arrangement, in a method fufficiently clear, and likely to be very ufeful for reference, but not in a way to be read. The work evinces extraordinary diligence; its accuracy can only be proved by long examination, and reference to original authorities. In the part which the author ftyles hiftorical, one year regularly occupies a page, the fubdivifions of which time are regulated by a scale. The events of each country stand in parallel lines, beginning from the most northern nations. Great Britain and Ireland occupy the centre of the page, and in general, by much the largest space. The nature and contents of the reft of the volume feem to be fufficiently detailed in the title page. Nothing of importance, relative to the period included, feems to be neglected and as that period is one relative to which few general works yet exift, this work will doubtlefs be acceptable to the public. DIVINITY. ART. 28. A Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, on Wednesday, May 14, 1794, at the Vifitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Beilby, Lord Bishop of London. By George Henry Glaffe, M. A. Rector of Hanwell. 4to. 23 pp. 1s. Faulder. 1794• A folemn and judicious appeal to the hearts and confciences of Chriftian minifters, on their duties, with reference to the prefent extraordinary times. The text is, Titus. 11. 7.,8. and Mr. Glaffe confiders it as pointing out a threefold divifion of his difcourfe, concerning, 1. The life, z. The doctrines of the clergy, 3. The effect of thefe on those that are without. The firft he paffes over as a point acknowledged; the fecond he compreffes under a few ftrong heads taken from the text. On the third he expatiates further, and with effect. He tells us what the clergy ought and ought not to be, and what he trufts they are; but he adds, that, after all, they muft beware, if preferved, left they "afcribe to merit, what is due only to mercy. Alas," he adds, "were the faithful paftors who have fallen under the daggers of affaffination, finners above all the fervants of Chrift? Far otherwife.-Faithful confeffors, intrepid martyrs, they, rejoiced in following the fteps of their Redeemer, and their church, folitary and a widow, is more venerable, more lovely amidst its tears, than in all the pride and pageantry of bridal magnificence."-He concludes with reflections calculated to fupport the conftancy of our own clergy; fhould they alfo be tried by perfecution. This is an able and truly Chriftian difcourfe. ART. 29. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, York, Aug. 3, 1794. At the Affizes holden before the Hon. Sir Giles Roske, Knight, one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, and the Hon. Sir Soulden Lawrence, Knight, one of the Juf tices of the King's Bench. By George Hay Drummond, A. M. Prebendary of York. Published by defire of the High Sheriff and the Grand Jury. 4to. 28 pp. 1s. Edwards, &c. 1794. It is very true, as this writer obferves, that "from the exigence of the times, general politics are become a part of general morals:" and and it has therefore been expedient, that from the pulpit fhould be diffufed the antidote, to the poifon that has been circulated by other means. Mr. D. from Gal. v. 13. took occafion to vindicate our conftitution, at a time when its moft folemn laws were about to be enforced, as formed according to the true principles of civil liberty. Many difcourfes of this kind have of courfe fallen under our infpection, but few wherein thefe principles have been explained with more clearefs. ART. 30. A Sermon preached at St. Mary's Church in Oxford; before the Governors of the Radcliff Infirmary, 1794. By Hugh Morgan, M. A. Canon Refidentiary of the Cathedral Church of Hereford, Chaplain to his Royal Hignefs the Duke of Gloucester, and late Fellow of Worcester College. 4to. Is. Oxford. Cooke, Rivingtons, London. 1794. This is an animated difcourfe, and remarkably well adapted to the occafion. In this it is forcibly obferved, that among all the nations of antiquity, there is no inftance to be found of any fuch establishment as an infirmary. ART. 31. A Catechifm for Children and Youth; or, A brief Formalary of the Principles and Duties of the Chriftian Religion, drawn up on the Plan of the Catechifm of the Church of England. Svo. 12 pp. 6d. Sherborne printed; fold by Johnfon. 