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Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
Biographical , Literary , and Political Anecdotes of several of the most eminent Persons of the present Age ; ivith an Appendix , consisting of original , explanatory , and scarce Papers . By the Author of Anecdotes of the late Earl of Chatham . THE persons concerning whom these anecdotes are published were either high in rank , conspicuous by situation , or eminent for talents ; some of them possessed all those constituents of distinction . The accounts of several of
the personages being continuous rather than detached , might more properl y be entitled Biographical Sketches than Anecdotes . The first two volumes contain the text , with references to the third , which is entirely an illustrative Appendix . A great part of the first volume is occupied by the history of men , who , though before engaged in public life , ascertained their public character during the first ten years of the present reign . The same may be said of the first portion of" Vol . II . The most prominent of that areLord
groupe , Temple , George Grenviile , the Duke of Grafton , Charles Townshend , Lord Camden , and Lord Mansfield . We shall take these morp in their historical order , than in their disposition in the work . The account of Lord Temple naturally involves in it the dismission of the popular ministers of the Whig party , the measures and views of Lord Bute , the rise and progress of Favouritism , and describes some of its eft ' cCls ; together with the history of George
Grenville and ot Charles Townshend . ft carries internal and colonial politics through the administrations of Grenville and of Rockingham . His sketch of the Duke of Grafton gives the outlines of political history during his administration . His narrative of the proceedings and conduit of Mansfield and Camden contains the chief legal transactions of the same period . Political and legal history , of course , comprehend Wilkes and Junius . The remaining part of the second volume is employed in biographical
sketches of men , who did not attain the zenith of political eminence till the second decennary of the present reign , —Hartwell , Germain , the Burkes , and Dr . Franklin . The other principal actors on the great stage are also occasionally brought forward . The narrative in this work appears to us to be generally authentic , and , as a compilation , useful . The characters are , with some exceptions , just , as far as they go ; but very general , and even supeificial . They are the result of common observationemployed upon
ob-, vious and prominent appearances ; not of profound sagacity , diving into the hidden springs of thought and of aiStion . His account of Lord Mansfield is partial , unjust , and malignant . and brings forward onl y one side of his character . His best is , we think , his description of Franklin . We shall make extracts in our next publication .
Posthumous Works of Mary Wollslonecraft Godivin , ^ vots , Johnson . OF the four volumes we have only seen two , containing a Novel , entitled the Wrongs of Woman , or , Maria , a Fragment . The editor , Mr . Godwin , expresses his opinion , that if the outlines of this work had been filled up according to the conception and plan of the author , it would have given new impulse to the manners of a world . Of th ?
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Review Of New Publications.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
Biographical , Literary , and Political Anecdotes of several of the most eminent Persons of the present Age ; ivith an Appendix , consisting of original , explanatory , and scarce Papers . By the Author of Anecdotes of the late Earl of Chatham . THE persons concerning whom these anecdotes are published were either high in rank , conspicuous by situation , or eminent for talents ; some of them possessed all those constituents of distinction . The accounts of several of
the personages being continuous rather than detached , might more properl y be entitled Biographical Sketches than Anecdotes . The first two volumes contain the text , with references to the third , which is entirely an illustrative Appendix . A great part of the first volume is occupied by the history of men , who , though before engaged in public life , ascertained their public character during the first ten years of the present reign . The same may be said of the first portion of" Vol . II . The most prominent of that areLord
groupe , Temple , George Grenviile , the Duke of Grafton , Charles Townshend , Lord Camden , and Lord Mansfield . We shall take these morp in their historical order , than in their disposition in the work . The account of Lord Temple naturally involves in it the dismission of the popular ministers of the Whig party , the measures and views of Lord Bute , the rise and progress of Favouritism , and describes some of its eft ' cCls ; together with the history of George
Grenville and ot Charles Townshend . ft carries internal and colonial politics through the administrations of Grenville and of Rockingham . His sketch of the Duke of Grafton gives the outlines of political history during his administration . His narrative of the proceedings and conduit of Mansfield and Camden contains the chief legal transactions of the same period . Political and legal history , of course , comprehend Wilkes and Junius . The remaining part of the second volume is employed in biographical
sketches of men , who did not attain the zenith of political eminence till the second decennary of the present reign , —Hartwell , Germain , the Burkes , and Dr . Franklin . The other principal actors on the great stage are also occasionally brought forward . The narrative in this work appears to us to be generally authentic , and , as a compilation , useful . The characters are , with some exceptions , just , as far as they go ; but very general , and even supeificial . They are the result of common observationemployed upon
ob-, vious and prominent appearances ; not of profound sagacity , diving into the hidden springs of thought and of aiStion . His account of Lord Mansfield is partial , unjust , and malignant . and brings forward onl y one side of his character . His best is , we think , his description of Franklin . We shall make extracts in our next publication .
Posthumous Works of Mary Wollslonecraft Godivin , ^ vots , Johnson . OF the four volumes we have only seen two , containing a Novel , entitled the Wrongs of Woman , or , Maria , a Fragment . The editor , Mr . Godwin , expresses his opinion , that if the outlines of this work had been filled up according to the conception and plan of the author , it would have given new impulse to the manners of a world . Of th ?