ter works them in Grub-street to fome tune. Gafconado is the King of France; and two of the furies stand for the Emprefs-Queens of Hungary and Ruffia: all fad devils, indeed, and such as an honest British painter ought, doubtlefs, to draw them for the honour of Old England!

Art. 30. A Poetical Description of Mr. Hogarth's Election-Prints. In four Cantos. Written under Mr. Hogarth's fanction and inSpection. 4to. Is. Caflon.

If this defcription, as the advertisement prefixed to it fets forth, really hath received Mr. Hogarth's approbation, we have only to exprefs our concern for happening to differ from so ingenious an artist, in any point of tafte: either his judgment in poetry is much inferior to his skill in painting, or we are equally incompetent judges of both.

Art. 31. A Poem on the Winter Season: or, Mr. Hervey's Winter-Piece paraphrafed. By Thomas Baker, Thatcher, in Wickham-market, Suffolk. Ipfwich printed, by William Creighton. 4to. 6d.

A Thatcher! likely enough! for any thatcher, or thresher, or ditcher, who can write at all, may make fuch verfes as Thomas Baker's. The favourable notice taken of the late Stephen Duck, has, we fear, fet many a poor mistaken clown to thyming, instead of endeavouring to excel in more useful employments.

Art. 32. Kitty's Stream; a comic Satire. By Rigdum Funni4to. 6d. Moore.

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Any subject better than none, when a poor Poet wants to eat. Thus in a dearth of news or politics, a common ftrumpet may serve to furnish a dinner to a common fcribbler. Kitty Fisher, however, will not, we apprehend, be vain of these verses, unless her taste in poetry be as wretched as her poet's abilities.

MEDICAL.

Art. 33. Obfervations on Bathing, warm and cold: and the difeafes it will cure without a Doctor. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Cooper.

A new link of that curious chain of pamphlets, mentioned in our Review for February laft, p. 192, article 15. Can the intelligent Reader defire a plainer hint?

Art. 34. The diftinct Symptoms of the Gravel and Stone explained to the Patient, &c. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Cooper.

Another link of the fame chain, vid. the preceding article.

Art. 35.

Art. 35. The Parent's Guide in the Management of Children in the Meafles, &c. By a Phyfician. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Cooper. Another link ftill! the chain extends prodigiously: where, or when, will it end?

Art. 36. A Short Answer to a Set of Queries, annexed to a Pamphlet lately published, pretending to be, of the Rife, Progrefs, and Management tal or Infirmary in the city of Bath*. faid Charity. 8vo. 6d. Cooper.

An hiftorical Account of the General HofpiBy a Governor of the

The bare mention of the titles of pamphlets, in fuch controverfies as this, about the Bath Hospital, is fufficient in a Review of Literature. * See Review for January last, p. 85.

Art. 37. A Treatise on the Gout. By Charles Martin, M.D. 8vo. Is. Caflon.

Quackery.

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL.

Art. 38. A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Elliot, A. B. Chaplain of St. George's Hofpital, Hyde-Park Corner, London; relating to his fermon preached at Chrift-Church, Spital-fields, Jan. 21, 1759. and fince published, entitled, Encouragement for Sinners, or Righteoufnefs attainable without Works, &c. 8vo. 6d. Baldwin.

The Letter-writer's defign is to fhew, that by mifapplication of texts of Scripture, and by mifconftruction of the eleventh article of the church, and by falfe argumentations,' Mr. Elliot has laid down

affertions by way of conclufions, contrary to the true meaning of both, and productive of the most pernicious confequences, in the mischievous caufe of Enthusiasm.'-Laudable, however, as our Author's intention may have been, we apprehend he had better let thefe enthufiaftic preachers alone; for there is fomething abfurd in reasoning with thofe who disclaim the power and use of reason.

Art. 39. Sermons on practical Chriftianity. By Henry Stebbing, D. D. Archdeacon of Wilts, Chancellor of the Diocese of Sarum, and late Preacher to the Honourable Society of Grey's-Inn. 8vo. 5s. Davis and Reymers.

