the name of Khazergi. But fhould we even be ready to admit that this account is right, how does R. know that Abulfeda availed himself in fo great a degree, of this hiftory? Of the tranflator's difpofition to paraphrafe, we fhall only adduce one or two proofs. On the arrival of Saladin at Damafcus, he was advised to difband his troops, that they might have an opportunity of refting and refreshing themselves. To which Saladin anfwered that, human life is short, and the period of its termination uncertain. This fimple narrative, and the short, but fenfible, reply with which it is concluded, are, by the tranflator, overwhelmed in a deluge of words-id ipfi eò fuadebant, quò et illi quorum in agros bellum halienus (for hucufque, or adhuc) incubuerat, coloni et jumenta militaria et ipfi milites, poft tot labores et ærumnas requiefcerent tandem aliquando et refpirarent. Saladinus autem eas docebat; vitam humanam per brevem, ejufque terminum tam obfcurum effe, ut ne horæ quidem fecurus effe queas. And a little before he renders the words be followed his advice by et cujus ad confilium

قوله

Jententiamque fua confilia et obfequium referebat.

Had not the editor thought himself obliged to make no alteration in Reifke's work, it is probable that not only many of these excrefcences, by which it is fo much disfigured, would have been removed, but likewife that in the place of many words which can, at the best, be faid only to belong to the infima latinitas, others more claffical would have been fubftituted. Such are conductio to exprefs the French conduite, vol. iv. p. 95, &c.—Riperia for the fea-coast, vol. v. 181–3–9, &c.-Campania for ibid. 247, 253, &c. In p. 627, among

برية

the presents made by a certain fultan to a chaliph, we meet with the word gamdurici, where R. had retained the Arabic, which neither himself, nor the editor, have attempted to explain. It is probably gamberia, boots, which is a word not uncommon among the writers of the middle age. Deguignes, in his Hiftory of the Huns, iv. 147, of the German tranflation, appears to have explained the word in this manner.

Mr. Reifke's notes to both volumes, contain Excerpta from Marai, and other Arabic writers, from the hiftorians of the Crufades, and the accounts of travellers, particularly Wanfleb, and exhibit ftill further proofs of that extenfive learning and found judgment for which he had been fo much admired, both in and out of Germany. The new edition of Wanfleb by Paulas may, likewife, be improved from this work. For instance, what by Paulus, p. 404, is expreffed Caffor Ifcema, fhould, according to Reifke, be written

الشمع قصر

.قصر

again, the Camel, which, in the verfion given by Paulus, is fo ftrangely ornamented, having about its neck bones and bells, will be found to carry, as we learn from the words of the original, cited by Reike, V. 420, autour du cou et des jambes des fonnettes.

Prof. Adler, has very much enhanced the value of this work by the addition of a threefold index. The firft of thefe contains the difficult

and

and rare words, with references to the places where they occur; the Second is an historical, and the third, a geographical index*.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We are not furprised that our correfpondent, who affumes the fignature of Juftitia, feels himself difpleafed by the obfervations we have thought it neceffary to make on political tracts, which he approves, and we do not.

If Amicus had waited patiently, or candidly, for the close of our animadverfions on the work he defends, he would hardly have thought it neceffary to complain: and if he difliked the qualities he afcribes to us as much as we do, he would have written his letter in more decent and temperate language.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Pye is at prefent employed upon a confiderable poem on the Hiftory of Navigation.

Mr. Maurice, the author of the Indian Antiquities, whose elegy on the death of Sir William Jones has been fo much and fo justly admired, is preparing a volume of Poems, to be printed at the Bulmer prefs.

A Syllabus of Lectures on Natural Hiftory, to be given by Dr. Shaw at the Leverian Mufeum early in the next Spring, will be published in due time. The course will confist of about twelve Lectures.

We understand that the Apology for the Believers of the Shak/perean Papers, which is preparing for the Prefs, will contain fome novelties, with regard to the Poet, and much new matter relative to the Plays and Players of his Time.

ERRATUM.

In the 32d Article of our laft Number, and the correfponding place in the Table of Contents, for Bishop Steinner read Skinner.

In p. 482. 1. 16. for "which is done only," read "which is true only."

* It may not be useless to obferve here, that the years of the Hegira 474, 475, 519, of which no account was found in Reifke's copy, and which were, of courfe, omitted by Adler in his third volume, may be fupplied from MSS. in the Bodleian library. Rev.