there are few things in the work parison, they should be found to very censurable ; and indeed how convey a juster representation of could there be, when the author the original,than the corresponding wanted that poetick fire, which a- passages of Mr. Hoole's version, lone can infuse even into a trans. the superiority must be ascribed lation of a Roman satire, the true to the peculiar fitness of blank spirit of that species of writing? verse, as the medium of translaWe say, it contains little that is tion, where the original is so revery censurable. There are some markably distinguished by energy, passages where we find words com- majesty, and simplicity of style.” bined in a manner neither elegant We shall enter into no controversy nor correct ; such as, “ far more with the writer on this subject. present,” 6 chief (most) detest," Hoole, in his Tasso, has always deTo breathe a wretched vow” (for lighted us, and delighted the more prayer:) The word rhetor is re- for having, in imitation of his otained in the translation for rhetor- riginal, added to his correct versiician, which is also one word in a fication the pleasing ornament of doggerel catalogue of professions, rhyme, which is not incompatible (lines 113-14) that will infallibly with true sublimity. We do not make the reader laugh. The ex- say that a translation of Tasso, as amples of bad rhymes and false good as Mr. Hoole's, can never be measure are very few ; fewer than produced ; but we are confident, what may be found in the same that our author has too much mosatire in Mr. Gifford's translation. desty to stand forth for the prize While the author of London, an of superiority. imitation of the third satire of Ju- The most considerable in length venal, was unknown to Pope, we of the poems in this volume, called are told, he exclaimed in the words original, is one entitled « The Tri. of Terence, “ ubi, ubi est celari non umph of Woman." “ There is,” the potest ;" but we shall wave our cu- author remarks, “a considerable riosity to know the author of the hiatus in the manuscript of this translation, till in his own language, poem; should the publick add valde -waveringly prophetick indeed, deflendus, it may possibly be sup. plied." The publick has hardly “Perhaps, embolden'd by the voice of sensibility enough to weep on such praise,” occasions. We perused it in the he shall again appear before the night, and, perchance, shed a tear. publick, and, in a tone more com- In some instances we have remarkmanding, claim admission into the ed, in the smaller poems, an af. temple of fame. fected use of obsolete terms. If There are several smaller trans- our poets continue this practice, lations in this volume, from ancient (for others are guilty of the same) and modern poets, in which there we shall soon have to repair to Ben is little to censure or to praise. Jonson, or the old ballad, for a Two odes from Anacreon, a war glossary to poems of the nineteenth song from Tyrtæus, an ode from century. Another species of afthe Spanish of La Vega, and por- fectation in this writer is the pecutions from Tasso's Jerusalem De- liar and repeated use of the infinilivered, are among the number. tive, with the omission of its approOf the translations from Tasso, the priate sign 10,—as, wont inspire, author remarks, “ if, upon com- deign impart, chuse impart. Sonnets compose a considerable portion of the original poetry; but as our author cannot expect to build his fame on the airy fabrick of sonnets, we make him no apology for neglecting them. Altho' there are pieces in this collection, which we are not disposed to censure, we think the writer has still before him the arduous task of establishing his reputation as a poet. He certainly undervalues, or sadly neglects, the harmony of numbers; and, though he sometimes writes good sense, he fails in that callida junctura, or dextrous combination of words, which Horace, the great arbiter in matters of taste, tells us gives to an old thought the semblance of novelty. There are a few small poems in this volume, communicated by the friend, who wrote the introductory letter. These are sometimes ac companied by a little marginal praise, which, as it is a mark of our author's gratitude, we highly approve. In the lines addressed to a lady, there are several verses which gave us pleasure; and, as we always wish our readers to participate with us the sweet as well as the bitter, we conclude with the two following verses :.... The trickling tears which flow'd at night As oft his anxious nurse has caught, The bright but treach'rous blaze; ART. 61. Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. Written by himself. Containing an account of his life and writings, interspersed with anecdotes and characters of several of the most distinguished persons of his time, with whom he has had intercourse and connexion. New-York, published by Brisban & Brannan. 