me.--Bounty always receives part of its va-
Jue from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Your Lordthip's kindness includes every cir-
comitance that can gratify delicacy, or en-
force obligation. You have conferred your
avours on a man who has neither alliance
nor intereft, who has not merited them by
fervices, nor courted them by officioufnefs;
you have fpared him the thame of folicita
tion, and the anxiety of fufpenfe. What has
been thus elegantly given will, I hope, not
be reproachfully enjoyed;, I fhall endeavour
to give your Lordship the only recompenfe
which generofity defires the gratification
of finding that your benefits are not impro-
perly bestowed. I am, my Lord, your Lord-
hip's most obliged, most obedient, and moft
Bumble fervant,
SAM. JOHNSON.

July 20, 1761."

In the former edition Mr. Bofwell Baving mentioned Mils He'cn-Maia Williams, he now fubjoins this note:

"In the first edition of my work the epithet amiable was given. I was forry to be ebliged to frike it out; but I could not in, juice fuffer it to remain after this young Edy had not only written in favour of the avage anarchy with which France has been visited, but had (as I have been informed by goed authority) walked, without horror, over the ground at the Thuilleries, when it was ftrewed with the naked bodies of the faithful Swils guards, who were barbaroufly maffacred for having bravely defended, against a crew of ruthans, the Monarch whom They had taken an oath to defend. From Dr. Johnton the could now expect not endearment but repultion."

Greek, with the entire Scholia 'corrected, various readings, critical remarks, and indexes. By C. D. Beck. Vol. I. 8vo. 507 pages. 1792.-The defign of Profeffor B. in this undertaking was, probably, to fuperfede the expensive Oxford edition of Pindar, by publishing the fcholia neceffary to understand that poet. In this we find the completion of a with, which, probably in common with all the admirers of the Theban bard, we have long entertained; and in a manner that muft enfure the editor the praise of every impartial critick. The fcholia on Pindar, which must be reckoned amongst the best collections of the kind, are, in many places, carrapted, in others confufed; and the Oxford editors have increafed inftead of leffening the evil, by their negligence, which is the visible in the other parts of the work. In the execution of what relates to thefe the profellor's abilities are particularly confpica ous. He has corrected them, in a multitude of places, from the old editions, or from the conjectures of himfelf and others; he has afcertained the words to which they belong with more precifion than, was done before: he has examined the quotations in them from other writers, and pointed out their place: and he has not unfrequently enlarged upon the remarks of the fcholiafts in his ovn notes. He has rejected the divifion of the fcholia into antient and modern, and annexed to them the glodemata, fo that all the remarks ca a page may be feen at one view. There, however, are diftinguished from each other by marks prefixed. He has employed equal industry on the metrical fcholia, which precede each ade. The text of the pet the profeffor has correct d according to his own ideas; chiefly, indeed, following that of Heyne, yet deviating from it when he FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. julges it right, either on the authority of KONISBERG and LEIPSIC. Evripidis Tra- MSS or from critical conjecture. All these pesan, Fanowa Sotericum, & Fragmenta, &c. variations are pointed out in the notes, with The Tarcoles, Satyric Diama, and Frag- the whole collection of various readings from men's of kumpides, revited from the but the Oxford edition, a Gottingen MS, and the authorities. By Chr. Dan Beck. To which emendations of criticks, and a brief abitract are added, A perpetual Commentary, and a of the principal illuftrations of obfcure paíGbffary. Vol. I. Hecuba. Oreftes. Thee-fages: for it was the purpose of Professor B. miffa. Meden. Eve. 240 pages. 1792.-Mr. to give the admirers of Fi dar an edition P. cmnie to this work with the advantage of Þaving useristeiled the great Leipuc edition of his author; and we muft confefs it could not cafily have fallen into better hands. His plan is, to publifh the text in four voJums, with various readings, Brunck's cricifais, and a few conjectural emendat ons at the bottom of the page; a gloffary of the uncommon words, as explained by the an. tient gran arions and lexicographers, appended to the fourth volume; and a circam itantial argument, with a critique on the pl and principal character, prefixed to e. ch piece. Four other volumes will contal the perpetual commentary.

