herd, until he stood at bay, when a markfman difmounted and fhot. At fome of thefe huntings twenty or thirty shots have been fired before he was fubdued. Oa fuch occafions the bleeding victim grew defperately furious, from the fmarting of his wounds, and the fhouts of favage joy that were echoing from every fide. But from the number of accidents that happened, this dangerous mode has been little practifed of late years, the park-keeper alone generally fhooting them with a rifled-gun at one fhot. When the cows calve, they hide their calves for a week or ten days in fome fequeftered fituation, and go and fuckle them two or three times a day. If any perfon come near the calves, they clap their heads clofe to the ground, and lie like a hare in form to hide themfelves. This is a proof of their native wildnefs, and is corroborated by the following circumstance that happened to the writer of this narrative, who found a hidden calf, two days old, very lean, and very weak. On ftroking its head, it got up, pawed two or three times like an old bull, bellowed very loud, ftepped back a few steps, and bolted a his legs with all its force; it then began to paw again, bellowed, stepped back, and bolted as before; but knowing its intention and stepping afide, it miffed him, fell, and was fo very weak that it could not rife, though it made feveral efforts; but it had done enough, the whole herd were alarmed, and coming to its refcue, obliged him to retire; for the dams will allow no perfon to touch their calves, without attacking them with impetuous ferocity. When any one happens to be wounded, or is grown weak and feeble through age or fickness, the reft of the herd fet upon it and gore it to death.' The following facts relating to dogs are, we believe, wholly new. In December, 1784, one of thefe (Greenland) dogs was left by a muggling veffel near Boomer, on the coast of Northumberland; finding himfelf deferted, he began to worry fleep, and in that way did fo much damage, that he became the terror of the country within a circuit of above twenty miles. We are af fured, that when he caught a fheep he bit a hole in its right fide, and after eating the tallow about the kidneys, left it; feveral of them thus lacerated were found alive by the hepherds, and being taken proper care of, fome of them recovered and afterwards had lambs.-From his delicacy in this respect, the destruction he made may in fome me fure be conceived, as it may be fuppofed that the fat of one fleep in a day would hardly fa tisfy his hunger. The farmers were to much alarmed by his depredations, that various means were fed for his deftruction. They frequently purfued him with hounds, greyhounds, &c. but when the dogs came up with him, he laid down on his back, as if fupplicating for mercy, and in that pofition they never hurt him; he therefore laid quietly taking his reft till the hunters approached, when he made off without being followed by the hounds, till they were again excited to the purfuit, which always terminated unfuccesfully.-And it is wor thy of notice, that he was one day purfued from Howick to up wards of thirty miles diftance, but returned thither and killed sheep the fame evening. In March, 1785, his conftant refidence during the day was upon a rock on the Heugh-hill, near Howick, where he had a view of four roads that approached it; and after many fruitless attempts he was at laft that there. • During a fevere ftorm in the winter of 1789, a fhip belonging to Newcastle was loft near Yarmouth, and a Newfoundland dog alone efcaped to the thore, bringing in his mouth the captain's pocket-book; he landed amidst a number of people that were affembled, feveral of whom in vain endeavoured to take it from him. The fagacious animal, as if fenfible of the importance of the charge, which in all probability was delivered to him by his perithing mafter, at length leaped fawningly against the breaft of a man who had attracted his notice among the crowd, and delivered the book to him. The dog immediately returned to the place where he had landed, and watched with great attention for every thing that came from the wrecked veffel, feizing them, and endeavouring to bring them to land.” We are forry to find the rein-deer brought over by fir H. G. Liddel are reduced (1789) to a fingle female big with young. In general, the most important facts relating to each animal are felected: our authors' authorities, and they seem to have fpared no pains in their examination, are of the best kind; and this Hiftory, which rifes greatly above a compilation, deferves attention. It is perhaps one of the best systems to put intothe hands of the fchool-boy, not only to excite his curiosity, but in a great meafure to gratify it. The Obferver: being a Collection of Moral, Literary, and Familiar Eays. Vol. V. 8va. 35. 6d. Boards. Dilly. THE Obferver is at laft concluded: we have followed his progreffive fteps, been gratified with his researches, and repeated with pleasure his obfervations. We now take up the laft volume with the melancholy pleasure which always attends the doing what we fhall do no more. The Obferver was first published in the country, and the typography was very imperfect in this ftate we perceived fome metal covered with an unpromising cruft, and ventured to praife the merit which we thought we faw concealed under a coarse veil. This first imperfect edition was noticed in our LIXth volume, p. 297: in the LXIIId it occurred again in a more correct form, in three volumes volumes crown octavo, and the fourth volume was examined in our LXVth, p. 357. In the fifth the work is concluded. Of the chief object of this work, an examination of the literary annals of Greece, and the more mifcellaneous parts, we have given a fufficient account. It is enough to observe, that in this volume Mr. Cumberland continues to deferve our commendation. The fubje&ts are perhaps lefs varied we have fometimes thought them lefs interefting than thofe of the former volumes; but the fame mild benevolence and unobtrufive good fenfe, equal learning, and a ftyle equally neat and elegant, are not lefs confpicuous. We fhall again turn over the pages, and point out the principal parts of this vo lume. The conclufion of the hiftory of Ned Drowfy is not fo interefting as we hoped to have found it. The event was indeed well known, and the incidents which lead to it are neither varied nor artfully conducted. The weak good humour of Simon Sapling is well defcribed, but the defcription is that of a genus, not of an individual: like fome others, it has not the characteristic peculiarities which diftinguish portraits from real life. Walter Wormwood, who