The term dictionary does not appear to be properly applied to Mr. Monk's publication. It certainly is not complete as to the terms of husbandry and utenfils employed, but confifts of partial extracts on the fubject. It may alfo be objected, that among thefe extracts, there is much heterogeneous matter; and the report of the Lincolnshire hufbandry, written by the editor, and certainly very creditable to him, has ftill lefs to do in the place where it is inferted. Mr. Monk fhould have given the extracts from the reports of other countries, to have explained their different fyftems, to have made his work confiftent and complete. Mr. Monk's publication will not be without its ufe; but greater care and pains would have made it much more valuable.

ART. 75. An Eafy, Short, and Syftematical Introduction to the Englifts Grammar, for the Ufe of Schools. By a Schoolmafter. 16mo. 9d. Boofey. 1794

The author of this Grammar will, we doubt not, be very well fatisfied if we fay that his book deferves the title which he has given it. We really think that it does-it is eafy, fhort, and fyftematical.

ART. 76. Plan for the Eftablishment of a Marine Academy in the Ilands of Bermuda. 12mo. Printed by Jofeph Stockdale, Bermuda. 1794. Edwards, Pall-mall.

This account of a happily imagined, and well-digefted plan; for making the Bermuda Iflands a nursery for British feamen, proceeds from their benevolent and excellent Governor (Gov. Hamilton). The general reafons stated in favour of the plan are, 1. The acknowledged falubrity of these islands. 2. Their various creeks, bays, &c. favourable to the practice of intricate navigation. 3. The important pofition of the islands for cruizers from our American and Weft-Indian fettlements, 4. The convenience to those settlements, of fending their children to fo contiguous and fo uncorrupted a place of inftruction, where almost every fpecies of diffipation is unknown. 5. The want of fuch an establishment fomewhere among thofe Colonies. The plan is then detailed, fubject to the fuggeftions of intelligent perfons in all parts of the Empire; but wanting fupport from the benevolence and patriotifm of the mother country. We heartily with fuccefs to fo judicious an inftitution, and with great pleasure lend our aid to make known the defign.

FOREIGN

FOREIGN CATALOGUE.

HOLLAND.

ART. 77. Theophanis Nonni Epitome de Curatione Morborum. Grace et Latine. Ope codicum MSS. recenfuit notafque adjecit Jo. Steph. Bernard. Amfterdam, 1794. 463 pp. in large 8vo.

This is unquestionably one of the moft perfect fpecimens of Dutch criticifin and philology that have for fometime come into our hands, bestowed on an author too, who in point of medical knowledge appears to be little inferior to any of those who have written on that fubject in the Greek language. Even those who read this book with merely a philological view cannot fail to be much pleased with the many ingenious explanations, and emendations of different claffical writers, with which it is interfperfed. Such are, for example, the following corrections; of the text of Antonin. Liberalis, c. 6. where, for επειπες ίσος αυτόν ετιμα, he fubftitutes επει περισσως ; in the Hymn to Apollo (48) where, instead of

he reads 'n ges; and in Tryphiodorus, (149) where, in the place of

ἷον κλεος ᾧ XEY EXOSOS,

he proposes xxxx50. So again, p. 135, we meet with a capital emendation of Aretæus, where Mr. B. changes agnžai es μ. àμns into αἱ ρίζαι ες μέγεθος άχνης

We are informed by the editor in his preface, that he has difcovered from a MS. at Vienna, that the name of the author, who had hitherto been known under that of Nonus only, is properly Theophanes Nonnus. From the author's own introduction to his work, we learn alfo, that he drew up this epitome at the command of the Emperor Conftantinus Porphyrogennetus, perhaps the famous Conftantine IX, and, of courfe, in the tenth century. It confifts chiefly of extracts from the more ancient medical writers, particularly Alexander Trallianus, Aëtius, and Paulus Ægineta; though it is evident from a comparison of the MSS. that the entire chapters from Alexander, which are to be found in it, were inferted by another hand. Mr. B. has, by collating Galen and the other ancient medical writers, as well as by means of four MSS. belonging to the library at Vienna, and one ftill bearing the name of that of St. Germain, difcovered a great number of various readings, by which, together with his own conjectures, the text has been materially improved.

As

As the learned editor did not himself live to fee the publication of this work, we are not surprised to find it disfigured by numerous errors of the prefs; particularly in the Greek accents. Fortunately, the indexes were already prepared by Mr. B. himfelf, and will be annexed to the fecond volume..

