ternion is marked upon the last page. Perhaps the Cambridge MS. affords the earlieft example of this practice. Many, indeed, of the numbers are either faded away by time, or are cut away by the binder's knife; but there ftill remain fufficient to fhow that the Catholic Epiftles were once entire. The first quaternion that we find numbered is at p. 472, which is marked AB. The reft follow in this order. Page 516, AE. 532, AC. 564, AH. 580, A☺. 596, M. 612, MA. 628, MB. 672, Nr. 688, NA. 720, NC. 736, NH. 752, NO. 768, 2.784, EA: 800, EB. 816 Eг. It appears, therefore, that at prefent there is only the space of three quaternions between MB. and Nr. whereas, there ought to be eleven. And this is the interval where the Catholic Epiftles would be placed. It may be objected, that this allows a space proportionally much greater to the Catholic Epiftles, than to the other parts of the New Teftament. But this is of little weight; because we know not into how short verfes (or six) the writers might choose to divide them. Perhaps, too, the writer of the Cambridge MS. might skip over a quaternion or two in his hurry, as he actually has done with refpect to NZ. No objection can be made to the authenticity of the writing. It is plainly the fame hand that copied the body of the book; the letters are of the fame shape, and the ink of the fame colour. We shall take notice of one inftance. The note which stands for the number fix, is nearly the form of the angular Roman C. Mark XV. 33. And it twice has the fame form in the numeration of the quaternions. We shall be almost mute on the execution of the text. To its external fplendor we have already done juftice. But there is one very fenfible inconvenience to readers that with to examine it critically.-No notice is given of chapter and verfe; but we are prefented, in the inner page, oppofite to the beginning of the text, with a meagre index, to inform us at what page and line each chapter begins. Was this done to preferve the beauty of the book? Surely it could have done no harm to have printed at the bottom of each page, in fmall characters, fuch fhort notes as this, i. 20.-ii. 4. If Dr. Kipling had found as much difficulty in confulting all the books to which he had occasion to refer, as we have found in occafionally hunting for paffages in his book, he would not have been the scholar that he is at present. It is impoffible for us to judge whether the fac-fimile is executed with precifion, or not, We, for our parts, are willing to believe that it is, notwithstanding that unlucky blunder, by which the epifemon s is reverfcd throughout the work. But we have received affurances from a gentleman who was at 5 Cambridge Cambridge, and who compared several pages of the original and copy together, that, as far as he examined, he found the fac-fimile exact enough. Still Dr. K. is guilty of a very grand omiffion. It is the duty of an editor of fuch a book, to allot a note to every paffage that in the flightest degree differs from the common reading. Whether it be rafure or correction, omiffion, addition or variation, he is bound to render a faithful account. How can we otherwife know for certain that it is not an error of the prefs, or a mistake of the editor in copying. In one part of the fac-fimile, xaria occurs for al dian. How can a reader be fure that the two intermediate Jetters were originally omitted by the writer of the MS.Could not Dr. Kipling, or his Printer, drop them by oversight? The Doctor might have had our thanks and applaufe, if he had expofed Wetstein's mistakes in the fame manner that Dr. Woide has done. It is fomewhat astonishing, that having so plain a path marked out for him, he would not purfue it. Befides, if he had taken the trouble to correct Wetstein's mistakes, he might perhaps, in fome cafes, have reaped benefit from the experiment. The leaf, which contains pages 817, 818, (Acts XXI. 7-10, 15-18) is torn at the bottom, and two or three verfes are loft of the Latin on one fide, and of the Greek on the other. Dr. Kipling finds a collation of the MS. in Jefus College Library, made by a Mr. Dickenfon, and thus he writes in his note, "Cætera defunt. As Latina hæc fragmenta legere erat A, D. 1732. SEQUENTI CUM EXISSEMUS, &c. Id quod e MSto. didici libello, &c." Quod eft ante pedes, nemo fpectat, cæli fcrutantur plagas. If the Doctor had deigned to caft his eye upon Wetstein's margin, he would have found that, Græca hæc fragmenta legere erat A. D, 1716. Our Cambridge correfpondent alfo informs us, that the three first letters of 1ЄPooha, and the beginning of the next line, AПOKEC.... though not quite perfect, may eafily be made out. This omiflion, therefore, is the lefs excufable, as it was fo cafy to fupply. But a fingle omiffion is of little con fequence, fequence, when the whole text wants a perpetual collation.If Dr. Kipling will publifh fuch a collation, correcting, as he goes on, the mistakes of Mill and Wetstein, he will deferve well of the public, and render his book much more useful than it is. At prefent, we think we have faid enough to justify the cenfure with which we fet out, "that as much as this work is fuperior to Dr. Woide's in its outfide, it appears to be below it in intrinfic merit." Some perfons may, perhaps, afk, what is the ufe of fuch fplendid and expenfive publications? We answer, that a faithful reprefentation of MSS. fo ancient as Beza's, may furnish critics with the means of illuftrating or correcting the facred text, who could not have had the means of confulting the original MSS. A learned correfpondent has favoured us with the following note relative to this fubject: St. Mark fays, xvi. 12, 13, that the Apostles did not believe the report of the two dif ciples, who had returned from Emmaus; and St. Luke xxiv. 34, makes the Apoftles fo fully perfuaded of what thefe difciples had to report, as to anticipate them by firongly afferting the fame, without giving them leave to tell the very important news, which they had come in fuch hafte to communicate. This difficulty would be obviated by reading Luk. xxiv. 34. évoles inftead of ayoles. The difciples will then immediately begin their wonderful recital, that Jefus was rifen indeed, and had appeared to Simon particularly, notwithstanding his notorious denial of his Mafter, for which he could hardly have had an opportunity to afk and receive forgivenels. For Simon was one of these two difciples, as Origen affirms in two places; C. Celf. p. 98 and 102. Ed. Cantab. * Now this reading is preferved to us in Beza's MS., though not noticed by Griefbach, who undertakes to give the collations of it; which proves the great utility of preferving and multiplying fuch a MS. by a copy of this kind. As we have feveral times in this article referred to Dr. Edwards's Remarks on Dr. Kipling's Preface, we ought here to have given our thoughts upon them; but as he feems to promife a fecond part, we fhall wait for the appearance of that publication, and briefly give our opinion on the whole. Origen fucceeded Clemens in the feat of Alexandria, whose immediate predeceffor, Pantanus, had converfed with the Apostles.