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Christianity Displayed, or a rational view of the great scripture doctrine of Redemption and Salvation, through Jesus Christ-together with some práctical observations. By a Citizen of Baltimore. 8vo. 25 cts.

Charity recommended from the social state of man-a Discourse, delivered before the Salem Female Charitable Society, Sept. 17, 1806. By Rev. John Prince, LL.D. Salem, Joshua Cushing. 8vo. pp. 39.

The Christian Banner. A sermon, preached before the Lincoln Baptized Association, and at their request made publick. By Daniel Merrill, A. M. pastor of the church of Christ in Sedgwick. 12mo. Boston, Manning & Loring.

A Sermon, preached July 13, 1805, at the funeral of Mrs. Lydia Fisk, late consort of the Rev. Elisha Fisk, pastor of the church in Wrentham. By Nath'l Emmons, D.D. pastor of the church in Franklin. Dedham, H. Mann.

A Discourse, delivered next Lord's day after the interment of Deacon Peter Whiting, who departed this life, Dec. 9, 1805, in the 60th year of his age. By Nathanael Emmons, D.D. pastor of the church in Franklin. Providence, Heaton & Williams.

A Discourse before the society for propagating the gospel among the Indians and others, in North America, delivered Nov. 6, 1806. By Thomas Barnard, D. D. minister of the north church in Salem. Charlestown, Sam'l Etheridge.

A Sermon, delivered Sept. 14, 1806, at the interment of Mrs. Rachel Smith, relict of the late Hon. Thos. Smith, Esq. who died Sept. 12, in the 74th year of her age. By Henry Lincoln, minister of the congregational church in Falmouth, Barnstable county. Boston, E. Lincoln.

A Sermon, delivered by Ezra Stiles Ely, on the first Sabbath after his ordination. Hartford, Lincoln & Gleason.

An account of the Massachusetts Society for promoting christian knowledge -Published by order of the society. Cambridge, W. Hilliard. pp. 44.

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the book of Job. By Rev. Chauncey Lee, A.M. pastor of a church in Colebrook. Hartford, Lincoln & Gleason. Orations.

An Inaugural Oration, delivered in the chapel of Williams College, Oct. 4th, 1806. By Gamaliel S. Olds, A.M. professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy. Published at the request of the audience. 8vo. Stockbridge, H. Willard. Dec. 1806.

An Oration, pronounced at Littleton, July 4, 1806, the 31st anniversary of American Independence. By Edmund Foster, A.M. minister of the gospel at Littleton. Cambridge, W. Hilliard. Miscellaneous.

Remarks on the Rights of Inventors, and the influence of their studies in promoting the enjoyments of life, andpublick prosperity. 8vo. pp. 61. Boston, E. Lincoln. 1807.

An account of the Massachusetts State Prison. Containing a description and plan of the edifice; the law, regulations, rules, and orders; with a view of the present state of the institution. By the Board of Visitors. Charlestown, Sam'l Etheridge.

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Vol. III. Part I. of Rees' New Cyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 4to. $3,50 for the half-volume. Philadelphia, Samuel F. Bradford. L. Blake, Boston.

Vol. I. of Ewa Irigora, or the Biversions of Purley. By John Horne Tooke. Large 8vo. $2,50 boards. Philadelphia, Wm. Duane.

The Stranger in Ireland, or a tour in the southern and western parts of that. country, in the year 1805. By John Carr, Esq. author of the Stranger in France, &c. To which is now first added, an Appendix, containing an account of Thomas Dermody, the Irish poet, a wonderful instance of prematurity of genius. 12mo. pp. 334. New York, Riley & Co. $1,50 in boards.

The poetical works of David Hitchcock; comprising, The Shade of Plato, or a defence of religion, morality, and government; in four parts. Also, The Knight and Quack, or a looking-glass for impostors in physick, philosophy, and government. Together with The Subtlety of Foxes, a fable. Boston, Etheridge & Bliss.

provement of each section. In 6 vols. Vol. 1, containing the former part of the history of our Lord Jesus Christ, as recorded by the four Evangelists-dispos

Vyse's Tutor's Guide; being a complete system of Arithmetick, with va rious branches in the mathematicks. In six parts. Philadelphia, P. Byrne, &c. Johnson's Dictionary of the Englished in the order of an harmony. By P. language in miniature. To which are added, an alphabetical account of the heathen deities, and other fabulous persons; with the heroes and heroines of antiquity, &c. By the Rev. J. Hamilton. Second American edition. 18mo. pearl type. $1,12, bound. Boston, W. Andrews.

Principles of Politeness, and of knowing the world. By the late Lord Chesterfield. With additions by the Rev. John Trusler. Containing every instruction necessary to complete the gentleman and man of fashion, to teach him a knowledge of life, and make him well received in all companies. 12mo. pp. 166. Boston, E. & J. Larkin.

A Letter to his royal highness the Prince of Wales, concerning his moral and political conduct. By Crito. Written at Islington, Eng. Sept, 1806. York, S. Gould. 25 cents.

