ART. 73. An Expofition of the Vice of Slander; its Causes and Effect; with fome curfory Obfervations upon Education and Religion. By Rbert Seaman. 8vo. 40 pp. is. 6d. Darton, London; Clachar, Chelmsford, &c. 1795.

Mr. S. appears to be fo very irritable and impetuous a young gentleman, that it is fcarcely fafe to fpeak one's whole mind concerning his book, especially if he fhould take it into his head that there are any parfons among us. P. 39. Trufting, however, very confidently, that if his refentment falls equally upon all who difapprove of his book, we fhall only bear our share with every one of his readers; we fhall juft venture to fay, that it is a moft flimfy, conceited, vulgar, and flanderous declamation against flander.

ART. 74. The Thespian Olio; or, Dramatic Cafket. Containing Comic, Burlefque, and other Pieces, original and felected. 48 pp. 6d. Parfons. 1796.

1200.

This author is very careful in his preface to diftinguish this publication from thofe elaborate and voluminous treatifes written to prove that two and two make four," &c. We must do him the juftice to acknowledge, that he does not offend in teaching or proving any thing. Perhaps he appreciates the value of his own book as highly as the most favourable critic can do, when he fixes the purchase of it at fixpence.

ART. 75. An Addrefs to the Public, on the Propriety of establishing Schools for Spinning, or other Work, and appointing Teachers in each Parish, with a View to the better Relief and Employment of the Peer; confifting principally of Extracts from a Pamphlet, published some time fince by the Reverend Mr. Bouyer. To which are added, the Firfi Proceedings of the Committee of Industry, appointed by a general Meeting of feveral Parishes within the Hundreds of Ongar and Harlow, and the Half Hundred of Waltham, in the County of Effex. Svo. 20 pp. 6d. Faulder, &c. 1795.

It is not always a valid objection against plans for the public good, that they are new; fince new evils may require new remedies. How ever, even this objection does not fubfift against the defign of this publication. For it does not propofe any new plan for the relief and management of the poor; but only recommends the enforcing of fome of the moft ufeful provisions of the ftat. 43 Eliz. Never furely did the ftate of the poor demand the public attention more strongly than at prefent. We gladly, therefore, recommend to notice fuch ufeful tracts as this before us, and the larger pamphlet, by Mr. Bouyer, on the fame fubject.

We would alfo fuggeft, that if a piece of ground could be hired, adjoining or near to the fchool of industry, in which the children might dig, fet, and weed potatoes and other vegetables, for about an hour each day, upon a few yards fquare allotted to each, the produce to be carried home by each little labourer; their health and spirits,

and

and habits of rural induftry, would perhaps be effentially promoted by fuch exercise.

ART. 76. A Letter from Pennsylvania to a Friend in England: containing valuable Information with respect to America. By L. J. Fardine, M. D. 8vo. 31 pp. 15. Dilly, &c. 1795.

The valuable information promised in the title-page relates to the advantages and difadvantages attending emigration to America. Thefe are stated in a flight and curfory manner, but fo as to afford fome degree of entertainment. The determination which we fhould form, from this account, is exactly contrary to that formed by the author: we should refolve, if we had even wavered, to stay in Old England. House rent and fervants wages (compared with the fame at home) very high, almost all the neceffaries and comforts of life very dear, and political parties very violent, would but little mend our condition. Let them take the cheap lands and enjoy the fuperior climate, who choose to clear and dig the one, and who cannot breathe but in the other. But obferve, gentle reader, we by no means recommend our example to all our fellow-countrymen. A few of them might, perhaps, be more comfortable across the Atlantic; and, though we fhould doubtlefs, at first, much miss them, yet our regret for the lofs would, probably, not be unconquerable.

ART. 77. The hiftorical and topographical Account of Leominster and its Vicinity. With an Appendix. By John Price. 8vo. 6s.

Longman. 1795.

We are ever friendly to fuch publications as the prefent, which we have before said, are, in a manner, appropriate to this country; but would, properly executed, prove of the greateft utility to all. This work feems entitled to our favourable representation, and contains fome neat engravings, of which the author has made no mention in his title-page.

FOREIGN CATALOGUE..

GERMANY.

