MIHI ET, GRATIORA SUNT BONA QUOD PERSEVERANT, ET LEVIORA INCOMMODA VOL. VIII. LONDON: Printed, for the Proprietors, at the Anti-Jacobin Prefs, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street AND PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-JACOBIN OFFICE, PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET-STREET, 128 Table of the Titles, Authors Names, &c. of the Publications reviewed in this Volume, including both the Original Criticism, and Reviewers Reviewed. Addrefs of the Affociate Synod to the Adelaide de Narbonne Adonia, a defultory story Agutter's Difference between the Deaths Aikin's Letters from a Father to his Son 329 Allwood s Literary Antiquities of Greece 391 Bardomachia, or the Battle of the Bards 193 Barton's Sermon on his Majefty's Pro- 394. Bowles's Reflections on the State of Society at the clote of the eighteenth Century 14 Boyd's Letter to the Right Hon. W. Fitt 65 -Brief Observations on Boyd s Letter Letter to the Right Hon. the Lord 174 To Henry Reginald, Bishop of Exeter 189 THE ANTI-JACOBIN Review and Magazine; &c. &c. &c. For JANUARY, 1801. WE HAVE DONE THE STATE SOME SERVICE,AND THEY KNOW IT. Shakespear. ORIGINAL CRITICISM. Tranfactions of the Linnean Society. Volume V. 4to. PP. 296. Il. Is. in Boards. White. London. 1800. THAT HAT this is one of the most refpectable scientific Societies in the kingdom, it would be fuperfluous in us to remark. Supported by talents, learning, industry, rank, and fortune, the fuccefs of fuch an affociation, in all views and researches, feems placed beyond the power of accident. The volume before us would appear, from a bare enumeration of its contents, to be equally deferving of public attention, with the first four; which have been received as productions worthy the disciples of Linneus. It contains thirty-one articles. In his Obfervations on the Ranunculus aquatilis," Dr. Pulteney informs us, that— "the diftilled water of the R. Flammula, or Leffer Spearwort, as we are informed by Dr. Withering, is an emetic more inftantaneous, and lefs offenfive during its action, than white vitriol; and, as if Nature had furnished an antidote to poison from among poifons of its own tribe, is to be preferred in promoting the inftant expulfion of deleterious fubftances from the ftomach." NO. XXXI. VOL. VIII. B The |