Now you fhall hear how Conftance. the chief of the fhepherds, died, and how Fidelia, his wife, was fo afflicted at his lofs, that he died before him:

Our chieftain's dead-but first, his gentle mate

Fled to the fkies, refolv'd to share his fate.

Now you shall hear how Fidelia footh'd Colin's mufic, and made his pipe louder by liftening:

She footh'd my mufic, when the listen'd near;

My pipe was louder, and its notes more clear.

Now you hall hear how the dead fhepherdefs's husband was a Lord:

But her lov'd Lord!-for him a tear muft flow.

Now you fhall hear how Conftance gave Colin a pipe that would fun the horrid billows of the shore:

COLIN.

Conftance in friendship, as in judgment, ripe,
Call'd as I went,-" Here, Colin, take this pipe:
DAMON.

That pledge, dear Colin, of our chieftain's love,
Muft now your paftime, and our comfort prove.
Sound it aloft--

O fun the horrid billows of that shore

Now you shall hear how it fell to the lot of Menalcas, a poor cottager, to cloath and feed the infant daughter of a dead Lord and Lady:

MENALCAS.

Corinna! you (for now the winds blow cold)
Shall work a cloak, her tender limbs t'enfold;
With flowing stream, from fulleft udder preft
Of fav'rite ewe, fupply the mother's breast.

: And now, Gentlemen and Ladies, that no necessary for the child
might be wanting, Menalcas refolves, with his own hands, to work
it a wicker chair;

I'll work a cradle, and a wicker chair.

Pleas'd with the thought, the old man gave a bound,
And with his staff, tranfported, ftruck the ground.
Gentlemen and ladies we don't deceive you, the like is not to be
feen in England.

Ha.

Art. 13. Trinculo's Trip to the Jubilee. 4to. 1 s. 6d. Moran. There is much of what may be termed poetic gamboling and revelry in this wild, whimfical, droll, diforderly poem. It is written in the character of a jolly and humorous tar; and it feems to be the work of a gentleman who is fond of, and excels in, the Trinculo-ftyle. For a farther idea of this no fresh-water poet, we refer to his Sailor's Letters, and to the following fhort extract from his Trip to the Jubilee: AURORA tofs'd and tumbled all the night,

Defirous, anxious for th' approaching light;
She felt herfelf queer,

But cou'dn't tell where ;

Howe'er the rofy wench arose;

But, in her hurry, quite forgot her cloaths;

She

* written by dientenars Thompson.

She in her fnow-white fmock appear'd with glee,
And fweetly fmil'd on SHAKESPEARE'S Jubilee.
Up with her the vot'ries fprung,

Gay and dull, and old and young;
To the hall,

One and all,

Repair, repair, repair,

To fip merrily,

Their coffee and tea,

And banish all forrow and care.

There the ear-piercing fife,"

And the ear-piercing wife,

Were enough to destroy both the head and the lungs: Such ruftling of bums,

Such rattling of drums,

That Babel herself was out-done by our tongues. Our greatest objection to this piece, is its length. Had the Author, or fome judicious friend, corrected and reduced it to half its prefent quantity, he might have kept his readers in a hearty laugh from the beginning to the end of his motley and merry performance. Art. 14. The Bleffings of Liberty displayed; with the Fall of Corfica: a Poem. 4to. Is. 6d. Bladon.

There is no part of our province more difficult, than to speak of a merely dull poem. What can we fay of fuch a piece, more than that it is a dull poem? To amplify the characteristic would only be multiplying words, without adding to the idea.-Be it, then, briefly recorded of this difplay of the bleffings of liberty, that it is a dull poem: -if a collection of trite fentiments, fuch as are daily hackneyed in every news-paper, tagged together with a parcel of rhymes, (and those not always in the current coin of Parnaffus) without any poetic invention, or embellishments of imagination,- can with propriety be termed a poem.

DRAMATIC.

8vo. 1 s. 6d.

Art. 15. Man and Wife; or, The Shakespeare Jubilee. A Comedy of
Three Acts. As performed at Covent-Garden.
Baldwin, &c.

The famous feftival at Stratford, in honour of our immortal Shakefpeare, feems to have cut out a whole winter's work for the theatres in London; and very well hath the town been entertained at both houses.

