of the reformed churches at this day, that little more need be done, than to read that epistle to fee our own likeness. We have the name, it is added, fpeaking of the English church, of a purely reformed church, which protefts against the errors of popery, doctrinal and practical, but are we not dead as to faith and good works? We ftill have a name to live as a true church of Chrift in our articles, homilies, and liturgy, but are we not dead as to the practice of all religious duties? And are we not ready to return into the bofom of the Popish church ?-This church ftate draws near to its period. Thefe wars, which are a juft punishment for our unbelief and apoftacy, are introducing a glorious ftate in which brotherly love. will prevail, &c.' But before this feafon, it is farther faid, how full of trouble and blood fhed will the nations on earth be! The dark and bloody way to the Philadelphian church state is folemnly awful and very affecting.' We will not prefume to controvert with our Author, any of his pofitions. We believe he means well, but how ftrange is it, that men of piety and learning fhould, fo often, bewilder themselves and others in this book of the revelation! Art. 32. Fifteen Sermons on felect Subjects; from the Manufcripts of the late Reverend Thomas Broughton, A. M. Prebendary of Sarum, and Vicar of St. Mary Redcliff and St. Thomas, in Bristol. By the Reverend Thomas Broughton, A. M. of Wadham College, Oxford; and Vicar of Tiverton, near Bath. Evo. 5 s. fewed. Cadell. 1778.

The hint for this publication, we are told, was fuggefled by feveral of Mr. Broughton's late parishioners, among whom he refided upwards of thirty years; they expreffed their wishes to become poffeffed of fome of thofe difcourfes, which they had often heard from the pulpit with particular fatisfaction: Some fermons they pointed out to him, and others the Editor felected, eiteeming them edifying and ufeful. The fubjects are as follows: The Example of Abraham's Faith; the Eloquence of Chrift; the Parable of the Sower, in two parts; the good Samaritan; the Parable of the rich Man and Lazarus, in Two parts; the Parable of the Ten Virgins; the Theory of Man; Hope in Chrift; the Joys of Heaven; the Repentance of a Sinner matter of joy in Heaven; the Duty of loving our Enemies; the argument from Miracles; the Converfion and Ministry of St. Paul'

Thefe difcourfes are fenfible and practical.

SCHOOL-BOOKS. Art. 33. Arithmetic and Measurement, improved by Examples and plain Demonftrations: wherein are laid down the different cultomary Perches, and other Meafures, ufed in the feveral Parts of Great Britain and Ireland. Suitable to all Artills; but more especially thofe who are employed in Building, Gardening,: Surveying Land, &c. To which is added, the Ute of an Intrument called a Tangent Rule, for the taking any given Dillance within a Quarter of a Mile. Revifed, corrected, and improved. By William Davidion, Architect, and Land-Surveyor. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Hogg, a The Author of this performance moves in a humble fphere; but bis labours may not, perhaps, on that account, be a jot lefs useful. We are all fo fond of inttrutting men of genius and fcience, that is,

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of giving to those who already are poffeffed of abundance, that we utterly forget the artifan, the mechanic, and the labourer, who, in truth, ftand most in need of our affiftance, and through whom our knowledge and learning would often find the fhorteft road to public utility. It is on thefe confiderations, that we think the Author of this little tract deferving of commendation: we may add, that his book is of a moderate price, which is no unimportant point at this day; and that the matter which it contains, is laid down in a manner fo plain and easy to be understood, that we think every person, even of the meanest capacity, must comprehend it.

Art. 34. Arithmetic in the first four fundamental Rules. With a Collection of useful Tables, &c. By J. Bettefworth, Master of the Academy in Quaker's Buildings, West Smithfield. 8vo. 3 d. Hogg.

Ufeful, particularly to thofe who never learnt, or have forgot ten, for want of practice, the rudiments of arithmetic. We are always glad to fee, and to encourage, thefe little cheap things, calculated for the accommodation of thofe who cannot afford to pur chafe dear books.

