• Veronæ numeri aurei, venite Lenes, & faciles & elegantes, Let us alfo in this place mention the Latin tranflation of Tafio's Gierufalemme Liberata, by M. Frambaglia, published at Turin. The defign of the author is to give fome idea of the beauties of Taffo, to thofe who are unacquainted with the Ita lian. A fimilar tranflation was published by Domenico Zauni, at Cremona, in 1743; but the prefent attempt appears to be on the whole fuperior. We fhall tranfcribe the verfion of the firft kanza: Arma virumque cano qui Chrifti infigne fepulchrum Our readers will probably anticipate our remark, that this verfion is more eafy and perfpicuous than spirited or elegant. In the little fpace which remains we fhall mention one or two publications connected with the claffics, and with claflic ground. The first is entitled Hiftorico-critical Annotations on the SalJuftian Obelisk.' This was recovered from fome ruins, and placed by the prefent pope, Pius VI. on the Colle Pincio. It has its name from having been formerly erected in the gardens of Salluft. The author expatiates on the propriety of its fitua tion; for an observer in the centre of four ftreets fees, in three of thefe, monuments of the fame kind: in reality, it is reftored to the fame hill, though in another part, fince it is now near the famous gardens of Lucullus. The Colle Pincio was formerly covered with the gardens of different patricians, and called from thence Collis Hortulorum. In the Circus, at the bottom, the the obelisk was probably first raised in the time of ́Aurelian, who was very fond of the different games, and always refided, when at Rome, in the gardens of Salluft. The name of the hill was taken from the fenatorian family Pincia, to whom the gardens belonged at the decline of the Roman empire, five centuries after the first conftruction. This family fupported the gardens with fo much dignity, that Theodoric wifhed to refide there, and directed the ornaments to be removed to his palace at Ravenna. The following elegant infeription was written by the abbé Morcelli, to be engraved on the bafe of this obe Jifk: PIUS VI. PONT. MAX. QUEM PROLAPSIONE DIFFRACTUM IACENTEM RELLQUERAT COLLI HORTULORUM IN SUBSIDENTIAM VIARUM PROSPECTU IMPOSITUM TROPO CRUCIS PRÆFIXO, TRINITATI AUGUSTÆ DEDICAVIT. Our author adds fame historical remarks on obelisks, which he thinks were first erected in Egypt, by Mithras, two centuries after Abraham, in honour of the fun. The form is that of a fun's ray, and it was ufually adorned on the top by fome emblem of the fun. The obelisk was first introduced in Rome, he thinks, in the reign of Auguftus; and these monuments were tranfported from Egypt in fhips, and not on rafts, as many have fuppofed. The argument in favour of the employment of fhips for this purpofe i. taken from Pliny. Count Carli, whofe vifions we formerly examined, has published, at Milan, the first volume of a work on the antiquities of Italy. He commences this account at the period when the Mediterranean was formed by the Atlantic bursting through the Straits of Gibraltar; and he differs from all the ancient hiorians, in fuppofing that the inhabitants of Etruria fent colonies to Grecce, instead of receiving them from the conti nent and islands of Afia. The first volume is chiefly confined to the province of Iftria; but, if poffible, we fhall endeavour to give a more full account of this fanciful performance. M. Formaleone has published, at Venice, the Philofophical and Political Hiftory of the Navigation, Trade, and Colonies of the Ancients in the Black Sea. This roure of commerce he wishes to fee agaia frequented. Perhaps it would not now be found very commodious; but, with the moft fanguine expectation of its renewal, he purpofes to give the ancient and modern history and geography of this fea, at a great extent. Ec3 What Whatever may be his views, the refult will undoubtedly be curious, entertaining, and inftructive. We fhall, in fome future volume, mention his progrefs and fuccefs. MONTHLY CATALOGU E. DIVINITY, RELIGIOUS, &c. Sermons on different Subjects, left for Publication by John Taylor, LL.D. Vo. II. Published by the Rev. Samuel Hayes, A. M. To which is added, a Sermon, written by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. for the Funeral of his Wife. Svo. 45. Boards. Cadell. I N our LXVIth volume, p. 443. we reviewed the first volume of thefe Sermons, which have been attributed with great confidence ce to Dr. Johnton. We examined that volume at fome length; and, without entering at all into the queftion, o whom they may be originally attributed we can truly as that these difcourfes poffefs all the energy, all the perfpicuity, all the points ed accuracy of the former volume, which would not have difgraced Johnfon. There is one Sermon, of which we anticipated the merits, and almost wished to overleap the intervening pages, that we might more quickly arrive at it, we mean that on the Sacrament, from Corinth. xi. 29. Our author does not explain away the word xpua, tranflated damnation; but gives a different view of the meaning of eating and drinking unworthily: When eternal punishments are denounced against any crimes, it is always evidently the intention of the writer to declare and enforce to those, that are yet innocent, the duty of avoiding them, and to thofe who have already committed them, the neceffity of repentance, reformation, and future caution. For it is not the will of God, that any fhould perifh, but that all fhould repent, and be faved. It is not by one act of wickednefs, that infinite mercy will be kindled to everlasting auger, and the beneficent Father of the univerfe for ever alienated from his creatures; but by a long courfe of crimes, deliberately committed against the convictions of confcience, and the admonitions of grace; by a life pent in guilt, and concluded without repentance. No drunkard