PARIS. OME new Sermons of Father Bourdaloue are lately come out. Sermons du Pere Bourdaloue, de la Compagnie de Jefus, pour les Fêtes des Saints, & pour des Vêtures Profeffions Religieufes. Paris 1711. Two Volumes in 8vo. A Second Volume of Bifhop Flechier's Letters is actually in the Prefs. They are alfo printing his Sermons and Synodal Orations. A Bookfeller of this City will fhortly publifh a more complete Collection of feveral Pieces of that Illuftrious Prelate, with his Poem against Quietifm. V TRECHT, OME Obfervations upon the New Teftament have S been lately published here. Joh. Frid. Hombergk Tzu Bach Juris in Acad. Mar burg. Profefforis Parerga Sacra, feu Obfervationes quædam ad Novum Teftamentum Domini noftri Jefu Chrifti. Trajecti ad Rhenum. 1712. & M. Hombergk, Profeffor in the University of Mar purg, has dedicated those Obfervations to M. Ma tricht Syndic of Bremen, and to M. Reland Profes for in this Univerfity. Some of thofe Remarks dif cover a good Taste. The Readers will find an Extract of that Book in one of the following Volumes. LONDON. LONDO N. BOOK, that will be very acceptable to the Englifh Readers, has been newly published. The Works of the late M. Boileau Defpreaux are fo much efteemed in England by fome of the best Judges of Poetry and Criticism, skilled in the French Language, that nothing could be more proper than to print a Tranflation of them for the Ufe of many ingenious Gentlemen, who cannot read the Original. M. Baileau was an Excellent Poet, a found and judicious Critick; his Characters and Defcriptions are juft and lively, his Satyrs interfperfed with many ingenious Strokes, and no less Useful than Entertaining. The Works of that celebrated Author have been tranflated from the laft Paris Edition by feveral Hands, and adorned with Cuts, Two Volumes in 8vo. ARTICLE XXXIV. IN Q. HORATIUM FLACCUM Note & Emendationes RICHARDI BENTLEI S. T. P. REGIE MAJESTATI a Sacris Demefticis, Bibliothecarum Regiarum Cuftodis, Archidiaconi Elienfis, & Collegio S. Trinitatis apud Cantabrigienfes Præfecti. Cantabrigia MDCC XI. That is, A NEW EDITION of HORACE, the Notes and Emendations of RICHARD BENTLEY, D. D. Chaplain and LibraryKeeper to HER MAJESTY, Archdeacon of Ely, and Mafter of Trinity - College in Cambridge. Cambridge. 1711. Two Volumes in 4to. Vol. I. Containing the Text, Pagg. 310. Vol. II. Containing the Notes and Emendations, Pagg. 460. THIS New Edition of Horace does fully answer the Expectation of the Publick. The Readers will be furprised to find fo many Excellent Notes and Emendations, (never before publifhed) upon a Poet, who has been Commented, and Illuftrated by fo ma ny Learned Men. Their Amazement will increase, when they come to know that the Editor has confined himself within narrow Bounds. He has laid afide all all Obfervations relating to Hiftory, and to the Cuftoms and Manners of the Ancients, which fill up the large Commentaries upon Horace; being contented to remove the Faults that have crept into the Text, and to clear those, Paffages, that have been disfigured, by the Ignorance or Carelefnefs of the Tranfcribers. Such an Undertaking requires not only a perfect Knowledge of Antiquity, but also a folid Judgment, a great Sagacity, and a certain Faculty of Gueffing, which cannot be acquired by Labour and Induftry, and is a Gift of Nature. Hence it is, that among fo many Philologers, there are but few, who diftinguilhed themfelves in this fort of Critical Learning.' It must be confeffed, that the Reverend Dr. Bentley undertook a very difficult Work; for it is not fo eafy now to make Emendations, as it was heretofore, when the Manufcripts afforded fo many Helps. Which is the Reason why most of our Author's Corrections are only his own Conjectures, and have no Foundation upon any Manufcript: And yet thofe Emendations are generally the beft, and more certain than others. In order to give a Specimen of the Author's Performance, I fhall pitch upon fome of thofe Remarks, that appear to me moft Curious and Valuable, A I begin with the firft. Ever fince the Restoration of Learning, the Interpreters of Horace complained, that there of Lea was an intricate and difficult Paffage in the Firft Ode of the First Book. The whole Paffage runs thus, in all the Printed and Manufcript Copies: .1 Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum Gauden Gaudentem patrios findere farculo Agros, Attalicis conditionibus Nungnam dimoveas, ut trabe Cypria The Queftion is to know, what Verb governs the HUNG and ILLUM. There are only Three Ways of conftruing thofe Words, viz. either with Juvat, or with Evehit, or with Dimoveas; but none of thofe Conftructions is right. To begin with the laft: If we read, Nunquam dimoveas HUN C, &c. Nunquam dimoveas ILLUM, &c. the Sense arifing from it will be impertinent, and altogether unworthy of fo Judicious a Poet. Horace tells us, according to that Conftruction, that 'tis impoffible to perfuade a Man, who is poffeffed of the higheft Dignities, or vaftly rich in Land, to turn Merchant, and to go to Sea in order to get Wealth, This is no very wonderful thing. Why fhould fuch a Man expofe himself to the Dangers of the Sea, and undertake to acquire what he has already? Why fhould Pompey, Cafar, or Craffus, lay down their Offices, and leave every thing elfe, to betake themfelves to Trade? Such a Thought can't be afcribed to Horace, without wronging his Memory. If we fuppofe that HUNC and ILLUM are governed by Juvat, it will remove the Difficulty abovementioned; but fuch a Conftruction cannot be admitted, being contrary to the Rules of a correct Difcourfe, because there is a whole Sentence, viz. Palmaque nobilis Terrarum dominos evebit ad Deos, between Juvat and HUNC. The Third Conftruction is that of Rutgerfius, who inferted a full Stop next to Palma nobilis, and then read Terrarum Dominos EVE HIT ad Deos HUNC, fi, &c. ILLUM, fi, &c. Our Author rejects that Conftruction, though it be more convenient than the other Two, and alledges feveral good Reafons for it. 1. Palma, fays he, cannot be divided from Evebit without great Violence. 2. The Words Palma nobilis will be very dry, and deftitute of Grace: fulness |