be.

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Art. 65. An Abridgment of a Difcourfe on Self-Dedication. By John Howe, A. M. And the Temper of Jefus toward his Enemies, and his Grace to the chief of Sinners, in his commanding the Gospel to begin at Jerufalem. By B. Grosvenor, D. D. To which are prefixed the Lives of the Authors. 12mo. 15. Buckland. 1785.

Mr. Howe and Dr. Grofvenor were doubtless excellent men, and did much good in their day: but if, through a change of public opinions and tafte, their works are paffing away, it will not be in the power of a zealous Editor to stop the natural course of things. Art. 66. Thoughts on various Caufes of Error, particularly with regard to modern Unitarian Writers. By the Rev. John Weddred, Vicar of St. John Baptift, Peterborough. 8vo. 1s. Rivington. Every Author has a right to argue on his own principles, provided he fairly propofes them. This writer's poftulatum is, that Unitarianifm is an error; and, on this ground, he proceeds to affign the caufes which pervert the judgment, and influence the pens of Unitarians. But his affertions are too general, and his mode of reafoning is too lax, to produce much effect.

Art. 67. The Sum of Chriftianity: in four Books: containing the Faith, Temper, Duty, and Happiness of a true Chriftian, as held forth in the Scriptures. By Mr. William Dalgliesh, Minister of the Gofpel at Peebles. 8vo. 2 Vols. 10s. 6d. Boards. Edinburgh, printed; and fold by Dilly, in London.

Publications of this kind are far from being new to the world. Bodies of divinity, fyftems of faith, rules of practice, the Christian life, whole duty of man, &c. &c. have abounded, and, in their different ways, we hope, may have their ufe. They vary in their form and order, but they profefs to be founded on the fcriptures, and to have the fame great end in view. This author has chofen to add to the number, and he propofes by it, we doubt not, what others profefs, the advancement of religion and virtue. He pleads, in favour of his work, that no Chriftian writer, that he knows of, has collected the articles and truths of Chriftianity from fcripture; and explained them in the natural order and connection here propofed.

It is very true, that the fame ideas are differently reflected by different perfons, and that the fame fubjects undergo a variety of forms and defcriptions, and hence an advantage refults to readers. Some are more engaged and impreffed by one method, fome by another. Objets placed in feveral lights, may produce varying and ftriking effects of pleafure, pain, or usefulness: but it is doubtful whether fyttems of religion, fo far as they relate to doctrine and fpeculation, are beneficial; whether they do not tend to miflead the mind, or render it bigotted and uncharitable. Some general principles are plain, and highly important; but abfolute decifions on points that have always been difputable are not neceffary, nor very modeft, or becoming. Syftems, and explications of Scripture, are not Scripture; they are human fill, and therefore fallible. Mr. Dalgleith, very confiftently indeed, as a minifter of the establishment