The Monthly Review or Literary Journal Vol. LIV

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1776 Excerpt: ... e their taste. And let not criticism destroy or interrupt tike pleasing effect of the story, by pointing out defects and blemishes in the man ner in which it is written.-JJJ, R EL I G I 6 Xf s. Art. 5 3. A Hontily to the Somerfetjhire Septuagint; Or, a Letter of Advice to the Seventy Proprietors of the new Assembly-Rooms in Bath: with a laconic Address to the Gentry of the Bon Ten, the Gay and Giddy, of this dissipated Age. Bvo. 6d. Newfeery. 1774. This pamphlet having been little, if at all, advertised in the London papers, escaped our notice, at the time of its publication. The Author's design was, chiefly, to admonish the gentlemen to whom it is addressed, and offer them some hints toward ' reforming their plan of operations, ' particularly in reference to the unwarrantable liberty taken by them, of keeping their rooms open on the Sunday, and, by public advertisement inviting the company resorting to Bath, to misspend 'their sacred time;'--in violation of both ' divine and human laws.' Although the admonitions of this pious and rational Author were 'calculated for the meridian of Bath, ' they may, as he rightly observes, be equally suitable at other places, where the fame licentious spirit of dissipation prevails: as, Weymoutb, Southampton, Margate, Brighthelmftone, &c.--His Homily, as he has chosen to style this letter, is, indeed, a very good discourse against the inordinate love of pleasure, which is too much the characterise of the present age: and can at no time, and at no place of general resort, in this country, be unseasonable, or improper. S E R M 0 N. I. I'be Christian's Strength.--Preached at Wrexham in Denbighshire, and published at Request. By Joseph Jenkins, A. M, 8vo- 64. Buckland. 177;. This is a serious yet lively discourse, from a C...