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of the Indian natives; the state of the British colonies at the termination of the French war; of their altercation with the parent country; it proceeds to give a general sketch of the American war, and the acceptance of the federal constitution; it inserts the farewell address of General Washington, in 1796; and concludes with a description of his person.

Though this work is a compilation almost entirely in the words of other authors, it contains much useful information for those read ers, who have not time to peruse, and cannot easily procure larger

accounts.

NOTICES

Of First Lines of the Practice of Physick. By William Cullen, M. D. &c. With practical and explanatory notes, by John Rotheram, M. D. New York Printed by L. Nicholls, for I. Riley & Co.

WE are rejoiced to see Cullen in a decent American dress. Perhaps his general correctness, his incontrovertible practice, and his unparalleled popularity, entitle him to more elegant habiliments than those in which he here appears before us.

It is unnecessary to recommend Cullen's practice of physick to the perusal of physicians. We venture to advise the medical tyro to fix all the practical part of the work firmly in his memory. He will find more advantage from be ing thoroughly possessed of it, than from running through a hundred of your Darwins and Beddoes's, and others like them. The theory of spasm and collapse, on

which Cullen prided himself as the greatest effort of his genius, is fallen with many more theories, and will be followed by others innumerable, till physicians return to Hippocrates, and learn to observe `nature, before they reason on her operations. The loss of this theory does not affect the practice of Cullen, which remains a model of excellence.

The edition before us is executed with a good type, on tolerable paper, and is about as free from typographical errours, as American editions of medical works generally are. This work was formerly printed in four volumes, then compressed to two, and now the printer has contrived to compel the whole into a single volume. Hence the type appears very crowded, and the notes are in a character so small, as barely to be legible. It is copied from Rotheram's edition. That by Reid is later, and the notes are more appropriate, though fewer in number. Bosquillon, the French translator of Cullen, has given very copious and valuable notes on this work. These would be a considerable ac quisition to English medical literature. They would enhance the value of Dr. Cullen's book, and at the same time possess the advantage of affording a comparative view of French and English medicine.

We have been informed, that it is contemplated to publish this work at Worcester. It is desirable, that it should appear in a style suited to the merits of the work, and to the extensive circulation insured it. The alteration of names of medical simples and compounds, to those of the last Edinburgh pharmacopeia or dispensatory, would increase the val ue of the book, and save students

the labour of referring to old phar- though less ghostly than his com macopeias.

panions, Mr. Godwin is conspicuons. From the refined reveries of Political Justice he turned his

attention to the manufacture of Fleetwood ; or, The New Man of stories. How well he succeeded

Feeling. By William Godwin. in this fashionable employment In two volumes. New York : Caleb Williams and St. Leon Printed for I. Riley & Co. No. honourably show. The first is a 1, City-Hotel. 1805.

treasure amongst rubbish of its

order, and the second, notwithTHough the first talents are standing the declaration of Horace, Decessary to the production of a good novel, writings of this spe.

Quodcunque ostendis mißi sic, incredalus odi, çies are continually attempted. continues to be a favourite among Why that which is arduous should the majority of readers. But unibe ventured on in common, or this form excellence is attainable by track of literature be travelled by none; and, in the performance becrowds, it is difficult perhaps satis fore us, Mr. Godwin has failed. factorily to settle. Were authors Whether the plan of this novel restricted by the penury of their is unfavourable to the genius of its calling to a fewness of themes, writer, or his former productions some cause would appear for their have exhausted his vein, or what abounding in fable : but topicks has contributed to his present misin letters being numerous and free, carriage, it is not expressly our it is hard to account for their fancy business to say. But, were we for one. Every description of called to account for the failures we literati, and of no description too, have detected, we should conceive counsellors and clergy, statesmen that Mr. G. had mistaken his and ladies, book-sellers and beaux, province; that the gallantries of some without brains and some Paris, and the exploits of collegians, with, as if smit by enchantment, were unsuitable materials for the couch the quill for romance. author of Falkland, and the treBleeding nuns and bloodless mendous Bethlem Gabor. There corses, vacant castles and people are dispositions that seem destincaverns, blue flames and white, ed for the heroick alone, that atred flames and green, damsels tain to objects elevated with digand knights, duennas and squires, nity and ease, but discover no friars and devils, with death's-heads gracefulness in stooping to levities. and cross-bones to boot, dance the On the mountains of Switzerland, hay through their works, as though in the community of robbers, with description were crazed.

every thing chivalrous, Mr. God

win appears consummately at • The times have been, home : But, in descending to petThat when the brains were out, the mad

ty characters and passions, in the would die,

management of a tete-a-tete, or the And there an end; but now, they rise again,

maneuvre of a love-matter, he aptWith twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. SHAKES.

ly reminds one of Hercules at the

distaff. It might be observed of Among the multitude that af- him, as of some former genius, ķ fect this department of writing, that he could sculpture heroes in

marble, but wanted art to carve a head on a nut-shell.

