CATALOGUE OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. FOR SEPTEMBER, 1809. Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura. Mart. NEW WORKS. Remarks on the Brunonian System, by James Jackson, A. A. s. and M. M. S. Boston; Thomas B. Wait and Co. A Biographical Dictionary, containing a brief account of the first settlers, and other eminent characters among the magistrates, ministers, literary and worthy men, in New-England. By John Eliot, D. D. corresponding secretary of the Massachusetts historical society. These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their times. Son of Syrach. Cushing and Appleton, Salem; and Edward Oliver, No. 70, State-street, Boston. Volume X. of the collections of the Massachusetts' Historical Society, 8vo. Boston; Munroe, Francis and Parker. Correspondence of the late President Adams, No. 2. Boston; Everett and Munroe. A Grammar of the Greek language, in which declensions of nouns and the conjugations of verbs are explained in their most simple forms, with the rules of contraction and the syntax and prosody complete, to which is subjoined an appendix by John Smith, s. T. D. professor of the learned languages at Dartmouth college. Boston; John West. 1809. Part 1st of vol. IV. Massachusetts Reports. By D. A. Tyng, Esq. Reporter. Newburyport; E. Little and Co. 1809. The 19th No. of the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Magazine, containing a variety of interesting religious intelligence. Boston; Manning and Loring. 1809. The Romance of the Pyrenees. By the author of Santo Sebastiano, in two volumes. Boston; Isaiah Thomas. 1809. Christian Monitor, No. 11, containing seven Sermons on the education of children. Boston; Munroe, Francis and Parker. 1809. American Law Journal, and Miscellaneous Repertory, No. 6. Vol. 2. By John E. Hall, esq. of Baltimore. Philadelphia; Farrand, Mallory and Co. 1809. New York Medical and Philosophical Journal and Review, No. 2, for August, 1809. T. and J. Swords, printers The Identity of Napoleon and Antichrist; completely demonstrated; or a commentary on the chapters of the Scripture which relate to Antichrist: where all the passages are shown to apply to Napoleon in the most striking manner; and where especially the prophetic number 666, is founded in his name, with perfect exactness, in two different manners. New York, 1809. The Star in the East; A Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of St. James', Bristol, on Sunday, July 26, 1809, for the benefit of the "Society for missions to Africa and the East." By the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, L.L. D. from India. " For we have seen his star in the East, and are come to worship him." Matt. ii. 2. Philadelphia; Bradford & Inskeep. Coelebs in Search of a Wife, comprehending Observations on Domestick Habits, and Manners, Religion, and Morals. From the second London edition. In two volumes. New York. 1809. Bonaparte no Universal Monarch, and not proved to be favourably noticed in Prophecy. Boston; Hastings, Etheridge and Bliss. 1809. Letters addressed to Clarinda, &c. never before published in America; with a choice Selection of Poems and Songs. By Robert Burns, the Scottish bard. To which is prefixed, a sketch of his Life and Character. Philadelphia; Jane Aitken. 1809. NEW EDITIONS. A Sermon preached July 22, 1807, at the funeral of the Rev. Alexander Macwhorter, D. D. senior pastor of the Presbyterian church in Newark, (N. J.) By Edward D. Griffin, a. м. surviving pastor of said church. Boston; C. Bingham. 1809. The Mediator's Kingdom, not of this World, but Spiritual, Heavenly and Divine, Illustrated in remarks upon John xviii. 36. By an Inquirer. New York; Williams and Whiting. 1809. Murray's Sequel to the English Reader. Boston; Lincoln and Edmands. 1809. Letters from a late eminent Prelate to one of his Friends. Boston; Monroe, Francis and Parker. 1809. The Child of Thirty-six Fathers, a Novel, translated from the French. New Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Common Pleas and other Courts, from Michaelmas Term, 46, Geo. III. 1805. to Trinity Term, 47, Geo. III. 1807-both inclusive. By John B. Bosanquet and Christopher Puller, Barrister at Law, vol. 5th. Boston; John West. 1809. The Path to Riches. An inquiry into the origin and use of money, &c. By the late Governour Sullivan. Boston; C. Bingham. The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius. By James Beattie, L.L.D. and the Shipwreck. By William Falconer, with a Sketch of the Life of the author. New York; Collins and Perkins. 1809. The Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq. a new edition, with the addition of some celebrated Speeches, &c. New York; Robert M'Durmot. 1809. Ronaldsha: a Romance, 2 vols. in 1. By Mrs. Doherty. New York; D. Longworth. 1809. A Series of Letters on Religious Subjects, 3 vols. in 1. New York; Williams and Whiting. 1809. A Treatise on Febrile Diseases. By Philip Wilson, M.D. F.R.S. Ed. Boston; Thomas and Andrews. 1809. The eighth edition of the English Reader. By L. Murray. Boston; Joseph Larkin. 1809. Orton's Discourses on secret family Worship, and Religious Observations on the Lord's Day. Boston; Manning & Loring. 1809. Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, for August, 1809. Philadelphia; E. Bronson. Self Knowledge; a treatise shewing the nature and benefit of that important Science, and the way to obtain it. By John Mason. Boston; Farrand, Mallory & Co. 1809. A dissertation on the Mineral Waters of Saratoga. Second edition, enlarged, including an Account of the Waters of Ballstown, embellished with a Map of the surrounding country, and a view of the Rock Spring at Saratoga. To which are added, Considerations upon the Use of the Mineral Waters, as prepared in this City, both as a Remedy in Disease, and an ordinary Drink. By Valentine Seamen, M. D. one of the Surgeons of the New York Hospital. New York; Collins & Perkins. 