A vein of good fenfe runs through all thefe difcourfes, and they contain many just and useful reflections on the conduct of human life. -The fubjects, which are treated in a clear, easy, and fenfible manner, (though with little regard to order or method) are chiefly thefe following: The neceffity of urging the confideration of a future judgment upon the minds of youth; the comforts of a religious life;

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fobriety and vigilance; doing unto others as we would be done unto; covetousness; the difference between the rich and the poor, in regard to the happiness of the prefent life; the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus; the obligation of fulfilling the duties of our refpective ftations, which are all affigned us by Providence; alms-giving; the duty of forgivenefs; the devotional part of religion; truft in God; the duty of taking up the cross, and bearing the reproach of Chrift; keeping confciences void of offence toward God and toward man; the parable of the prodigal fon illuftrated; care and diligence in our heavenly calling, in view of the great account we are to render at the day of judgment; the parable of the King fending forth his fervants to invite guests to the marriage of his fon, explained and improved, &c. R

Art. 40. Demonstrations of Religion and Virtue.

courfes. 8vo. Is. Dodfley.

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The Author's defign in these very fhort difcourfes, we are told in the preface to them, is to obviate the growing evils of fuperftition and enthufiafm; to point out the true rules, and true end of human life; and to promote the practice of religion and virtue, as the only means of attaining happiness, both in the prefent and in a future ftate. Dif fatisfied with thofe Writers, who treat of virtue in abstracted and obfcure terms; and with those who make religion dependent on church-tradition and church-authority, the Author, it is faid, has endeavoured to express his thoughts in a more inftructive manner, and to render fubjects of the utmott concern to all men, intelligible to all.

The words from which he difcourfes are thefe: All my delight is upon the faints that are in the earth, and fuch as excell in virtue. Pf. xvi. 3. In the first difcourfe he endeavours to explain what is meant by virtue, and what thofe effential properties are which diftinguish it from every oppofite quality, from all affinity with vice. Virtue, he says, confifts in a conformity of action to the true rules of action, or in the exercife of a power imparted to all moral agents, a power to do fuch actions as promote the common happiness of all.

In the fecond difcourfe he endeavours to fhew, that univerfal good is the end of all the works, of all the actions, and all the laws of God; that the good of mankind is the end of religion, or the end for which the divine will is manifefted to human understandings, and for which God has infcribed laws on the minds of men, directing every human action to its proper end; that the practice of religion is the practice of virtue, ftrengthened by divine authority, and by motives fuggefted by God, the motives of reverence and honour, of gratitude and efteem, which oblige all inferior agents, and inferior minds, to yield obedience to the fupreme agent, and the fupreme mind.-Thefe are the fubjects of which he treats, but he treats them in too general and fuperficial a manner; fo that what he advances, will not, we doubt, yield the highest fatisfaction to a difcerning Reader. R

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Art. 41. An Efay on preaching Chrift and him crucified. By Jofeph Stokes, A. M. Curate of Allhallows Steyning. 8vo. I s. Piers, Coopers, &c.

This is a plain, fenfible difcourfe from 1 Cor. i. 23. But we preach Chrift crucified Mr. Stokes fhews, in a very clear and judicious manner, that it is the duty of every Christian teacher to explain and enforce Chriftian morality; morality as it fignifies obedience to the laws of Chrift; and frequently to make the duties, as well as the bleflings, of our religion, the fubjects of his difcourfes -Strange, that any mi

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Art. 42. A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Jones, Chaplain of St. Saviour's, Southwark. By Jofeph Stokes, A. M. Curate of Allhallows, Steyning. 8vo. 6d. Piers, Cooper, &c.