The leading defects in the New Man of Feeling are, violent metaphors, long winded reflections, and declamatory sentiment. Fleet wood seems possessed of all the foibles of our author, with very few of his excellences. On those occasions, where he used to be instructive or entertaining, he appears here to be irrelative or tedious; where he was formerly elevated or moving, he seems now to be fulsome or puerile. He is frequently so inflated with the effervescence too of his fancy, that he resembles new beer in the labours of refinement. He is continually sighing at the vent with a sad string of abs....ah.....ahs!!! or popping off in foam with....good God!...just heavens !...and, poor Mary! You must first be contented to remove the froth from his surface, before you taste of his spirit, or you may be frosted to the eyes in the exuberance of his head. To afford our readers an example of the true sublime and pathetick, we quote the following soliloquy of the New Man of Feeling :

Shall I go to my wife, and confront her with this new evidence of her guilt? No, I will never speak with her, never see her more. It is a condescension unworthy of an injured husband ever to admit his prostituted consort into his presence! It is as if God should go down and visit Satan in his polluted, sulphureous abodes! How from my inmost soul I abhor her! How I will hold her up to the abhorrence of the world!How I should like to see her torn with red-hot pincers!To what a height I have loved her! No, no, no, no, no-never ! ~

. If this, gentle readers, be not rhetorick run mad, then have we no skill in criticism. Another ob

jection to Fleetwood is the fashion of its episodes. They seem to

break out unnaturally from the body of the work, and wear the ap pearance of excrescences, rather than branches. 'We are told a kind of cock-and-bull story about a whimsical little boy, who trav elled, nobody knows how far, and, in fact, nobody cares, to introduce himself, forsooth, to Louis the fourteenth. Now this, certainly, is a very singular affair, and for that reason, unquestionably, very pretty. But Mr. Godwin should remember, that he is not composing for the entertainment of nurseries. Our author too, ever willing to take up any threads but those of his story, diverted himself so long in the mill at Lyons, that we began to suspect him to be occupied by the spinning out of other matter than silk. For a dozen pages, or more, we heard nothing but the rattling of swifts, children scampering for broken twist, and the trampling of a mill-horse, who gave spring to this hubbub. On the whole; there is very little in these volumes that reminds one of Mr. Godwin, excepting his visit to Ruffigny and his name on the title.

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Elements of General Knowledge, introductory to useful books in the principal branches of literature and science, designed chiefly for the junior students in the universities, and the higher classes in schools. By Henry Kett, B. D. fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Oxford. Philadelphia,Maxwell, for F. Nichols, Philadelphia, and J. A. Cummings, Boston. 1805. 2 vols. 12mo. pp. 350 each.

THIS is among the few books which merits the currency which it has found. Mr. Kett indeed is

rank in ancient literature.

not a man of superlative talents, but which must be overpassed before it does not require very transcend- he can completely enjoy them. ant powers to accomplish all that The American edition is rehe proposes. His design is to give markably neat, and we examined a survey of the general objects of it with unmingled pleasure, till we knowledge, which he reduces un- met the following passage, which der the following classes : Relig- is inserted in a note on the chapter ion, language, history, philosophy, on the Greek language. polite literature and the fine arts,

The English reader must make a due allowance and the sources of national pros

for the exaggerated praise of a credulous classi.

cal pedant, who seeins to believe all the idle stoperity. We were at first appre- ries which the Grecian writcrs relate of their

countrymen. If the celebrated Romances of Mrs. hensive that we were sitting down Radcliffe had been written by a Republican of to the examination of another at- Athens, they would probably have lield the first tempt “ to show a royal path to That sublime moralist, and profound scholar,

Mr. Godwin, is equally liberal of his praise of the geometry ;” and we give Mr. Kett language, literature, and virtues of the Romans.

