hensive, art of swearing. He also proposes that he should publish The complete Oath Register, or Every Man his own Swearer, together with Sentimental Oaths for the Ladies, and Execrations for the Current Year. At the end of No. V. we find some verses above mediocrity, entitled, "The slavery of Greece,"under the same signature, which we shall here transcribe; Unrivall'd Greece! thou ever-honour'd name, Thou nurse of heroes dear to deathless fame! Trace thy past worth, and view thee with a sigh. "Here lov'd by Pallas and the sacred Nine, } "How skill'd the Greeks; confess what Persians slain Were strew'd on Marathon's ensanguin'd plain; When heaps on heaps the routed squadron fell, The rush of nations could alone sustain, While half the ravag'd globe was arm'd in vain. How great Epaminondas fought and fell! "Not "Nor war's vast art alone adorn'd thy fame, With pictur'd pomp to grace, and sculptur'd state; "This was thy state! But oh! how chang'd thy fame, And all thy glories fading into shame. What? that thy bold, thy freedom-breathing land, Should crouch beneath a tyrant's stern command; That servitude should bind in galling chain, Whom Asia's millions once oppos'd in vain ; Who could have thought? Who sees without a groan, Pale ivy throws its sluggish arms around. "Thy sons (sad change !) in abject bondage sigh; Unpitied toil, and uniainented die; Groan Groan at the labours of the galling oar, Spurn'd by the foot, they tremble and revere. "The day of labour, night's sad sleepless hour, The bloody terror of the pointed steel, cc a licensed In No. VII. Mr. Canning opens warehouse for wit," with a N. B. indicating that "attic salt" may be had in any quantities, and "most money given for old jokes." No. XI. and XII. are occupied with a parody on the laws of criticism, as adapted to epic poetry; the following ludicrous lines being chosen as the subject: "The "The Queen of Hearts, She made some tarts, All on a summer's day: The Knave of Hearts He stole those tarts, Aud-took them quite-away!" Some have imagined that Addison's exposition of the ballad of Chevy Chace, in the Spectator, has been alluded to on this occasion. No. XXII. contains a happy vein of ridicule on the poets who attempt to assimilate the works of the Creator of the universe with those of the humble manufacturer; and in their " Odes to Spring," &c. "catch the fragrance of the damask rose; listen to the rustling of the silken foliage; or lie extended with a listless languor, pillowing the head upon the velveret mead." He recommends them to proceed in their brilliant career, aud introduce " plains of plush, pastures of poplin, downs of dimity, vallies of velvet, and meadows of Manchester." He at the same time compares the poetry of Pope to flowered satin. The compositions of all the Poets Laureat, ancient and modern, are denominated prince's stuff; the works of Homer are designated everlasting; and those of Shakespeare are likened to "shot silks, which vary the brightness of their hues into a multitude of different lights and shades." No. XXVI. is wholly occupied with novel-writing, styled by some the younger sister of Romance, but here proved to be exactly the same identical person; the merciless giants of former times being now now converted into austere guardians, while the dragons of old are modernized into maiden-aunts. In No. XXX. we find a dissertation on performances of a very different kind, such as the entertaining histories of Mr. Thomas Thumb, Mr. John Hickathrift, and sundry other celebrated worthies, sold at Mr. Newberry's, in St. Paul's Church-yard, and the bouncing B, Shoe-lane. The Nos. XXXII. and XXXIX. inferior to the former in every respect, are on miscellaneous subjects; and it appears from the latter, that Mr. Canning was the editor. Nor was this very industrious student, in the mean time, inattentive to Latin poetry; for in 1787 he wrote the verses commencing as follows: "Audin! tumultu quo strepuit polus? Bella parans Satanas Johovam. Haud Numini celata summo Ambitio rabiesque mentem Vexarat. Armis nunc opus est,' ait," &c. In 1780, he composed the lines inscribed "Sermoni demus operam," of which we shall here also give a specimen: SERMONI, heu! nostro, multumque loquontibus ultro Ut sua respiciant nunquam mala; præterea quòd Quam |