POETRY. The Genius of Britain to General Howe, the Night before the Bat-tle at Long Island. An Ode. 4to. 15. Sewell. After delineating the mournful ftate to which the difaffected provinces of America are reduced by the folly of the inhabitants, the addrefs concludes with fome fentiments refpecting the difagreeable neceffity of an exertion of valour in the action which is fuppofed to enfue. The verfes breathe at least a fpirit of loyalty, and are written in a strain of poetical defcription. The Patriot's Progress, or the Poft of Honour disputed: a Familiar Epifle, infcribed to John Wilkes, Efq. 4to. 15. Wallis and Stonehouse. A fquib for the domeftic incendiaries, and American demagogues; but more confpicuous for zeal than poetic merit. Jane Shore to her Friend: a Poetical Epiftle. 4to. Is. Becket. This fictitious epiftle is fuppofed to be written a little before the catastrophe of the royal paramour, when he felt all the pungency of remorfe for conjugal infidelity, which the expectation of her approaching fate could infpire. The epifle accordingly abounds with fentiments of the deepest penitence, which are expreffed with elegiac tenderness, and pathetic energy. Milton's Ialian Poems, tranflated, and addreffed to a Gentleman of Italy. 40. IS. Becket. The prefent verfion is addreffed by the tranflator, in a poe tical dedication, to Sig. Mozzi, of Macerata, an Italian gentle. man of taste and genius. In these fonnets Dr. Langhorne has preferved the fpirit of the original, though the ftructure of the rhymes are formed upon a model which is not the most agreeable to the ear. The Triumphs of Fashion, a Poem, containing fome Hint: to the fashionable World; with a Word to the Saints and the Nabobs. Part I. 410. 15. 6d. A vein of unreferved and poignant invective runs through the whole of this poem, which feems, however, to be but indifferently calculated for answering the great purpofe of moral fatire. By appearing too particular for general fimilitude, and too indefinite for perfonal application, we behold the characters only in the light of imaginary portraits, and the fentiments as the ingenious effufions of an author, whofe object is rather to entertain with vivacity of farcafm, than expofe to public view any real delinquents in life. Let us acknowledge, at the fame time, that this writer difcovers a talent for fatire, which, if directed with a more determinate aim, might make a deep impreffion on those who should be rendered confcious of the guilt either of folly or vice, Cc 3 The The Devil: a Poetical Effay. 4to. 15. 6d. DodЛley. This poetical Devil is not the frightful monster, which is fometimes painted with a tail, a cloven foot, horns, and faucer eyes, a mouth glowing like a furnace, and brimstone flaming through his nofe, but a fiend in human shape. If I rightly ween, The gallant Belzebub is feen, A charming youth, with curls and laces, According to this reprefentation, the humble, debonnair, In like manner, the fine lady, who before marriage is all fweetness and complacency, and endowed with a thoufand amiable accomplishments, is afterwards difcovered to be-a fallen angel, or, as our author expresses it, A fmiling, false, infernal vixen.' This is an ingenious thought, capable of being worked up into an elegant poem; as the devil might be exhibited, like the Proteus of Homer, under various forms. But the author has purfued no regular plan; his performance therefore seems to be inferior to what his genius might have produced, To the Memory of the late pious Mr. Thomas Wilton. 800. 44. Buckland. The generality of elogies defcend into the tomb with those they praife. The prefent, though it may be exempted from this immediate interment, will neither render the hero qor the bard immortal. The poet begins: Fain would Urania touch her trembling ftrings, And joy in death be ftill the theme the fings! The fecond line can have no dependence on the first, and is therefore ungrammatical. What Urania wishes to touch is faid, in one line, to be a fringed inftrument; in another, to be only a fimple reed. In the fourth verfe there is a command to tryfome project; but, as the Mufe is only mentioned obliquely, there is no perfon to whom the command is addreffed. DRA DRAMATIC. The Contract. A Comedy of Tivo Alts. As it was performed at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-market. 8vo. Is. Davis. An imitation of a French piece intitled l'Amour ufé; but has little claim to the wit and spirit of the original. MEDICA L. Pradical Obfervations on the Cure of Hectic and Slow Fevers, and the Pulmonary Consumption: to which is added, a Method of treating feveral Kinds of internal Hemorrhages. By Mofes Griffith, M. D. 8vo. 25. White. We are informed by Dr. Griffith, in this pamphlet, that in bectic fevers, not accompanied with any great degree of heat and thirst, or evident figns of inflammation, he has for many years used the following medicine with great fuccefs. R Myrrhæ drachmam unam Solve terendo in mortario cum Aquæ alexetériæ fimplicis unciis fex cum femiffe, cujuflibet fpirituofæ drachmis fex, vel uncia unâ; Dein adde * Salis abfinthii drachmam dimidiam, Salis martis grana duodecim, Syrupi fimplicis drachmas duas. Flat miftura, in hauftus quatuor diftribuenda, quorum unum capiat mane, horâ quintâ poft meridiem, et horâ decubitus. The author alfo informs us that he has ufed the fame method, with equal fuccefs, in flow fevers attended with a low pulse, not Though I have always ordered the medicine to be made up in this manner, yet I find by a late enquiry, that it has likewife been made up fometimes-by rubbing the falt of wormwood with the myrrh, and adding the waters, and then the falt of steel; and fometimes by first rubbing the myrrh fiue with the falt of wormwood, then adding the falt of steel, and after rubbing them a little toge ther, quickly pouring in the waters. 