always finds miferies to complain of, or inconveniencies which embitter life, is a fimilar inftance of general defcription; but the character of Billy Simper the flatterer is more appropriated and diftinct. The next essay is an excellent one on ftyle: it convinces us, as we formerly obferved, that Mr. Cumberland has fixed on Addifon as his model, Kit Cracker the boafter, Gorgon a felf-conceited painter of the deformed and terrible, are perhaps caricatures: the features are enlarged like thofe of the good knight on the fign; - and they resemble nature as much as the Saracen's head did fir Roger de Coverley; striking us in a general view, without its being easy to point out the traits of refemblance or the caufes of the diffimilarity. The sketches of various characters in a populous country town, are more ftrictly refemblances; but they are calculated to be looked at from a distance, and the features are a little enlarged. Yet when in that point of view, we cannot fail of acknowledging the refemblance. We must neceffarily mention the story of Nicholas Pedrofa, which is interefting, characteristic, and entertaining. It is the adventure of a Spanish barber and a furgeon, in a country where the two profeffions are ftill united; and we have little doubt of its being the production of a Spanish author: the coftumè is well preferved, the manners are appropriated, the attention is kept conftantly alive, and in the conclufion true poetical juftice is diftributed. The coffee-house debate on times paft and times prefent, is alfo well fupported, and the merits of authors in the different æras judicioufly compared or contrafted. The following remarks on focial intercourse and converfation cannot be carried too far abroad, or circulated too generally. There is another grievance not unfrequent, though inferior to this above mentioned, which proceeds jointly from the mixed nature of society, and the ebullitions of freedom in this happy country, I mean that roar of mirth and uncontroled flow of fpirits, which hath more vulgarity in it than cafe, more noife than gaiety: the ftream of elegant fettivity will never overflow its banks; the delicacy of fex, the dignity of rank, and the decorum of certain profeffions, fhould never be fo ove looked as to alarm the feelings of any perfon present interested for their prefervation. When the fofter fex entrust themselves to our fociety, we fhould never forget the tender refpect due to them even in our gayeft hours. When the higher orders by descending, and the lower by afcending out of their sphere, meet upon the level of good fellowship, let not our fuperiors be revolted by a rufticity however jovial, nor driven back into their fastneffes by our overfepping the partition line, and making faucy inroads into their proper quarters. Who questions a minifter about news or politics? who talks ribaldry before a bishop? once in feven years is often enough for the levelling familiarity of electioneering manners. There is another remark which I cannot excufe myself from making, if it were only for the fake of those lucklefs beings, who being born with duller faculties, or stamped by the hand of nature with oddities either of humour or of perion, feem to be fer up in fociety as butts for the arrows of raillery and ridicule: if the object thus made the victim of the company feels the fhaft, who but must suffer with him? if he feels it not, we blush for human nature, whofe dignity is facrificed in his perfon; and as for the profeffed buffoon, I take him to have as little preten fions to true humour as a punfter has to true wit. There is fcope enough for all the eccentricities of character without turning cruelty into fport; let fatire take its fhare, but let vice only fhrink before it; let it filence the tongue that wantonly violates truth or defames reputation; let it baiter the infulting towers of pride; but let the air-built caftles of vanity, much more the humble roof of the indigent and infirm, never provoke its spleen.' Procrastination, with the example, the effects of jealousy, and the converfion of a coquette, have each merit in their different lines. The laft fubject feems defigned to show, that the liveliness, the apparent inconftancy, and the fashionable levity of fome unmarried ladies are only the veil of the moment, the ebullition of gaiety and good fpirits; under it may be found respectable characters, which may be expanded in exemplary wives and mothers. It may be fo, and we have known known more than one inftance of it; but the risk is too great; it is a desperate stake, where we fear the chances against fuccefs are numerous. We have paffed over, in this general enumeration of the more interesting parts of the volume, the conclusion of the literary annals of Greece, because we defigned to notice it feparately with a little more attention. What remained of the fubject was the new comedy; and the authors now mentioned are Menander, and his antagonist Philemon, Diphilus, Apollodorus Gelous, Philippidas, and Pofidippus. Of Menander we know little but from Terence, whose comedies are fometimes tranflations, it is faid in fome inftances, literal tranflations from the comic poet of Greece. The epithet applied by Cæfar to Terence, Dimidiate Menander' certainly alludes to those paffages which were more strictly his own, and in which he feems to have caught Menander's manner very happily; for thofe plays, in part only taken from his predeceffor, do not appear to confit of discordant heterogeneous paffages. It is remarkable, however, that the remaining fragments of this comic poet are of the gloomy discontented caft, as Mr. Cumberland has properly obferved; this may have arisen from the temper of those who quoted him, in whose works they only remain. It is evident from the comedies of Terence, that though occafionally grave and fentimental, he was fometimes lively and ludicrous. We know that the temper of our own Shakspeare was lively, jovial, and good-humoured; yet a gloomy mifanthrope might pick out many more paffages indicative of a difcontented mind, than remain of Menander. We fhall felect one or two of thefe fragments in Mr. Cumberland's elegant tranflation. In the following paffage, it must be remembered that the poet fpeaks of marriage and in a feigned character. It will not, therefore, militate against his fondness for the fair sex, and indeed should not have been adduced as his own fentiments. "If fuch the fex, was not the fentence juft, His nuptial bed defil'd, poifonings and plots, And maladies untold-thefe are the fruits Of marriage, these the bleflings of a wife." "Thou seem'st to me, young man, not to perceive That |