(To be continued.)

LEPIC. Pindari Carmina & Fragmenta, &r. The Ques and Fragments of Pindar in

which should render preceding ones fuperfluous, and, confequendly, to omt nothing that has hitherto been done to facilitate the ftudy of his works. The new remarks and emendations too of Profeffor Heyne, which he imparted to the learned world in his ALditamente, unquestionably the best hitherto written on the poet, are here introduced in their refpective places.

We are promifed that the work will he completed in the courfe of next year; and to the third and latt volume will be added, befide the index verborum, an index of authors quoted in the tcholia, and an effay on Pmdar, in which will be given the opinions of the principal learned perfons who have writ ten on him.

M. Tra

M. Traugott Fred. Benedict has just printed, in octavo, the first eight books of Cicero's familiar epiftles, from fome valua ble MSS which he has been fortunate enough to meet with; and he has added ufeful and judicious critical notes.

Ab. Jafp. Lewis Oderico, a patrician of Genoa, has printed, at BASSANO, Lettere Liguftiche, &c.; i. e. Ligurian Letters; or, Critical Remarks on the geographical State of Liguria, to the time of Otho the Great; with an hiftorical account of Caffa, and other Places in the Crimea, formerly in the poffeffion of the Genoese, and a Defcription of fome Ligurian antiquities exifting there.

other countries of the Southern Sclavonians,
fubject to the dominion of Austria, 2 vols.
8vo. with maps and plates, 1791, containing
the antient history and geography of Sclavo
nia, whofe inhabitants appear to be ftill ido-
laters, and burn their dead.

VIENNA. Mr. Fortunatus Durch has put forth a profpećtus of his Bibliotheca Slavica, in the Sclavonian language, with Cyril's Servian letters, in which the five volumes it is to confift of will be printed. Its title will be Bibliotheca Slavica antiquiffime dialecti communis & ecclcfiafticæ univerfæ Slavorum Gentis. Some of the moft remarkable chapters are, Vol. I. c. 2: the words of the anM. Tyfchen has printed, at GoTTINGEN, tient Slavonian language, collected from the Commentationes de Nummis Orientalibus in Bibli- Greeks and Latins, to the 11th century. c. otheca Regia Gottingen. adfervatis, c. 4to. in 6: the Slavonian alphabet prior to Cyril, three ellays, with plates of coins; and at the Vol. 1. part II. Antiquiffima Bohemo-flavica end the profeffor hints at the poffibility of dialecti monumenta Biblioth. Palatinæ Vindifcovering the antient Perfic alphabet. ... dobon., nunquam edita: 1. Fragm. membraLEIPSIC. Memorabilien, &c. Memorabilia; neum dimidii folii Paffionalis pfeudorhytmici, a philofophico-theological Magazine. By H. fec. XIII; 2. Evangeliarium Bohemicum, E. G. Paulus. Part III. 8vo. 204 pages. cujus feptem nurra, feu penfa, hic profe1792. In this part we find the following runtur, gloffemata vero ex toto Mío chartaarticles: 1. Kurztmann on the Africa of ceo collecta obfervationibus illuftrantur. Vol. Geographus Nubienfis. 2. Bruns on the II. c. 5: natura & indoles linguæ literalis SlaZabians, Sabeans, or St. John's Chriftians. vorum, & connexio quædam cum linguis We have here a full examination of Abra- Græca, Latina, atque Gothica. C. 9: de ham Echellenfis, who appears to be an au- antiquis interpretibus Slavonicis. C. 11: de thority of confiderable weight. According fcholis Slavonicis. Vol. III. c. 16: de resti to him, the prefent St. John's Chriftians are tutoribus linguæ literalis Slavonicæ charac not the fame with the antient difciples of St. teribus Glagoliticis utentibus. Vol. IV. c. 18: John, but another fect, that arofe in the de, bibliothecis Europe, in quibus MSS cod. ninth century. 3. On the 2d pfalm. The Slavonici Cyrillico & Glagolitico charactere anonymous author of this effay offers fome exarati fervantur. C. 20: de libris prohi good arguments to prove that the 2d pfalm bitis Slavorum. C. 22: fpecimen popularis was written by Nathan, in the name of So- philofophiæ Slavorum in lingua literali & lomon, in the beginning of the reign of that Bohemica obfervatæ. Finally, the fifth voprince, when a confiderable revolt was to be lume will contain accounts of all the printapprehended in favour of Adonijah. See red books or manuscripts relative to Sclavonian Kings i. and ii. 4. On the Syrian Nazarites. By Profeffor Paulus. This is a very learned tract. 5. Additions, corrections, and various readings to Abulfeda's Africa. By Rink. 6. Was the doctrine of the immortality of the foul known to the Hebrews, and how? By Mr. Conz. It appears, from the Old Teftament, that the Jews had very obfcure notions of a future ftate. 7. Elucidation of the 53d chapter of Ifaich. By the editor. This is chiefly intended as an answer to the learned thefis of Mr. J. Martini, of Rostock. In it Profeffor P. ably argues, that the better part the Jews are fpoken of collectively, as an individual, by the prophet. 8. On the old MS. of the Gofpels at Aix. By Mr. Bruns. This MS. is more probably on parchment than on the bark of a tree, as has commonly been fuppofed. 9. Corrections of the Syrian Chronicle of Bar Hebræus. By the fame. 10. Extracts of letters from Vienna on Ori⚫ ental and Biblical literature.