or extortioner, says the Apo. fle, fhall inherit eternal life. Yet fhall no man be excluded from future happinefs, by a fingle inftance, or even by long habits, of intemperance, or extortion. Repentance and new life will efface his crimes, reinftate him in the favour of his judge, restore him to thofe promifes which he has forfeited, and open the paths to eternal happiness.' On the whole, we think this additional volume a valuable ac quifition to the literature of the pulpit, and we strongly recommend it, not only to thofe young divines who are unable or un willing willing to compofe their own fermons, but to mafters of fami lies, as admirably calculated for the evening inftructions. Wifdom's Dictates; or a Collection of Maxims and Obfervations concerning Divine and Spiritual Truths. Extracted from the Works of various Spiritual Writers, and particularly from thofe of Emanuel Swedenborg. 8vo. 15. 6d. Jewed. Chalklen. Though we have been much pleated with this manual of myuicifm, and entertained with the excentricities of the human mind, when freed from the guidance of reason, and the regu-Fation of judgment, yer we think it would not be generally fatisfactory o give a detail of it. We fhall felect a short speci. men, with the application. Sect. 76. The fpiritual world must be more peopled with fpiritual inhabitants, than the natural world is with natural inhabitants: but how little do men know of that state! 77. The fpiritual world is united to the natural world, as foul is to body. 7. All the influences of the fpiritual world terminate in the natural world, and its fubjects. 80. Every fubj &t in creation poffeffes virtues anfwering to its correfponding fpiritual principle, and the nobleft fystem of medicine will hereafter be founded on that knowledge." 90. Every fubject whatever, that is found in the natural world, however external, infignificant, and minute it may appear, correfponds to a principle in the fpiritual world. 91. The natural world is the body of the fpiritual world; and every part of it anfwers to fome principle in thofe fpiritual focieties which are therein.' 11. All he qualities of the unclean fubjects anfwer to the nature of the evil principles in the fpiritual world, and in man, unto which they correfpond: and as evils and falfities are made to erve for the purification of goods and truths, fo thofe principles will hereafter be used in medicine, for the difperfion of corrupt principles in the body, anfwering unto difeafes of the fpiritual mind.' Two Difcourfes. Addreffed to the Guardians and Cildren of the Afylum. reached in the Chapel, March 8, 1789. By the Rev. Samuel Hopkinson, A. M. 4to. 1s. 6d. Simmonds. Mr. Hopkinson's Sermons appear to us to be rational, pious, and practical. The first, on The Vanity of Human Life,' from which the preacher is led by his text (Pf. xc. 12.) to exhort his hearers to apply their hearts unto wifdom,' is a little exceptionable, from the degrading light in which human nature is placed. The fcope of his argument did not require it, and the reprefentation is partial, and, we think, unjust. The inferences, however, and the addrefs to the guardians of the Afylum are perfectly proper, and enforced with great energy. The fecond Sermon, on The Influence of Example,' from Matth. v. 16. is, in our opinion, a very good one. It has E e 4 been been cenfured, we find, as departing from that candour and charity which Mr. Hopkinfon in the former difcourse so much commended. But we find no reason for the accufation, In a literary view we may remark, that our author is much too minute in his quotations, and occafionally a little too incorrect in his language. The errors of the latter kind are, however, very few. Ap fiolical Conceptions of God, being the fecond Part of an antecedent Publication. 8vo. 25. Herdsfield. In our XLIIId volume, p. 228. we mentioned the first part of these Conceptions. The author continues to foar above our comprehension, and prob bly to many of his readers being equally dull, he is indebted for that polemical fecurity which he feems to wonder at. An impartial Inquiry into the present State of Religion in England, By Samuel King. 8vo. 25. Rebinfons. Mr. King's Enquiry into the State of Religion leads him to explain what religion is; and we find it to confift, in his opinion, in the doctrines of Mr. Weflev. Of course, true reli gion, if any where to be found, is within the pale of his fect. But unfortunately there are fome doubts of its existence even among the initiated. Reflections on Faith, 8vo. 1. Dilly. Thefe calm, candid Reflections, are dedicated to Dr. Horsley and Dr. Priestley. They are truly Chriftian; for they lead to benevolence, peace, charity, and good will. Meditations, chicfy for Women in Pregnant Circumftances. 8vo. 13. Richardion. We cannot greatly approve of Meditations which continually bring before the mind of pregnant wom n the impending danger. They should be rather comforted with the very great probability of efcape, and every chearful view fhould be en couraged; for, in this fituation, they are naturally folicitous, and often unreasonably timid, Efays on feueral religious Subjects. By Jofeph Milner, A. M. dwo. 25. Dilly. If we have ever paffed over the tracts of the Methodils with the general cenfure of their containing the cant of a fect, it is because the greater number of the authors of this clafs, instead of defending their peculiar tenets, or cooly reafoning on those parts which they wish to fupport, borrow arguments from internal illumination, and drels them in all the extravagance which the warmest imagination can dictate. Mr. Milner was by no means free from this fault in his examination of Mr. Gibbon, which he led us to recollect, by mentioning our criti cifin on it, in September, 1781. In the Effays before us he is more calm and rational; he explains the tenets of Methodism, and |