The occafion of this letter, we are told, was as follows--Mr. Stokes going on Sunday evening, Nov. 5, 1758, to St. Swithin's church, at London Stone, after prayers were over, found that Mr. Jones was to preach; who introduced his fermon with thefe, or fuch like, words-

That it was certainly the duty of a minifter to confider his text, and what he was to fay upon it, before that time; but that for his part, he did not know his text till that moment, and that he had it immediately from God.'-Mr. Stokes, as well he might, was greatly furprized, when he heard him fay, that he had his text immediately from God and accordingly, when he returned home, and reflected upon the fermon, he refolved to write privately to Mr. Jones, begging to know upon what warrant, either of fcripture or reason, we might expect fuch immediate affiftances from God. Mr. Jones, in his answer, which answer the Reader is here prefented with, defends his ufe of the expreffion, difclaiming all extraordinary offiftances of the Holy Spirit, and pleading for nothing more than the common influences of grace. Mr. Stokes's reply, in the letter now before us, is rational and judicious, and written with candour and moderation. In a word, Mr. Stokes appears to be a rational Chriftian; Mr. Jones, a prefumptuous Enthufiaft.

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Art. 43. Three occafional Difcourfes delivered in the Royal Navy. By the Rev. Mr. Philipps, Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship Terrible. 8vo. 6d. Townihend,

The firft of thefe difcourfes was delivered on board his Majesty's fhip Princess Royal, on the Sunday after the declaration of war against France, in May 1755; the fecond on board his Majefty's Ship Terrible, on the coaft of Cape Breton, on the expectation of an engagement with the French fleet, in September 1757; and the third on board his Majelly's thip Terrible, going into Hallifax Harbour, in Nova Scotia, on the Sunday after the violent ftorm, that difabled a great part of his Majesty's fleet cruifing off Louifbourgh, oa the 25th of September, 1757.

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The difcourfes are short and fenfible, and the fentiments contained in them very suitable to the occafions on which they were delivered.

R Art. 44. A Charge delivered to the Clergy, at a Vifitation held for the Diocese of London, in the year 1759. By the Right Reverend Thomas, Lord Bishop of London. 4to. 1 s. Whiston.

In this Charge his Lordship confines himself to the confideration and enforcement of one point only, but a very important one, viz. the obligation Clergymen are under to a conftant attendance upon their feveral cures. This duty, he obferves, arises by neceffary confequence from the nature of the office which they have undertaken, and and the effential part is a perfonal attendance upon the difcharge of it.

The provincial conftitutions of the church, we are told, and the laws of the realm, confider refidence as a perpetual duty; and every non-refident Rector, or Vicar of a Parish, is, prima facie, criminal in the eye of both laws, till he fhews a legal difpenfation to justify or excufe himself. Now as thefe difpenfations create the whole difficulty of this cafe, his Lordfhip confiders them particularly, and enquires, Firft, In what cafes difpenfations are grantable, and by whom; Secondly, Upon what conditions they are grantable.

He treats his fubject with great clearness and accuracy, and what he has advanced upon it, deferves the serious confideration and attentive perufal of every Clergyman.

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T St. Laurence's church, near Guild-hall, London, April 26, 1759, before the Governors of the Magdalen-house. By the Rev. William Dodd. 4to. 1s. Davis and Reymers.

2. Chriftian Stedfaftnefs; or St. Paul's affectionate Pleas with his Converts at Philippi, to ftand faft in the Lord-On the death of the Rev. Mr. Rifdon Darracott, at Wellington, Somerfetfhire, April 15, 1759. By Benjamin Faucett. 8vo. 6d. Buckland.

3. Self dfclaimed, and Chrift exalted.-Preached at Philadelphia before the Synod of New-York, May 25, 1758. By David Boftwick, A. M. Minifter of the Prefbyterian church in New-York. To which is added, Peace and Unity recommended Preached before the Synods of New-York and Pennsylvania, May 24, 1758. By Francis Allison, A. M. Vice-Provoft of the College, and Rector of the Academy, at Philadelphia. 12mo. 1s. Field. Either fermon to be had separate.

4. Before the Sons of the Clergy, at St. Paul's, May 10, 1759. By Stotherd Abdy, M. A. Rector of Theydon Garnon, Effex. 4to. 6 d. Bathurft.