BOHEMIA. ART. 62. 4. Pomona Boëmica, oder tabellarisches Verzeichniss aller zu Jaromirz cultivirten Obftorten nebft den Provinzialbenennungen und kurzer Anzeige der Güte, Zeit und Dauer der Früchte, von Mathias Röfsler, Kreifdechant zu Jaromirz. Pomona Boemica, or a Lift of all the Garden Fruits cultivated at Jaromirz, with their provincial Names, as alfo a foort Account of their Qualities and Seafons. By M. Rössler. Prague. 68 pp. in 8vo. SWEDEN. ART. 63. 5. Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens nya Handlingar, Tom. XVI. för ma'naderne Julius, Auguftus, September, O&. Nov. Dec. A°r 1795• New Tranfactions of the Society of Sciences for the Months of July Dec. 1795, with three plates. Stockholm. As the limits of our publication will not permit us either to enter into a detail of the different articles defcribed, or treated of, in thefe generally esteemed works, or even to specify what is moft curious in them, we fhall content ourselves with merely announcing their appearance to our readers; observing only, with refpect to No. 4, that it contains a very copious lift of the fruit-trees, cultivated under the infpection of the author, at Jaromirz and Podibrad; the varieties of apples, for inftance, amounting to 266; of pears, to 181; of peaches, to 31; of apricots, to 12; of cherries, to 46; and thofe of plumbs, to 34. HUNGARY. ART. 64. Andreæ Blafkovich de Blaskoviz hiftoria univerfalis Illyrici ab ultima gentis et nominis memoria. Tomi IV. Zagrab. 540 PF. Fol. Imp. Cafari C. Meffio Quinto Trajano Decio P. F. Aug. P. M. Tr. pot. Cof. Imp. P. P. Refp. Andaut. D. D. This infcription, difcovered in the village of Stenevecz, near Agrain, and particularly the words Refp. Andaut., gave occafion to this work; which abounds with interetting antiquarian information, relative to a country, to which but little attention of this kind has hitherto been paid. Nearly one third of the whole, is employed in the explanation of the infcription itself, the reft confifting chiefly of differtations, of which the following are the titles: Diff. II. Tituli Imp. Differt. I. Itineraria et decora Pannonia Savia. forma reip. Andautonienfis. Diff. 111. Chronologia Decii. Diff. IV. Herennia Etrufcillæ marmor illuftratum. Diff. V. Urbs fecunda et fines reip. Andauton. Diff. VI. Urbs tertia reip. A. & decora Savice. Diff. VII. Fus Andauton. rerump. fub Romanis. Diff. VIII. Vetuftas, eminentia fines Pannonia Savia, et Præfidum feries, ad Licinium et Conflantin. Augg. This is followed by the Hiftoriarum Illyrici Lib. I. of which we shall be glad to fee the continuation, DENMARK, DENMARK. ART. 65. Index Alphabeticus in J. C. Fabricii Entomologiam Syftema ticam emendatam et auttam, Ordines, Genera, et Species continens. Copenhagen; 176 pp. in 8vo. (14 gr.) This Index, made on a judicious plan, as well as with great accuracy, will, we doubt not, be highly acceptable to fuch perfons as are poffeffed of the very valuable work to which it is adapted. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. To the letter, properly enough figned Nemo, we have literally nothing to say. Mr. T. Symons, will fee that we have attended to his request. Our worthy correfpondent from the neighbourhood of Bridgewater, will alfo fee from our Review of this month, that the mistake, upon which he properly animadverts, is corrected. We give Arator due credit for the goodness of his intentions, but an elaborate difcuffion on the fubject of his last letter, feems hardly within our province. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Captain Scott, the tranflater of Ferifhta, is now employed on a new version of the tales of Inatulla, which had been partially tranflated by Dow. The hiftory of Shah Allum, the prefent Great Mogul, is in the prefs, and will foon be published, by Captain William Franklin, whofe Tour in Perfia has been fo well received. Mr. Coxe will publifh his life of Sir Robert Walpole, in three volumes, quarto, in the enfuing month. A publication, on the fubject of the Embally to China, by a perfon who accompanied Lord Macartney, may foon be expected from Bulmer's prefs. Dr. Reid's Effay on Pthifis Pulmonalis, is about to be republished, with confiderable additions; and fo alfo is his Treatife on Cold and Warm Sea-bathing. THE BRITISH CRITIC, For FEBRUARY, 1798. Mentiri nefcio, librum Si malus eft nequeo laudare, et pofcere.- Juv. ART. I. Profpectus, with Specimens, of a new Polyglott Bible, in Quarto, for the Ufe of English Students. By Jofiah Pratt, M. A. Aftant Minifter of St. John's Chapel, Bedford-Row, London. Oxford: printed at the University-Prefs, for the Author; fold by F. and C. Rivington, &c. 4to. 1797. THIS HIS Profpectus is printed at Oxford, at the University Prefs; but it must not from thence be inferred, that that learned body, acting by its Delegates, who fuperintend the concerns of the Clarendon Prefs, has given any kind of fanction to the defign, or is in any degree refponfible, either for the plan or execution of the work. We have been credibly informed, that, by a late judicious regulation, thofe works alone which are the property of the University, and fubject to the controul of the Delegates of the Prefs, bear the Imprint, as it is called in technical language, E Typographeo Clarendoniano; or, At the Clarendon Prefs. The Delegates have no concern with fuch works as are faid to be printed Typis Academicis, Sumptibus Auctoris; or, in English, like the Profpectus of Mr. Pratt, At the Univerfity-Prefs for the duthor; they are to be confidered I. Aimply BRIT. CRIT. VOL. XI. FEB. 1798. fimply as published by individual members of Convocation, at their own perfonal risk, and folely on their own personal refponfibility The author of the work before us, we are told, "Has long been employed in the preparation of a New Polyglott Bible; wherein it is intended