Goett. Anx.

ART. 78. Befchryving van der Archipel, tot nut van der Krygfman, Zeevaarenden en Handeldryvenden, Volgens de nieufte Waarneemingen opgefield door den R. v. K. (Kinbergen), &c.-Defcription of the Archipelago, intended for the Ufe of Soldiers, Sailors, and Merchants; drawn up from the latest Obfervations, by the Chev. De Kinfbergen. Amfterdam, 1793. 198 pp. in large Svo. With a chart.

The Chev. v. K. gives us in this work a full and entertaining defcription of the once free and flourishing iflands in the Archipelago, now groaning under the oppreffion of Turkish defpotifm, and reduced to the loweft ebb of wretchednefs. He begins the firft part with the inland of Candia, defcribes the European coaft, and the islands which are reckoned to belong to it, as Cerigo, Milo, Themia, Andro, the city and gulf of Athens, Negroponte, the coafts of Thrace and Macedonia, the gulf of Saloniki, Lemnos, together with its haven and fort. Being now arrived at the Straights of the Dardanelles, he quits Europe, and gives an account of the islands lying on the coaft of Afia, as Tenedos, Metelin, the fmall island of Porto Seguri, the gulf of Smirna, the islands Samos, Nicaria, Tino, Micony, Faros, and its haven Nauja; concluding this first part with a defcription of the inlands of Naxia, or Naxos, and Nio, from whence he returns to Candia. In the fecond part the Chevalier proceeds from the Dardanelles on the European coaft through the Sea of Marmara, by Conftantinople, into the Black Sea; then along the coaft of Afia back to the Dardanelles; defcribing, on this occafion, firft the new forts of Europe, and that of the Dardanelles, with the Dardanelles themselves, the islands of Marmara, and the city of Conftantinople, as alfo the furrounding diftrict and fauxbourgs lying both on the coast of Europe and on that of Afia; terminating this part with-1. Some observations refpecting the land and fea-forces of the Turks, antecedently to the last war; 2. With remarks on the means of defence of the ftraights of the Black Sea, and of the coafts of Europe and Afia, fituate on it; followed by an account of the foundings on the European and Afiatic coaft, on the western coaft of the Morea and fome notices concerning the havens, &c. of Navarino, Corron, and Modon, calculated more immediately for the ufe of mariners.

GERMANY.

ART. 79. Theod. Fred. Stange, Pref. Halens. Anticritica in locos quofdam Pfalmorum, à Criticis follicitatos. Leipfic, 250 pp. in 8vo. As the collation of MSS. has clearly shown that the Maforethic text of the Bible is by no means fo defective as fome perfons have been difpofed to confider it, we cannot but approve of any attempts to reflore that text in paffages where critics, fond of innovation, and

often

often very fuperficially acquainted with the Hebrew language, had wifhed to fubftitute in its ftead their own conjectural alterations, which, in the inftances adduced by Mr. H. in the Pfalms, he has proved to be, for the most part, unneceffary, and not unfrequently incompatible with the idiom of that language; as for example, in Ps. 1, 6; II, 7; IV. 5; V, 4, 10; VII, 7; X, 12; XXXII, 1; Ibid. XLII, 3; LV, 5; LXVI, 6; LXXII, 17, &c.

ART. 80. S. Optati Afri, Milleritan. Epifcopi, de Schifmate Donatiftarum libri VII. aliaque buc pertinentia vetera monumenta. Racudi curavit D. Francifcanus Oberthür. Tom. I. 64 and 615 pp. Tom II. 88 and 219 pp. in 8vo. Wirtzburg.

In the collection of the Latin Fathers now publishing by Dr. Oberthür, thefe works of S. Optatus, form the 12 and 13 volumes; the first containing the text of the author, and the fecond the notes, together with the various readings, both copied in a great measure from the edition of Dupin. To each Dr. Oberthür has prefixed a Dedication, as it is here called, which form, in our judgement, the moft entertaining parts of the whole, and in which he gives his friends, Mr. Henke and Mr. Bönicke, an account of his journey to and return from Helmflädt, where he had been to pay them a vifit, written in a ftyle fufficiently pure, and replete with good fenfe. The author concludes the former of thefe letters thus: gre ferent Theologi immifceri patristica bibliothecæ tam alienum ab hoc inflituto argumentum. Quanquam fi penitius infpiciant, non tam alienum exiftimabunt ab boe loco, quo de rebus altercantium ecclefiarum et Catholica agitur, tale amiciice mutue quæ nunc, feculo poft Chriftum decimo o&tavo ad finem vergente, fe invicem duarum diffidentium ecclefiarum Doctores Theologi polemices ambo Prof fores, Henke et Oberthür, complectuntur, monu

mentum.

