not of pity, or forrow, or love: as thefe paffions cannot with propriety be faid to rage, much leis can they with propriety be faid to foam. The paffions which Shakespeare commands are principally terror and pity, and thefe fhould not have been confounded, by an indifcrimate imputation of the fame attributes. This ardour has alfo betrayed him into the impropriety of giving the epithet of golden to the dreams of Terror as well as to thofe of Love, and reprefenting the mind as woeftruck by a golden dream of love, as well as by a golden dream of grief. Perhaps, however, the epithet golden might be used to express the excellence of Shakespeare's fictions, and not their fpecies. It may alfo be remarked, that there is no proper oppofition between the words controul and charm. To charm is to controul by power more than natural; it is also to delight, but, taken in that fenfe, the mind that is charmed is controuled by the power of the charmer; and the foul that is delighted in this verfe, is woe-ftruck in the next but three.

The following air is very poetical, efpecially the thought in the fourth verfe, which is repeated in the laft:

Though crimes from death and torture fly,
The fwifter mufe,

Their flight purfues,

Guilty mortals more than die!
They live indeed, but live to feel
The fcourge and wheel,

"On the torture of the mind they lie;
Should harrafs'd nature fink to reit,

The poet wakes the fcorpion in the breath,
Guilty mortals more than die!

In the next flanza, Shakespeare is reprefented as a magician, fired by charms, and spells, and incantations; but there is fome incongruity in this image; a magician is not the fubject of charras and felis, and incantations, but the agent that employs them.

The Author then, by a natural and pleafing tranfition, exhibits the comic powers of chakespeare; and, in this inftance, he has almoft rivalled the humour of the great mafter he celebrates.

His reprefentation of the birth of Falitaff from the brain of Shakefpeare, his calling him firft a Mountain, as a contraft to the Moufe which a Mountain was faid to bring forth, and then a World, and his illuftration, by obferving that Falstaff and the World are both of them round and wicked, would do honour to any imagination.

While Fancy, Wit, and Humour fpread
Their wings, and hover round his head,
Impregnating his mind,

Which teeming foon, as foon brought forth,
Not a tiny fpurious birth,

But out a mountain came,

A mountain of delight!

Laughter roar'd out to fee the fight,

And Falftaff was his name!

With fword and fhield he, puffing, ftrides;

The joyous revel-rout

Receive him with a fhout,

And

And modeft Nature holds her fides:
No fingle pow'r the deed had done,
But great and small,

Wit, Fancy, Humour, Whim, and jeft,
The huge, mifshapen heap imprefs'd;
And lo-SIR JOHN!
A compound of 'em all,

A comic world in ONE.

AIR.

A world where all pleafures abound,
So fruitful the earth,

So quick to bring forth,

And the world too is wicked and round.

As the well-teeming earth,
With rivers and show'rs,
Will fmiling bring forth
Her fruits and her flow'rs;
So Falstaff will never decline;
Still fruitful and gay,

He moiftens his clay,

And his rain and his rivers are wine;
Of the world he has all, but its care;
No load, but of flesh, will he bear;
He laughs off his pack,

Takes a cup of old fack,

And away with all forrow and care.

Upon this occafion it may be obferved, that the advantage of fpeaking his own compofition, much more than counterbalanced any fuperiority in correctnefs or beauty that might have been found in the compofition of another.

A man always has images and conceptions antecedent to terms; the exhibiting thefe images and conceptions forcibly and precifely, in another mind, is what he labours to effect, not by the terms only, but by that pronunciation and manner which faithful Nature always fuggefts, when the images and fontiments are first conceived, and which Garrick preferves till the repetition: but a man who fpeaks the compofition of another, very often fubftitutes no image under the terms; perhaps feldom, perhaps never, the very fame, with all its ? circumftances, which the term was intended to convey; he therefore can be prompted to no aid of the term, as expreffive of that image, by tone, gelture, or afpect. Every man has a peculiar manner, always natural and expreffive, of conveying, jointly, by word, aspect, and gefture, fuch ideas as he is able to conceive; but no man can have acquired a peculiar manner of expreffing ideas which he is not able to conceive: when therefore he is to exprefs fuch ideas, he must become a mere creature of imitation, and adopt the manner peculiar to fome other, or attempt a fantastic and imaginary excellence, by the rules that have been abfurdly given for producing what no rules can produce.

