country, who possess any classicks - besides those studied in the schools, are necessitated to content themselves with the small editions of Geneva and Amsterdam. Few are able to purchase the larger ones; and those who might afford, could not, till lately, procure many of the poets and historians of Greece and Rome in the best impressions. Of those which they could have, very little if any account is to be found in the work before us, and some of them we think entitled to a place, if not a description. Hesiod, Theognis, Phocyllis, Theocritus, Simmias, Bion, Moschus, Musaus, and the Minor Poets,with annotations, scholia, and a latin metrical translation, by John Crispin, have intrinsick value for accuracy and neatness of type, and are curious from the history of the editor: This scholar and gentleman was a lawyer of some distinction; but having entangled himself in a religious dispute with some doctors of the Sorbonne at Paris, about 1598, he retired to Geneva and there established a press, from which were issued many of the Classicks and aGreek Testament, which possess a considerable and merited estimation. Bond's Horace,12mo. 1696, with marginal annotations, is recollected with regard, for the facility it afforded to juvenile studies. Elzevir's Plautus, 12mo. Amstelod. 1652. is a very neat and a correct specimen of printing; as is SalJust, 12mo. Amst. 1643. apud Jansonium. Omitting particular notice of some good editions of Cicero De Oratore,' and ' De Officiis,' of Justin, of Ovid, and of Terence, which are not to be found in Dibdin, (though of this popular dramatist we must add, that politeness, as well as justice, seemed to require an acknowledgment to Madame Dacier, who had favoured us with the rare gift of a translation and criticisms of a latin author from a lady ;) this tedious ramble will close by sincerely wishing and hoping, that some able person will compile and publish, as an appendix to the larger works of Bibliography, a list and comparative estimate of those impressions of the Classicks, which are in most general demand and use. LIBRARIES. Large collections of books have ever been the favourite haunts of the learned. They not only aid researches, but they excite a zeal and inspire ambition to acquire knowledge. Who has not felt the enthusiasm, which a valuable and extensive library kindles ? who will not acknowledge that some of the noblest plans and purposes of literary utility and elegance have originated in these repositories of genius and erudition. If, as has been often argued, the grade of intellectual character in a people may be in a good measure computed from their attention and liberality to such establishments ; it must excite the most agreeable emotions to reflect on the progress which we are making in this respect towards respectability. To say nothing of the Atheneum in this metropolis, which, if pursued with the zeal and ability with which it has been commenced and progressed thus far, will vie at no distant day with the most celebrated institutions of Europe, it must be a source of pride and pleasure to notice the attention which is now paid to municipal and professional social libraries. In this town and vicinity the gentlemen of the bar, and in medical practice, have for some time been collecting libraries in their respective sciences; and the ministers have recently commenced one in their's. The corporation of King's Chapel,' with polite and ready liberality,have deposited in the Theological Library a very valuable collection of books, presented to them by the society in England for propagating the gospel. Among these is a very excellent copy of the Polyglott of B. Walton,and a greater number of the Fathers than are probably to be found in America. At the time of the revolution, and the general confusion which ensued on the commencement of that event, many books belonging to this church were removed and scattered. They may be easily known by those into whose hands they have fallen, each volume being impressed with gilded letters on one cover De Bibliotheca de Boston,' on the other Sub auspiciis Wilhelmi III.' Any person, who may possess such books, or know of any, is requestto return them, or give information where they may be found to any member of the Chapel Society, or to the chamber of the Theological Library in Devonshire Street. MISNOMERS. In the Review of Holmes's Annals, in the Anthology forFebruary, an anonymous history of SouthCarolina and Georgia is attributed to Mr. Hewit. This gentleman's name has also been mistaken by Drayton in his View of South-Carolina, by Dr. Morse, and others. The true orthography is Hewatt, Rev. Alexander, now D.D. one of the ministers of Edinburgh. He was a clergyman of the Scotch Presbyterian Church in Charleston, S.Carolina; but being a royalist, he went home at the breaking out of the differences with the mother country. A volume of sermons, published in 1803, has added to his former high reputation as an elegant and