hiftory, it has little claim to praife. It is circumftantial and exact; but the Author feems to want the penetration neceffary to discover and unfold the principles of conduct, which actuated princes and ftatesmen. He never enters into the importance of great events; he wants that dignity of manner, without which historical narrations can never please; and he only exercises the humble and laborious office of a mere compiler.
Supplement au Roman Comique, ou Memoires pour fervir a la Vie de Jean Monnet, &c.-i. e. A Supplement to the Comical Romance *, or Memoirs towards the Life of John Monnet, formerly Director of the Comic Opera at Paris, the Opera at Lyons, and the French Theatre attempted to be established at London. Written by himfelf. 12mo. 2 Vols. Imported by Becket and De Hondt. 1772. HIS work abounds with indecent adventures, uninteresting anecdotes and details, which can only amule the corrupted and the impure. To wit, and to beautiful compofition, it has no pretenfions. It is not more difgufting from its obfcenity than from the vulgarity with which it is written. Contemptible must be that man, who having paffed his youth in diffipation and riot can find a pleasure in recollecting its particulars, and who can submit, in the decline of life, to be the hiftorian of his own infamy!
ΕΥΡΙΠΙΔΟΥ Ιφιγένεια εν Αυλίδ και Ιφιγένεια εν Ταύροις. Euripidis
Dramata, Iphigenia in Aulide, et Iphigenia in Tauris.
Codd. MSS. recenfuit, et Notulas addidit. Jer. Markland, Coll.
D. Petri Cantabrigienf. Socius.--The Iphigenia in Aulis, and the
Iphigenia in Tauri, of Euripides, corrected from a collation of
the MSS. with Notes. By John Markham, Fellow of St. Peters
Coll. Cambridge. 8vo. 5 s. fewed. Bowyer and Nichols.
1771.
URIPIDES, diftinguished from all the ancient tragedians by the peculiar tenderness of his drama, bears in his two Iphigenias that characteristic in the faireft light. These plays were, therefore, proper objects for critical fpeculation, and felection, poffibly as a fpecimen of fome future edition of the whole. That fuch an edition is wanted there is no doubt; for Euripides, like most of his cotemporaries, has met with no rational critic. Barnes read and edited him, as he would have read and edited a vocabulary; Canterus, more brief, was not more sentimental; and Paul Stephens has only fhewn that he read Euripides with much less tafte than Paul the Apoftle, whe has made a moral and philofophical ufe of his quotations from him. But St. Paul was a man of tafte, not a verbal critic, and
A work by the celebrated Scarron,
it is worth while to observe how much he was converfant in the ancient Greek poets. In him we live, and move, and have our being,' is literally from Aratus. • Evil communications corrupt good manners,' is a verfe that belongs both to Menander and Euripides,
Φθειρίουσιν ἤθη χρησθ' όμιλίαι κακαί
Again, the Cretans are always liars, evil beafts, flow bellies,' is verbatim from Epimenides, a poet of Crete.
Κρῆτες αει ψευσαι, κακα θηρία, γασερες αργας. The poet then, whom the Delphic oracle pronounced T8 σop8 Σοφοκλέους σοφώτερον, wiler and more fentimental than the wife Sophocles, and to whom the priest of a greater oracle than that of Delphi has given a fanction by his quotation, must be allowed to merit the reftoring care and attention of every man of tafte.
With respect to the part that Mr. Markland has taken in this bufinefs, it must be acknowledged that in this, as in his edition of the Suppliants, he has neither fpared any pains, nor betrayed any want of erudition. If, as an Editor, he has any fault, it is in fometimes giving both himself and his Readers too much trouble in expatiating upon and inveftigating too long and too minutely a reading, which at last must be left to conjecture. If Commentators could be brought to reflect on the importance of those hours which pafs away never to return, they would fee the neceffity of employing them at least to some ufeful purpose. But they feldom take this principle along with them, and, prodigal of their own portion of time, like true fpendthrifts, they fcruple not to prey on that of others.
N. B. Although the above is not a Foreign Article, we have given it a place here, as the subject will be no lefs regarded. by every nation where claffic literature is cultivated, than by Readers of our own country.
CORRESPONDENCE.
E have received a refpectful letter from Mr. Peter Waldo in which he candidly acknowledges his mistake in having afferted, that the fcriptures are not read in any of the places of worfhip among the Diffenters: I do freely own, he fays, that I was too hafty in bringing this charge against them, and I do hereby ask pardon of them for it.' But there are fome things in the account we have given of his Commentary upon the Liturgy, which he thinks afford him reafon for complaint; however, when they are impartially confidered, we apprehend it will be found that there is very little, if any thing, in that article, which may not be juftified: though, at the fame time, we are fully fenfible that we are equally liable, with most others, to mifapprehenfion, or fometimes to form a too hafty conclufion. As to the perfection of the liturgy, which Mr.