Law.

New

A summary of the law of Set-off: with an appendix of cases argued and determined in the courts of law and equity upon that subject. By Basil Montagu, Esq. of Gray's Inn, Barrister at Law. 8vo. pp. 60. Law binding. New-York, printed by and for I. Riley & Co. Lexitypographick Press. 1806. The Maritime Law of Europe. By M. D. A. Azuni, late senator and judge

in the commercial and maritime court of Nice, &c. &c. Quid deceat, quid non; quo virtus, quo ferat error-Hor. de Art. Poct. In two vols. Translated from the French. 8vo. vol. I. pp. 524; vol. II. pp. 430. New York, printed by George Forman, for Isaac Riley & Co. The celebrated trial of Hurdy Gur. dy for a seditious libel, with the whole of the evidence of French Horn, the arguments of counsel, and the learned judge's charge to the jury. Price 37 ets. New-York, Bernard Dornin.

The Trial, Condemnation, and Execution, of Richard Patch, for the murder of Mr. Isaac Blight; at a court held at the Surrey Quarter Sessions in England. 12mo. pp. 35. Etheridge & Bliss.

Divinity.

Boston,

The Family Expositor, or a paraphrase and version of the New Testament; with critical notes, and a practical im

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Doddridge, D.D. to which is prefixed, A Life of the author, by Andrew Kippis, D. D. F. R. S. and S. A. 8vo. pp. 942. Charlestown, S. Etheridge.

The Life of God in the Soul of Man, or the nature and excellency of the christian religion. By Henry Scougal, A.M. To which are prefixed, memoirs of the author. Boston, E. Lincoln.

WORKS IN THE PRESS.

Law.

A faithful report of the trial of the cause of Philip I. Areularius vs. Wm. Coleman, Gent. being an action for a libel. Taken in short hand, by William Sampson, Esq. and given to the publick at the request of some of his friends. New-York, Bernard Dornin.

Snyden's Treatise of the law of venders and purchasers of estates. Philadelphia, W. P. Farrand.

An abridgement of the laws of Nisi Prius. Part I. Philadelphia, Farrand. Poetry.

The Wanderer in Switzerland, and other Poems. By James Montgomery. 12mo. New York, S. Stansbury.

Biography.

Life of the Hon. Charles James Fox. Interspersed with a great number of original anecdotes. By B. C. Walpole, Esq. New-York, Ezra Sargeant.

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Mr. William Farrand of Philadelphia is about putting to press Bacon's Abridgment, to be printed from the new and improved edition of this work, the last volume of which is just finished in London ;-Harrison's Chancery Prac tice, with additions and several new precedents, by W. Parker ;-Douglas's Reports -Tidd's Practice of the Court of King's Bench in personal actions, principally from the new edition, enlarged and corrected by the author -and Cowper's Reports of Cases in King's Bench, from 14 Geo. III. to 18 Geo. III. from the new London edition, Several of the above works will be published with new references to the latter English Reports, and also to reports of decisions in the United States.

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Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Paris to the editors. 3d Oct. 1806.

"As to the state of literature here I can only tell you, that a man may be a great scholar in England and pass for a fool in France, so different are the pursuits of the two countries. Villoison, you know, is dead; and I very much doubt whether there is another man in Paris who knows Greek enough to understand Lycophron or Eschylus. The price of newly printed books at the stores here is sufficiently dear; but in the bye streets such as the Passage des Jacobins you may pick them up for nothing. I have just bought a very fine copy of Stephens Greek Thesaurus for 100 livres. A stained copy is marked in Lusm's catalogue 10 guineas. Such is the difference between London and Paris. Indeed I was talking yesterday with a master of the Greek and Latin languages in the Polytechnick school, who did not even know that there was such a book in the world as Stephens' Thesaurus.

Elgin Botanical Catalogue. The proprietor of the Botanical Garden near the city of New-York has published from the press of Messrs. Swords, in a duodecimo pamphlet of 29 pages, "A Catalogue of Plants contained in the Botanical Garden at Elgin, near the city of New-York, established in 1801." It appears from this, that within the five years since this collection was begun, about seventeen hundred species of vegetables, indigenous and exotic, have been placed within the walls of the garden. The scientifick names only are printed; as the present edition is chiefly intended to give information to Botanists abroad, that they may know what to send to the

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proprietor, and also what to expect in return. When the number of species shall become more numerous, and more worthy of the general notice of his fellow citizens, it is his intention to give another edition, with the proper English and vulgar names; to distinguish such as are useful in the arts, in medicine, and in agriculture; and such as are poisonous to man and other animals, and noxious to the former. We learn with pleasure that he meditates also observations on the qualities of certain species; with engravings and descriptions of such new ones as may from time to time be discovered; after the manner of the Hortus Kewensis. In the short preface to the list, the reader will find the author's recital of his views and progress; of the great objects in natural history and education he has in contemplation; and of the principal benefactors to his conservatory, hot-house, and garden.