ART. 78. Car. Frid. Heinrichii Obfervationes in auctores veteres. Particula I. XIV. and 112 pp. in 8vo. Hanover. 1794. The first chapter of this volume contains Observations on Pindar. These are not indeed of much account, but even the flightest remarks, illuftrations, or improvements either in the reading, or even in the punctuation, deserve our approbation, when they are, as is the cafe with refpect to these before us, at the fame time ingenious and

natural.

natural. Ol. I. 11. feqq. is here made perfectly intelligible by a change in the punctuation only, and by the author's explanation of it; we are likewife fatisfied with his vindication of the common reading, v. 89 feqq. where the ufe of oi aura is shown from other poets, though not from Pindar himself, in whom, however, it occurs Pyth. xii. II. In a few inftances, the bold lyric language may perhaps be faid to have been rendered more profaic by our author's alterations, as Ol. V. 24, where, inftead of asideix axons lucum facris adeoque hymnis numini offerendis celebrare, he propofes fubftituting asip. This may be compared with a fimilar expreflion in Euripides Iph. A. 1480. ελίσσετε"Αρτεμιν faliando celebrate, cited on another occafion by Mr. Heinrich. In regard to the paflage Nem. V. 87 feqq. it muft indeed be allowed that rix is more intelligible than rux, though we should ftill certainly prefer the latter. Merάropou our Túxx, &c. vicifit per fortunam quam (non tibi, fed præceptori) Menandro debes. So again, Nem VII, 27, we fhould not be difpofed, with our author, to change θανάτου σήμα, which may here be equivalent to σήμα τεθνηκότων, cippus, tumulus fepulcralis, into Jux davrou, though this latter reading might, perhaps, be more easily explained.

In the cond chapter, the author confines himself entirely to the elegy of Hermefianax, which had unquestionably come down to us in a very mutilated fate, and to which he has here rendered effectual fervice. In v. 28, Homer is ftiled martwy daipur μsvoorónur, the God, the Genius of Poets, (fee the Epigrams on Homer in Brunck's Analect. III. 254-7, particularly that numbered 493) which is certainly a fine idea, though we are not averfe to the emendation of on for dai, propofed by Mr. H. who here takes an opportunity of elucidating, in a way perfectly adapted to lyric poetry, the words of Aeschyluš Agam. 688: Toчéros nanou spoße improbi ducis, i. e. procellæ vertigine. The paffage, v. 37 feqq. which had hitherto been fo imperfectly understood, is here, at leaft, made to convey a certain determinate fenfe, Santenius, whofe tranflation the author quotes, without pretending to afcertain what text he had followed, might, perhaps, like Mr. H. have read, κνημωθεὶς κώμοις στεῖχε σὺν ἀδρανίη, come faticne s. compotatione exagitatus s. incalefcens inceffit pede infermo, titubante. The third chapter is employed on the Fragments of Philetas; and the fourth on the emendation of feveral pallages in Theocritus, particularly in the Epithalamium of Helen. In v. 8, inftead of mooi Mr. H. recommends, on the authority of a MS. xepoi mepitλéxтass. If, however, the words TOTO. be rendered cruribus divaricatis, the objection which has been made to that reading would, in our opinion, entirely vanish. V. 39, the author very properly understands the word Spós to be a kind of circus, or place of public exercife on the Eurotas, as it is Jikewife to be rendered in v. 22; compare Hufchke epift. critic. p. 64 feq. The following paffage of Euripides Androm. 597 feqq. might have been cited on this occafion : Σπαρτιάδων κόρη-αι δρόμους παλαιέρας '—ipoi noivas i'xv. V. 26 is thus restored from a MS. in the Vaticans avariλhoica jahov, &c. and in v. 29, the reading zipappa is very juftly defended: we do not, however, fee the force of Mr. Heinrich's objection to the alteration of the former of thefe words into ayupos on the ground of the poplar being more properly

περι

an

an ornament of the fhore, than of the fields, linafmuch as it flourishes more particularly in the firft of thefe fituations; which, with respect, at leaft to fome fpecies of the poplar, is certainly by no means the cafe.

The fifth chapter contains fome very judicious obfervations on, and emendations of, feveral paffages in the laft books of the Eneid, on which, as a part of the Scholaftic Encyclopedia, the author had, for fome time, been employed.

The last chapter confifts of mifcellaneous remarks on the Anthologia, Euripides, Propertius, and Juvenal, together with a few on Cicero and Cafar. In the emendation day for Travov Eurip. Jon. 195, Mr. H. had been anticipated by Joddrell. But we muft ftill prefer that of Tavor fuggefted by Pierfon and Jacobs Specim. emend. p. 59, as approaching nearer to the traits of the vulgar reading, and conveying the fame fenfe with the word daλoy itself. Jena ALZ.

ART. 79. Sammlung der merkwürdigften Reifen in der Orient, in Ueberfetzungen und Aufzügen mit aufgewählten Kupfern und Charten, auch met den nöthigen Einleitungen, Anmerkungen und Registern, heraufgegeben von H. F. G. Paulus, der Theologie Profeffor Ordinarius zu Jena. Dritter Theil.-Collection of Voyages and Travels into the Eaft, in Tranflations and Extracts, with a Selection of Plates and Charts, as alfo with the necessary Introductions, Notes, and Indexes. By Prof. Paulas. Vol. III. 412 pp. in 8vo. Jena, 1794.

