the great things that God hath done for his foul. By J. Hart. 12mo. I s. 6d. Waller.

Mr. J. Hart is the fpiritual twin-brother of Mr. Cornelius Cayley, of whom we gave an account in the appendix to our nineteenth volume. Which of the two may now be the beft faint, we cannot pretend to discover; but it seems very clear that Mr. H. has been by far the greateft finner. Indeed we hardly ever read or heard of fuch a profligate as he declares himself to have been:-but thefe, it seems, are the Chafen Veffels.

Art. 12. Hymns and Spiritual Songs,
Cafes, I. Of Unregenerate Sinners,
Convinced, III. Of true Believers.
12mo. Is. Fuller.

adapted to the various II. Of those who are By James Maxwell.

Mr. Maxwell is juft such another genius as Mr. Hart; but a greater dealer in Fire and Brimftone. For example, in his Hymn on the miferies of the damned, he affures us, that in Hell

The Glutton with luxurious meat,
No more can please his keen defire;
For there he nothing finds to eat,
But rocks of brimftone all on fire.

Art. 13. The Great Day.

A Defcriptive Piece.

abroad. 8vo. IS. Dod.

Written

We do not readily conceive for what reason the Author of this performance has thought proper to acquaint the public with its having been written abroad, unless he proposed to recommend it thereby to the difcerning Reader. For us, it is confeffed, we cannot fee any merit it derives from this circumftance; nor that any advantage can arife from the knowlege of it, except that of preventing a contention, in future ages, between Great Britain and other nations, about the birth-place of this furprizing production of human genius.

The Gothic barbarifm, and monkish jingle, of rhime, has been fome time exploded, by the enterprizing Bards of the prefent age, as a restraint to which true genius ought not to be subjected. Some refpect has, indeed, hitherto been paid to numbers, but our Author, ftill more impatient of reftraint, and lefs fervile than his cotemporaries, has nobly dared to put a finishing stroke to all restrictions of poetical genius, at once, by cafting off the fhackles both of rhime and numbers together.

Judge, Readers, for yourselves, from the following ftanza, of the merits of the Great Day, a Poem, written abroad.

Lo! as from the top

Of some vaft hill

Wide and immenfurable, I furvey
The RESURRECTION.
Here I behold the collected numbers

Of all that ever have drawn mortal breath

The

From that dated hour,
Which on the folitary pair,
Yet impotent, in Eden's fhades,
Deriv'd the propagative virtue :
When the OMNIPOTENT
Stood over the army

Of his new creatures,

And gave the word, Be fruitful.
Hence each produced their kind:
And foon

To fuch degree man's teeming race
Was multiplied,

The numerous inhabitants were fain
To feparate, to roam,

And make themfelves new fettlements.
And still

As countries grew populous,
Men extended their dwellings farther,
And coloniz'd every tract and spot,
Where toilfome work, and weary pains
Could force the fubfidies of life,
And with tortures

But hardly make the earth

Confefs her treasures.

Those who defire a more intimate acquaintance with this Poem, are referred to the work itself; containing twenty fuch stanzas as the above-quoted.

Art. 14. An Ode to the Right Hon. the Marchioness of Granby, in the Year 1758. 4to. Is. Newbery.

A very high, tho' not a very fublime, performance. It abundantly be praises the Marquis of Granby; who, in return, we are afraid, will not be very ready to re-pay his Panegyrift in his own coin: but, perhaps, any other may be more acceptable. How much, in more fubftantial payment, our Bard may deferve, the Reader is left to determine from the following specimen.

STANZA I.

With awful port and carriage grand,
I saw him lead his gallant band:
Ocean's rough waves fafely croft,
I faw him on Germania's coast.
There the British colours flying,
British drums and fhouts refound:
There the British courfers neighing,
Snuff the air and paw the Ground!

Still Wonder, her finger her ruby lip preffing
Sate fix'd in a cloud o'er the throng

As flow, in order juft-the Heroes march'd along!
REV. 08. 1759.

Bb

But

But when thy manly Soldier came,
I faw, I mark'd each speaking face:
Each eye was fix'd, illuftrious Dame,
And every finger mark'd his martial grace!
Great GRANBY-Rutland's noble fon;
Through all the crowd-was heard aloud,
And every voice and heart was.one:
"Safety on his helmit play :

Conqueft mark his falchion's way."

Art. 15. The TIMES. An Epistle to Flavian. 4to. Is. 6d. Pottinger.

This Medley, which our Bard has chofen to chriften The Times, might, with equal propriety, have been called by any other name. His Picture of the Times, reprefents Times paft, as faithfully as it delineates the prefent; and will probably bear as just a refemblance to the future. It is, in truth, like one of thofe fign poft Daubings, which may ferve as well for the Duke of Marlborough, as the King of Pruffia, or fome unborn General. Our Bard, by affecting eafe, becomes flovenly: like thofe fair Nymphs who, to avoid being formal, grow flatternly. His fentiments are, for the most part, trite, and his verfification flat and unharmonious;

fectante in levia nervi

Deficiunt Animique:

we may here and there, however, perceive faint glimmerings of genius, which only contribute the more to expofe the poverty of the piece. An Author who neglects to improve natural talents, has, therefore, lefs title to indulgence. Nec rude quid poffit video Ingenium But let the following fpecimens determine the Reader's judgment. In his epiftolary Addrefs to his friend, he perfuades him to quit rural retirement; and contrafts the follies of the country with thofe of the town. Speaking of the Paflions, he fays

Yes! non exiftent, and from paffions free,

Are much the fame.