SERMON S.

I. Preached at Taunton, May 26, 1779, before an Affembly of the Proteftant Diffenting Clergy. By the Rev. Sir Harry Trelawney, Bart. A. B. Published at the request of the Minifters. 4to. 1s. Buckland, &c.

Rational, candid, benevolent, and pious. If the clergy would all preach in this ftrain, men would never cut one another's throats to prove themselves the true difciples of Jefus Chrift,-who held throat cutting in the utmost abhorrence.

II. Compaffion to Men's Souls the greateft Charity; and the Neceffity of a Subfcription for the Support and Relief of Miffionaries.-Preached and published for the Benefit of the incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; in confequence of the Lord Bishop of Worcester's circular Letter to the Clergy of his Diocefe. By the Rev. Francis Rufford, B. A. Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. 4to. 6d. Fielding and Walker. Those who are intimately acquainted with American affairs, feem, generally, to agree in opinion, that the money raised here for the propagation of the Gospel in that part of the world, was never better employed than at this time, when it is fo much wanted for the relief of thofe miffionaries, &c. who are fufferers for their inflexible attachment to this country.

The account of Mr. Crawford's Experiments and Obferva tions on Animal Heat will be given in our next.

The well-written letter of Eugenius, from Salisbury, in behalf of Mrs. Cowley's play of ALBINA, is acknowledged; but it has not induced the Reviewer of that tragedy to alter his opinion of it.

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MONTHLY REVIEW,

For NOVEMBER, 1779.

ART. I. Šelecia quædam Theocriti Idyllia. Recenfuit, variorum Notas adjecit, fuafque Animadverfiones, partim Latine, partim Anglice feriptas, immifcuit, Thomas Edwards, S. T. P. 8vo. 5 5. in Sheets. Cambridge printed, and fold by Woodyer. 1779. O thofe who wish to have an intimate acquaintance with the works of the Sicilian Bard, this felection will prove a very acceptable prefent. Dr. Edwards evinces a critical knowledge both of his author and the language in which he writes; and if he has not cleared up every difficulty, and elucidated all that was obfcure, it is not through want of labour or of attention. The original text confifts but of about 350 lines, and yet the notes are extended through upwards of 250 pages, befide two or three-and-twenty pages more of Addenda, Corrigenda, Collationes, &c. When, however, the variety of matter which is comprehended in the notes is confidered, and when it is obferved also that thofe notes are profeffedly written in ufum juventutis academica, many of whom may poffibly stand in need of every affiftance, we are not to wonder that our Editor has been fo particular and minute in many of his animadverfions.

Left his readers fhould be furprised to find fome of the notes in Latin, and others in English, he acquaints them, in his preface, that they were written at his leifure hours, fometimes in one language, fometimes in the other, as chance or inclination directed him; and that he knows of no purpose it would have answered to have printed them uniformly in Latin or in English.

With all due deference to the Doctor's opinion in this matter, we muft beg leave to diffent from him. Editions of ancient authors ought to be for the benefit of the learned world in general, and not to be confined to the advantage of a partiVOL. LXI. cular

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cular country. Were every editor of an ancient author to write his notes fometimes in Latin, at others in his vernacular tongue, it would frequently happen that the advantages to be reaped from them would be extremely limited. Had Reifke, Heinfius, Scaliger, &c. adopted the fame mode of editing that Dr. Edwards has chofen, it is not impoffible but the Doctor himself might, in many inftances, have been unable to have availed himfelf of their affiftance.