1794. To thofe perfons who think the mere humanity of Chrift a proper article of Chriftian faith, and in other points conceive themfelves at liberty to leave out of the fyftem any thing that appears to them a clog upon it, fuch a Catechifm may be acceptable. We have little doubt that the author, if fincere, (as he seems to be) will, fooner or later, regret, renounce, and difcard what he has written." ART. 32. This author, without attempting to infringe upon the doctrines contained in this creed, propofes only fo to foften and retrench the damnatory paffages, as to remove all reasonable objection to its recital; and he prints the creed fo altered. We cannot perceive any danger that could arife from adopting such a plan. ART. 33. Chriftian Warfare defended and recommended, in a Sermon intended to have been preached before the Vice Chancellor and the Univerfity, at St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, on the 28th of February, 1794, the Day appointed for a folemn Faft. 8vo. 26 pp. is. Kearfley. Unjuft and indecent irony. ART. ART. 34. A Verfion of the Pfalms; originally written by the late Rev, James Merrick, A. M. Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; divided into Stanzas for Parochial Ufe, and paraphrafed in fuch language as will be intelligible to every capacity, by the Rev. William Dechair Tatterfall, A. M. late Student of Chrift Church, Oxford, with a fuitable Collect to each Pfalm, from the Works of Archbifcop Parker. 12mo. 35. Rivingtons, &c. 1794. An anxious defire to improve the ftate of parochial Pfalmody throughout the kingdom has produced, from this zealous and indefatigable divine, feveral powerful endeavours to effe&t that purpofe. To remove the ridicule attached to the very awkward verfion of Sternhold, and to fupply at once the beft that could be wilhed, Mr. Tatterfall long ago (in 1789) divided 'Merrick's excellent tranflation into flanzas adapted for mufic, and published it in that form and having found, as we understand, from his own experience, that fimple tunes in three parts are easily learned by parochial fingers, he iffued at the fame time a felection of fuch tunes. To give his plan every attraction that the beft mufic can bestow, he has fince obtained the affiftance of all the moft eminent compofers of the age and to obviate the only objection on which asy ftrels has been laid, but which we think has little foundation, that the words of this elegant verfion are too difficult to be understood by the common people, he now publishes the prefent fpecimen of an edition with a literal paraphrafe annexed. In the mean time he is publishing the mufic by fubfcription, at two guineas for the whole work; and a very cheap edition alfo, with the parts feparately printed for the fingers, to prevent the neceffity of tranfcribing. It is but juftice to say that the mufic, as far as it has yet been published, does the highest honour to the abilities of the feveral compofers: it is fimple. folemn, and pleafing. In the little volume before us, the collects from Archbp. Parker, are appropriate and good, and the production of them brings forward a treafure of devotion hitherto almoit loft to the world. From the very respectable lift of his fubferibers, and the patronage of the fovereign and most of the leading men in the church, we cannot doubt that Mr. T's plan will be attended with fuccefs; but we referve our further remarks upon it till the appearance of the fplendid edition in quarto which he has promifed. We cannot, however, forbear obferving, as a circumftance which does peculiar honour to the feelings of the editor, that he disclaims all poffibility of profit, in an undertaking profecuted merely for the fervice of religion; and fells every part of his publications at fuch a price as will merely prevent a ruinous lofs to himself. ART. 35. The Duty of Man, in perilous Times; a Sermon in two Parts. For the Faft Day, February 28, 1794. By Alexander Hewalt, D. D. 49 pp. 8vo. is. 6d. Cadell. 1794. The preacher, with great zeal and fpirit, fhows that the days are evil, according to his text, Ephef. v. 15. 16. and teaches us how to It is an able difcourfe, walk circumfpectly and redeem the time. but not ftrikingly diftinguished from feveral that we have seen. ART. ART. 36. A Sermon on the Future State combating the Opinion that IS. This is a very fpirited difcourfe, and fuccefsfully controverts the foolish and prepofterous pofition of which they who first propagated it, feem now in a manner to be ashamed. ART. 37. Inftructions for Children, as a Token of Love for the Rifing The moral and pious precepts inculcated in this little volume, are unexceptionably good; we doubt, however, whether very young minds may not be either perplexed or tinged with too early an enthufiafm of an improper kind, by the overweening fervour of the language. MEDICAL. ART. 38. Obfervations, Phyfiological and Chirurgical, on Compound Fractures, containing an Anfwer to the following Question; "What are the best methods of treating compound fractures, according to the degree of injury fuftained by the limbs ?" By Walker Weldon, Sur geon. 8vo. pp. 137. Price 2s. 6d. Southampton, by T. Baker, for B. Crosby, London. 