F. R. S's Seria Biblica shall commence in No. XII.

W's article on the Confusion of Tongues has been received.

The Inscriptions on the Theatre at Syracuse in our next.

Additions to Mr. Patrick's Chart of Numerals shall be inserted,

A Dissertation on the Corresponding tenets of Mussulmen, Indians, Egyptians, and Chinese, is under inspection.

The Etymology of Penutes, and Pindar illustrated, in our next,

H. R's communication shall not be neglected.

W. A. H's article has been received.

We now wish to put an end to the numerous communications relative to Dr. A. Clarke and Mr. Bellamy.

E. S's Biblical Synonyma are accepted.

We thank Mr. M. for Professor Porson's few Notes on parts of Sallust; they shall certainly appear in No. XII,

Mr. Y's translation of the Phoenician Inscription shall be inserted,

We should have cheerfully inserted the Epigrams from our Cambridge Friend, had they been honored with the Prize.

The following Tracts of Valckenaer will be inserted in our future Nos.1. Oratio inauguralis de causis neglectæ literarum Gr. cultura. Francq. 1741. fol.2. Oratio de publicis Atheniensium moribus, pro temporum diversitate, crescentis labentisque reipublicæ causis. 4to. 1766. The latter will appear in No. XII.

The Treatise of Lambert Bos on Greek Accentuation shall soon appear.
Cantabrigiensis in our next.

W. N. de B. is accepted.

The Review of Aristophanes by Porson in our next.

H. H. J's Poems are not neglected.

B's Review of Hippolytus is unavoidably postponed.

Reply to the article on Bentley's Callimachus will appear in No. XII,

Our Norwich Correspondent S. is not forgotten.

Criticism on John viii. 44. by J. H. just received.

Mr. Lawson's Ode-and J. W.- -as soon as possible.

"A friend will be much obliged to any of our readers, who can inform him where the MSS. mentioned in the Catal. MSS. Angliæ et Hiberniæ, as belonging to Francis and Edward Bernard, are to be found; and also what became of Dr. Douglas's celebrated collection of Editions of Horace on his death."

We shall be obliged to our readers, if they will take every opportunity of requesting any of their friends, who have travelled for the sake of information, to transmit to us whatever researches or valuable discoveries they may think worth communicating to the public.

We shall be happy to receive from our friends any Literary Notice on subjects connected with Classical, Biblical, and Oriental Literature.

Prospectuses

OF NEW WORK S.

BY SUBSCRIPTION.

The New Review,

OR,

MONTHLY ANALYSIS, OF GENERAL LITERATURE.

THE consideration of the number of Reviews, Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly, offered to the public, may produce a wonder at the sight of a Prospectus for an additional periodical work: but the slightest examination of the nature of the new publication will make wonder cease.

The present Reviews are not so much distinguished for an account of a new work, as for a critical examination of the subject on which it is written. What is called a Review of a political or religious publication, really consists of a decla· ration of the sentiments of the Reviewer; and the publication is generally extolled or depreciated, not according to its abstract merit as a composition, but according to the party or sect, which the Critic is disposed to follow.

Such has been during more than half a Century the conduct of the most respectable Monthly Reviewers. The Quarterly Reviews, lately established, have risen still higher in the scale of original disquisition. They have often taken the title of a book as a Motto to a Dissertation on a subject, which occupied the public mind, and scarcely hinted at the publication, which appeared at first sight as the object of their Criticism.

It is not intended to depreciate the merit of these Reviewers. Much learning, genius, and information have been thrown on the subjects, which they have undertaken to elucidate; their observations on Political Economy have, on some occasions, suggested useful hints to Government, and their Country has been informed, if not directed, by the result of their labors. From the collision of their opposite sentiments, and from the facts which they have brought to light in support of their opinions, the public mind has been illuminated, taste has been refined, knowledge has been increased, and perhaps it is not too much to say that the general manners have been improved.

But we strongly feel the force of an objection, which has been frequently made, that it is necessary, in order to form an impartial opinion of a book, to read many Reviews of opposite principles, and that in consequence of the length, to which critical dissertations are carried, many books are not reviewed until their novelty or their importance has ceased; and some are never noticed. To remove these objections, a new Periodical Work is proposed to the public, under the title of “THE NEW REVIEW, OR MONTHLY ANALYSIS, OF GENERAL LITERATURE,”" to be published on the 1st of January, 1813, and continued on the 1st of every Month, Price 2s. 6d.

