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was paid to Lewis the XIVth. A certain Courtier, obf rving that his Majelty took offence at the pofition of a grove, that intercepted the profpect of his country-feat, took care, against the next time the Monarch paffed that way, to have the trees nearly fawed in two, and men placed with ropes ready to pull them down at a fignal given. A defign which was accordingly put in execution a few days after, on his Majefty's repeating the fame diflike.

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This anecdote our wife Biographer, not confidering that trees are much easier cut down than reared up, has thought proper to pervert, and attribute to the Marshal's grandfather, Mr. de Fouquet; who, when Minister of State, during the reign of the above mentioned Monarch, lived, we are told, in a country-houfe, which, to help forward the story, was fituated in an open plain, without any hedge or tree near it.' This being the cafe, one day after dinner, our Author tells us, Fouquet afked his Majefty, where he thought a grove could be planted to the beft advantage: the Monarch failed, and anfwered, pointing to a particular place, That if a grove was planted there, with an avenue through it, leading up to the gate, it would make the fituation more pleafant." Accordingly Fouquet, in a few days, had a grove tranfplanted thither; and, inviting the King a fecond time to dine with him, his Majelly could not help expreffing his furprize at the fudden appearance of · trees, in their full verdure, where fo lately he faw there was • none.' K-n-k

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Art. 21. A Companion to the Guide, and a Guide to the Compa nion: Being a compleat Supplement to all the Accounts of Oxford hitherto published. Containing an accurate Defcription of feveral Halls, Libraries, Schools, public Edifices, Bufts, Statues, Antiquities, Hieroglyphics, Seats, Gardens, and other Curiofities, omitted, or misreprefented, by Wood, Hearn, Salmon, Prince, Pointer, and other eminent Topographers, Chronologers, Antiquarians, and Hiftorians. The whole interfperfed with original Anecdotes, and interefting Discoveries, occafimally refulting from the Subject. And embellished with perspective Views and Elevations neatly engraved. 12mo. 6d. H. Payne.

A droll defcription of Oxford: but as the humour is, in a great meafure, local, they who are unacquainted with thatSeat of Learning, and the very learned and induftrious Students who inhabit it, lofe a great part of the ridicule of this whimsical little piece.

R-d Art. 22. Letters from Juliet Lady Catefby, to her Friend Lady Henrietta Campley. Tranflated from the French. 12mo. 3s. Dodfley.

To Readers of a delicate, fentimental turn of mind, the perufal of thefe Letters will be no unprofitable amufement. They are too deftitute, however, both of narrative or humour, to be very generally admired.

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Art. 23. The genuine Adventures of Sarah P-1. 8vo. 6d. Ranger.

Compiled from the news papers; which lately gave an account of a young woman, who was carried before a Magiftrate, on the fingular charge of having committed matrimony with one of her own fex.

Art. 24. A Parallel between the two Trials of Lord George Sackville, lately published, pointing out their Difference, &c. &c. 8vo. 6d. Pridden.

To explain the meaning of this article, it is neceffary to inform our Readers, that foon after the close of Lord George's trial, an Account of the Proceedings was published, as fuppofed, by his Lordship's authority; and this was foon followed by another copy, authenticated by the Judge Advocate. Both thefe fold very well; tho' the difference between them was immaterial: it ferved, however, to fet one of our Pamphleteers to work; and lo! out comes a Parallel. Had this met with fuccefs, we fhould, probably, have been favoured alfo with a Review of, or a Reply to, the Parallel; followed by an Answer to the Reply, and a Refutation of the Anfwer, &c. &c. to the end of the Controverfy: all which, however, were nipped in the bud, by the mifcarriage of the faid unfortunate Parallel.

Art. 25. A Scotfman's Remarks on the Farce of Love a-la-mode, &c. 8vo. IS. Burd.

This fimple Scotfman is in muckle wrath with the Author of the above-mentioned Farce, on account of his having made the worst character in it a North-Briton; which the Remarker is weak enough to refent, as a libel on the whole country: not confidering that, at this rate, every nation in Europe might, in turn, take offence on account of fome fool or fcoundrel exhibited on the Stage-And why not a North-Briton, for once, at lealt; as well as their brethren of the South, or of the Weft; who have never failed to furnish their quota for the general entertainment of all who frequent the British Theatre?