1794. Mr. Weldon was induced to publish thefe obfervations in confequence of the approbation they received from the Lyceum Medicina Londinenfe. The two firft fections treat of the action of the vital principle, in repairing injuries, and reftoring parts that have been destroyed by accidents or difeafe. The author then enters on the subject of fractures: defcribes the various kinds of them, particularly of compound fractures; the fhare that nature, or the conftitution takes in re-uniting the parts that have been diffevered, and the moft convenient and efficacious mode of affifting her in that procefs. In the course of these remarks, he difcuffes the choice of dreffings, pofition of the limb, bandages, &c. and marks the degree of injury that renders amputation abfolutely neceffary. But as there is very little new en thefe heads, and the management of compound fractures has, as the author obferves, been repeatedly and judicioufly treated by the late Mr. Pott, and other chirurgical writers, we fhall content ourfelves with thus briefly noticing them. Mr. W. concludes with an account of a phænomenon, or appearance in a limb, which feems to merit notice, although, from the manner of introducing it, it is difficult to determine whether the fubject was a patient, whofe cafe fell under the author's management, or a body that accidentally came under his diffecting knife. "A cafe of compound fracture, he says, "came under my care a few days fince, where the limb, instead of "becoming smaller, had increased to an enormous fize. It was a "compound fracture of the humerus, near to the infertion of the deltoid mufcle, and had happened about eighteen months before. "A confiderable portion of each broken extremity of the bone had "exfoliated, but not having been removed, the process of healing "could not go on. A confiderable quantity of coagulable lymph was "thrown into the foft parts around the fracture, had almoft "destroyed their natural itructure, and had rendered them fo firm that the bone feemed as if furrounded with cartilage. From the "elbow downward, the limb was amazingly but uniformly diftended, "with an elaftic, flightly edematous feel". On diffection the mufcles were found of a florid red colour, and they appeared to be full as thofe of the other arm, if not larger. The cellular membrane covering them was of a great thickness containing coagulable lymph and fat, principally, with a fmall proportion of water. ART. 39. Rules for recovering Perfons recently drowned, in a Letter to the Rev. George Rogers, A. M. Rector of Spraughton in Suffolk, by R. Hamilton, M. D. Ipfavich. 8vo. pp. 24. price 6d. Longman. 1794. In these few pages the author has concentrated most of the regulations that have been found useful for recovering perfons recently drowned. As the fubject is interefting, we fhall lay the most mate rial of them before our readers. The body is to be moved with the leaft violence poflible, to fome warm and convenient place, then to be ftripped and wiped with warm cloths, and laid, with the head raised, on a mattrafs, a little inclining to the right fide, carefully avoiding rolling or shaking it, with the view of evacuating any water, that may have cafually paffed in the ftomach, as has been too commonly practifed. The lungs are next to be gently and moderately diftended with air, by means of a pair of bellows. The air, by a light preffure on the chett, is to be again expelled; and while this operation, of alternately filling and emptying the lungs, is performing, frictions are to be ufed, principally near the heart, until the perfon begins to breath, and the heart to beat. Thefe operations, the author fays, are to be continued for two, three, or even four hours, if they fhould not fucceed before. Bleeding, emetics and tobacco glifters, which have been frequently recommended, he confiders as of doubtful efficacy, or as generally more mifchievous than beneficial. Electricity, if incautiously ufed, may deftroy the latent fpark, inftead of reviving it. In thefe obfervations the author acknowledges, there is little new, but as the books of the Humane Society, which treat more largely on this subject, are not much known, in the country where he practices, he thought this little book might ferve as a useful Vade mecum in thofe parts. In this opinion we join him, and with that view recommend it to the notice of the public. ART S. ART. 40. Memoirs of Science and the Arts; or, An Abridgement of the Tranfactions published by the principal learned and economical Societies established in Europe, Afia, and America, Vol. I. two parts. 543 pp. 11. is. Faulder, &c. 1793. To keep pace with the difcoveries made in all parts of the world, by abridging the tranfactions of their learned focieties, is certainly an I important |