Mr. Colman, the author of this Jubilee comedy, was certainly in the right to lofe no time in availing himself of a circumftance which, he might eafily forefee, would turn out highly to the advantage of the other houfe. Accordingly he contrived to interweave a love-plot, the ufual ground-work of comedy, with the fcenery of the Stratford exhibition and, on the whole, though an hafly, it is not an unpleafing performance that he hath furnished on this extraordinary occafion.

*A few indelicacies (too frequent in all the writings of this Gentleman) might alfo be objected to; but the Author, perhaps, in the prefent inftance, thought them more efpecially allowable in a production which feems confined to no rules or limitations.

There

There is humour in feveral of the parts, and novelty in that of Kitchen, in particular. This character is strongly marked, and well fupported; and we should undoubtedly have flyled it an original, had not our Author ingenuoufly prevented our falling into any mistake on this head, by reminding us, in his previous advertisement, that there are fome traits of the character of Kitchen, in the 3d vol. of The Connoiffeur *'-In Marcourt we have the fop of the prefent day; and in the tea-table converfation between Mr. and Mrs. Crofs, we have fuch a striking picture of matrimony, as could not fail of highly diverting every spectator who was not confcious of having the origi nal at home.

Art. 16, The Oxonian in Town: a Comedy, in Two Acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. 8vo. Becket, &c.

I S.

The public are fufficiently acquainted with the merit of this petis piece, (the production of Mr. Colman's pen) which hath been played with deferved applaufe, during thefe two or three winters paft, on the Covent Garden theatre: although it never appeared in print till the prefent month. We have, with great pleasure, feen it acted; and if it hath not yielded us equal entertainment in the perufal, it is, no doubt, owing rather to the circumftance of our having already had our laugh, than to any want of power in the Author, to please in the clo fet, as well as on the stage.

MISCELLANEOUS. Art. 17. An Hiftorical Journal of the Campaigns in North-America, for the Years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760: containing the most remarkable Occurrences of that Period; particularly the two Sieges of Quebec; the Orders of the Admirals and General Officers; Defcriptions of the Countries where the Author has ferved, with their Forts and Garri fons; their Climate. Soil, Produce; and a regular Diary of the Weather. Alfo feveral Manifeftoes; a Mandate of the Bishop of Canada; the French Orders and Difpofitions for the Defence of that Colony, &c. &c. By Capt. John Knox. Dedicated by Fermiffion to Lieut. General Sir Jeffery Amherst. 4to. 2 Vols. 11. 1 s. fewed. John

fton, &c. 1769.

A very valuable collection of materials toward an hiftory of our late war, and conquefts, in North America; as well as for a defcription and natural hiftory of those parts of the country in which this attentive and induftrious officer + perfonally ferved. The work, in its prefent form, as a journal, in which every occurrence, however minute, is registered, may feem tedious to many readers; and fome parts of it are undoubtedly trivial: but thefe are amply compenfated for by others of real importance, and of the moft interefting nature, to every Briton: particularly the ever-memorable fieges of Quebec,

With refpect to Mr. Colman, this character of Kitchen may ftill, perhaps, notwithstanding his acknowledgment, be deemed an original; fince it is not impoffible, nor quite a new thing, for a man to fleal from himself: nor would his being convicted of the felony, at all affect his property in the goods.

+ Capt. Knox bore his commiffion in the 3d regiment of foot, Kennedy s.

&c.

&c. Mr. Knox appears to be a man of fenfe, with more literature than ufually falls to the fhare of officers in the army; and we have no reason to doubt his having recorded the feveral events of these famous campaigns, with the utmoft exactness and fidelity. In brief, his work will prove an agreeable amufement to readers of every class; and, to military readers, in particular, it will afford not only very high entertainment, but much ufeful information, in the way of their profeflion.

Art. 18. Another Traveller! or, Curfory Remarks, and Tritical Obfervations made upon a journey through Part of the Netherlands, in the latter End of the Year 1765. By Coriat Junior. Vol. II. Part I. † Izmo. 2s. 6d. fewed. Johnfon and Payne. 1769.

In

We have already given the public our opinion of this fenfible and agreeable Traveller: fee Review, vol. xxxix. p. 434—448. this fecond publication, he continues his journey from Antwerp to Breda; from whence he proceeds to Gorcum, to Vianan, and to Utrecht: conftantly interfperfing, as his manner is, in imitation of Sterne, his unimportant adventures, with fage remarks, and moral reflections.-Now and then we have an attempt at humour; in which, we fear, the generality of his readers will think, he does not always fucceed. He is, however, always a juft thinker; and difcovers a benevolence of heart, the generous effufions of which, in thefe little volumes, cannot be too much applauded, nor the Writer too much efteemed.