to unite the Hebrew text of the Old Teftament with the common English tranflation, the Greek Septuagint verfion, the Latin vulgate, and the Chaldee Paraphrafes, in five parallel columns; and below thefe, acrofs the page, to give the Samaritan Pentateuch in Hebrew characters; and, beneath this, all the important various readings of the Hebrew text collected by Kennicott and De Roffi. In the New Teftament; the Greek text, the common English tranflation, the old Syriac verfion in Hebrew characters, and the Latin Vulgate, will form four parallel columns; and will be accompanied by all the chief various readings of the Greek text collected by Mill, Bengelius, Wetftein, Birch, Matthæi, Griefbach, and others. In order to prefent as pure copies as poffible of the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Targums, the chief various readings of thofe verfions will be given in three parallel columns at the end of the Old Teftament; and, to answer the fame purpofe, with regard to the Syriac and Vulgate verfions of the New, their chief various readings will be given in two parallel columns at the end of that Teftament. The various readings of the Samaritan Pentateuch will be given in the margin. "The work will be preceded by Prolegomena, in which it is intended to bring together every thing interefting to the ftudent respecting the critical hiftory of the original texts, and the English, Septuagint, Vulgate, Chaldee, and Syriac verfions; all which will be given in diftinct differtations. A concife account will also be given of all the other ancient, and of all the chief modern verfions. Befides the more immediate critical hiftory of the original texts; their authenticity, infpiration, language, ftyle, &c. will be briefly confidered. An introduction to each book will likewife be given; and every thing, in short, brought together which concerns the Bible as an ancient volume, written by different men in different languages and style, and preferved by the Providence of God under various circum stances. As there is fcarcely an important pofition throughout this extenfive field which has not been the fubject of controverfy, it will be rendered as familiar and inftructive to the ftudent as poffible, by avoiding, as much as may be, the argumentative form, and referring to the authorities for the conclufions which may be adopted. As the direct ufe of the work is independent of the Prolegomena, this part will be laft published; that more time may be obtained to do justice to its extent and importance." P. •7• Notwithstanding all that has been already done to facilitate the ftudy of the original Scriptures, in the courfe of his theological enquiries, Mr. Pratt tells us, "He had often occafion to feel that fomething was ill wanting. Difficulties occurred. He knew that the English, or the Septuagint, or the Vulgate, might remove them; but he was too indolent to con fule This fult them. Every ftudent will understand him, and to a real ftudent he is not afraid of making the confeffion. Such an one, however diligent, often bleffe's the hand which lightens his labour. Walton was unwieldly. Besides, he was too learned. The formidable array of his learned page chilled and repelled the unfkilful in arms. fuggelted the prefent undertaking; upon which he has laboured, more or lefs, for feveral years. If the public fhall be pleafed to accept his labours, he hopes that in them the future ftudent will find his path eafy and inviting by the convenience of the form-by the union of the English tranflation with the original texts and their chief ancient verfions-by the exclufion of thofe eaftern verfions, which, being fomewhat removed from the originals, and beyond the reach of the time and courage of moft ftudents, muft be configned to the few who meet them with greater intrepidity, and under more favourable circumftances; and by printing the Samaritan and Syriac in a character fami liar to the Hebrew fcholar. By thefe advantages it is defigned to fit this Polyglott for the common reading and studying Bible of the Biblical fcholar; who, by ufing it in all his private ftudies as he would a common English Bible, will make an incredible though infenfible proficiency in the knowledge of the original Scriptures." P. 8. Such is Mr. P.'s account of the general nature of his projected work; of the reafons on which it is founded; and of the advantages which, in his apprehenfion, will be derived from his labours to the caufe of Sacred Literature. Our particular remarks will be better referved till we have given a more detailed account of Mr. P.'s defign; yet we cannot help paufing here a moment to admire his temerity, in venturing to contraft the new Polyglott with the gigantic and immortal work of Brian Walton, and his profound and indefatigable affociates; a work, that reflects peculiar honour on the age, and country, in which it was produced; and has, perhaps, contributed more to the advancement of Biblical criticiẩm, than the production of any other of the numerous labourers in the fame varied and extenfive field. We must add, that this work is not, we believe, particularly scarce; and that it certainly may be obtained at a price not fuperior to that of the work which is intended to fuperfede it, in the common use of the Biblical scholar. We cannot affent to the affertion of Mr. Pratt, (p. 9) that no instance can be alledged of a religious fyftem producing fuch little general effect upon its profeffors as Christianity; and, though we fincerely unite in deploring that contempt of Revelation which is, at prefent, too extenfively prevalent in Europe, yet we cannot poffibly concur with him in confidering the alarming progrefs of modern infidelity as the natural con= fequence of an early perufal of the Claffics. We are fufficiently aware of the connection which fubfifts between facred |