The plan, which has been suggested, is:

1. To analyse every Publication, by giving a view of the Contents; the Preface, when it explains the subject; and Extracts of prominent and striking parts of the book; thus enabling the reader to exercise a judgment unprejudiced by the sentiments of the Reviewer.

2. To print a Supplementary Number at the end of the year, containing an Index of Subjects with reference to the Authors, who have treated on them; thus perpetuating a full and correct list of all Writers, and of the Subjects of their Publications.

3. To insert Literary Intelligence, and Notices of Works in hand; to mention Improvements made in new Editions of Works; and to admit Defences of Authors against Criticisms, without any expense to the public, but at a moderate charge to the writers.

4. To add the Table of Contents of the preceding number of every Review, thus enabling the public to ascertain at one view what has been noticed.—This will be found particularly convenient for all those, who have not direct recourse to extensive libraries, where indeed every periodical Publication is not to be found; by the want of which many persons are ignorant of the review of their works.—Thus, instead of being a rival, this will be an Index and a Supplement to the established Reviews.

As it is intended to state what other Works each Author has Published, or Edited, it is requested that a list of them may be sent with the Book to be noticed.

To prevent omissions, and an expense proportioned to the universality of the Notices, it is hoped that a copy of every Book will be lent to the Editor, to the care of Mr. A. J. Valpy, Tooke's Court, Chancery Lane, London, at whose Press THE NEW REVIEW will be printed.- -To be had of all Booksellers.

Bibliotheca Spenceriana.

A descriptive catalogue of the early printed books, and of many important first editions in the library of George John Earl Spencer, K. G. &c. &c. &c. accompanied with copious notes, plates of fac-similes, and numerous appropriate embellishments.

BY THE REV. T. F. DIBDIN.

The present Work is intended to be a Catalogue Raisonné of that portion of the above celebrated Library, which comprehends Books printed in the Fifteenth Century, and First Editions of many distinguished Authors. It will commence with an account of Books printed, from Wooden Blocks, about the middle of the Fifteenth Century: from which many extraordinary Specimens of Cuts will be given, as tending to illustrate the History of Engraving during the same period. This division will be followed by Theology; comprehending a list of some of the scarcest Latin, German, Italian, and Dutch Bibles printed in the Fifteenth Century; with notices of the first Editions of the Polyglott, French, English, Polish, and Sclavonian Bibles. These will be followed by an account of some celebrated Psalters, Missals, and Breviaries, executed within the same period. The Interpreters of Scripture, and many of The Fathers, will close the department of Theology.

Classical Literature will succeed. The Authors will be arranged alphabetically, from Esop to Xenophon; and the notices of rare and valuable editions, in this most extensive and most valuable department of his Lordship's Library, will be found more copious and interesting, it is presumed, than any with which the reader is yet acquainted.

Miscellaneous Literature, in the Latin Language, including Didactic and Moral Works, Writers upon the Canon and Civil Law, Historians, and Chrohielers of the Middle Ages, will form the fourth division.

Italian Books, including some remarkably scarce early-printed volumes of Poetry, compose the fifth division.

English Books printed by Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde, and Pynson, as well as the St. Albans Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Coat Armour (of which the only known perfect copy is in this collection) will form the sixth and concluding department.

Neither pains nor expense will be spared in the execution of the work. It will be printed with a new type, in the best manner, at the Shakspeare Press, upon paper manufactured purposely for it; and no difference will be made in the press-work, or quality of the ink, between the Small and Large Paper Copies. In regard to the intrinsic value of these volumes, it is hoped they will be found deserving of the approbation of the Public. Many rare and valuable ancient publications will, for the first time, be made generally known; and the deficiencies and errors of preceding bibliographers supplied and corrected where found necessary. By means of fac-similes of types, and cuts, a number of books will be more satisfactorily described than heretofore; and, consequently, will make a more lasting impression upon the memory of the reader. Of the extraordinary value of the Library here described, it is hardly necessary to apprise the classical Student and Collector. It is the wish of its Noble Owner, that a collection, which has been obtained at a very great expense, during a series of years, should be faithfully made known to the Public: and if either his Lordship, or the Public, experience any disappointment at the present attempt to carry such a wish into execution, the Author is exclusively responsible for such failure.