* Author of a Commentary on the Liturgy: fee Review for la month, p. 565.
Waldo thinks we reprefent him as maintaining, this is not directly
afferted, though it may be in fome measure fuggefted in our Review;
and indeed the ftrain of this Gentleman's work affords fome general
reafon to speak in this manner, but it cannot be fuppofed that
we defigned to infinuate, that he thought any buman compofition ab-
folutely free from all blemish. In his Preface, p. zc, to which his
letter refers us, he fays, when addreffing the Diffenters, * Some small
blemishes you may poffibly find out, fome few alterations you may
wish to have made."
We had obferved that this Author argued for the custom of bow-
ing at the name Jefus.. In his letter, though he owns that it appears
to him a very innocent, if not an edifying practice, yet we think he
does in effect give it up as indefenfible, when he acknowledges that
the text on which it was originally grounded is not to be interpreted
literally.
We had faid, that he appeared to fhew very little favour to the
Diffenters, any farther than as fome of them may be esteemed ortho-
dox; in fupport of which we refer particularly to the Preface of his
Commentary, p. 17. Mr. Waldo in his letter replies, I wish them
all well, and am in perfect charity with them, and with all man-
kind; but would never wish to bring them over to the established
church, till they have changed their opinions, and can join in her
fervice without mental refervation, or hypocrify.'
We had obferved in our article, that this Author feemed rather to
value himself upon his orthodoxy, by which we meant no more than
that he wished to be confidered as an orthodox member of our efta-
blished church. In his prefent letter he fays, I am far, very far,
from valuing myfelf upon my orthodoxy, or upon any thing elfe-I
am duly fenfible of my own weaknefs and unworthinefs, in every
refpect, and God forbid that I fhould glory in any thing but in the
crojs of Chrift.' We offered the above remark principally with the
view of reminding him that he was not fo orthodox as he seemed to
apprehend; in doing which, he now tells us, that we, as ufual,
play upon the term, while we charge him with inconutency.'
The general meaning of the word orthodox, as applied to a mem-
ber of the church of rngiand, we fuppofe to be, that a perfon em-
braces, in the frict fenfe, the articles of faith which that church
eftablishes; and therefore as Mr. Waldo acknowledges, that though
he believes predeflination, he does not believe it according to the
Cal initical interpretation, which appears to be the meaning of the
17th article of our church, we fee no reafon to recal what is faid
in our Review upon this fubject.
In regard to addreffing prayers to our Saviour, as is done in the
greatest part of the litany, we apprehended that this Writer entirely
approved it, as we did not find any objections to it in his Commen.
tary, and as two texts of fcripture are quoted to justify the practice.
However, he now fays, that whether he may not in the general
prefer the addreffing of prayers to the Father, is a question not de-
termined in his book: He allo refers us to his remarks on the prayer
of St. Chryfoftom, from which, he fays, his fentiments on this point
may partly be collected: and to which therefore we refer íuch of our
Readers, as defire farther fatisfaction on this head.
8
To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this
VOLUM E.
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
For the remarkable Paffages in the Foreign Articles, fee the
Second Alphabet of this Index, in the latter Part of the Sheet.
GRICULTURE, advice and
directions relating to the fe-
veral branches of, 121-127.
ALLANSON, Mr. his paper relating
to a fimple fracture of the tibia,
in a pregnant woman, com-
mended, 48.
ALPHABETIC writing, origin and
progrefs of, 494.
AMERICA, remark on the notion
of fome part of it having been
peopled by the Welsh, 58.
ANNUITIES. See SOCIETIES.
ARABIC language, critical remarks
on, 39, 82, 90.
ARTICHOKES, Jerufalem, recom-
mended, for winter feed, for
horfes and hogs, 121. Proper
management of, ib.
ATHOL, D. of, his gardens at In-
ver defcribed, 143. His feat at
Blair, 144.
BALDWIN, Mr. his culture of
BANK, of England, its great lofs
by the national coinage, 244.
BECCARIA, Sig. his electrical ex-
per ments, 428.
BENGAL-FEVER, account of that
which raged there in 1762, 602
BERNINI, his ftatue of David cri-
ticifed, 479.
BLACKSTONE, Judge, his opinion
with respect to the duty and
power of juries, 473.
