sfonal knowledge, are the only blemishes that w attributed to the work. The life of Dr. Geddes is twelldvarnished by the partiality of Mr. Good yet there are things in it which may intereft the literary reader. The Doctor will not haftily be forgotten, though, on the whole, oblivion would be his best friend. With much lefs of partiality to the fubject, byet with fome bias of that kind, are written Mifs Secward's Memoirs of Dr. Darwint. The botanical poct bhas no amiable, features feigned for him though the Writer's admiration of him as a poet, fomewhat ex-ceeds due bounds, and, as a philofopher, fill more. The book, however, is various and amufing. Th Life and Character of Richardson are delineated with truth and elegance by Mrs. Barbauld. The Correfpondesence to which the life is prefixed, is, in fact, of inferior value; yet it increafes our familiarity with a man, to concerning whom curiofity cannot be inert. The fate doof Mr. Wilkes is fill, more hard. His Correfpondence aris brought forward, though almoft without a feature that marks his talents; and what is given of his life altends chiefly to his difhonours We should not have salluded to these latter publications, in this place, had they not been general objects of enquiry. The Remwalutionary Plutarch, that curious, and, we believe, 13 authentic record of the crimes of France, is augwomented lately by a third volume, in which the Duke d'Enghien, Moreau, and other recent objects of public commiferation are recorded. Mifs Bethan's Biographical Dictionary of celebrated bomen, is an interefting compilation, and gives, within a fingle volume, many brilliant examples to the female fex. A little volume, -called Cowper iliustrated, is indebted more to the aid pencil than the pen and carries the eye to thofe re-omtreats, which were made dear to the lovers of Poetry, on by his refidence, or by his Mufe. dom 001 Jadw 001191 No. III, p. 332. VOYAGES VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. We cannot better begin this article than by that which alfo begins our volume, the Voyage of Discovery, made by Lieut. James Grant*. Much of real difco very, and much light thrown upon subjects important to navigation, give an intereft to the work, and excite ftrong feeling for the fubfequent fufferings of the meritorious author. The account of Sierra Leone, published by Dr. Winterbottom †, is valuable not only as a narrative of curious facts, but also in a me dical view. That work is in octavo; but we fink to a ftill smaller fize, when we come to the tranflation of Golberry's Travels in Africa. The Travels are of value; and we understand that they have also been published in a more refpectable form. Mr. Barrows is alfo an African traveller; and, as he appears to have penetrated further into the interior than other enquirers, his remarks have in them more of novelty. This is his fecond volume on the fubject; the former has been long received and approved. Capt. Percival's Account of the Cape of Good Hope is at once a defcriptive work, and a fpeculation of political moment; the author undertaking to prove, that nothing can be more important to the fecurity of our EaftIndian territories than the poffeffion of the Cape. Capt. Broughton carries us with him in a voyage of difcovery to the North Pacific Ocean**; nor had the French voyagers who preceded him by any means exhaufted the fubject. He is particularly worthy of attention in his progrefs on the coafts of the Japan iflands. Volney, in his View of the United States of Americatt, relinquishes neither his own prejudices nor those of his countrymen, yet gives information of P. I. * No. I. ‡ No. II. p. 113. No. IV. p. 361. See Brit. Crit. vol. xviii. p. 113. No. III. P. 225. + No. I. p. 39; **No. IL. p. 140. fome foine value. Dr. Maclean's Excurfion in France* offers an account of a period, of which our information is hitherto but fcanty. He does not certainly augment our regard for the tyrant of the country, nor our admiration of the wifdom of the people. Mr. Williams's Picturefque Excurfions in Devonshire and Cornwall† belong to a clafs of works which feems very rapidly to increase, in which the chief attraction is derived from the skill of artifts and the beauty of embellishments. The fame advantages has Col. Thornton fecured to what he calls a Sporting Tourt; a new object for a literary work, which will doubtless be extremely acceptable to the prefervers and deftroyers of game throughout the kingdom. TOPOGRAPHY. With the fingle