But our objection to Dr. Edwards's English notes rests not here: the notes themselves, we mean with refpect to the style in which they are expreffed, are highly exceptionable. As a proof of our affertion, we will give an extract from a note on a paffage in the fourth Idyllium:

If I rightly understand the Poet's representation, Battus and Corydon are talking at fome diftance from the olives. Battus accidentally turning his head, fees the calves browsing on the trees. He inftantly cries out,

βαλλε καλωθε τα μοσχία, τας γαρ ελαίας

Τον θάλλον τρωγοντι τα δυσσοα·

and whilst he is uttering the firft words, he and Corydon both fet a running together; and when he has uttered the remaining words, both fet a hooting together:

Σιθ', ο Λεπαρχος

Σιθ', ο Κυμαίθα, &c.*

Whity goes away before Battus gets to the olives: he therefore ftops running, and ftands ftill. Cymatha ftays where he is, and ftirs not an inch. Corydon therefore continues running towards her; and fwears he will be the death of her, if she does not take herself fomewhere else:

8 εσαινεις ;

Ηξω, ναι τον Πανα, κακcν τελος αυτικα δωσων,

Ει μη απει τατωθεν

Whilft he is faying this, fhe runs away: he follows her; both whilft he is faying it, and after he has faid it. Having followed her, as far as he thinks neceffary, he returns; and goes to the place, where Battus is standing. But fcarce is he there, when he fees her coming to the plants again :

Ιδ, αυ πάλιν αδε ποθερπει Upon this Battus fets out; determined to drive her to fome purpofe, and by a good drubbing give her enough of meddling with olive-trees, &c.'

* Our Poet is fuch an excellent painter here, that one cannot read

Σιτθ', ο Λεπαργος"

Σιτθ', α Κυμαίθα, ποτι τον λοφον

without feeing the hurry and bustle, the two rustics are in.”

It is furely fomething fingular, that a Writer who seems so intimately acquainted with the niceties of a dead language should pay fo little attention to the delicacy of his own!

Among other refpectable names, we frequently meet with that of Mr. ToUP, fo juftly celebrated for his confummate knowledge in Greek literature, as a contributor to the improvement of the prefent work. An obfervation, however, of this Gentleman's has been admitted, in which we can by no means agree with him. His words are these :

σε Idem χίμαρος et χείμαρρος, ut χίμετλον et χείμετλον. Utrumque and T8 XEμatos fcilicet. Atque hinc notandus lufus Theocriti Idyl. I. 5.

Αἴκα δ' αἶγα λάβῃ τῆνος γέρας, ἔς τε ΚΑΤΑΡΡΕΙ

Α ΧΙΜΑΡΟΣ.

Nam verbum καταῤῥεῖν de lapfu aquarum five χειμάῤῥε dicitur. Sed Theocritus femper feftivus eft."

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Though it be poffible that χίμαρος and χείμαρρος may have, according to Mr. ToUP, the fame derivation, and though there can be no doubt of the primary ufe of the word xalappeiv, yet furely there can be nothing forced or unnatural in the metaphorical sense in which Theocritus has hitherto been fuppofed to apply it. Had he intended fuch a play upon the words as Mr. Tour imagines, he must have been guilty of a most unmeaning and miferable pun.

At the end of the volume are two Appendicule; one containing the Editor's reasons for not prefixing the accentual marks to his own and Mr. Warton's notes, which are judicious and fatisfactory. In the other are given hints at a new method which the Doctor has difcovered, of scanning Greek and Latin hexameters, the ufual method being, as he tells us, erroneous. For a fuller explanation of his fyftem we are to wait for the publication of the Mifcellanea Critica; a work which will fome time or other see the light. This new fyftem of profody will then not only be illuftrated and explained, but also the objections which he thinks are likely to be made to it will be confidered.

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ART. II. Confiderations on the prefent State of the Church Establishment, in Letters to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London. By John Sturges, M. A. Prebendary of Winchester, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. 8vo. 3 s. fewed. Cadell. 1779. N thefe Letters, Mr. Sturges confiders how far our ecclefiaftical establishment, as it now fubfifts in this country, is an inftitution fit for the purposes it was meant to answer, both with refpect to religion and fociety; how far the clergy of England are worthy minifters of the religion of Chrift, and useful members of our civil community.

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