correct writer. He purposed in 1806 to republish his history, which has now become very scarce, with a continuation to that period. We hope he will prosecute his purpose and meet with the encouragement he richly merits. Another very common and general mistake in spelling has often excited surprise, and been the subject of fruitless inquiry. The capital of the Windward Carribbee islands is uniformly written Barbados by the residents there, in the royal commissions to the governours and officers, and by the best geographers and gazetteers, till within a few years. For some reason, or none, a gratuitous e has been inserted in the last syllable by recent historians and topographers. Hughes' Natural History of the Island, Douglas's Summary, Burke's European Settlements, and most if not all before 1775 have the ancient, and as we think, till better advised, the true orthography. -COMMENCEMENT DAY is an attractive festival to all descriptions of our people. The wealthy welcome it as one of the occasions on which they may nobly exercise hospitality, or participate, in turn, of the elegances of a college entertainment. The man of business is pleased with the opportunity of a holiday to take a pleasant excursion into the pleasant villages which surround our metropolis. Persons of various classes and ages unite in its celebration, and with one heart and voice pronounce it a favourite season, and to this vicinity the car- "Which our Forefathers' pious care all, to their unborn Heirs, Religiously transmit the same And they again to theirs." This customary service past, and the memory of revered instructors one tributary glass gone round to and beloved associates,' one soothing çigar consumed, and a pensive impression that it may be the last glance taken all around, under the time these joys are to be tasted, each retires, and returns home, 'dragging at each remove a lengthening chain.' LATIN POETRY. One loves occasionally to look to imitate ancient song. From the over the efforts of modern genius literary repast on the mature fruits of Virgil and Horace, Juvenal and Ovid, we recur for a little time to Grotius and Milton, Gray and Addison, as at our social compotations we sometimes diversify the rich wines of the Western Isles with preparations and admixtures from our dens. Courteous friend, will you own orchards and garsip with us one glass (no pun is meant, be assured) of Addison. BAROMETRI DESCRIPTIO. "Quin age, sume tubum fragilem cui densior aër, Exclusus; fundo vitri subsidat in imo Argenti stagnum; ut, pluvia impen dente, metallum Mobile descendat, vel contra, ubi postulat aestus, Prodeat hinc liquor emergens, ut rursus inane Occupet ascensu, tubulumque excurrat in omnem." BLENHEIM PARK. The palace or castle of Blenheim, one of the most magnificent piles of architecture in Great Britain, and perhaps in the whole world, stands in the finest part of one of the finest counties in England, within half a mile of the borough of New Woodstock; dis 1807.] Poetry. tant about eight miles from the University of Oxford, and sixtyThe surthree from London. rounding country is fertile and irriguous, adorned with woods, and abounding with seats of the nobility and gentry; the air is pure, mild, and salubrious; and all the necessaries and many of the elegancies of life are plentiful and choice. Blenheim was built at the publick expense in the reign of queen Anne, by whom, with the concurrence of parliament, which voted half a million for its completion, it was conferred, together with the annexed demesnes, on the most illustrious John Duke of Marlborough, as a testimony of royal favour and national gratitude for his transcendent services, and the many signal victories he had gained over the French and Bavarians, particularly that near the village of Blenheim, on the banks of the Danube, from which this noble pa- Blenheim is the triumph of pic- MY DEAR FRIEND, The following loose version of the twenty-fourth ode of the first book of Horace, beginning Quis desiderio sit pudor, aut modus,' is the fruit of one of those many hours in which the remembrance of our dear Walter fills my mind. It has no merit as a translation; but the application of it to a friend so dear as he was to us, however faintly it may express our grief, can never appear to you unnatural. I have omitted in the last verse some of Horace's mythological sen timentality, and added a sentiment which, I suspect, rarely troubled the Epicurean friend of Virgil. AD VIRGILIUM. DE MORTE QUINTILII VARI. QUIs desiderio sit pudor, aut modus Ergo Quintilium perpetuus sopor Multis ille bonis flebilis, occidit; Quod si Threïcio blandiùs Orpheo Non lenis precibus fata recludere TRANSLATION. TO W. S. S. ON THE DEATH OF OUR FRIEND A. M. WALTER. POUR, muse, thy melancholy voice, Does he then sleep in death forever? Dear to the good he died lamented; But cease; for ne'er has Death consented What though your prayers were warm as e'er 'Tis hard; but patience slow and mild |