Art. 19. Efays: viz. 1. On the Origin of Colleges, or Univerfities. 2. On the Origin of the Cuftom of Lecturing in Latin. 3. On the Impropriety of this Cuftom, at prefent. 8vo. Is. Glasgow printed, and fold by Cadell in London. 1769.

There is little, very little indeed, in thefe Effays, to engage the attention of the judicious reader. The Effayift appears to be earnestly defirous of detracting from the merits of the ancient writers of Greece and Rome, but he only thews how unequal he is to fuch an undertaking.

When I compare the antients, fays he, to authors who have written upon fimilar fubjects, even in this ifland, it is my opinion that Homer himfelf has his rivals; that Virgil is far excelled; that their philofophers are, to ours, mere quibblers or declaimers; that we have, at leaft, one British hiftorian, to whom none of their hiftorians can, in any degree, be compared.'

This publication is dedicated to Mr. Rouffeau-The ingenious and eloquent author of a plan of education, in which the principles of human nature are better invefligated, their growth and progress more skillfully traced, than in any book, ancient or modern, that our Effayift ever faw.'

MILITARY.

R. Art. 20. Brief Confiderations on the Expediency of a Corps of Light Troops, to be employed on detached Service in the Eaft-Indies. By a

The prefent continuation of the travels of Coriat Junior, notwithstanding this fubdivifion in the title-page, is advertised as the third volume,

late

+ Written by Major Kirkpatrick..."

late Officer of Cavalry on the Coaft of Coromandel. 8vo. Becket.

1 S.

We are not competent judges of the merit of this propofal; but it has the appearance of being an important one, and very judicioudy planned. We are told it is the production of an experienced conmander of horfe, in the company's fervice.

POLITICAL and COMMERCIAL.

Art. 21. An Essay on the Middlefex Election; in which the Power of Expulfion is particularly confidered. 8vo. I S. White.

There are many juft obfervations, and fome very material and indifpenfible diftinctions, in this little tract. What the Writer fays of the expulfive power, which, (as exercised by the house of commons in a legiflative fenfe) he deems inconfiftent with the established conftitution of our government, deferves the serious attention of the public; both on account of the novelty of the doctrine, and the folidity of the Author's reafoning, on this great fundamental point:—as well as on the various fubordinate queftions that have arifen on the very important occafion which hath produced the prefent, and fo many other ingenious treatises.

Art. 22. Interesting Letters feleted from the political and patriotic Correfpondence of Mers. Wilkes, Horn, Beckford, and Junius. Containing a Number of curious Anecdotes, &c. never before published. 8vo. Is. Nicoll.

An unfair but weak attempt to ridicule and afperfe the characters and conduct of the leaders in the present oppofition to administration, by forged letters, in the names of the gentlemen mentioned in the title-page in which they are abfurdly made to avow the most wicked principles and rafcally felf-interefted views. Every candid reader will highly condemn the dishonest procedure of this Author: though he, perhaps, may be very ready to abfolve himself, and to cry out with the deceiver in the Proverbs, Am I not in fport?'

Art. 23. The Mufgrave Controverfy; being a Collection of curious and interefting Papers on the Subject of the late Peace. 8vo. Is. Bladon. Confiits of Dr. Mufgrave's famous addrefs to the freeholders of Devon; D'Eon's reply to fome things contained in that address; and fome letters on the fubject; all collected from the news-papers. Art. 24. The Speech of a Right Hon. Gentleman, on the Motion for expelling Mr. Wilkes, Feb. 3, 179. 8vo. Is. Almon.

There feems to be no room for doubting whether or not this is an authentic copy of Mr. Gre's celebrated Speech, on the abovementioned important occafion: which is all that we think it neceffary for us to fay, with respect to this article.

Art 25. Some few Obfervations on the prefent Publication of the Speech of a Right Hon. Gentleman, against the Expulfion of Mr. Wilkes. In a Letter to a Friend in Buckinghamshire. 8vo. I S. Nicoll. Our Obferver animadverts with fome feverity on the right honourable gentleman; whom he charges with inconfiftency of principle, and impropriety of conduct; and mentions a circumftance or two, of a private nature; but of which, as having too much the appearance of Jecret hiftory, we cannot take more particular notice: the pamphlet, however, on the whole, is not beneath the attention of the public.

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