points which we think interesting to the purchasers of the first, as well as of the second edition. The first edition was.comprised in two thick closely-printed volumes, with an appendix: it contained about seventeen hundred printed pages. The second edition is comprised in four large volumes, and occupies nearly three thousand pages. But not only has the laborious author thus enlarged the size, and increased the value of his book, he has adopted both a wider page, and employed a small but distinct and clear type, to introduce, without adding to the price, a large mass of new and important matter. Anxious however to render justice to the purchasers of the first edition, Mr. Horne has published the entire third volume of his new edition, together with all such newly introduced critical matter as could be detached from the context, in the form of a supplemental volume to the first edition. In this additional volume also he has inserted six new plates, and eighteen woodcuts, interspersed among the letter press. By this plan ample justice will be rendered to those, who may be disinclined to purchase both editions.

It is the custom with some of the more modest and diffident of our editors of newspapers, should they ever anticipate the measures which the legislature proposed to adopt, to exclaim in triumphant gratulations," we are happy that his majesty's ministers have at length taken our advice"-" we strongly recommended a change of measures, so long as a year ago❞—with much more of the same solemn style and facetious manner. We shall not imitate this pleasing complacency by asserting that Mr. Horne, in consequence of our animadversions only, has added several improvements to his new edition, but we are glad to see that his judgment has adopted many of those alterations, which we thought essential to the perfection of his design. With the exception of any original remarks on the shepherdkings of Egypt, and on the curious questions respecting the dispersion and the original settlements of mankind, discussed by Mr. Bryant and Mr. Faber, which have not yet received the attention and examination they deserve, we see with pleasure that all our other remarks are no longer necessary. The celebrated and very learned work of Mr. Nolan on the integrity of the Greek Vulgate, and the curious theory of its author on the authenticity of the disputed verse in St. John, is admirably condensed into a very small compass-the index of general matter, as might indeed have been anticipated, is greatly enlarged-much has been added to the account of the patriarchal times, and the patriarchal religion; and an ample index of fifty pages, of the

passages of Scripture quoted, illustrated or explained in the work, has been added, as we earnestly recommended to the author, and were satisfied he would have added to the new edition. Mr. Horne however advises us, that he committed the compilation of this index to a literary friend, who seems to have executed the task allotted to him with great care and accuracy. Among the other supplemental matter, we observe that Mr. Horne has added very much to his work, from an attentive perusal of the several important publications which have issued from the press since the appearance of the first edition. Among others, Mr. Jebb's very admirable work on the poetical style of the Hebrew Scriptures, with the application of certain principles, and parallelisms to the style of the New Testament. An ample account of this work, with many extracts of instances of the author's reason, is given by Mr. Horne. Dr. Lawrence's tract, the republication of the book of Enoch, an account of the harmonies of the Scriptures, and of Lightfoot's Chronicle, with a brief statement of Torshell's plan, is made introductory to a very satisfactory notice of Mr. Townsend's newly published arrangement of the Old Testament. Mr. Horne informs us that he had intended, after the completion of his present undertaking, to commence an arrangement or harmony of the whole of Scripture, but that this work, so far as it respects the Old Testament, is happily rendered unnecessary by Mr. Townsend's publication. Of that work Mr. Horne expresses the most decided and favorable opinion; that it is exceedingly useful to all elergymen, and indispensably necessary to those who design to enter upon the sacred office. Mr. Horne has noticed many other new works, those published on the continent as well as in England. Neither has he omitted the very interesting illustration of the Scriptural history of the overthrow of the army of Josiah, given us in Belzoni's travels. We might mention many other very important excellencies in the work before us, but we are not permitted to devote much space to the notice even of such works as this. We trust that in another edition still greater perfection will be given to this book, by many useful and valuable discussions, and additional information on many points. And let not this wish excite surprise. The Scriptures will never cease to attract the attention, and exercise the faculties of man, till a brighter scene of existence open upon him. Every day new sources of illustration open to us. "Many run to and fro, and knowledge is increased." Much as Mr. Horne has accomplished, by executing, with the labor of twenty years, the Introduction we are now noticing; though he

