Pope, Sam. Johnfon, Addison, Lyttelton, Warburton, and fome

others.

H. Art. 47. Shakespeare's Garland, being a Collection of new Songs, Ballads, Roundelays, Catches, Glees, &c. performed at the Jubilee at Stratford upon Avon. The Mufic by Dr. Arne, Mr. Barthelemon, Mr. Ailwood, and Mr. Dibdin. 8vo. I S. Becket.

Thefe ballads, &c. will be read to great difadvantage, after the occafion for which they were written. H. Art. 48. Shakespeare's Jubilee, a Mask. By George Saville Carey. 8vo. 6d. Becket.

Of this piece the first four verfes will be a fufficient fpecimen.

First Witch fings,

Enter three Witches.

RECITATIVE.

Well met my wayward fifters once again,

Ye fpell-fraught offspring of great Shakespeare's brain
Immortal fpirits were we made by him,

Whole fame-beam'd glory Time can never dim.

H.

Art. 49. Garrick's Vagary; or, England Run Mad. With Particulars of the Stratford Jubilee. 8vo. I S.

About it, Goddess! and about it.'

Eladon.

Art. 50. The Stratford Jubilee. A new Comedy, of two Acts. To which is prefixed Scrub's Trip to the Jubilee. 8vo. 1s. Lownds, &c.

There is fome humour in this hafty fketch; which may boaft as much merit as can reasonably be expected in a piece conceived and born, as the Writer fays, within eight days. The author M?

• In his rhiming dedication to Mr. Foote, Geaseman

HERALDRY.

Art. 51. The New Peerage; or, Prefent State of the Nobility of Eng land, Scotland, and Ireland. Containing an Account of all the Peers [of the three kingdoms,] either by Tenure, Summons, or Creation; their Defcents and collateral Branches; their Births, Marriages, and Iffue. Alfo their Paternal Coats of Arms, Crefts, Supporters, and Mottoes. Small 8vo. 3 Vols. 5s. bound. Davis.

The Editor of this work affures us, that no pains have been spared to render it as correct as poffible; and he accordingly ventures to offer it to the public, as having the feweft errors of any book upon the fubject-This is faying a great deal, and we really think it may poffibly be true; though fome errors (and pretty obvious ones too) are here to be found. For example, Vol. I. p. 155, Anne, late Countess Dowager Fitz-William is said to have died May 4, 1759, though the was certainly living fince the publication of this work, and died, in reality, but very lately.-Ibid. p. 207, The Earl of Castlehaven is erroneously ftiled Baron of Orier in England,”—whereas that is undoubt

edly

edly an Irish title.-Vol. II. p 13, The second marriage of the Dutchefs Dowager of Gordon, to Col. Morris, is not mentioned,-though marriages are specified in the title-page, to be particularly noticed, as of prime account in a work of this nature.-Ibid. p. 128, Charles, the prefent Viscount Irwin, is put down as the fon of William, who was, in fact, his uncle; and his real father, Charles, is reprefented as dying without iffue.—Vol. II. p. 54. The arms of the Earl of Tyrons are rightly made to have a border, fable;—but in the plate this border is engraved, as if it were, gules.-In the fame page, his lordship [tho' married] is faid [fometimes] to use the motto of his lady's [initead of his mother's] family.-Ibid p. 141, John, fixth fon of Scrope, the fecond Vicount Howe, is faid to have died young;'-whereas he was alive fince the publication of this book.

But notwithstanding the above-mentioned, and other almoft unavoidable flips, we readily acknowledge, that the prefent ftate of our noble families is more clearly, and fully exhibited in the work before us, than could well be expected within fo fmall a compafs. We cannot, however, fubfcribe to the propriety of its title, [The New Peerage] as it appears, in reality, to be little more than a new edition of Salmon's Short View of the English, Scottish, and Irish Nobility, publifhed a few years ago, and now brought down (with fome improvements) to the prefent time; together with the very material addition of all the arms, diftinctly engraved upon copper,-which were wanting in Salmon's Peerage.-The extinct peers are alfo inferted: and to each volume is added a copious table, in which every perfon mentioned in the volume, who is related to any of the nobility, may be found, and the family referred to, notwithstanding their name may have been changed by marriage, or otherwife.

