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our holy religion? What were the monasteries of all the religious orders in popedom? What are the universities of the established churches in the two divisions of Great-Britain, and of the Dissenters' academies in England? What were the colleges of the Jesuits, espepecially, all over the world, except in our own country? And what is the meaning of "Christo et Ecclesix" on the arms of our own Alma Mater, founded and endowed by our pious ancestors?

We will notice one other disagreement. "The LORD hath prospered, and, we confidently trust, will prosper, an Institution, which you bove been eminently instrumental, with others, in raising to advance his glory," &c. When Dr. Pearson, as before quoted, wrote: "That so many persons, in different sections of the commu

nity, should at the same period, and without communication, be impressed with the necessity of such an Institution," &c. every reader understood it as a proof of the government of an omnipotent power, as it was certainly manifested without the intervention of human exertion in "impressing" "at the same moment" on the hearts of certain persons who never communicated together, a sense of the necessity of this Seminary. But the immediate agency of heaven is no longer discerned; the beautiful fabrick of providential favour is totally overthrown, even by the candour of Dr. Morse, one of the most zealous favourers of the Institution. It is really a pity, that the Doctor, who delivered the historick sketch of the Theological Institution, was ignorant of its history.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

So many valuable books, particu, larly in classical and oriental literature, have been published by the University of Oxford during the last fifty years, that it will gratify, we doubt not, some of our readers to know what has been lately done, and what is now doing, at the Clarendon press.

Dr. White, author or editor of many well known works, has just published the second volume of his Novum Testamentum Græcum; with the various readings, which, in Greisbach's judgment, are to be preferred, or to be considered as equal to the received text. It is not necessary to add, that the learned Professor published Testamenti Novi Versionem Syriacam Philoxenianam at the Clarendon press, in 1778, the Diatessaron in 1803, and the Speci

men Historia Arabum, by Dr. Po cocke, in 1806; nor that he has also published the Political and Military Institutes of Tamerlane, with a first volume of Ægyptiaca. A second volume of the latter will not be pub lished by Dr. White, as intended. But the learned Professor, Anthony Sylvestre de Saci, of Paris, editor of Chrestomathie Arabe, will give a French translation, accompanied with the Arabic original and notes, of that work, which was to have composed Dr. White's second volume.

Professor White is also preparing for the press, the Sylloge Crisews Greisbach.

Mr. Mozely, a gentleman of this university, distinguished for his acquaintance with Arabic literature, has just published his Vita Abdollatiphi, in Arabic and Latin, a work

to which Arabic sholars have for some time been looking with considerable expectation.

It will afford pleasure to our classical readers to hear, that a new edition of Hephæstion's Enchiridion on Greek Metres, a work much wanted, is now in the Clarendon press, and that the editor is so excellent a scholar as Mr. Gaisford, of Christ-church.

Biblical students will be glad to be informed, that though Dr. Holmes has been some time dead, his transcripts of MSS. are not lost. Of his Old Testament, from the Greek version of the Septuagint, with various readings, the Pentateuch, with the Prophet Daniel, and a General Preface, have already appeared. They were published in separate numbers. Two gentlemen of the university are now employed in collating the transcripts of MSS. brought by Dr. Holmes into this country, and another number of this work may be expected soon. The following works are also in the press Lowth de Sacra Poesi Hebræorum, 2 vol. 8vo. Euripides Græce, Notis Musgrave, 8vo. Sophocles Græce, notis Elmsley, 8vo. Wyttenbachi Animadversiones in

Plutarchi Moralia, 4to. and 8vo. These animadversions will, in bulk, nearly equal the original work. One volume of the former has not yet appeared, but is in great for wardness. Andionici Rhodii Ethicorum Nicomacheorum Paraphrasis, 8vo. Cicero de Oratore, 8vo. Terentii Comœdiæ, 18mo. Shuckford's Connection of the Sacred and Profane History of the World,2 vols. 8vo. Bishop Burnet's Abridg ment of the History of the Reformation, 8vo. Herodotus ex Editione Reizii,2 vols.-Republications,also, of Aristotle's Ethicks, and Xenophon's Anabasis, are in forwardness.

