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. 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. He 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 "we had neither provocation to excite, nor fuel to keep alive, animosity." Yet the imputation of "animosity" we anxiously deprecate, and solemnly disclaim. 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 and 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 opponent in full possession of all the credit attached to this delicate language, and will only observe, that we did not call his far greater blunders in the Greek language, the effect of "ignorance." We leave him in the hands of Mr. Burges on the score of plagiarism. In answer to those charges, he justifies himself by accusing an eminent scholar, whom the hand of death has long removed from all opportunity of vindicating himself, of the same practice,-a mode of defence, which will avail as little at the bar of criticism, as it would in a court of law. On the conclusive evidence of his lengthy and labored article on that subject, supported as his assertions are, principally on his own avròs pn, we wish to leave the judgment to those, who have brought more particular accusations than we are inclined to do. His clamorous invective against the Classical Journal may disgust his readers, but cannot affect that publication, except as an indirect recommendation, perhaps as authoritative as his most elaborate panegyric. The irritable and fretful anxiety, with which he affects to despise this Journal, and his more powerful and direct accusers, proves that he is far from holding them in contempt, and that he is successful in imitating, in more than one respect, the character of Sir Fretful Plagiary. Another, neither very civil nor usual, mode of attack is, that the Classical Journal is not sold by a "principal bookseller in Cambridge." Without presuming to discriminate the different degrees of eminence among the respectable booksellers in that town, we shall only appeal to the judgment of those members of the University, who know the connexion between that bookseller and our opponents. We are not sorry, however, that the reflection has been made, as it gives us an opportunity of noticing, that many of our readers often find some difficulty in obtaining the Journal. We cannot complain, for we do not know the existence, except by analogical deduction, of any hostile influence, and we have a high opinion of the honor and fairness of the principal booksellers; but we have received so many complaints on the subject, that a considerable part of our sale is sent directly from the office of the printer, whose wish and practice is to dispose of his publications through the medium of the regular trade. Dr. Bl. is aware that he and Mr. V. are placed in very unequal situations. The former is blessed with ease, affluence and independence; the latter is toiling to obtain a subsistence in the midst of an opposition, produced by causes over which he had no control. Dr. Bl. apologises for not publishing the whole of his observations on Sophron, because a part was printed in the Classical Journal; for he fears that "typographus iste" (the reader will observe the contemptuous iste) would charge him with plagiarism. We are authorised to say that the printer, whose spirit of mildness and conciliation we sincerely wish that Doctor ille could imitate, gives him the most liberal.freedom to take his articles from the Journal, and print them wherever he may think proper. In this permission we cordially unite. But such is the bitterness of Dr. Bl.'s hostility against him, that he will probably continue to oppose and pursue him with a spirit consistent with his former conduct. Far be it from us to treat Dr. Blomfield with contempt. We respect his learning and industry; and we have found much utility in many of his publications. We acknowledge the merit of several articles in the work of which he still appears to be at the head, and shall rejoice in its success. We shall close our address to him in the words of the Dramatic poet : "Now learn the difference 'twixt thy heart and ours: PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION. The Rev. T. Broadhurst, of Bath, author of "Funeral Orations, translated from the Greek, &c. &c." is preparing for publication a third edition of his "Advice to young Ladies, on the Improvement of the Mind, and the Conduct of Life." The work will be carefully revised and corrected, with several addiVOL. XXIV. NO. XLVIII. CI. JI. 2 F |