exception, perhaps, of Daniel's Indian Views, of which we purpose foon to speak, we have had nothing fo fplendid or fo well-executed as Mayer's Views in Egypt, Palestine, and Caramania§. This artift, who was employed and brought into no tice by Sir Robert Ainflie, has had in thofe countries very interesting fubjects for his pencil, and has done. complete juftice to them. To turn over his books is almost to travel in the diftricts defcribed. The Gazetteer of Scotland defcribes only in words, but appears to be an ufeful compilation. The Statistical View of France, by the Chevalier de Tinfeau, though it does not exhauft its fubject, comprehends much information. A large kingdom cannot be drawn in miniature, and a whole-length figure would demand prodigious canvas. Philofophy is a wide field, with many labourers diligently employed in it; no wonder, therefore, that its Phi productions are many and valuable. Of the Philofaphical Tranfactions of the Royal Society, the Part here examined is the fecond for 1803*; and it is highly honourable to the contributing philofophers. Among them, the chemifts feem in general to take the lead; but Dr. Herschel appears always in great ftrength for the astronomers. Count Rumford's third volume of Essayst tends like the preceding, to improve, and at the fame time economize the comforts of life. lofophy long ago defcended from heaven; it remained for the Count to carry her into the kitchen and the cellar. The difcoveries of Kepler were in the contrary extreme, they were chiefly in the heavens ; and Dr. Small's hiftorical view of them is well calculated to mark the foundations of the prefent aftronomy. The Analysis of the Principles of Natural Philofophy, by Dr. Young, late Bishop of Clonferty, is a comprehenfive and fcientific work. It would have better ftill, had it been published by the author himself. Galvanifm is now fo far advanced, as to demand a feientific hittory, and the tafk has been well performed by Mr. Wilkinson. The Lectures of Mr. Davy, on Chemiftry, were illustrated by a Syllabus, for the ufe of his very numerous pupils at the Royal Inftirution. Nothing could be better adapted to its purpose; and they who have remembered half of what this Syllabus conveys will have become very refpectable chemists. Mr. Accum confines himself to the Analysis of Minerals and has produced, on that subject, a Practical Elay of much utility. The Natural Hiftory of Moffes is elegantly illuftrated by Mr. Turner's Mufcologia Hibernicatt a book which, for neatnefs both of type and delineation, will not eafily be furpaffed. The remaining works we have to mention are fmall, but not unimportant. The difcovery of the Life-Boat, by Mr. Grealhead, has justly been thought No. VI. P. 595. (No.-V. p. 494. ** No. II. P. 206. + No. I. p. 8. 16 + No. II. p. 118, No. II. p. 138. :: worthy worthy of parliamenty reward; and his publication* of the Evidences, and other documents refpecting it, most highly deserves attention. The obfervations of Mr. Cumming on the most advantageous formofor wheels, are truly fcientific and conclufive: Bent's Meteorological Journal is, as it has always been, a convenient, record of facts; which may, by comu parifon, illuftrate the Journals kept at the Royal So ciety: and Mr. Downie's Obfervations on the Atmospheres, defcribes fome phænomena, which it does not fall in he way of every Philofopher to view. 901 701 head MEDICINE., D. So much remains to be discovered in medical science, that the majority of publications in that clafs communicate either new facts or new opinions; and, at prefent, for a general view of Medical Studies, we are indebted to a French original. The Medical Sketches of Mr. M'Gregor, and the Obfervations of M. Allalini, have nearly the fame object; that of examining into the nature of infectious fever, and particularly, of the plague. Both are works which a ftudious phyfician mult confult. Dr. Trotter††, in confidering Drunkenness in a medical point of view, has tten the feverest satire against what a learned Doctor called vinous exhilaration, that ever was produced. The book, however, is of the most useful tendency, and extremely found in medical doctrine. The fatal prevalence of Scarlet Fever, for many late years, has fixed the attention of Dra Blackburne (to it; 2 and has drawn from him a collection of Falls and Obfervations highly valuable to the medical profeffion‡‡. Some general remarks are alfo added, on the nature of Contagions. Mr. Alley has traced to the medicine |