ART. XXIII. Literary Obituary. 1807. April At Cambridge, the Rev. John Mainwaring, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in that University, 1788-Of St. Joha's Coll. A.B. 1745; A. M. 1750; S.T.B. 1758, Rector of Church-Stretton, Co. Salop, and of Aberdaron, Co. Caernarvon. Author of a volume of Sermons, 1780, with a prefixed Dissertation on that species of Composition. He was a native of Warwickshire. April 13. Robert Heron, author of the History of Scotland, Tour to the Highlands, &c. He was a native of Scotland, and bred to the church; but his promotion in that line not answering his expectations, he resolved to take advantage of his intellectual acquirements, which he had already proved by several publications of merit, and came to London as a literary adventurer, where he soon obtained the patronage of the booksellers. He for some time edited the Globe and British-Press Newspapers; and at last began another, entitled the Fame, which not succeeding involved him in pecuniary difficulties, which preying on his mind, brought on a fever, that terminated his life. May 19. John Douglas, D.D. Bishop of Salisbury, æt. 85. He was, we believe, the fabricator of his own fortune, being born of obscure parents in London. He was educated at Oxford, where he became a student in 1738, when Johnson's "London" was first published. In 1750 he distinguished himself by a detection of the forgeries of William Lauder; and afterwards the im positions positions of Psalmanazar and Archibald Bower. He was chaplain to the celebrated William Pulteney, Earl of Bath, whom he attended on a tour in Germany and Holland, about 1763, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Montagu, and Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. He was afterwards a Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's; and promoted to the see of Carlisle, 1787; from whence he was translated to Salisbury, in 1791. He was author of The Criterion, or Miracles Examined," 1757. May At Osborn's Hotel, Adelphi, London, Sir James Durno, knighted March 13, 1799, lately his Majesty's Consul at Memel, &c. distinguished for his commercial abilities, who had afforded great literary assistance to authors, and probably an author himself, though the present Editor cannot specify any publications by him. May 16. John Charnock, Jun. Esq. F. S. A. T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, CENSURA LITERARIA. NUMBER XVIII. [Being Number VI. of the New Series.] ART. I. The Golden Aphroditis: a pleasant discourse, penned by John Grange, gentleman, student in the common lawe of Englande. Whereunto be annexed, by the same Authour, aswell certayne metres vpon sundry poyntes, as also diuers pamphlets in prose; which he entituleth His Garden: pleasant to the eare and delightful to the reader, if he abuse not the scente of the floures. Habet et musca splenem, Et formica sua bilis inest. At London: Anno 1577. Colophon. Imprinted at London by Henry Bynneman. 4to. Signat. S. Grange's Garden, the second title to this book, is given, by Herbert, at length: but the above must have been wanting in the copy used by him, as he has only cited the running title. There appears also to be some mistake in describing it as "licensed July 1, 1578;" since the printed date is 1577. An epistle dedicatory of seven pages is addres VOL. V. Typogr. Antiq. II. 990. I sed sed to "the Lord Sturton," by his "poore oratour Thy eloquence and loftie style, all other doth excell: devisde Those golden lines which polisht are with Tagus' glittring sandes, A pallace playne of pleasures great, unto the vewer's handes. Tby learning doth bewray it selfe, and worthie praise dothe crave, Who so thee knew did little thinke, suche learning thee to have. Here Virtue seemes to checke at Vice, and Wisedome Folly tauntes: Here Venus she is set at naught, and dame Diane she vauntes. Here Pallas Cupid doth detest, and all his carpet-knightes; Here doth she shew that youthfull impes in folly most de lightes; And And how when age comes creeping on, with shewe of hoary heares,* Then they the losse of time repent, with sobbes and brynish teares," &c. Of John Grange I have not met with any biographi cal intimation; but as a poetical writer he is placed by Webbe,† with Whetstone, Munday, &c. and not without propriety: The same critic, to exemplify that puerile species of versification called Echo, has cited six lines from the Golden Aphroditis; ‡ a work, as the title § may infer, adapted to youthful votaries of the foam-sprung goddess, and comprising a gallimawfry of pedantical, mythological, and unnatural conceits. In proof of this, the following short colloquy may be cited, between a loquacious lady and her logical gallant. N. O. is the gentleman who speaks: "I know, deare dame, if it were thy pleasure to shake me of, thy comely personage, thy courteous harte, thy lowly mind, thy friendly cheere, thy cherefull countenance, and eke thy brave demeanour therewithall, desireth to matche with one, whose feete standeth higher than ever my head will reache. Yet, lady, where true love, • Heares for bairs an orthographic license used by most of our early poets, when the rhyme required it. + Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586. Grange tells us in his dedication, that certain young gentlemen earnestly requested him to entitle this book “A Nettle for an Ape:" but being somewhat wedded to his own opinion, he thought it good to set a more cleanly name upon it, viz. «Golden Aphroditis." Lodge might have adopted a hint in part which Grange rejected, for he printed in 1591 “ A Nettle for Nice Noses." § Hesiod. in Theogon. I 2 friendship, |