8vo. pp. 356. FROM the life of Cumberland we had expected much, and our expectations are not disappointed. Yet our gratification has not been uniform or uninterrupted. When the literary veteran speaks of his own services in the world of letters, he commonly fixes attention; when he talks of the wits, his contemporaries, he is always listened to with pleasure; but he wishes us besides to be acquainted with all the branches of his family, with his masters and his rivals at the university, whose names we have seldom heard before, and of whom we shall never inquire hereafter. Much of his book is also devoted to his political concerns, and this we could contentedly have spared. The chief difficulty in reading this work arises from the want of dates. The events of one season after another, from youth to age, are related by the biographer without designating the years, in which they happened; and he talks of the next spring, or the next winter, when we can hardly determine them with more certainty, than the chronology of Priam. Of those productions, to which the world has showed little kindness, the author gives us large extracts. In the decline of life the offspring of his youth seem dearer to him than those of his maturity, and he vainly wishes them to be received into the same company. a The tedious transcripts in pages teem; a man, who, when divested 85, 188, 341, besides most of the of that incidental greatness, which ninety pages of his diplomatick high office for a time can give, transactions in Spain, increase the self-dignified and independent, rose cost of his book, while they add to real greatness of his own creatlittle to its lue. During the ing, which no time can take away ; visit to the lakes of Cumberland, whose genius gave a grace to every “ the sun," says our author, “was thing he said, and whose benignity never very gracious to our suit ;" shed a lustre upon every thing he nor can this excite surprise, if his did ; so richly was his memory refulgence was only to be hoped stored, and so lively was his imfrom the languid invocation he has agination in applying what he recopied for us. nembered, that, after the great Of the style the general char- source of information was shut acter is ease without grace, and it against himself, he still possessed sometimes falls below the sim- a boundless fund of information plicity of conversation towards vul- for the instruction and delight of garily. “I declare to truth” is others.” is not the language of a gentleman. The last words of Viscount The thoughts are lively rather Sackville, more known in our than instructive. There are few country, as Lord George Ger. profound observations ; but many maine, do honour to the memory animated similies, and many un- of a man of talents. " You see expected combinations. me now in those moments, when The anecdotes of the well-known no disguise will serye, and when characters of Johnson, Goldsmith, the spirit of a man must be proved. Garrick, and Foote will be often I have a mind perfectly resigned, perused with delight. Of Gar- and at peace within itself. I have rick, whose sphere was remote done with this world, and what I from his own, Cumberland speaks have done in it, I have done for in the most generous and deserved the best ; I hope and trust I am commendation ; but the domain prepared for the next. Tell not of Goldsmith borders on the prov. me of all, that passes in health ince of the biographer ; and, in and pride of heart ; these are the his notes of praise, we distinguish moments, in which a man must the tone of a rival. a be searched, and remember, that I From the accouut of those per- die, as you see me, with a tranquil sons, whose virtues are less known conscience and content." than their names, we extract for The heart of the author, as evi. general information the character dently appears from many places of Lord North. “ When in pro- in his narration, is of the most cess of time I saw and knew Lord amiable disposition, deeply imbued North in his retirement from all with publick affairs, patient, collected, “ Jl the charities resigned to an afflicting visitation Of father, son, and brother.” of the severest sort, when all, but Though his family misfortunes his illuminated mind, was dark allow us not to exclaim, happy old around him, I contemplated an af- man! with more fervency than fecting and an edifying object, that Horace we shall pray, serus in claimed my admiration and es- colum redeas. a ART. 62. in effect. The calls of duty, and The Philadelphia Medical Museum. the fatigues of practice, allowed By John Redman Core, M. D. but little time to be devoted to the Vols, I. and II. 8vo. Phila- . arranging of those ideas, and desdelphia, Archibald Bartram, for, cription of those cases, which an Thomas Dobson. acute and habitual observation had gradually collected. The inconPeriodICAL publications may venience, resulting from this mode be considered one effect of the of publication, added to the convicnew direction, which the genius of tion, that many useful observations Bacon gave to the powers of the and important discoveries were mind. Before that era of true lost, merely through want of a prophilosophy the medical art was per vehicle to convey them to the obscured by hypothetical reason- publick mind, first suggested the ings, founded on fancied proper- idea of periodical works. The adties of matter, or on the combina- vantages of these were soon obvition of certain elements, which ex- So soon as it was known, that isted only in the writings of the detached portions of practical philosophers. From absurd theo- knowledge might be published, unries resulted curious and unfortu- connected with systems, and unnate modes of treatment ; and the supported by theories, every one evident incongruity, arising from was willing to