Ibid.

ART. 81. Gefchichte der merkwürdig flen Reifen, welche feit dem XII. ten Jahrhundert zu Woffer und zu Land unternommen worden find. Von Theoph. Fried. Ehrman.-Hiftory of the moft remarkable Voyages and Travels which have been undertaken fince the 12th Cen tury; by T. F. Ehrman, VI. Vol. 1792, 374 pp. VII. Vol. 1793, VIII. Vol. 1793, 334 pp. IX. Vol. 1793, 392 pp. in 372 PP. 8vo. Frankfurt on the Mayn.

In the fixth volume, which terminates the account of Senegambia, we have a defcription of the inhabitants, with their moral character, mode of living, cuftoms, and opinions, followed by a fhort view of the commerce of the Europeans in that country. With the feventh volume begins the third part, which is concluded in the ninth volume, and contains the History of the Voyages to the Coaft of Guinea, together with a geographical view of the whole coat, a particular defcription of that of Sierra Leona, and fome notices refpecting the trade carried on there. This is fucceeded by an Hiftory of the Voyages to the Coaft of Guinea, from the year 1553 to 1564. In

the

This is one of the smallest books we have yet had to review, but by no means the most destitute of amusement. The mock dignity of the author's directions on the important and much-contested subject of ftirring a fire, illuftrated as it is by a diagram, and the mathematical pomp of A B C, &c. entertained us a good deal. The author is aware of one inconvenience which his rules may produce: Every object," he fays, "has its dark fide; the good man has his faults, and the rofe has its thorns. In the fame manner, I am fearful, left the introduction of a general knowledge of the art of firing a fire will (fhould) promote fuch a jealoufy of rivalship as will degenerate from emulation to envy, and from envy to open war. Debate after debate will enfue, poker after poker will be thrust into the fire, and amidst the efforts to revive it to the fummit of perfection, the fire will be poked out."

The author's poetical effufions are not either fo humorous or fo correct as this little effay. Why he calls his bookling Tineum we have not guessed, unless he means it for a Latinization of Tiny one.

ART. 71. Mifcellanies. By the Rev. William Hett, A. M. and Prebendary of Lincoln. Small 8vo. pp. 217. 35. Crowder, London; Brooks, Lineolu. 1794.

Mifcellanies, indeed! political, poetical, and theological. The firft piece is, The genuine Tree of Liberty, or, The Royal Oak of Great Britain; read at a meeting of loyal fubjects, at the Guild-hall, Lincoln, Dec. 19, 1792. To which are added, general Reflexions.

So far, we find a great deal of loyalty; with many plain truths, enforced by arguments rather juft than new, and with a vehemence fomewhat declamatory. We view, however, performances of this kind, in a favorable light. Effufions, like this, of real patriotifm, and of attachment to our exifting Conftitution, are now very seasonable, and will be heard and read with indulgence by all true friends of the people. The authors of them may do much good within their feveral fpheres, though not very far extended; and they who affect to defpife humble endeavours of this kind, would do well to give proof of greater abilities in the service of their country.

The poetical part of this book is fmall, comprehending only four original ftanzas, added to the two firft ftanzas of the popular fong, "Rule Britannia, &c." We hope the author can fing, with more lito and spirit than he writes a fong.

The theological part, which is the bulk of this work, contains a fermon, and fome letters and remonftrances, against Antinomian doctrines, and the teachers of them. The honeft zeal, which the atthor discovers for the fpiritual welfare of his parishioners, has our approbation; but we have found many occafions for lamenting that this zeal is carried beyond due bounds. It betrays the author into an intemperate vehemence of style, which is unacceptable to us on all fubjects, and particularly theological, p. 147. Neither do we find ourfelves gratified on thefe fubjects, by a perpetual affectation of wit, and a redundance of coarfe farcafm. We cannot perceive what tendency thefe have, either towards foftening the heart, or enlightening the understanding of an adverfary.

ART.