Sce Godwirt's Inquirer. his highest praise, when we say our suspicions were unjust. He We want words to express our has not debased the dignity of lit. indignation at the unexampled imerature, by making superficial pertinence of this intrusion on Mr. knowledge of it more easy ; he Kett. Its absurdity and imbecilonly gives his youthful reader a ity does not at all apologize for its view of the objects and present insolence; and if the works which state of science, and admits him

are reprinted in this country are to to see at a distance its “ goodly be thus polluted, our hopes from prospects,” and hear its “ melo- the growing utility of our press dious sounds,” without conceal- must be at once relinquished. ing or diminishing the difficulties,

Editor.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE U. States, FOR MARCH, 1806.

Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocris, sunt mala plura.-MART.

We cannot too often repeat solicitations to authors, printers, and booksellers, in the different parts of the United States, to send us by the earliest opportunities (post paid) notices of all books which they have lately published, or which they intend to publish. The list of New Publications, &c. contained in the Anthology is the only list within our knowledge published in the United States, and consequently the only one that can be useful to the publick for purposes of general reference. If authors and frublishers will consent to communicate, not only notices, but a copy of all their publications, such use might be made of them as would promote, what all unite in ardently wishing, the general interest of American literature, and the more extensive circulation of books.

three volumes. By Mrs. Mercy War. HISTORY of the Rise, Progress, and ren, of Plymouth, (Mall.) Vols.' I. and Termination of the American Revolu- II. 8vo. ist vol. pp. 448, 2d vol. 412. tion; interspersed with biographical, Boston : Printed by Manning & Loring, political, and moral Observations. La for E. Larkin, 1805.

Vol. III. No. 3. W

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The first Supplement to the Philadel phia Medical and Phyfical Journal, colfected and arranged by B. Smith Barton, Profeffor of Materia Medica, Natural Hiftory, and Botany, in the University of Penafylvania. 8vo. Philadelphia. 1806.

A Syftem of Geometry and Trigonom etry; together with a treatise on Surveying teaching various ways of taking the furvey of a field, alfo to protract the fame, and find the area. Likewife rectangular furveying; or an accurate method of calculating the area of any fe'd arithmetically, without the neceffity of plotting it. To the whole are added feveral mathematical Tables, neceflary for folving queftions in trigonometry and furveying with a particular. explana tion of thole tables, and the manner of efing them. Compiled from various anthors, by Abel Flint, A. M. Hartford. Lincoln & Gleason.

No 85 of A new and complete Encyelopædia, or univerfal dictionary of arts and fciences. 4to. New York.

The American Gardener's Calender; adapted to the climates and feafons of the United States, containing a complete account of all the work neceffary to be done in the kitchen garden, fruit garden, orchard vineyard, nursery, pleasureground, flower garden, green-house, hothoufe, and foreing frames, for every month in the year. To which are annexed, extenfive catalogues of the different kinds of plants, which may be cultivated either for ufe or ornament in the feveral departments, or in rural economy; divided into eighteen alphabetical claffes, arcording to their habits, duration, and modes of culture; with explanatory introductions, marginal marks, and their true Linnæan or botanical, as well as English names; together with a copious index to the body of the work. By Bernard M Mahon, nursery, feedfinan, and florist, Philadelphia. Price, full bound, 3,50 Philadelphia. 1806.

A Compendious Dictionary of the Engith language, in which five thoufand words are added to the number found in the beft English compends; the orthography is in fome intances corrected, the pronunciation marked by an accent, or other fuitable direction; and the definitions of many words amended and improved. To which are added, for the benefit of the merchant, the ftudent and the traveller,

1. Tables of the moneys of most of the commer. cial nations in the world, with the value exprefied in fterling, and cents. II. Tables of weights and

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By Noah Webster, Efq. From Sidney Prefs, for Hudfon & Goodwin, Hartford, and Increafe Cooke & Co. New-Haven. 12mo. pp. 408. 1806.

A Collection of the Effays on the Subject of Epifcopacy, which originally ap peared in the Albany Centinel, and which are afcribed principally to Rev. Dr. Linn, Rev. Mr. Brealey, and Thos Y. How, Efq. With additional notes and remarks. New York. T. & J.

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Familiar Letters, to the Rev. John Sherman, once paftor of the church in Mansfield, in particular reference to his late anti-trinitarian Treatife. By Daniel Dow, paftor of a church in Thompson, Connecticut. Hartford. Lincoln and Gleason. 1806. 25 cents.

Illuftrations and Reflections on the ftory of Saul's confulting the witch of Endor. A difcourfe, delivered at Weft

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A new-year's fermon, preached at Lee, January 1, 1804. By Rev. Alvan Hyde, paftor of the church in Lee.

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A fermon, delivered at Lenox, (Maff.) February 20th, 1806, being the day of the execution of Ephraim Wheeler, pur

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