Art. 26. A History of the cruel Sufferings of the Proteftants, and others, by Popijh Perfecutions, in various Countries: Together with a View of the Reformations from the Church of Rome. Interfperfed with the Barbarities of the Inquifition. By Question and Answer. Faithfully compiled from a great Number of Authors, in different Languages, by John Lockman, Secretary to the Society of the Free British Fifhery: Author of the Hiftory of England and Roman Hiftory, by Queftion and Anfwer. Writ principally for the Ufe of Schools: And being intended as a Prefervative from Popery and arbitrary Power, may be of Ufe in all Proteftant Families.

- 38. Clarke.

12mo.

This work is clofely printed; and, as the Compiler obferves, tho' fmall in fize, is vaitly abundant in matter. As Mr. Lockman's abilities, however, as a Writer, are pretty well known, and his Hitories of England and Rome, mentioned in the title-page, are in a great many hands, it will be needlefs for us to give any specimen of the ftile or manner of the prefent.

As this publication appears alfo to be calculated chiefly for younger minds, and fuch as may not have had an opportunity of becoming acquainted, by means of other reading, with the many affecting relations contained therein, the nature and variety of them will, doubtlefs, fufficiently recommend the work to the Reader's curiofity.

Books of this nature should, nevertheless, be both written and read with more caution than they generally are; left the fhocking hiftory of fuperftitious error and fanatic zeal fhould be mistakenly fuppofed to be that of Chriftianity itfelf: a fallacy which the numerous infidels of the prefent age are ever ready to inculcate, and impofe on weak minds, to the prejudice of our holy religion.,

K-n-k Art. 27. An Estimate of the theatrical Merits of the two Tragedians of Crow-freet. In a Letter from a Gentleman in Dublin, to his Friend in London. 8vo. 6d. Dublin.

Contains a fenfible comparison between the refpective merits of Mr. Barry and Mr. Moffop, as Tragedians; in which the preference is, with great juftice, given to the former: but wherefore thefe two Performers were thus opposed to each other, we do not apprehend. Mr. Barry wants no foil to fet him off; and to place his brother Hero in fo difadvantageous a point of view, indicates no great good-will towards Mr. Mollop: uniefs it were concluded, that next to being Cefar himself, it were a glorious thing to be Pompey. The Author, indeed, tells us, that this Gentleman hath his admirers in Dublin; whom he calls the Sect of the Mopians: but whether thefe Moffopians really preferred the playing of the Actor from whom they have taken their denomination, to that of the other great Performer, we do not with certainty learn from this pamphlet-if they did, he is not without excufe for publishing his thoughts on the subject *. Art. 28. Harris's Lift of Covent-Garden Ladies; or the Man of Pleafure's Kalendar. 8vo. 1s. 6d. Ranger.

Pretends to give some account of the most noted Girls of the Town; but it has all the air of a lying Catch-penny Jobb, the work of fome literary Pandar: of which clafs, to the difgrace of Letters, there are but too many in this metropolis, ever ready to fcribble in the fervice of debauchery; or, in any fervice, where they have a profpect of being paid for their pimping.

Art. 29. Select Tales of Count Hamilton, Author of the Memoirs of the Count de Grammont. Tranflated from the French.

12mo.

2 vols. 6s. Burd.

The whole of this pamphlet has been reprinted in the Grand Magazine for May, 1750.

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Thefe are pretty allegorical novels, of the fpecies called Fairy Tales; but we do not think them equal to thofe written by the ingenious Henry Brooke, Efq; Author of Guftavus Vafa, &c. Review, vol. III. p. 111.

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Art. 30. The compleat Brewer; or the Art and Mystery of Brewing explained. Containing plain and cafy Directions for Brewing all Sorts of Malt-Liquors in the greatest Perfection. Alfo the Conftruction of a Brew-Houfe, and the Choice of Brewing Feels. Compiled from the most valuable Receipts in Brewery, new corrected and improved for the Benefit of the Public. By a Brewer of extenfive Practice. 12mo. 3s. Coote.

In our account of Mr. Combrune's treatise on Brewing, which may be feen in vol. XX. p. 277, we found occafion to obferve, that notwithstanding its title, no fuch thing as a procefs of brewing was to be met with in the book. This Author, indeed, attends fufficiently to the practical parts of his bufinefs; but then he makes fo many dif tinations, and refines fo much upon them, that a perfon inclined to brew for his own confumption, would be difheartned from the attempt, by confulting the Compleat Brewer.