BLOOD. See HEWSON,
BIRDS, dead, methods of preserv-
ing, 185.
BOLLITUR, pafs of, defcribed, 146.
BOOTH, Barton, a famous fong of
his commended, 539.
BRIDEWELL, Hospital, plan for
the improvement of, 505.
BRITISH Conftitution, its tendency
to fall into an abfolute monar-
chy, 439.
BRITONS, ancient.
See MAN-
CHESTER. See ROMANS. Their
horfes and dogs defcribed, 107.
Their table provifions, 108.
Their language, 109. Other
particulars, ib.-111. See alfo
WHITAKER and MACPHERSON.
BROMFIELD. See TUMOR.
BROWNE, William, fome account
of, 526. Specimen of his poems,
527.
BULLERS of Buchan, a natural cu-
riofity in Scotland, 147.
BULLION, judicious obf. on the
present high price of, 246.
LUCERNE. See BALDWIN.
AMELOPARD, fome account
of that rare and curious ani-
mal, 185.
CAMPHIRE, and Calomel, effects
of, in continual fevers, 216.
CANCER. See NICHOLSON. See
RUSH.
CARTERET, Capt. his account of
the Patagonians, 179.
melopardalis, 185.
CHARLES I. account of his trial
and death, 2. His character
advantageoufly delineated, 5.
CHIESMA, bay of, narrative of the
great fea-fight there between the
Turks and Ruffians, 138.
CHRIST, rem, on the genealogy
of, 62. His miraculous cure of
the leper, obf. on, 128. On his
fending the demons into the fwine,
129. On his miracle of the
loaves and fifbes, 130. On the
refurrection of Lazarus, 131.
On his own refurrection, ib.
His prayer commented on, 558.
Sundry opinions relating to his
divine and human nature can-
vaffed, 559-564.
CHRISTINA, Queen of Sweden,
curious particulars relating to
her, 595-602.
DESPOTISM, a ftriking picture of
its enormity, 94.
DICKSON, Dr. his defence of Sy-
denham's method of treating the
meafles, 44.
DOUGLAS, Mr. his account of
attempts made to ascertain the
temperature of the fea, in great
depths, 181.
DUFF-HOUSE defcribed, 148.
DUPLIN, caftle, described, 51.
DUTCH, their neatness and ceco-
nomy celebrated, 568. Rem.
on their E. India Company, 571.
Their faw-mills, 572. Their
herring fishery, 573. Educa-
tion of their youth, 574-
DYSENTERY, epidemic, account
of, 15. Curative treatm, of, 18.
CIRILLO, Dr. his account of the ELEPHANTS,
CITIES, great ones, the graves of
mankind, 100. Difference be-
tween the durat. of human life
in them and in the country, ib.
COIN. See MONEY, SILVER,
BULLION.
CONSTITUTION, of feudal monar-
chy, curious inquiry into, 588.
Rights of, founded on compact
with the people, ib. This doc-
trine contraverted, 589. Con-
tefts relating to, always and pro-
videntially end in favour of the
people, 590.
CONSUMPTIONS.
COOPER, Mr. his Winifreda com-
mended, 538.
CORRESPONDENCE with the Re-
viewers, fee the last page of
each month's Review, and of the
Appendix.
skeletons of,
found in N. America, 57.
ELECTRICAL fluid, ftrictures on
an inquiry into its influence on
animal beings, 443.
ELECTRICITY. See PRIESTLEY.
See BECCARIA. See WINN.
ELLIS, Mr. his directions for pre-
ferving dead birds, 185.
his Letter to Linnæus, on
the alcea floridana, 187.
his defcription of a new
fpecies of the ftarry annifeed
tree, ib.
ELIZABETH, Princess (afterwards
Queen) her cruel treatment in
the reign of her fifter Mary, 550.
See FOTHER ELSE, Mr. his account of a fuc-
cessful method of treating fore
legs, 46.
Of an uncommon
cale of a fatal hernia, ib.
ENGLAND, the present number of
its inhabitants estimated, 103.
ETNA, Mount, defcribed, 177.
EVAPORATION. See HILL.
F.
ALLOWING, winter, directions
for, 120.
FARMERS, Dutch, their remark-
able neatness, 568. Their ex-
traordinary care of their horned
cattle, 569. Their high efti
mation of unimproved land, ib.
COVENANTS, divine, 115, 117.
CROWN, its undue influence over
the whole legislature, 439. Great
danger from, 580.
EBT, national, Dr. Price's
obf. on, 402. Mr. Wim-
pey's remarks on, 530.
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