are perennius, as they have furvived almost all the other monuments of that nation.

Had the ancients happily discovered the art of fhadowing before they loft that of encauftic painting upon earth; or had they applied this art, if it was not then loft, to the noble use of copying the pictures of ancient Greece; the works of Apelles, and many other illuftrious artists of those remote ages, would not now have been loft to the world.

Imperfect, however, as the Etrufcan paintings are, without the advantage of light and fhade, they have nevertheless preserved to us the outline, the drawing, that is the foul, of many a beautiful figure, which modern painters may clothe with bodies, and, by the affiftance of this fine art, lately revived and brought into use in our own country *, restore and render them immortal.

This work of Pafferius contains many good forms of vases, and a great variety of curious paintings; but there are fewer beautiful figures in this collection, and more grotesque ones, than in Mr. Hamilton's: nor are they in general fo accurately drawn, or fo well-coloured,-though the work is much more methodical, and better digefted, each plate being explained in the volume to which it belongs; and, upon the whole, it may be confidered as a valuable acquifition both to taste and science, which in this, and in many other late publications of this kind, are happily united.

We do not imagine that any extracts from the Differtations would be entertaining to the generality of our Readers; and we apprehend that the learned will be fufficiently excited by this account, to apply to the work itself, for further fatisfaction on the subject.

*We may, farther, venture to obferve, and to predict, that the revival of encauftic painting is an era in the annals of genius which will be of great confequence;-in connection with which, the names of Wedgwood and Bentley will be held in the highest esteem by all lovers and promoters of the fine arts, not only in this country, but in every other civilized nation in Europe. Nor, in saying this, fhall we be charged with partiality to our countrymen, fince we have already paid the juft tribute of refpect to the fair fame of count Caylus, and other ingenious foreigners, who have gone before them in the fame delightful path.

ART.

ART. XI.

Obfervations Phyfiques, &c.-Physical and moral Obfervations on the Instinct of Animals, on their Industry, and Manners. By Hermann Samuel Reimar, Profeffor of Philosophy at Hamburgh, and Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Petersburgh, Tranflated from the German, by M. R** De L***. 12m0, 2 Vols. Amfterdam and Paris. 1770.

THE

HE Editor of the prefent work, which has already quickly paffed through two editions in the German, was induced to undertake the translation of it, from a perfuafion that no one had yet explained the nature of the instincts of brute animals fo particularly, and with fo much exactnefs, as M. Reimar ; whose fyftem on this intricate fubject, he affirms, is much more fatisfactory than any of those which have yet been offered to the public. In a fhort advertisement prefixed to this tranflation, M. de L. reprefents his Author as overturning and destroying all the systems, both of the ancients and moderns, on this fubject; and, though furrounded by the ruins of these goodly edifices, difdaining to employ any of the materials; but, conftructing a new hypothefis, founded on the most exact observations of the actions and habitudes of animals. We have not yet had fufficient time to attend properly to this production, but shall take an early opportunity of confidering and communicating to our Readers its contents.

AR T. XII.

Lettres Atheniennes.-Athenian Letters, extracted from the Collections of Alcibiades. By M. De Crebillon. 12mo. Paris. 1771.

THESE

4 Vols.

HESE Letters treat of love, and their Author appears 10 be intimately acquainted with his fubject. Loofe and in modeft ideas dreffed up in the chafteft language, are the entertainment he prefents to his Readers. It is with real regret, that we obferve fo much tafte and ability exercised in giving ornaments to vice.

AR T. XIII.

Les Vrais Quakers; ou, Les Exhortations, &c.-The true Quakers; or, The Exhortations, Harangues, and Productions of the true Servants of the Lord, to a wicked Brother; particu larly on the Subject of his Maxims on Luxury, and his Perfecution of a Brother in Diftrefs; a pofthumous Work. Ta which is added, A curious Parallel of two celebrated Men of Letters,

Letters, and feveral Pieces, critical, moral, and philofophi-
cal, under the Title of a Correfpondence between an Uncle
and his Nephew. 8vo. 1771.

WE

E mention this medley, only to acquaint our Readers,
that it is not worth their attention; and that the reason
of its being noticed here at all is-its having been imported,
and fingly advertised, by a London bookseller.

AR T. XIV.

Le Poefie di Georgio Baffo, Patrizio Veneto.The Poems of
George Baffo, a Venetian Nobleman. 8vo. 1771.

HERE have been crimes in fociety for which civil juftice

THE

could find no adequate punishment: and there have been
abuses in letters which it was not in the power of language fuf-
ficiently to chaftife. The book before us ranks with the latter.
It is replete with the most unparallelled obfcenity, the most shock-
ing blafphemy; is moft abominably beaftly, and most auda-
ciously profane. How it found its paffage from the regions of
unnatural brutality into this purer climate, can be known only
to fome member of the Beef-fteak Club or the Macaroni, fome
fhameleís Peer, moft probably, who, loft to all the decencies of
fociety, brought over this dirty work, to ftimulate the languid
prurience of himself and his brethren. It is fome fatisfaction,
however, that it will not be generally understood, as it is not
written in the Tufcan dialect, the almoft only one known to
the English in general:

*We fhould not have mentioned this publication, had we
not taken it for granted that our Readers would expect from us
fome information concerning an article which hath been im-
ported hither, and fingly advertised by a bookseller, who, proba-
bly, is not only ignorant of its contents, but of the language
in which it is written and who, we hope, will think himself
obliged to us for fuppreffing his name.

ERRATA in this Volume.

P. 114. par. 3. 1. 2. for fecuring, read fecured.

188. 1. 2. read This he had promised to Dr. P. in one respect; and
there can be no doubt, but that in others Dr. F.'s accurate, judi-
cious,' &c.

334. Art. 24. L 11, for intimately unacquainted, read intimately
acquainted.

INDE X

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this

VOLUM E.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

A.

NEAS defended against the
imputation of an unmanly
fear of death, 220.
AGRICULTURE, account of a
courfe of expertments in, 162-
167. Char. of various writers
on, 231. Experiments in, 303,
378, 449, 477.
AIKIN, Mr. his effay on the liga-
ture of arteries, 219. His obf.
on the external use of prepara-
tions of lead, 485.
ALEXANDER the Great, his cha-
racter, 7.

ALMIDA, a tragedy, critique on,
150.

AMERICA discovered by the Green-
landers, 183.
ANGLO-SAXONS, their spirit of li-
berty, and care for its preferva-

tion in their conftitution of go. B

vernment, 496.
ANIMALCULA, produced in veget-
able infufions, curious account
of, and hypothefes concerning,

207.
ANTONY, Marc, relation of the
remarkable manner of his death,
113.

B.

AILLY, M. his memoir on
the motion of the nodes, and
the variation in the inclination
of Jupiter's fatellites, 523.
BALDWIN, Mr. his account of the
cultivation of lucerne criticised,
478.
BANNATYNE, George, his ancient
Scottish poems, 42.
BAPTISM,

BAPTISM, the duty, circumftances, BROWNRIGG, Mr. his account of
the American oil of ground-nuts,
206.