MISCELLANIES. We have fo arranged our claffes on the prefent occafion, that hardly any thing remains for this, excepting Dr. Drake's felection, entitled the Gleaner *. To make a new periodical work, or rather collection of effays, out of multitudes that are forgotten, and feldom to be met with, required the tafte and judgment of an author who, like Dr. D., had read every thing of the kind, and accustomed himself to appreciate what he read. Of the Letters of Tippoo, published by General Kirkpatrickt, we thall probably speak in our next preface, under the article of Hiftory. Worgan's Agriculture of Cornwall has merit in that line of compilation, where demerit has too often intruded. As a mifcellany of inftruction, Mr. Millard's Pocket Cyclopedia, may be recommended §; if science is to be squeezed into a nutshell, it requires fome skill to get it in. Here then we clofe, faying with Spenfer: Now ftrike your failes, ye jolly mariners, No. V. p. 503. P. 377. + No. VI. p. 545 No. VI. p. 650. + No. IV. TABLE his Prometheus 520 Rev. Robert, Nar 537 Boyd, Hugh Stuart, Paffages - 418 Brackenbury, |