contribute his share the application of preconceived hy- of experience to the publick good. potheses to the cure of diseases, Works of this nature multiplied, drew from a celebrated ancient phy- and were soon disseminated thro' sician the observation, that medi- almost every nation in Europe. cine was merely a “conjectural Periodical publications, in fact, may art." The revolution, however, be considered the indices, which which the method of reasoning by mark the progress of the sciences. in luction produced on most of the They are the depositaries of those physical sciences, was gradually l'esearches and discoveries, which extended to that of medicine. acute and sagacious minds have Theories were deserted for facts, collected on those branches of gelis and speculative opinions for the eral science, to which each of these knowledge of the operations of na- works is respectively appropriated. ture. The science of medicine In our own country the progress acquired new principles, and as- of this great improvement was exsumed a new character. Hence tremely slow. For a long period resulted the anxiety of philoso- we were contented to reason on the phers to collect facts, and, from facts, and practise on the principles the same principle, proceeded the of European systems. Societies extensive epistolary correspon- for the advancement of medicine dence, which, for a long period, have successively pledged themwas attached to eminence in the selves to favour the publick with medical profession. Physicians their transactions, but that responwere eager to obtain some portion sibility, which is efficient in an inof that practical knowledge, which dividual, becomes weakened by extae patriarchs of medicine were tension. The ardor scientiæ,v hich able and willing to impart. But glows in the bosoms of a few, is ofthis mode of communication was ten extinguished by diffusion. laborious in execution, and limited This impediment is to be discor. To ered in moral causes. Our coun- rich field of inquiry. This branch try is certainly capable of afford- of knowledge has been too much ing rich and abundant materials neglected. Physicians of the intefor works of this nature. The riour have, from necessity, acquirterritory of the United States is of ed a kind of empyrical knowl. immense extent, and comprehends edge of our indigenous plants. within its boundaries, every variety This, however, has been in general of soil, and almost every modifi- confined within their own sphere cation of climate. Our fields are of practice. Yet medicines, for still unexplored by the botanist, which the physician of the city is and our mountains by the mineral- indebted to his retort and crucible, ogist. New diseases have arisen, are often found by the “ culler of whose origin and nature are still simples," ready prepared in the the subjects of controversy among great laboratory of nature. our physicians; while the diseases these should be added accounts of of Europe, modified by our cli- the variations of the weather, and mates and modes of living, re- of diseases connected with these quire new applications and differ- states. ent modes of treatment. Know- The Medical Musuem, each ing, therefore, that we possess in- number of which appears every exhaustible stores of new matter, four months, is divided into three. it was with much pleasure we heads. . The first is devoted to opened the work before us, the original communications ; the sethird of the kind devoted to medi- cond, denominated the Philosophical pursuits, published in this coun- cal and Medical Register, contains try. In the formation of a work extracts from European journals, like this, the first object of atten- and gives accounts of those dis-, tion, undoubtedly, for its impor- coveries, which tend to the 'adtance, is a collection of facts on our vancement of medicine and of the diseases, particularly our autumnal sciences, with which it is connectepidemicks. It is well known that ed; the third division is simply an the most respectable physicians of enumeration of new publications. the southern and middle states The limits of a review will not have been and still are engaged in permit us to examine in detail the a controversy, respecting the ori. multifarious productions, by which gin, the nature, and the modes of works like these are necessarily. treatment of the bilious remitting constituted. We shall only brieffever. A collection, therefore, of ly notice those papers, which apauthentick documents, relative to pear valuable to us for practica! this disease, so as to form a regular observations, or for the successful chronological account, may tend to exhibition of new remedies in the elucidate these disputed points, and cure of diseases. On the yellow consequently to mitigate that ran- fever we find several communica. cour, with which this contest of tions. The first volume commenopinion has been conducted, and ces with the account of Dr. Mitchell, which has thrown no small degree of the fever in Virginia, in 1741-2. of odium on the medical profes. This is communicated by Dr.Rush, sion, Next to these we class ac- and is the same, if we mistake not, counts of the vegetable and mineral to which he refers in his own work productions of our own country. on that subject; and which gave Here we find open to our view a him the hint, that first led to the a |