Our Author fays-The art of Brewing has hitherto seemed, like the art of Gardening, a thing which many pretended to teach, but which none, except an accustomed hand, could practice with fuccefs.'In this we entirely agree with him, except, that inftead of feeming, we are firmly perfuaded that the matter really is fo; and that inftructions, without experience, will never teach a perfon how to accommodate his methods to fuit the various circumstances of places, times, and materials. It is not intended wholly to condemn this work as injudicious, fince the Writer appears not unacquainted with his fubject; how far, therefore, he may be of ufe to affift the experience of the more ignorant of his own declared profeffion, we are not quite Brewers enough to determine: but we will venture to advife the young Houfekeeper. who may be defirous to brew, without a previous acquaintance with Malt and Hops, to begin with not more than two or three bushels of malt, and to make intereft with fome old Farmer's wife in the neighbourhood, to ground him in the firit rudiments of the art, which, when a few trials have taught him, he may then poffibly correct his practice by fome hints out of this compleat Brewer. Indeed, it is not much for the credit of books treating of any practical operations, to find that the moft knowing and expert in the feveral profeffions, see frequent cause to complain of the futility of them in general.

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Art. 31. An Account of the different Kinds of Grasses propagated in England, for the Improvement of Corn and Pafture Lands, Lawns, and Walks: With Directions for Sowing them, Manuring, &c. And fome Remarks upon the perennial red-flowering Clover, and faving Hay-feeds from fine Meadows. And Directions for raifing Turneps, Rape, Cabbage, &c. for feed

ing Horned Cattle and Sheep, and to Save their Seeds pure from degenerating. Also an Account of Manures, natural and made, how they are used, and the Prices they are fold for. With Directions for Trench-plowing. Likewife an Account of the Soundgrowing Norfolk-Willow With Directions for propagating it to great Advantage. The whole chiefly done from the Obfervations and Inspection of the Author, Richard North, Nurfery-Gardener, near Westminster-Bridge-Road, Lambeth. 8vo. Is. Prat.

In this piece of Mr. Richard North's (who feems to have cultivated his garden a good deal more than his ftyle) we have met with many useful obfervations in general; but the point which ftruck us most in particular, was what he fays of the Sound-growing Norfolk-Willore. According to him, a fingle acre of land planted with this valuable tree, will, in the courfe of thirty years, produce a profit of fix hundred pounds at the leaft, clear of rent, &c.-He propofes to plant five thousand fets on an acre. When thefe fets have grown five years, three thousand of them should be dug up, and will be worth three pence a-piece, or 37 l. 10 s. in the whole. Ten years after the firit thinning, fifteen hundred more fhould be taken up, which, at half a crown each, will be worth 1871. 10s. In fifteen years more, (i. e. thirty from the first planting) the remaining five hundred trees, he fays, will be very tall and large, perhaps, fixty feet high, and five or fix in circumference; and worth, at leaft, twenty fhillings a tree.-This Willow, he adds, will thrive upon almost any foil, if not too dry.

If the above account is not greatly exaggerated, this fingle article is a very fufficient return for the price of the whole pamphlet; which, however, is not without its merit in other particulars likewife.

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Art. 32. A Treatise on the Art of Midwifry. Setting forth various Abuses therein, especially as to the Practice with Inftruments. The whole ferving to put all rational Enquirers in a fair Way of forming their own Judgment upon the Question, which is best to employ, in Cafes of Pregnancy and Lying-in, a Man-Midwife or a Midwife. By Mrs. Elizabeth Nihell, profeft Midwife. 8vo. 6s. Morley.

Mrs. Nihell is very angry that men fhould interfere in her profeffion; fhe thinks it highly unnatural and indecent: we think fo too; and fhould heartily join with her in decrying the fashionable use of Men-Midwives, provided women were as learned and skilful in the theory, as they are naturally fitted for the practice. Here too our Authorefs agrees with us, and ftrongly recommends the proper education of women for this important bufinefs; being far from thinking, that an ignorant female is equally qualified with a truly learned and experienced male Doctor. As to herself, the affures us, that he has been regularly bred, in the Hotel Dieu at Paris.

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