-Phot. Bibl. c. xviii. and from them he might have received this tradition. ART. ART. II. Letters during the courfe of a Tour through Germas ny, Switzerland, and Italy, in the Years 1791 and 1792. With Reflections on the Manners, Literature, and Religion of thofe Countries. By Robert Gray, M. A. Vicar of Farringdon, Berks. 8vo. 6s. Rivingtons. 1794. THEN different artifts choose the fame fcene, the canvass may ftill retain a true originality of character. The Steeps of Tivoli, drawn by the fober pencil of Pouffin, or touched with the finished art of Studio, may adorn the fame cabinet, with all the charm and interest of variety. A fimilar encouragement must for ever be held out to travellers of skill and talents, unless it can be thought that the colours and expreffions of the mind, are less various than thofe of the pallet and the brush. Change of place and object conduce much to excite useful application, and to encourage the exertions of the mind. Invincible must be that dulnefs, which can fee the human features affuming a new turn, and behold the face of nature varying its predominant characters, without emotion; without a fecret impulfe to extend the courfe of thought, and to enlarge the fcope of meditation. The prevailing characters of these letters appear to us to be a clear and quick felection of fuch particulars as deferve notice; lively and well-placed animadverfion, and useful difquifition. The favourable influence of diverfity of fituation and enquiry, operating upon a well-turned and ingenious mind, is clearly difcernible throughout the whole work. In fupport of our opinion we fhall felect fome paffages for our readers. The first letters of the collection may not, perhaps, be found fo interefting as thofe which fucceed. The general features of Germany are not particularly calculated to enliven any narra tive. The 7th letter, dated from Bafle, prefents us with acurious manufcript letter of Erafmus. In the 12th letter we meet the following account of the ingenious Lavater, with fome particulars of the mode of worfhip in Zurich; we join heartily in the author's reflections on this head. "I have been introduced, however, to Mr. Lavater, whofe mild and expreffive countenance, rendered more interelling by a fhade of dejection, will recommend him to all who adopt his principles of phyfiognomy. I obferved to him, that it required fome courage to pre fent ourselves before a man pollelling the powers of penetration, which he he profeffed: he replied, that no mortal need fear the presence of another, fince all muft be confcious of defect. He lives in a very fmall houfe; we found him inftructive and unaffuming in converfation.He fpeaks French with hefitation and difficulty, but his expreffions are forcible. On a fecond vifit, he fhewed us his collection of pictures, which contains three or four pieces, by Holbein, in high prefervation: among thefe is an angel with the inftruments of Christ's Crucifixion, that has great merit. There are fome other valuable pictures: one by Weft, and two or three admirably done by a Swifs peafant; a variety of beautiful drawings, and other things well worthy attention. Mr. Lavater's character, as a minifter, is very high. He is now projecting two or three charitable inftitutions, one of which is defigned as a retreat for women after the age of fifty. He is engaged in a pleasant periodical publication of Mifcellanies, of which fix volumes have appeared for the first year, and one for the fecond. He complains that our tranflations of his writings (efpecially of his great work) are extremely defective. I have fince heard him preach with great apparent energy; but he preached in an unknown tongue to me. The Vandyke frill which the minifters wear, gives them a very antique appearance; and the mourning dreffes of the congregation produce a very grave effect in the churches. I was not difpofed to approve an hour-glafs, which was placed by the preacher, to direct him in the length of his difcourse. After the finging, in which all the congregation join, there is a great noife of letting down the feats; and the people all put on their hats and fit down, to hear the minifter pray or preach. Devotion here appears to correfpond with Parnel's defcription of it at Geneva, "A fullen thing, whofe coarseness fuits the crowd." I reflected, with fatisfaction, on the rational and decent fervice established in our church: on premeditated prayers, formed upon fublime principles of piety and benevolence; and exterior forms, defigned only to be exprefive of reverence for God, and fubfervient to the becoming folemnity of public worship." P. 130. Upon the whole, the traveller through Switzerland has but little chance of furnishing very interefting particulars to the reader. The abfence of the arts, and the dearth of historical record, will hardly be compenfated by fine fcenery, of which defcription can convey but very imperfect ideas. Mr. Gray remarks on the Swifs, "The Swifs, who have a country of fuch peculiar fcenery to defcribe, fhould form a fchool of their own; but it is fingular that Switzerland has, as yet, produced neither poets nor painters, who have much diftinguished themfelves. The fublime poem of Haller, on the Alps, is almoft the only important description in poetry of Swifs fcenery, by a native of Switzerland: and, till lately, it has had no painters of Jandscape known beyond their country. The natives become familiar with the grand and noble scenes of their country, before they have attention to admire and powers to imitate them; and Switzerland has fcarce yet arrived to that refinement of civilization in which a know ledge |