literature in the Palatine library at Vienna:
fpecimens of the literary language of the
Sclavonians, from printed books or manu-
fcripts of all its epochs: and a catalogue of
Sclavonian infcriptions.

ROME. Puji del Museo Pio Clementino VI.
Tomo VI. 1792. fol.-This volume contains
61 plates; the first 17 represent deities, the
next 10 Grecian bufts, and the remainder
Roman bufts, beginning at Julius Cæfar;
many of all which are recent difcoveries.
They are illuftrated with paffages from the
claflicks, with an appendix of new explana-
tions of coins, inferiptions, and other antiqui
ties, which the author conceived to have
been improperly defcribed. In the preface,
the term buff is derived from buftum, the mo-
nument on which it was usual to place bufts.
This is a term of the middle ages in Italy;
but, we think, more properly a funeral pile.

The Academy of Hiftory at MADRID having commiffioned D. Joseph Cornide to prepare an inscription, in Latin and Spanish, for the tower of Hercules, as it is called, at Corunna, requested him to favour them with

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his collections refpecting the tower itself, which he refers to the time of Trajan, and finds defcribed by Orofius and Ethicus, by the names of l'harus Brigantium and Specula, The name of Gruna, given to the town by Alfonfo IX. in the 3th century, fignifying a tower, has a reference to this tower, which, ever fince the time of Alfonfo the Wife, by whofe order the Cronica general" was compiled, has been fuppofed to have been built by the Egyptian Hercules, and to have contained a mirror, in which vellels might be defcried at a great distance. This laft idea may have arisen from the confufion of spcula with speculum. It was completely repaired in 1791, and reftored to its original deftination. Near the tower is the following antient infcription on a rock, on which a ftatue appears formerly to have stood:

MARTI. AVO. SACK. O. SEVERVS. LVPVS

ARCHITECTVS A[QVE FLA]VIENSIS
LYMITANVS EX V[OTO].

Mars, with a stick or club, may have been
mistaken for Hercules.