1809. WORKS PROPOSED AND IN PRESS. T. B. Wait & Co. Boston, propose to publish, The Philosophy of Rheto rick. By George Campbell, D.D. F.R.S. Edin. principal of the Marischal College, Aberdeen. Certo sciant homines, artes inveniendi solidas et veras adolescere et incrementa sumere cum ipsis inventis.' Bac. De Augm. Scient. 1. v. c. 3. A new edition, with the author's last additions and corrections. In two volumes. T. B. Wait & Co. Boston, have in the press, The works of Mrs. Chapone: now first collected. Containing, I. Letters on the improvement of the mind. II. Miscellanies. III. Correspondence with Mr. Richardson IV. Letters to Mrs. Carter. V. Fugitive pieces. To which is prefixed, An account of her Life and Character, drawn up by her own Family. In 4 vols. T. B. Wait & Co. Boston, have in the press, Rules and Regulations for the Field Exercise and Manoeuvres of the French Infantry, issued August 1, 1791. Abridged. And all the manoeuvres added, which have been since adopted by the emperour Napolean. In two volumes. The second volume to consist of thirty-six plates. T. B. Wait & Co. Boston, have in the press, Lectures on Systematick Theology and Pulpit Eloquence. By the late George Campbell, DD. F.R.S. Ed. Principal of Marischal college, Aberdeen. Mathew Carey, Philadelphia, is preparing to publish Wilkinson's Royal Quarto General Atlas, with considerable additions and improvements. Samuel T. Armstrong, of Charlestown, proposes to publish the Sermons of Dr. Watts. Monroe, Francis and Parker of Boston, propose to publish a complete edition of the British Essayists, with prefaces, Historical and Biographical. By Alexander Chalmers, A. M. Farrand, Mallory & Co. Boston, have in the press, The Scripture Doctrine of the Atonement examined, by John Taylor of Norwich. To which is added, candid remarks upon Mr. Taylor's Discourse, entitled Scripture Doctrine, &c. By George Hampton. M. A. Thomas and Whipple, Newburyport, have in the press, A Compendious System of Universal Geography, designed for schools. Compiled from the latest and most distinguished European and American travellers, voyagers, and geopraphers. By Elijah Parish, D. D. minister of Byfield, MassachuThe second edition, with many improvements. setts. Thomas and Whipple, Newburyport, have in the press, The Military Companion; being a System of Company Discipline, founded on the Regulations of Baron Steuben, late Major General and Inspector General of the Army of the United States. Containing the Manual Exercise, Facings, Steps, Turnings, Wheelings, Miscellaneous Evolutions, and Firings. Together with the Duty of Officers and Privates. Designed for the use of the Militia. Third improved edition, ornamented with handsome Copper Plates of Company Evolutions. THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY. FOR OCTOBER, 1809. FOR THE ANTHOLOGY. REMARKS ON ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE ROMAN POETS. No. 7. In the Supplement to the Bibliographical Dictionary, I find mention made of a translation of Lucan's Pharsalia by Arthur Gorges, 4to, Lond. 1600. This is the only entire version, which appeared before that of May. The translation of Thomas May was published in 1627, and soon reappeared in a second edition. It was encouraged by the excessive panegyrick of Ben Jonson, in lines addressed to his "chosen friend, the learned translator of Lucan." But the notes of May are so unharmonious, that we, whose ears have been accustomed to the sound of smooth and polished numbers, wonder how they could ever be tolerated. The Pharsalia of Lucan was continued by May in a supplement consisting of seven books, published both in Latin and English. For his industry in producing such a work, and for his labour in translating, some commendation is due. Poetical translation at the period in which he lived, was almost a new art; and his efforts might have tended to encourage others in attempts of a similar kind, more successful, and in the result more gratifying to the learned. In his supplement to the work of Lucan, he resumes the history, where the poet left it, and embraces all the important transactions in which Cesar was engaged, from the restoration of the Egyptian king, to the assassination of the usurper in the Roman senate. The version of Lucan's Pharsalia by Nicholas Rowe is a work on which the publick has not been so forward to lavish praise, as on many productions of inferiour merit. But the unqualified commendation of Johnson has given it a degree of celebrity, which it does not appear to have acquired before his time. "The version of Lucan," he remarks," is one of the greatest productions of English poetry; for there is perhaps none, that so completely exhibits the genius and spirit of the original." It is difficult some times to separate the defects of the translator from those of his author. It would appear at first sight, that Rowe was unreasonably diffuse in his manner, and had employed many more lines than were necessary, to give a complete transcript of the sense. In the very commencement of his work, sixty nine lines are used in translating thirty two. More latitude may be allowed to a translator of a declamatory writer, than of one highly poetical; for poetical beauties are similar in all periods; and where the image is distinct, the correspondence in the expression must be very considerable: but the language of declamation is as various as the characters of different communities, and is always changeable, even among the same people. This may sometimes be pleaded as an apology for Rowe, where his manner approaches to that of paraphrase. The characters of Pompey and Cesar, drawn in the first book of the Pharsalia, are copied with no small degree of exactness by Rowe. Nec coïere pares; alter vergentibus annis Nor came the rivals equal to the field; Amidst the noisy praises of the pit. ROWE. ********** Sed non in Caesare tantum Numinis; impellens quicquid sibi summa petenti L. L. 143.et seq. |