To this Ode are added feveral teftimonies to the genius and merit of Shakespeare, from the writings of Een Johnfon, Milton, Dryden,

Pope,

Pope, Sam. Johnfon, Addifon, Lyttelton, Warburton, and fome others.

Art. 47. Shakespeare's Garland, being a Collection of new Songs, Ballads, Roundelays, Catches, Glees, &c. performed at the Jubilee at Stratford upon Avon. The Mufic by Dr. Arne, Mr. Barthelemon, Mr. Ailwood, and Mr. Dibdin. 8vo. 15. Becket.

Thefe ballads, &c. will be read to great difadvantage, after the occafion for which they were written.

Art. 48. Shakespeare's Jubilee, a Mask. By George Saville Carey. 8vo. 6d. Becket.

Of this piece the first four verses will be a fufficient specimen.

Firft Witch fings,

Enter three Witches.

RECITATIVE.

Well met my wayward fifters once again,

Ye fpell-fraught offspring of great Shakespeare's brain
Immortal fpirits were we made by him,

Whole fame-beam'd glory Time can never dim.

Art. 49. Garrick's Vagary; or, England Run Mad. With Particulars of the Stratford Jubilee. 8vo. I S. Bladon.

About it, Goddefs! and about it.'

Art. 50. The Stratford Jubilee. A new Comedy, of two Acts. To which is prefixed Scrub's Trip to the Jubilee. 8vo. 1s. Lownds,

&c.

There is fome humour in this hafty sketch; which may boaft as much merit as can reasonably be expected in a piece conceived and born, as the Writer fays, within eight days.

• In his thiming dedication to Mr. Foote.

HERALDRY.

Art. 51. The New Peerage; or, Prefent State of the Nobility of Eng land, Scotland, and Ireland. Containing an Account of all the Peers [of the three kingdoms,] either by Tenure, Summons, or Creation; their Defcents and collateral Branches; their Births, Marriages, and Iffue. Alfo their Paternal Coats of Arms, Crefts, Supporters, and Mottoes. Small 8vo. 3 Vols. 5 s. bound. Davis.

The Editor of this work affures us, that no pains have been spared to render it as correct as poffible; and he accordingly ventures to offer it to the public, as having the feweft errors of any book upon the fubject-This is faying a great deal, and we really think it may poffibly be true; though fome errors (and pretty obvious ones too) are here to be found. For example, Vol. I. p. 155, Anne, late Countess Dowager Fitz-William is faid to have died May 4, 1759, though the was certainly living fince the publication of this work, and died, in reality, but very lately.-Ibid. p. 207, The Earl of Castlehaven is erroneously filedBaron of Orier in England,'-whereas that is undoubt

edly

edly an Irish title.-Vol. II. p 13, The Second marriage of the Dutchefs Dowager of Gordon, to Col. Morris, is not mentioned, though marriages are fpecified in the title-page, to be particularly noticed, as of prime account in a work of this nature.-Ibid. p. 128, Charles, the prefent Viscount Irwin, is put down as the fon of William, who was, in fact, his uncle; and his real father, Charles, is reprefented as dying without iffue.—Vol. II. p. 54. The arms of the Earl of Tyrone are rightly made to have a border, sable;—but in the plate this border is engraved, as if it were, gules.-In the fame page, his lordship [tho' unmarried] is faid [fometimes] to ufe the motto of his lady's [initead of his mother's] family.-Ibid p. 141, John, fixth fon of Scrope, the fecond Vicount Howe, is faid to have died young;'-whereas he was alive fince the publication of this book.

But notwithstanding the above-mentioned, and other almoft unavoidable flips, we readily acknowledge, that the prefent state of our noble families is more clearly, and fully exhibited in the work before us, than could well be expected within fo small a compafs. We cannot, however, fubfcribe to the propriety of its title, [The Neu Peerage] as it appears, in reality, to be little more than a new edition of Salmon's Short View of the English, Scottish, and Irish Nobility, publifhed a few years ago, and now brought down (with fome improvements) to the prefent time; together with the very material addition of all the arms, diftinctly engraved upon copper,-which were wanting in Salmon's Peerage. The extinct peers are alfo inferted: and to each volume is added a copious table, in which every perfon mentioned in the volume, who is related to any of the nobility, may be found, and the family referred to, notwithstanding their name may have been changed by marriage, or otherwife.