has placed himself at the head of his class of biblical writers; and though his work, in our opinion, is the most useful, interesting, and important of any that has yet appeared on the critical study of the Bible-much still remains, and will ever remain, to employ the time, the talents, and the researches of our critics and students. We shall mention a few only of those alterations or additions which may be introduced into a future edition: if, on perusing the whole more attentively, others occur to us, we shall certainly wish to insert them, for Mr. Horne's attention, in the pages of this Journal. We would advise, then, that in a subsequent edition, the Greek that is quoted should be accentuated that a more ample account be given of the labors of Bryant, Faber, Heidegger, and others who have treated on the earlier history of the antediluvian or postdiluvian patriarchs; particularly the labors of Bochart, and his successors-Middleton's labors on the Greek article might have been related at greater length-a map of St. Paul's travels, on the plan of that given by Barrington in the Miscellanea Sacra, might have been useful. Lord Barrington traces on the map five several journeys of St. Paul, instead merely of the usual route which is given by Mr. Horne. Lord Barrington's theory, too, of the preaching and dissemination of Christianity, first among the Jews, next among the proselyted Gentiles, and lastly among the idolatrous Gentiles in general, would have been acceptable. There was room too for some additional remarks on Diodati's analyses of the several books of scripture, and more on the several systems of chronology-for a disquisition on that most interesting subject to a Christian, the identity of the angel Jehovah of the Old Testament with the Messiah of the New-for a more extended account of the Apamean medal, and for some other topics of minor importance.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

WE. were in hopes that our redoubtable opponent, Dr. Blomfield, had said "Odiis exsaturatus quievi." But, not satisfied with assaulting us with the thundering cannon of the Quarterly Review, he has brought into the field a piece of less calibre, long disused, to pour in a volley of small shot.

With his usual mildness, candor and accuracy, he is pleased to say that "for TEN YEARS TOGETHER We have been laboring to provoke a castigation." For a refutation of this assertion, we refer our readers to No. 46 of this Journal, where we gave a list of the passages which we could collect, of these instances of aggression against Dr. Blomfield, of which he so bitterly complains. Of these the first, "Meliorem lectionem excogitavit Blomfieldius," began in 1811; and the last, "It is easy to disprove this unqualified assertion, upon testimony, which Mr. Bl. himself will scarcely fail to admit," was printed in

1815!

: But, not to dwell on the substitution of ten for five, we ask, has Dr. Bl. had just reason to complain of our want of candor or fairness? As Editors of a critical Miscellany, supported by the contributions of correspondents, we consider ourselves as bound to insert any article in fair commendation or censure of a literary work. If we had held Dr. Blomfield's name too sacred to be mentioned, he might perhaps not have thanked us for our silence. Authors generally complain of personalities, when the criticism is more just than agreeable; and the public are too well aware of this to trust to their querulous representations.

But to prove our sincere desire to avoid giving offence to a man of Dr. Blomfield's temper, we abstained from noticing him from that time,—although many severe articles were sent to us, and offers were made to translate the Jena Review for our use, -except in one article, No. 39, p. 214, in which we gave him and his lamented brother that praise and credit, which would have softened the resentment, if not obtained the good will, of a man of placability and feeling.

1 His name indeed is not affixed to this diatribe, which may be written by some inferior associate, in the same style and spirit. But he is the primary Planet, attended perhaps by a few Satellites: he is the Saturn, whose influence is intended to be fatal to us.

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Neither our silence nor our commendation availed. continued to fulminate his anathemas against us; and directed the bent of his hostility even against the printer of this Journal. "Still did we bear it with a patient shrug," until the publication of his article in the Quarterly Review,-an article on the spirit and tendency of which there are not two opinions,--when forbearance would have been a dereliction of our friend's interest, and silence would have had the appearance of a forgetfulness of our own character. We do not hesitate to court the decision of the impartial reader, whether Mr. V.'s Reply in No. 43 of the Classical Journal to the first, and our own in No. 46 to the second, article of the Quarterly Review, were not as moderate and unassuming, as Dr. Bl.'s attack was intemperate and petulant. After this diatribe, we leave the reader to judge whether had neither provocation to excite, nor fuel to keep alive, animosity." Yet the imputation of "animosity" we anxiously deprecate, and solemnly disclaim.

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We are accused of noticing, in No. 15, p. 18 of this Journal, a mistake of his. On turning to it, we find that the writer of that article, who is exceeded by few in depth of classical learning, attributes it to "oversight and hurry." A mild reproof surely, compared with the Editor of Sappho's invective against the German Editor, couched in these uncourteous words: "Contra tamen disputat Volgerus, ineptissimis argumentis fretus."

After seven or eight years we are again reminded, in no very gracious terms, of some errata, from which we must confess, ut vineta cædamus nostra, that few of our Numbers are perfectly free, in consequence of the general hurry with which Periodicals. are committed to the press. But a candid critic would have been convinced that they could have been occasioned only by "oversight." In the absence of the Editors aud principal Reader, a sheet was left to the care of the Translator of the article, who left a few such blunders as "Apollonius of Tyaneus." He would observe that we had called that writer "Apollonius Tyaneus, Apollonius of Tyana, and Apollonius de Tyane." Yet for this we are taxed with "ignorance." We leave our