... a more delightful, or more original work than Mr. White's History of Selborne has seldom been publised. The natural history, which is the first part, and consists of 305 pages, is written in letters to Mr. Pennant and Mr. Daines Barrington. The antiquities also in letters, with the appendix, fill up the remainder of the volume, which contains in the whole 468 pages. Natural History has evidently been the author's principal study, and of that, ornithology is as evidently his favourite. The book is not a compilation from former publications; but the result of many years attentive observations to nature itself, which are told not only with the precision of a philosopher, but with that happy selection of circumstances, which mark the poet. Throughout therefore, not only the understanding is informed, but the imagination touched. And if the criterion of excellent, that Dr. Johnson, I think, somewhhere in his lives of the poets, proposes, be true, (as it certainly is,) Mr. White's book is excellent; for I beheld the end of it with the pensive regret with which a traveller looks upon the setting sun. ...