In this volume are comprifed three voyages made by J. M. Wanf leb to Egypt. The firft of thefe, performed in 1663, is now, by the care of Prof. Reufs, printed for the first time from a MS. in the library at Göttingen, together with fome notes of Job Ludolf, found at the end of the MS. Michaelis had indeed before publifhed fome extracts from it. Thefe travels are highly deferving of attention for the account which they give of Abyffinia, and of the country of Fobr. We learn from them what were the fources from which Thevenot derived his information concerning Abyffinia, on which Prof. Bruns appears to fet fo high a value. In regard to the country of Fohr it is observed, p. 45, that Bruce places dar Forwar weft of Abyffinia, P. 393. It would have been ftill more worth noticing that Wanfleb vifited the flave-market at Cairo, and has given fome account of the flaves, though Ledyard, who calls the country Darfoor, afferts that European travellers have never paid any attention to this market. (See Proceedings of the Affociation for promoting the Discovery of Africa. P. 37.)

The fecond voyage, 1672-3, is again tranfcribed from the French, illuftrated with notes, and abridged by the editor. In the notes, many of the Arabic words expreffed by Wanfleb in the Roman, are here given in the original character, and, as it feems, with as much accuracy as the uncertainty of pronunciation would allow. Wanfleb quotes many Arabic writers: of thefe fome literary notices would, we conceive, have been very acceptable to the reader. The Defcription of Egypt, attributed to Fac. Albert, and published from a MS. in the library at Wolfenbüttel by Bruns, should likewise have been mentioned by the editor. Mr. Paulus often fhows how the accounts which ●ccur in these travels may be usefully applied to the elucidation of

Biblical

Biblical paffages, as, for inftance, p. 390, where the number of infects mentioned by travellers in Egypt is compared with the want of them in the land of Goshen, Exod. viii, 12; and p. 396, where there are fome excellent obfervations on the manner of living, or diet, of the ancient Jews, &c. Ibid.

DENMARK.

ART. 80. Abulfedæ Annales Muflemici Arabice et Latine, Opera et ftudiis Jo. Jacobi Reifke, apud Lipfienfes quondam Prof. celeb. fumptibus atque aufpiciis Petri Frederici Suhmii, S. R. M. Clavigeri et Hiftoriographi Regii, nunc primum edidit Jacob. Georg. Christian. Adler, Theol. Doctor et Profeffor, S. R. M. a confil. fummi Confist. et in ducatu Slefvicenfi fumm. rei ecclefiaft. antiftes, &c. Tom IV. 1792. 732 pp. Tom V. 1794; 574 PP. in 4to. Copenhagen.

Fortune had denied to Mr. Reifke, during his life, a public which knew how to fet a due value upon his extraordinary attainments in Arabic literature, and in oriental history. It was not, therefore, till after his death that a munificent patron of learning, the great Chamberlain de Suhm, ordered the hiftorical work of Ahulfeda, for which he had prepared a tranflation and commentary, to be published with a degree of fplendour, which would have far exceeded the expectation, or even the wifh, of Reifke himself.

At p. 160 of the fourth volume are concluded the extracts from Abulfeda, given by the celebrated A. Schultens, in Bohadin's Life of Saladin. Reifke's text is here more complete than that of Schultens. The latter had omitted whatever he did not think immediately connected with the life of Saladin, as, for inftance, literary anecdotes; and, what is ftill more to be wondered at, in a perfon who had such a predilection for Arabic verfes, many pieces of poetry. Examples of this kind occur in pp. 7, 11, 13, 25, 27, 29, &c. The Arabic text in this new edition comes recommended alfo, not only by a fuperior elegance of typography, but likewife by a greater degree of accuracy, as, for inftance, p. 92, 1. 10, where, instead of

as it ftands in Sch., we here find

وتيمن

ويتيمن

It were, however,

to be wished that R. had condefcended to form his verfion on the model of that of his predeceffor. For, though we must confess that Schultens was fond of introducing obfolete, uncommon, and pompous words, it cannot certainly be denied that he adhered, on the whole, more clofely to the Arabic text, was not fo much difpofed to paraphrafe, or add to it, and ftill much lefs would he have prefumed to remove the accounts of events from the places affigned to them by the author himself, in the original. But thefe are liberties which R. has often not fcrupled to take, even where the perfpicuity of the narration has not, in our judgment, appeared to require them. Thus, for inftance, p. 9, 1. 20, after the word Jemanicus is inserted, cujus è chronico rerum patriæ fuæ quæ illá de regione hactenus paffim narravimus omnia unice deprompta funt, for which there is no authority in the original. In the notes he is mentioned as the author of a Hiftory of Arabia felix, which, by D'Herbelat is afcribed to another perfon of

the