Like fhips becalm'd,
Paffions are gales that

Without their impulfe, we,
would have no fteerage-way :
hold the fails in play.

By his ufing would for fhould, one might fufpect our Poet to be a foreigner: yet, from his intimate acquaintance with our British Bard, we are induced to conclude him a native. That paffions, however, are the gales of life, and what effect they have on our conduct, Pope has already fung, with fuch fuperior ftrength of thought, and harmony of expreffion, that unless our Poet could have dreffed his borrowed fentiments in better array, than he found them, it would have been prudent in him, never to have adopted them.

After fatirizing the follies of the Chace and the Turf, with other rullic amufements, which have been frequently ridiculed with much more elegance and keenness, our Bard proceeds to the follics of the town, and, among others, expofes that of Levee-hunting, which many, like him, we imagine, have defcribed from defcriptions, withBu ever having been eye-witneffes to the fcene.

Would

Would you convince yourfelf how low can fall,
Whoe'er of Intereft is the dirty thrall;
Go to that Levee, where, with her own gold,"
A paffive nation's vilely bought and fold,.
Or to that, where, for ever on the prance,
Like Pegafus in ftone, with no advance,
Our great State Genius feems to gaping crowds
Upon the ftart for foaring-to the clouds:
At both of beggars waits a fplendid band,
Who mighty foolish look. You'll fee them ftand
In rows, with not one jot a nobler air,
Than hireling drudges at a Statute Fair:
Nor at their begging, you to wonder need:
The Poor in Spirit, are the Poor indeed!

We are afraid, however, that our Author is as forry a Politician as he is an indifferent Poet, or he would have known, that our State Genius, as he petulantly chufes to call him, has made more frequent and fuccessful advances for the honour and intereft of his country, than the most zealous Patriot could have expected.

Our Bard concludes his poetical Farrago, with fome reflections on female follies.

If Women would be taught to take and holi,
They may what to avoid's their game, behold
In that Fritilla who fo much in vain,

Of Man, unconftant Man! is heard complain.
But were the to herfelf but better known,
That not the Men in fault are he would own.
Vain, filly, with a tolerable face,

For years had the fatigu'd each public place;
Many Gallunts, but not one Lover made,
Since of Efteem fhe no foundation laid;
Not had the been, with all her airs, above
The treating that coarfe feeder-kind of Loves
That, of a furfeit dying, leaves no heir,

But hate, and cold contempt worse yet to bear.

It is impoffible to endure this coarfe and infipid defcription of a Coquette, when we recollect the following lines of Pope, which our Bard has murdered by his imitation.

"Fair to no purpose, artful to no end!

Young without Lovers, old without a Friend," &c.

In fhort, our Poet, at beft, only ifes to Mediocrity, which, in Poetry, as Horace fays,

Non Homines, non Dí, non tonċesse e Columnæ.

The following lines, with which we fhall clofe this article, are of the middling cait.

Be apathy the boat of Stoic Drones!

Who vie for Senjelenet with ftocks and ftones,

And

And would have life refemble glacial feas

Where all the veffels ice-bound lie and freeze.

Senfeleffness, however, includes fo many hiffing letters, that we may venture to pronounce it a word- Quod Verfu dicere non eft.

of

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL.

Art. 16. A Warning to the World; or the Prophetical Numbers Daniel and John calculated, in order to fhew the Time when the first Refurrection of the Martyrs, and the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom of Chrift will take Place, &c. By the Rev. Mr. Richard Clarke, late Minister of St. Phillip's in Charles-Town, South-Carolina; and Author of the Essay on the Number 7*. 4to. Is. Townsend.

* See our Appendix to the XXth Vol. of our Review, p. 611,

Art. 17. Reafons wherefore Chriftians ought to worship God in Singing his Praifes; not with the Matter and Senfe of Dr. Watts's Pfalms and Hymns; but with the Matter and Senfe of David's Pfalms: Because God hath commanded the latter, but not the former. 8vo. 6d. Cooper.

A weak and wrong-headed attempt to fet afide the use of Dr. Watts's Pfalms, &c. in Diffenting Congregations. What this namelefs Writer objects against Dr. Watts's book, is, for the most part, fuch wretched cavil and cant, that we shall not affront the fenfe and tafte of our Readers, (or run the hazard of impeaching our own) by taking any farther notice of this pamphlet.

Art. 18. Sin deftroyed, and the Sinner faved: Or, Juftification by imputed Righteousness, a Doctrine fuperior to all other, for promoting Holiness of Life. Defigned as a Vindication of a Sermon, entitled, Encouragement for Sinners, or Righteoufnefs attainable without Works;. from the Objections raised against it by Academicus, in a Letter to the Author. With an introductory Epifle to the Governors of St. George's Hofpital, Hyde-Park-Corner. By the Rev. Richard Elliot, A. B. and late of Bennet-College, Cambridge. 8vo. Is. Withers,

&c.

The great principle that runs through this wretched performance is, that the heart of fallen man can have no godly difpofition in it; no holy principle of action; and confequently, can bring forth no good fruit in the life and converfation, except it be divinely generated (the Author's own words) and produced there by the Jacred doctrine of justification, without works, by the free grace of God, through faith in Chrift, well understood, and heartily believed. No man's obedience, according to this hopeful Divine, can be true, or his love to God fincere, who makes his repentance, faith, and

obedience,