159 Art. 28. An Effay on the Education of Children. ̈ Part I. On Forming their Bodies. Part II. On Improving their Minds. Tranflated from the German of John Gottlob Kruger, Profeffor of Philofophy and Phyfic in the University of Helmftadt, and Member of the Imperial Academy of the Natura Curiofa, and of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Dodsley, &c. The Author of this Effay feems, in general, to have very juft notions of Education; but as he advances nothing that has not been often repeated, a particular account of this performance is unnecessary. Art. 29. A Trip to the Moon, containing an Account of the Island of Noibla, its Inhabitants, Religions, and Political Customs, &c. By Sir Humphrey Lunatic, Bart. Vol. II. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Crowder. We are forry we cannot congratulate our friend Sir Humphrey on his fecond Trip to the Moon. His language is, as ufual, too much loaded with epithets; copious enough, and fpirited, bat without eafe, or precifion. Some of his characters are too infignificant; and even thofe are ill-fupported. His details are tedious, and his Noiblan terms and language ridiculous. There is fomething of a Shandyan levity scattered here and there through his pages, which fuits not with the moral fpirit, and ferious tendency of the whole. Yet his fentiments and conclufions are generally just, and always in favour of virtue. In fhort, the Trip to the Moon, though an injudicious, may be efteemed an ufeful work, in which the best interests of mankind are properly confulted, their paffions corrected, and their follies expofed. SERMONS. . 1. The Duty of Inftruction recommended at the visitation of the Archdeacon of Coventry. May 23, 1764, at Coventry. By Thomas Hindes, Rector of Avon-Dafiet, in Warwickshire. Fletcher. 2. Before the Houfe of Lords, Jan. 30, 1765. By the Bishop of Carlife. Sandby. CORRESPONDENCE. IN confequence of the letter from Broadway, in which notice is taken, that §. 24. c. 14. b. 2. in Mr. Locke's Effay on the Human Understanding, (entitled, in the Table of Contents, • The Measure of Time two ways applied') is wanting in the work; we have made fome enquiry, but without fuccefs, into the cause of this omiffion. Our Correfpondent fays, the first Edit. depofited in the Bodleian library, at Oxford, has been examined, and (if we rightly understand his letter) that Edition is equally defective with the reft. It is probable that the informa tion wanted, may be obtained from Lord Mafham, with whom, it is imagined, the original manufcript is lodged, This Month was published, (Price 10s 6 d.) Infcribed to the Right Honourable Lord WILLOUGHBY of Parham, A CHART OF BIOGRAPHY, together with a CONTINUATION and DESCRIPTION of it, and a Catalogue of all the Names. inferted in it, with the Dates annexed to them. By JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L. L. D. Tutor in the Languages and Belles Lettres, in the Academy of Warrington. Printed for the Author, and fold by himself at Warrington, and by J. Bowles in Cornhill, London. "HE Chart of Biography, of which the plate annexed exhibits a specimen, is about three feet in length, and two feet in breadth. It reprefents the interval of time between the year 1200 before Christ, and 1800 after Chrift, divided by an equal fcale into centuries. It contains above two thoufand names, the moft diftinguished in the annals of fame; and the length of their lives is reprefented in it by lines drawn in proportion to their real duration, and placed fo as to fhew, by intuition, how long any number of perfons were cotemporary, and how long one life begun before, or extended beyond another, with every other circumstance which depends upon the length of lives, and the relation they bear both to one another, and to univerfal time; certainty being always represented by full lines, and uncertainty by dots, or broken lines. The names are, moreover, diftributed into feveral claffes, by lines running the whole length of the Chart, and the chronology is noted in one margin by the year before and after Christ, and i the other by fucceffion of kings. If any person question the ufe of this method of exhibiting the relative length of lives, let him, for his fatisfaction, make an experiment of it, by means of no more than four names in the specimen annexed; Newton, Boyle, Lord Bacon, and Descartes. He fhall be told that Newton died 1727, aged 84; Boyle 1691, aged 65; Bacon 1626, aged 66; and Defcartes 1650, aged 54; and yet not find it eafy from these numbers to form a clear idea how these lives are related to one another perhaps he will not be able, without an arithmetical computation, to tell whether Descartes might have corresponded with Bacon, though they were cotemporray 30 years. But if he infpect the Chart, as foon as he has found the hames, he fees at one glance, without the help of arithmetic, or even of words, and in the most clear and perfe& manner possible, the relation of all thefe lives to one another in any period through the whole courfe of them. And almost any number of lives may be compared with the same ease, to the fame perfection, and in the same short space of time. The Chart, it may eafily be imagined, cannot be equally well filled in all places but the void spaces among the groups of great names will ferve to give an idea of the great interruptions of science, and the intervals at which any branch of it has flourished. Many other uses of the Chart are pointed out in the defcription that is given along with it; which contains every thing neceffary in order perfectly to understand the construction of it, and the difpofition of the names in it. N. B. Notwithstanding the much lamented death of the noble Lord to whom this performance is infcribed, the title and infcription of it are fuffered to remain as they have ftood about fix months fince the work was first engraved. After the books to be given with each Chart had been long printed off, the last corrections in the Chart made, and final orders given for printing the number of copies inrended for publication; it was not poffible, without greatly disfiguring the Chart, and without much trouble and expence, to make fo confiderable an alteration, as the erazing or changing of the infcription would have required. And it is well known to many perfons, not only that the Author had permission to infcribe this work to his Lordship, but that it was chiefly owing to his Lordship's approbation and encouragement that he was first induced to make it public. THE MONTHLY REVIEW, For MARCH, 1765. 8888 Thoughts on Civil Liberty, on Licentiousness and Faction. By the Author of the Effays on the Characteristics, &c. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Davis and Reymers. I T would be amazing, if it were not common, that there fhould be any confiderable difference in the acceptation of terms univerfally in ufe. But fo vague is the meaning of words, or rather so loose is the connection between language and fentiment, that it is poffible for a man to discourse and write, in a manner apparently unexceptionable, even to those who may differ totally from him, in their thoughts on the subject. Is there an Englishman, deferving that name, now in being, that is not interested, that does not join heart and hand with the advocate for CIVIL LIBERTY? Is there an English reader, ever so little versed in our history, whofe bofom does not glow with resentment against the diabolical efforts of licentiousness and faction? We will venture to fay, not ONE. And yet we fee, almost daily, with what fuccefs an artful writer may dress up the fqualid form and ghastly countenance of fervitude, in the specious garb and flattering fmiles of imaginary freedom. But, tho' a feather, in the bonnet of flavery, may make it pafs with some for the cap of liberty; fuch deceptions will not impose on any who know its true figure; who have the cause of liberty at heart, and judge with unbiaffed, unprostituted understandings. A state of freedom, even of unbounded freedom, bordering on licentioufnefs, is fo natural to the heart of man, however inconfiftent it may be with his ftate in fociety; that, when we fee individuals ftart the fubject, and raise the cry againft licentiousnefs, there is caufe for a fhrewd fufpicion that their intention. is to hunt down liberty. It may be afked, what motive can VOL. XXXII. M induce |