GARDENING.

Art. 52. The Practical Gardener, and Gentleman's Directory, for every Month in the Year. Adapted to the New Stile. An entire new Work. Containing the latest and most approved Methods of cultivating and improving the Kitchen, Flower, Fruit and Phyfic Garden; and for managing the Vineyard and Pine-apple, the Nursery, Shrubbery, Greenboufe, and Hothouse. With proper Directions for raising Mufbrtoms. To which is prefixed, an Ejay upon Vegetation, Soil, Manure, and the Nature and Form of Stoves, Hotbeds, &c. With a Copper-plate, exhibiting at one View the feveral Ajpects for planting a Fruit-Garden. By James Garton. 12mo. 3s. bound. Dilly.

As the art of gardening has, with its fubjects, greatly increased of late years; fo have the inftructions and treatifes, written thereupon, been greatly multiplied. Infomuch that, in the croud of writers upon this fubject, a person who defires to be informed of the best methods to order his garden, is often bewildered, when he meets with fo many different rules and directions, many of them taken upon truft, or adopted from books written for other countries, whofe cultivation, as well as climate, differs very much from ours. In order to avoid thefe inconveniences, Mr. Garton has here contracted into a pocket volume the various branches of gardening, and given fuch inftructions and directions in every part thereof, as [he affirms] have been tried and proved by the experience of more than thirty years practice;-the book of nature being' [undoubtedly] the beft inftruc

tor

tor in the cultivation of the earth.'-He has, however, availed himfelf of the works of former writers; and though but little really new appears to be advanced, yet his book will be of confiderable ufe to fuch practitioners, as may wish for the neceffary inftructions, delivered in a plain style,' and at a low price ;'-two circumstances, which the Author himself holds forth as no fmall recommendation of his plan.

Art. 53. The Royal Gardener; or, Complete Calendar of Gardening, for every Month in the Year. Digefted in regular Order, and fo contrived as to exhibit, in a clear and comprehenfive Manner, the Bufinefs to be done in the Flower, Fruit, and Kitchen Garden, at all Seafons. Likewife, Directions, founded on Experiment, for forwing, planting, pruning, tranfplanting, engrafting, and every other Particular, neceffary to be known by fuch as defire to arrive at a perfect knowledge of this moft ancient, healthful, and agreeable of all Sciences. By Anthony Powell, Efq; Gardener to his late Majefty King George II. 12mo. 1 s. 6d. Fell.

An useful memorandum-book; but certainly far too concife, to convey a perfect knowledge of every particular, in the ancient fcience of gardening ;-as the title, vauntingly, fets forth.

SERMON S.

I. A Charge and Sermon, together with an Introductory Difcourfe and Confeffion of Faith, delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. Abraham Booth, February 16, 1769, in Goodman's Fields. I s. Keith.

II. A Sermon at the Vifitation at Wakefield, July 25, 1769. By James Scott, B. D. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Richardfon and Urquhart.

III. Before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, on A&t-Sunday, July 9th, 1769. By Matthew Frampton, LL. D. Rector of Bremhill, Vicar of Weftport, Wilts, and Chaplain to the Earl of Berkshire. White, &c.

IV. On the Death of the Rev. John Rutter, at Honiton, May 14, 1769. By John Turner. Baldwin.

V. An eternal Manfion prepared in the Heavens for the Righteous. On the Death of Mr. Thomas Cox, who died August 20, 1769. By Eenj. Wallin. Buckland.

VI. By the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, being his laft Farewel to his Friends, at the Tabernacle, Moorfields, August 1c, 1769, immediately before his Departure for Georgia. Taken in Short-hand, and published at the Defire of many who heard it. Bladon.

ERRAT U M.

In the following quotation from Dr. Goldsmith's Roman Hiftory", "the champions on each fide met in combat together, and totally regardless of his own fafety, each only fought the deflruction of his op→ ponent," the word his relates not to champions, which precedes it, but to each, that follows it; and in this conftruction the paffage is not ftrictly ungrammatical; but if the Author had written, "the champions met, and each regardless," &c. it would not have been liable to a mifconstruction.

See p. 188, of this month's Review.