GARDENING.

Art. 52. The Practical Gardener, and Gentleman's Directory, for every Month in the Year. Adapted to the New Stile. An entire new Work. Containing the latest and most approved Methods of cultivating and improving the Kitchen, Flower, Fruit, and Phyfic Garden; and for managing the Vineyard and Pine-apple, the Nursery, Shrubbery, Greenboufe, and Hothouse. With proper Directions for raifing Mushrooms. To which is prefixed, an Effay upon Vegetation, Soil, Manure, and the Nature and Form of Stoves, Hotbeds, &c. With a Copper-plate, exhibiting at one View the feveral Ajpects for planting a Fruit-Garden. By James Garton. 12mo. 3s. bound. Dilly.

As the art of gardening has, with its fubjects, greatly increased of late years; fo have the inftructions and treatifes, written thereupon, been greatly multiplied. Infomuch that, in the croud of writers upon this fubject, a perfon who defires to be informed of the belt methods to order his garden, is often bewildered, when he meets with fo many different rules and directions, many of them taken upon truft, or adopted from books written for other countries, whofe cultivation, as well as climate, differs very much from ours. In order to avoid these inconveniences, Mr. Garton has here contracted into a pocket volume the various branches of gardening, and given fuch inftructions and directions in every part thereof, as [he affirms] have been tried and proved by the experience of more than thirty years practice;-the book of nature being' [undoubtedly] the best inftruc

for

tor in the cultivation of the earth.'-He has, however, availed himfelf of the works of former writers; and though but little really new appears to be advanced, yet his book will be of confiderable use to fuch practitioners, as may wish for the necessary inftructions, delivered • in a plain ftyle,' and' at a low price ;'-two circumstances, which the Author himself holds forth as no fmall recommendation of his plan. P.

Art. 53. The Royal Gardener; or, Complete Calendar of Gardening, for every Month in the Year. Digefted in regular Order, and fo contrived as to exhibit, in a clear and comprehenfive Manner, the Bufiness to be done in the Flower, Fruit, and Kitchen Garden, at all Seafons. Likewife, Directions, founded on Experiment, for fo-wing, planting, pruning, tranfplanting, engrafting, and every other Particular, neceffary to be known by fuch as defire to arrive at a perfect knowledge of this most ancient, healthful, and agreeable of all Sciences. By Anthony Powell, Efq; Gardener to his late Majesty King George II. 12mo. Is. 6d. Fell.

An useful memorandum-book; but certainly far too concife, to convey a perfect knowledge of every particular, in the ancient science of gardening-as the title, vauntingly, fets forth.

Р

I. A Charge and Sermon, together with an Introductory Difcourfe and Confeffion of Faith, delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. Abraham Booth, February 16, 1769, in Goodman's Fields. IS. Keith.

II. A Sermon at the Vifitation at Wakefield, July 25, 1769. By James Scott, B. D. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Richardfon and Urquhart.

III. Before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, on Act-Sunday, July 9th, 1769. By Matthew Frampton, LL. D. Rector of Bremhill, Vicar of Weftport, Wilts, and Chaplain to the Earl of Berkshire. White, &c.

IV. On the Death of the Rev. John Rutter, at Honiton, May 14, 1769. By John Turner. Baldwin.

V. An eternal Manfion prepared in the Heavens for the Righteous. On the Death of Mr. Thomas Cox, who died August 20, 1769. By Benj. Wallin. Buckland.

VI. By the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, being his laft Farewel to his Friends, at the Tabernacle, Moorfields, Auguft ro, 1769, immediately before his Departure for Georgia. Taken in Short-hand, and published at the Defire of many who heard it. Bladon.

ERRATUM.

In the following quotation from Dr. Goldfmith's Roman Hiftory, "the champions on each fide met in combat together, and totally regardless of his own fafety, each only fought the deftruction of his opponent," the word his relates not to champicns, which precedes it, but to each, that follows it; and in this conftruction the paffage is not frictly ungrammatical; but if the Author had written," the champions met, and each regardlefs," &c. it would not have been liable to a mifconftruction,

See p. 138, of this month's Review.

