2. The twelve Labours of an Editor feparately pitted against thefe of Hercules. 12mo. 126 pp. 55. Miller. 1810.

A more flat and abortive attempt at wit than the present has feldom fallen under our cognizance. The author's imagination appears to have been heated into a conception of his own humour, by a perufal of Mr. Dibdin's elegant trifle, entitled Bibliomania*; but the utmost he has been able to effect has been a kind of parody on that tract, in an oppofite ftrain of irony. Mr. D. affected to confider book-collecting as a difeafe, which, as he was known him. felf to be deeply touched with the contagion, was the most goodhumoured fiction he could affume. This author affects to extol the paffion for collecting, in order to deprefs it the more by falfe encomiums; a more obvious and lefs temperate fpecies of irony. In purfuing it, he is unable to ftir a step without the aid of his prototype, whofe divifions he borrows, and whofe ideas he dif torts. The fecond part is a ftrained and unnatural attempt at a parallel, where, if a timilarity exifts, the author has not had in. genuity or fagacity to catch it. If the parent of this dull child be an Afpirant to literary eminence, let him be very careful how he takes his next step, for in this he has loft ground instead of gaining it. The extravagancies of any fet of men are eafily ridiculed, but to make ridicule effectual it must be pointed and original, not flat and borrowed.

ART. 37. A Tour through Part of the Atlantic, or Colle&ions from Madeira, the Azores or Western Iles, and Newfoundland; including the Period of Difcovery, Manners and Customs of each Place, with Memorandums from the Converts, vifited in the Summer of 1809 in his Majefty's Ship Veftal. By Robert Steele, Lieutenant of the Royal Marines. With an accurate Chart of the Ship's Track. 8vo. 6s. Stockdale. 1810.

This little volume is not without its fhare of merit, and will very well entertain the reader for an hour, but communicates nothing very important, and by no means juftifies the promife of the title-page. Indeed how could it poffibly do this in less than two hundred fcanty pages. Of Madeira we know all that can be known, and the detail from the Portuguese history at the conclufion is out of place. The chart is very neatly executed. We do not mean to check the ardour of a young author, but we recommend to confideration an old maxim urged upon us in our youth-Read more—write less.

See Brit, Crit. Vol. xxxiv. p. 200.

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