**To be published in Two Volumes, Super-Royal Octavo. Price, to Subscribers, 51. 5s. Fifty Copies only will be printed on Large Paper, at 12l. 12s. each Copy'; the whole of which latter are subscribed. The impression of the Small Paper will be limited to 500 Copies. It is requested that letters, post paid, addressed to the Rev. Mr. Dibdin, be sent either to Messrs. Longman and Co. Paternoster-row; Messrs. White and Cochrane, Fleet-street, London; or to Mr. Gutch, Bookseller, Bristol.

The Fall of Deism :

Wherein the Objections of the Ancient and Modern Deists against the Old and New Testaments, during the last Sixteen Hundred Years, from Porphyry and Celsus, down to Spinoza, Hobbes, Bolingbroke, Morgan, Voltaire, Tindal, and Paine, are answered, by a strict adherence to the literal sense of the Hebrew Language.

Containing Researches into the Customs, Manners, and Usages of the ancient Jews; the peculiar Phraseology of the original Language exemplified from the Rabbinical Writings, the Talmuds, Gamara, &c. together with Extracts from the Septuagint and Samaritan Pentateuch, illustrative of those passages which, by the Advocates of Deism, have hitherto been considered unanswerable.

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The Characters of the Heathens, Jupiter, Bacchus, Mercury, Hercules, &c. are clearly proved to be taken from the Old Testament, and the data of their mythology to be 500 years later than the time of Moses.

BY JOHN BELLAMY,

Author of History of all Religions; and Biblical articles in the Classical Journal.

This Work is designed to be a faithful Interpreter of all those passages of the sacred Scriptures which the Deists have adduced in order to invalidate Divine Revelation; an Antidote to repel the malignant poison of Deism, and to remove the veil of sophistry, with which the enemies of the Christian Religion have so craftily concealed the face of truth. It will furnish the lovers of the Scriptures with conclusive arguments, whereby to establish their genuineness and authenticity, and "to convince the gainsayers, whose mouths must be stopped." Tit. i. 9. 11.

The Work to be handsomely printed and hotpressed, in Octavo, price in boards 11. 4s. The manuscript is ready, and will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of copies are subscribed for, to defray the expense.

Subscriptions received by Mr. A. J. Valpy, Tooke's Court, Chancery Lane, London.

A NEW EDITION OF

Wood's Athenae Dronienses.

Some months since the editor of the proposed new edition of the ATHENA printed and circulated among his literary friends a life of Daniel, the poet, as a specimen of the intended work. He has the satisfaction of stating, that this specimen was received with expressions of the warmest approbation by those persons, whose peculiar knowledge of the subject renders them the most competent to decide on the merits or defects of a publication of this nature. It procured him also the voluntary assistance of many gentlemen whose pursuits had led them to collect notes on the original work, as well as the loan of several copies enriched with the manuscript observations of writers now no more.

To the antiquary, the historian, and the lover of biographical research, the accuracy and merit of this work is well known: to the general reader, however, some account of the original, and proposed improvements, may not be useless or uninteresting.

In 1691, Anthony à Wood published his first volume, the materials of which he collected, not only from all the MSS. and printed works on biography then known, but, with an industry unexampled, spent the whole of a long and studious life, in searching the University archives, as well as the registers and private papers of each college, for memorandums and anecdotes of the respective writers, whose lives he had undertaken to narrate. In this task he was assisted by most of the eminent authors of his age, and how far he succeeded, the pages of every work treating on English biography afford sufficient testimony. Scarcely, indeed, since the time of Wood, has a single life, which forms the subject of a memoir in his publication, been drawn up, which does not hear evident marks of owing its foundation to his indefatigable research. Hence it is that the biography of our Oxford writers is generally found more copious and authentic, than that of any other early author for whose life Wood's labors afford no information.

In 1692 the second volume appeared, and for the insertion of some reflections on the character of Lord Chancellor Clarendon, the author underwent a rigorous, and, in the opinion of many, an unjust prosecution: with the merits of the case we have nothing to do at present; it was decided against the author, and to this