mafcen Two Cenfures of that Annalist, which concern only a Fabulous Piece of Joannes Malala. Our Holy Doctor is alfo blamed for being too fond of Logical Cavils. But that Method was the more neceffary, at that Time, because most Hereticks grounded their Doctrine upon the Sophifms and Subtilties of Dialectic, and could not be thoroughly confuted without, being attacked with their own Weapons.

Father Lequien concludes with a Catalogue of the Works contained in thefe Two Volumes. Those that have a Star prefixed to them, had never been publifhed, or had only appeared in Latin.

ARTICLE XXXIII.

UPSA L.

M. PERINGSKIOLD is preparing a large Callection of Bulls and Briefs written by the Popes to the Kings of Sweden: They are taken from the Royal Archives.

LEIPSIC K.

M. DETLINGIUS (See the firft Account of this Book above, Art. XXIX. undertakes to prove in the XIIIth Obfervation, that the High Priest went four Times into the Holieft of all, upon the Feast of the Expiation. And because we read in the Epiftle to the Hebrews, Chap. IX. v. 7. That the High M 2

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Prieft went into it alone once every Year, the Author pretends that thofe Words are to be understood of one' Day in the Year, on which he went Four Times into that Holy Place. In the XVth Obfervation M. Deylin gius maintains against Sir John Marfham, that the bra zen Serpent was not erected by Mofes in Imitation of fome Preftiges practifed in Egypt; and confutes the late M. Burman, and M. Vitringa, who will have thar Serpent to be a Symbol of the Devil. Our Author is of Opinion, that all the Jewish Medals, ftamped with the common Hebrew Letters, are Suppofititious. As for thofe that have Samaritan Characters upon them, he takes them to be Genuine. M. Deylingius makes it his Bufinefs to confute, through the whole Book, those Writers, whofe Opinions upon the Subjects he treats of, do not appear to him Orthodox, odT

If this Book comes into England, I fhall give a further Account of it.

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M. Hanfchius defigns to publifh a Pofthumous Work of the Famous Kepler, entitled,

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Hipparchus, five Demonftrationes multa 3, pulcher rime de magnitudinibus & intervallis trium corporum Solis, Lune, & Telluris, ubi plus fere admirationis. meretur ingenium humanum ad cognitionem Dei viam maliens, quam opera ipfa Nature per fe bruta.

Kepler look'd upon this Book as his Mafter-Piece M. Hanfchius, who has bought of Hevelins's Heirs all the Manufcripts of Kepler, will no longer deprive the Publick of fuch a valuable Piece. Every Thing relating to Eclipfes is treated at large in it.

The following Treatife, publifh'd in 1689. has been lately reprinted.

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D. Johannis Bobnii Profeff. Lipf. de Renunciatione vulnerum, feu vulnerum lethalium examen, cui accesse

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runt Differtationes bine de partu enecato, & an quis vivus mortuufve aquis fubmerfus, ftrangulatus aut vulneratus fuerit. Lipfie 1711. In 4to.

M. Bohne examines this Queftion, among others: Whether a Man, that is found in the Water, was dead or alive, when he fell into it. Some pretend, 1. That the Fingers of the dead Man ought to be viewed; and that if they are torn at the Ends, 'tis a Sign' the Man' ftruggled to get out of the Water, and confequently that he was alive. 2. That if he foams in the Mouth and the Nofe, 'tis also a Sign that he was drowned, because foaming is a natural Effect of Suffocation. 3. That if the Breaft and the Stomach are full of Water, one may certainly infer from it that he was alive.

Those Three Reafons do not appear convincing to M. Bohne, A Child thrown into the Water, and immediately ftifled by it; a Madman, or a Melancholy, and drunken Man, who drown themselves with a premeditated Defign, and confequently do not struggle to come out, have not their Fingers ends torn.

As for what concerns Foaming in the Mouth, the Water which occafions the Foam by a Suffocation, may easily carry it off afterwards.

The Author wonders any one fhould believe that the swelling of drowned People proceeds from the Water that gets into their Body; whereas it is only to be ascribed to the Air that is kept in the infide for want of Refpiration. Whereupon he ob ferves that having one Day opened a Woman, who had been drowned, he found no Water, neither in her Belly nor in her Stomach: He adds that if any phe drowns a Dog, and then opens its Body, no Water will be found in it.

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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 Bishop Flechier's Letters is actually in the Press. They are alfo printing his Şermons and Synodal Orations. A Bookfeller of this City will shortly publish a more complete Collection of feveral Pieces of that Illuftrious Prelate, with his Poem against Quietism.

OME Obfervations upon the New Testament have been lately published here.

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Joh. Frid. Hombergk Tzu Bach Juris in Acad. Marburg. Profefforis Parerga Sacra, feu Obfervationes quedam ad Novum Teftamentum Domini noftri Jefu Chrifti, Trajecti ad Rhenum. 1712.

M. Hombergk, Profeffor in the University of Marpurg, has dedicated thofe Obfervations to M. Matricht Syndic of Bremen, and to M. Reland Profeffor in this Univerfity. Some of thofe Remarks dif cover a good Tafte.

The Readers will find an Extract of that Book in one of the following Volumes.

LONDON

LONDON.

A BOOK, that will be very acceptable to the Eng life Readers, has been newly published. The Works of the late M. Boileau Defpreaux are fo inuch esteemed 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. Boileau was an Excellent Poet, a found and judicious Critick; his Charaters 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.