ANNUAL REVIEW, AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE; FOR 1804. ARTHUR AIKIN, EDITOR. VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW. BY T. GILLET, SALISBURY SQUARE. V PREFACE. THE Editor, in delivering to the Public the third volume of the Annual Review, begs to avail himself of the customary indulgence of making a few prefatory observations. He trusts that the literary merit of the present is not inferior to that of the two former volumes, and that as a work of rational entertainment it may obtain that approbation which has been so liberally bestowed on his past labours. Among the best friends of this undertaking, are to be ranked those who have favoured the Editor with their opinions on the errors which have here and there insinuated themselves into the two first volumes. Criticism is a noble art, and ought to be worthily exercised: the materials upon which it is employed, are those productions of human intellect which peculiarly distinguish highly cultivated societies; and when the powerful influence that is exercised by professional critics on the public taste is considered, no man whose mind is not callous to sentiments of equity and honour, can avoid being strongly impressed by the obligations which he thus volun tarily undertakes. We believe, in most instances where we have expressed our dissatisfaction, that the arguments and specimens which are adduced, will be found by adequate and impartial judges to justify the matter of our remarks; and if in any case the language in which they have been conveyed may be thought to have betrayed a blamable impatience of temper, we trust that the present volume, though expressing with freedom our sentiments on the books that have come under our notice, will be liable to no just objections on this head. The late suspension of the printing business, owing to the secession of the journeymen, has frustrated the Editor's intention of publishing as early as he had intended. Since, however, notwithstanding a long interruption, the present volume is offered to the public at the same period as the last was, he still flatters himself with the hope of being able, for the future, to finish his labours by the end of March. April 25, 1805. A. A. TABLE OF CONTENTS, With the Prices of the various Works in Boards, unless otherwise 1 Volney's View of the United States, 8vo. 12s. Johnson 2 Tuckey's Voyage to New South Wales, 8vo. 5s. Longman and Co. 3 Journal of Ellicot on the Ohio, &c. 4to. 11. 11s. 6d. Johnson Page 5 Barrow's Travels in Southern Africa, 4to. vol. 2, 11. 15s. Cadell and Davies 6 Percival's Account of the Cape of Good Hope, 4to. 11. Baldwins 7 Grant's Voyage to New South Wales, 4to. 11. 1s. Nicols 8 Adams's Letters on Silesia, 8vo. 8s. Budd 9 M'Kinnen's Tour in the British West Indies, 8vo. 5s. White 10 Holcroft's Travels in France, &c. 2 vols. 4to. 51. 5s. Phillips 11 Barrow's Travels in China, 4to. 21. 12s. 6d. Cadell and Davies 12 Kotzebue's Travels to Paris, 3 vols. 12mo. 13s. 6d. Phillips 13 Yorke's Letters from France, 2 vols. 8vo. 15s. Symonds 14 Broughton's Voyage of Discovery, 4to. 11. 5s. Cadell and Davies 1 White's Versio Syriaca, 2 vols. 4to. Payne and Mackinlay 2 Fellowes's Guide to Immortality, 3 vols. 8vo. 11. 4. White 3 Dodson's Memoirs of Farmer, 8vo. 3s. Longman and Co. 4 Tomlinson's new Translation of the Scriptures, 8vo. 6s. Baynes ibid |