THE

MONTHLY REVIEW,

For OCTOBER, 1769.

The Light of Nature purfued. By Edward Search, Efq. Continued*.

WE

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clofed our laft account of this work with a tation from the chapter upon the Divine Goodness. In the fequel of his difcourfe on the fubject, the Author justly infers, from the preponderancy of good over evil, obfervable in this part of the creation lying within our view, that there is a character of goodness in the Creator and Difpofer of all things; and, confequently, that the proportion of good muft greatly furpafs that of evil in the univerfe, and that good is given for its own fake, but evil never fent unless as a means productive of fome greater good. In the mean time, the evil we experience cannot imply an oppofite character in the Author of Nature, because our cleareft judgment informs us that contradictory chafacters cannot fubfift in the fame fubject; nor yet a defect of goodness, because the attributes of the firft caufe must be perfect and infinite. The concluding fection of this chapter is comprised in the following words:

Since then we find the eftates of happiness in this fublunary kingdom fubject to taxes, we must take the whole together, the rents and profits together with the difbursements. Or, fince evil is fo interwoven with good, that one cannot be had without the other, we must not pick out fingle threads, but regard the whole contexture as one piece; and in this light it will appear, that every difpenfation is good, and worthy Divine Bounty to beftow. As to the exiftence of evil, and its being fo interwoven into the fortunes of creatures, we can do no otherwife than refer this to fome unknown attribute. For, as has been obferved before, the little we know of God being drawn from those few of his works lying within our cognizance, we cannot expect they fhould difcover the whole of his nature, but there may probably be other attributes belonging to him of which we can en* See Review for Augat, p. 126. R

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tertain no conception. We have already found the neceffity of fome fuch in the article of omnifcience: for though wifdom may difcern what capacities and ftations are requifite for completing the grand defign in view, it cannot determine what particular fubftances fhall have fuch or fuch capacities, or occupy fuch or fuch ftations, preferable to any others. So, upon the prefent article, we have found it repugnant to our notions to fuppofe, either that Infinite Bounty could ftop until there was nothing further to beftow, or yet that creatures should be raised to the perfection and ineffable happinefs of the Creator. Therefore we must neceffarily conclude there is fome other attribute to moderate between goodnefs and omnipotence, to set the proper limits of imperfection, afcertaining how near it may approach towards perfection, and what diftance it must always keep therefrom, and to be the origin of evil: with all which we need not perplex our thoughts, either to raise doubts or attempt difcoveries concerning them, fince they fpring from a fource whereof we can have no comprehenfion.'

We have quoted this paragraph on account of the peculiar notions it contains refpecting fome unknown attributes of deity which the Author thinks neceffary both to determine the capacities and ftations of particular fubftances, and to moderate between goodness and omnipotence. It has been generally imagined that unlimited power and perfect goodnefs, under the direction of infinite wifdom, were fufficient for every conceivable purpose in the formation and government of the universe. In our view of the matter, to refer any appearance in nature to fome unknown attribute, is little more than to confess our total inability to account for it. But though we, with our limited faculties, may be unable to affign the reafons of any particular appointment, it is no proof, either that no reasons are to be affigned for it, or that the matter in debate is not an object of wildom. The fame wifdom, which is able to difcern what capacities and ftations are requifite for effecting fuch and fuch purpofes, is alfo able to direct in the production of fubftances peculiarly adapted to them. Wisdom is, in our opinion, the perfection which moderates between goodnefs and omnipotence, and which fets the proper limits of imperfection, afcertaining how near it may approach towards perfection, and what distance it must always keep from it. In regard to the origin of evil, if, as Mr. Search himself allows, upon a view of good and evil as interwoven with each other in the prefent ftate of things, it will appear, that every difpenfation is good, and worthy Divine Bounty to beflow and if we have reafon to conclude, from the little we know of him from those few of his works lying within our cognizance, that there is a character of goodness in the Author of Nature, and confequently that evil is never fent

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