That important improvement in the art of printing called the Stereotype, so zealously promoted by the ingenious Lord Stanhope, has been introduced here. The excellence of this mode of this printing, as is well known, consists in its cheapness and correctness; but, from its nature, is applied only to works of rapid sale. The only books hitherto stereotyped by Mr. Collinson, the university printer, are bibles; but, in due course of time, school-books, and other works that are in great demand, will be stereotyped.

CATALOGUE

OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, FOR DECEMBER, 1808.

Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plura.—MART.

NEW WORKS. Analysis of the late correspondence between our Administration to Great Britain and France, with an attempt to show what are the real causes of the failure of the negociations. 8vo. Russell & Cutler,

A sermon delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. John Codman, to the pastoral care of the second church of Christ in Dorchester, Dec. 7. 1808, by William Ellery Channing, pastor of the church in Federal Street, Boston: Boston, Belcher, printer. 8vo. pp. 24.

The Deerfield Collection of Sacred Musick, compiled from the most approved authors of ancient and modern times. price 62 cents.

Mr. Giles' speech, delivered in Senate of the United States, on Thursday, 24th November, 1808, on the Resolution of Mr. Hillhouse, to repeal the Embarge Laws. B. Parks, printer, 8vo. pp. 23.

Matthew Carey, Philadelphia, has in the press, Simson's Algebra; Ladies' Library; Gulliver's Travels, complete; Gay's Fables; Pamela, abridged; and David's Psalms, small.

I. Hoff, Charleston, S. C. is publishing a treatise on Martial Laws and Courts Martial, as practiced in the United States of America, by Alexander MaMr. Quincy's speech on the first Res- comb, esq. Major in the U. S. Corps of olution reported by the committee of Engineers, late Judge Advocate on seveForeign Relations. Greenough & Stebral special trials, M U.S.M. P. S. &C. &C. bins, printers. 8vo. pp 23.

A view of the Rights & Wrongs, Power and Policy of the United States of America, by Charles Jared Ingersoll. C. & R. Conrad & Co. Philadelphia.

NEW EDITIONS.

Hastings, Etheridge, & Bliss, of this town, have published the 6th volume of Rollin's Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, by Mr. Rollin, late principal of the University of Paris, professor of Eloquence in the Royal College, and Member of the Royal cademy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French. Illustrated with Maps. 8vo. pp. 603.

Matthew Carey, Philadelphia, has lately published the following works :Christian Economy, price 25 cents; Letter Writer, 50 cts; David's Psalms, 37 cts.; Elizabeth, or Exiles of Siberia, 100 cts.; Tariti historiæ libri quinque, 112 cts.; Pablo y Virginia, (Spanish)

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Recommended by Major General Pinckney and Major Davie. To contain about 400 pages 8vo. fine paper, price 3 dols.

WORKS ANNOUNCED.

Charles Tappan of Portsmouth, N. H. proposes publishing by subscription an essay on military law, and the practice of courts martial, by the Hon. Alexander Fraser Tytler, formerly Judge Advocate of North Britain, and now one of the Judges of the court of Sessions in Scotland. To be printed in one vol. 8vo, on a new type and fine paper.

Matthew Carey, of Philadelphia, will shortly put to press, an edition of Fergu son's Astronomy.

Proposals have been issued at Bennington, (Vermont) for publishing by subscription, a political work, to be entitled The Hornet, or a Republican Lash for Toties' Backs.-The work to be printed weekly, on paper of a demi size, in 8 pages Price one dollar pér year, payable in advance.

ERRATUM.

In the last Anthology, page 594, title Silva, article Raphael Mengs, for " daughters” read "sisters.”

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