'I have not been fenfible of any difference in the effect, in whichfoever of the three ways the medicine was made up. Yet, upon carefully comparing together the feveral compofitions, that, in which the falt of wormwood was firft rubbed with the myrrh, the waters then added, and the falt of fteel laft of all, plainly appeared to me the most uniform mixture. It kept its colour much longer on ftanding; depofited a lighter fediment; and upon being fhaken, united more easily than either of the other two; and it therefore may deserve the preference." much heat, lofs of appetite, dejection of fpirits, reftless nights, and difturbed fleeps. Likewife, fays he, after long and fevere fevers, that have broken down the conftitution, and are often fucceeded by lowness, want of appetite, and night sweats, In the flow fever, which often attends a chlorofis-Also, after the blood has been drained, and the body weakened, by a large difch rge of matter from a fucceffion of abceffes-After large hemorrhages, which leave behind them a flow fever-In intermittents, where either the bark has failed, or may have been improper to be given-And alfo, where the intermittent has been removed, and a flow, lurking fever remains, attended with weakness, lofs of appetite, dejection of spirits, and nightfweats-In fhort, I may venture to fay, in almost every cafe, where the bark may feem to be indicated, but where either its difagreeing with the ftomach, or fome particular circumstances forbids ite use. In intermittents, I have generally given it four times a day, with rather a lefs dose of myrrh, and a larger of falt of wormwood; and I have always ordered chamemel-flower tea to be drunk with it, or between the dofes' In hectics, which are attended with a cough, and difficult expectoration, Dr. Griffith admits that foft, oily, healing medicines, taken in fmall quantities, occafionally, will be necessary; and he also recommends the difcretionary ufe of paregoric elixir, corrected, if requifite, with oxymel of fquills, oil of sweet almonds, or the like. To confirm thefe obfervations, the author prefents us with a variety of cafes, of the hectic kind, accompanied with the cafes of two patients, who were cured of a diabetes by the fame remedy, after the common methods had been used without fuccefs. Along with this medicine he advises that, in hectic disorders, bleeding be used according to the urgency of the symptoms; and that nitre be administered in cafes accompanied with inflammation. In pulmonary confumptions he also recommends garden-fnails as peculiarly falutary; and infers, from Iwo cafes, that in the inflammatory hectic, particularly in children, very beneficial effects may be derived from the use of a warm or tepid bath.-Befides hectic fevers, and the diabetes, Dr. Griffith, upon the authority of one inftance, is of opinion, that the prefcription abovementioned will alfo be ferviceable in the fever which often accompanies the kind of madness that inclines to melancholy, and is attended with a reftleffness and anxiety. An appendix is added, containing a cafe in confirmation, that large quantities of falt of fteel may be taken without heating: and likewife a method of treating feveral kinds of internal hemorrhages, for which purpose the author chiefly recommends cold-drawn linfeed-oil, with tincture of rhubarb fufficient to keep the body gently open. The 393 The whole treatife bears evident marks of the benevolence and ingenuoufnefs of the author; and on thefe accounts it is particularly entitled to attention, however the propriety of chalybeates, in advanced ftages of the hectic fever, may be repugnant to general opinion. Every Woman her own Phyfician; or the Lady's Medical Affiftant. Containing the Hiftory and Cure of the various Difeafes incident to Women and Children. By A. Hume, M. D. Small 8vo. 25. Richardfon and Urquhart. Though we are not fatisfied with refpect to the fafety of endeavouring to accommodate medical practice to the capacity of those who are totally unacquainted with the principles of the fcience, yet the prefent treatife appears to poffefs at least equal merit with the other productions of the kind, and may be ufeful to fuch ladies as will dabble in the art, without the affiftance of a phyfician. A new Method of curing Diseases by inspecting the Urine, explained: as practifed by the German Doctor. 8vo. 15. Bew. This pamphlet contains a narrative of facts and cafes, tending to confirm the charge of impofture, lately exhibited to the public against a noted empiric. As the evidence is anonymous, it feems to have been the author's defign rather to urge the German doctor with ridicule, than with authenticated proof of his guilt, which appears to be already fully evinced by Dr. Lettfom's obfervations. The Impoftor detected; or the Phyfician the greater Cheat: being a candid Enquiry concerning the Practice of Dr. Mayerfbach. 8.v0. 15. 6d. Wilkie. We should think it were an infult offered to the public, to enter any farther into the merits of the altercation, which is the fubject of this pamphlet. The evidence already produced by Dr. Lettfom was too decifive to be invalidated by the cafes and arguments with which we are now prefented in favour of Mayersbach; and we cannot refrain from expreffing a defire, that the College of Phyficians would interpofe their authority for checking the progrefs of an empiricifm, fo pernicious to the community, and to difgraceful to medical science. Truth and Error contrafted, in a familiar Dialogue: in which are clearly fhewn the miftaken Notions of Mankind, relative to their prefent and future State, to the Refurrection and Judgment, to Heaven and Hell, and Life and Death. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Leacroft. This work confifts of a dialogue between Sarx and Pneuma, the Flesh and the Spirit, in which the author maintains, that mankind |