LISBON, Documentos Arabicos para a Hifloria Portugueza, c. Arabic Documents relative to the Hiftory of Portugal, copied from the original pieces, preferved in the archives of the realm, and tranflated into Portuguef, at the request of the Academy of Sciences. By Fr. J. de Souza. 1793. 4to.—Thefe documents do not relate to the government of the Arabs in Spain and Portugal, but confist chiefly of letters written by princes of Afia and Africa, the kings of Canana, Melinda, Calcutta, Olmin, Mosambique, Fez, &c. and other Mahometan princes or cities, to the kings of Portugal, and other perfons connected with the Portuguese colonies, from 1503 to 1528, the period of greatest profperity to Portugal. They are ranged in or der of time, with historical eincidations and references to antient chronicles; with two letters from the above kings to the inhabitapts of Azamor and the sherif of Fez. The Afabi: text is exceedingly elegant, by the fide of the verfion, which is in general accurate, though perhaps too paraphraftic. Many words and phrafes, not to be found in the common dictionaries, occur in the original.

COPENHAGEN. Celle&tio nova Numorum Cu ficorum feu Arabicorum' CXVI continens Numos plerofque ineditos e Mufeis Borgiano & Adleriano, digefta & explorata a F. G. Adler, Theol. D. & **Profeff. 1793. 4to.-Since the publication of the Museum Cuficum, Rom. 1782, Cardinal Borgia has added to his collection of Arabic coins, of which he fent impreffions to Mr. Adler, at Copenhagen, who, from them and thofe in his own cabinet, has formed this volume, which, in number and importance of articles, as well as in accuracy of defcription, far exceeds the former. Mr. A. has not only introduced historical obfervations and unpub·lished extracts from Arabic writers, relating to fuch coins as he deemed most interesting in an historical view, but has given a review

of the Mufeum Cuficum Borgianum, and fuch other works on the fame fubject as have appeared fince its publication; together with many judicious corrections. To the whole is prefixed an effay on the origin of Ara. bic coins, with unpublished paffages from Soynts, Alub Abbas, Ahmed, and others. They confirm the account given by Elmacin, who places their origin under Abdalmalık, in the 75th or 76th of the Hejira. As the prefent work is intended to be a continuation of the Mufcum Cuficum Borgianum, a fecond title is added: Museum Cuficum Borgianum: Velitris: Pars II Illuftravit J, G. Chr, Adler, inferti funt Num: Cufici Editoris.

A manufcript collection of marine charts, drawn in 1436, has been difcovered in St. Mark's library at VENICE, together with a manufcript account of voyages by Sanudo, a Venetian navigator, who lived at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th centuries. Upon thefe manufcripts M. Naillac, one of the French academicians, founds an opinion, that not only the feas of Africa and the Eaft Indies were known to the Venetians before the voyages of the Portuguese, but that the Antilles, Hudfon's Bay, and Newfoundland, were frequented by their failors above a century before the voyage of Columbus,

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Dr. Geddes has juft published the firft voluere of his new tranflation of the HoLY BIBLE, his Profpectus of which we gave an account of vol. LIX. 417, LXII. 252. It contains the Pentateuch, and the book of Joshua, and a preface, containing general remarks on them all. But he referves more important difcuffions to a general preface. Thus much, however, he feems to hint that the crea tion recorded by Mofes relates to a production of those appearances in the former, aud that change in the latter, which then gradually rook place; that he prefers the allego. rical manner of explaining the fall; and that he is not perfuaded of the infpiration of the author of the Pentateuch; but is for trying the father of the Hebrew hiftory by the fame rules of criticism as the father of the Greek history. He imagines the view of the compiler or compofer of the Hebrew ritual was, to establish and fecure the worship of the true God, and prevent idolatry, by a com pofition with the Jews on bringing them out of that land to which, in fpite of his indulgence, they once more threatened to return. "Ye shall ftill (faid he) have a public pompous worship; ye fhall have a tabernacle, an altar, priefts, facrifices, ceremonies, festivals, as other nations have, only apply and appropriate all this to the worship of the LORD an! God of Ifrael." Is not this the mode of conducting all religion? and must it ne be to in the prefent fyftem of things, and the prefent conftitution of mankind, the grofs of whom are not easily converted to fimphcity, when once they have departed from it?

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