Curious Observations on Light, during the late total Eclipse of the Sun. From a Letter of the Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D. President of Union College, to the Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D. dated Schenectady, October 6, 1806, and comunicated by the learned Writer to Dr. Mitchill. "At the instant the last direct ray was intercepted, and the obscuration became total, a tremulous undulating shadow, a kind of indescribable alternate prevalence and intermixture of light and shade, struck the earth, and played on its surface, which gave to the most stable objects the semblance of agitation.

"It appeared as though the moon rode unsteadily in her orbit, and the earth seemed to tremble on its axis. The decoption was so con

plete, that I felt instinctively, and, in spite of the dictates of my reason to the contrary, a tottering motion. Some who were present I observed catching hold of whatever was near them for support, while others leaning forward, and insensibly flung themselves into an attitude which indicated that they found it difficult to stand.

"At the commencement of this singular phenomenon, and while the surface of the earth appeared to be violently agitated, the light and shade were irregularly intermixed, and each seemed struggling for victory In about five seconds the darkness prevailed. The light and shade suddenly separated into alternate and distinct arches. Instantly the arches of shade began to force the arches of light from us towards the horizon. The motion at first was very rapid; the alternate arches were narrow, and followed each other in close succession; the motion gradually diminished; the streaks of light became less and less distinct for about fifteen seconds, when melting into each other, the appearance ceased, and a settled gloom ensued.

"The scenes described at the commencement of the total obscuration re-appeared when the first direct rays of the sun were re-appearing. The same apparent agitation of the surface of the earth; the same apparent struggle between the light and darkness; the same separation between light and shade into distinct and alternate arches, and the same motion reversed; for now the arches of light seemed to crowd those of shade inward, and the whole movement was from the horizon towards the centre, which continued about the same time, and disappeared in the same manner as above described.

"A lake at first violently agitated by something flung into its centre, and sending its undulating waves to its circumference, furnishes a pretty correct idea of the appearance the surface of the earth assumed when the total eclipse

commenced; and, if after the first agitation of the lake had subsided, its undulating waves were to roll from the circumference to the centre, and especially could they alternately be tinged with light and shade, it would furnish not an incorrect idea of the appearance of the earth when the total obscuration ended.

"How is this phenomenon to be accounted for? When the direct rays ceased, why should the shadow on the earth appear agitated ? Has this circumstance been noticed elsewhere, or in records of other tatal eclipses? If that part of the moon's orb which intercepted the last direct rays of the sun were an ocean, and tempested with a storm at the time, would not the effect have been similar to that described?"

STATEMENT OF DISEASES,

&c. from Dec. 20 to Jan. 20.

The weather during this month has been cold and clear, with short periods of interruption. The winds have varied only from one western point to another, except on two or three days. The thermometer has ranged between 48° and — 2o.

Inflammatory diseases have prevailed as usual at this season. The attacks of pneumonic inflammation have been more severe in adults than last year; at least so far as we can judge from those which have hitherto appeared. Those in children have yielded more readily. Cynanche tonsillaris has been quite prevalent; and cynanche parotidea appears to be epidemick. Many cases of pleurodyne have been seen, and some of acute rheumatism. In the former part of the month, there was a considerable mortality among aged personsSome were carried off by a kind of pneumonic affection, others by disorders of the alimentary canal, which sometimes terminated in palsy and apoplexy.

THE

MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY

FOR

FEBRUARY, 1807.

For the Anthology.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE.

THE coincidence between the two great Poets of Antiquity has been so often touched upon by eminent writers, that it may be deemed presumption even to attempt, what they have left unattempted. However, it is believed that the time is not wholly lost, nor the labour entirely thrown away, if the avowal of even an erroneous opinion provoke abler pens to investigation and scrutiny. The literary culprit, whose sins are detected and exposed, may feel his confidence humbled; but the commonwealth of letters gains stability by the conviction.

To discover novelty in things ancient has been the constant aim of learned men from the days of remote antiquity to the present. Virgil, who was fed by the munificence of Augustus, was undoubtedly anxious to employ his Muse on a subject, that would ensure to him the future confidence of that monarch. This could not have been done in any manner more effectually, than by giving the popular tale, that Eneas was the founder of the Roman empire, the He accordsanction of his muse. ingly takes Homer for his guide

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throughout, models his ideas on
the Roman scale, and executes the
most finished piece of flattery to
It is
his countrymen and their monarch,
that the world ever saw.
suggested as a probable conjecture,
that the following passage from the
Iliad first gave to the Mantuan
bard a glimpse of his project. The
reader will pardon me for having
recourse only to Mr. Pope's trans-
lation, as the original is not now
in my possession; but if he will
take the trouble to recur to it, he
will find that the translator has
not exceeded the limits of his pro-
vince. During the rencounter be-
tween Achilles and Eneas, while
the life of the latter hero is in the
most imminent danger, a conver-
sation ensues between the two
deities in waiting, Juno and Nep-
tune,on the propriety of his rescue.
Juno, with characteristick malevo-
lence, declines any interference
whatever; but Neptune, less in-
exorable, exclaims:

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