part a man may incline, the great foundation of the Chriftian faith wilf not be the fubject of dispute between them. In order to establish that conclufion, little more, one would imagine, would be necessary than to flate the grounds of faith and doctrine, and the rules of good life, concerning which there is no difference. It fhould be the chief fatisfaction of both parties engaged in these difputes, to reflect, that although there mult be a confiderable error on one fide or the other, where these feveral opinions which have been stated are maintained, yet that the fame faith in all its fundamental articles is held by both ; the fame facraments administered; the fame communion kept by many; the fame duties required and practised, though under different notions. Thus it is agreed, that falvation is the free gift of God for Christ's fake: free to us who do not pay the price, but richly purchafed by the blood and merits of Chrift Jefus. It is agreed too that repentance, faith, and obedience, are neceflary in fome fenfe or other to entitle any man to an interest in the Redeemer's interceffion. It is confeffed alfo, with humble thankfulness on both fides, that the influ ence of Divine Grace, preventive and affiftant, are needful in all parts of our convertion and proficiency. If then the fame Creed, the fame religious practice, the fame fellowship, the fame faith, hope, and charity, do not conftitute fufficient grounds of concord, it will be difficult to know where we are to feek them," We have placed this valuable tract immediately after that of Mr. Faber, as flating in a much more correct and perfect manner the real principles of union, which we heartily recommend to the confideration of all Chriflians, whatever other denomination they may add to that facred title. BRITISH CATALOGUE. ART. 19. POETRY. Carminum Rariarum Macaronicorum dele&us. In ufum Ludorum Apollinarium. Edinburgi. ex Typographeo Adami Neill et Soc. 8vo. 1801, 1802, &c. In our 22d volume (p. 431) we noticed a very ingenious Latin verfion of a Scottish Song, entitled the Wife of Auchtermuchty, but wished for fome information refpecting the editors, whofe titles were calculated to excire curiofity. A copy fince fent us, of several other poems printed by the fame Society, enables us to clear up feveral of thefe doubts, by interlineations which we fhall venture to print in Italios.. I Italics. The following infcription is fubjoined immediately to the title-page. "Quod Felix, fauftumque fit; Omnibus et fingulis,Conventûs Gymnaftici Edinenfis Fratribus, Speciatim autem, Gymnafiarcho magnifico (Alexandro Wood, Amigero, Chir. Edin.) Pontifici Maximo, (Guli elmo Moodie, S. S. Th. D.) Prætori Honorato (Jacobo Hamilton, S. M. D.) Aliifque Miniftris Sacrorum, a quibus Ludi Apollinares, in Campo Letheano, Vulgò Leith Links, More Majorum, Solenniter celebrantur: Hæc Poemata Macaronica, iterum prelo fubjecta, funmậ cum obfervantia, Dat, dicat, confecratque, Editor, Scrib. Prætor. (Andreas Duncan, Sen. M. D. s. P.-).” The prefent collection contains, 1. The Polemo-Middinia, of the celebrated poet W. Drummond, of Hawthornden; an effufion, in our opinion, rather pardonable, in fuch a writer, than deferving of admiration. 2. Chryfte Kirke on the Green, fuppofed to be written by King James I. of Scotland, attempted (it is faid) in Latin Heroic verse; but in truth very well executed in Latin Elegiac verfe. 3. The Speeches of Ajax and Ulyffes, in Ovid. Met. B. 13, tranflated into the Buchan Dialect. This is a very whimsical and humorous performance. Thus far extends the firft fafciculus. The fecond contains, 4. The Monk and the Miller's Wife, a tale written by Allan Ramfay, Efq. with a tranflation into Latin rhyme. The humour of the original is well known; and it is admirably preserved in the verfion. 5. Prælium Gillicrankianum, Cantilena. 6. The Wife of Auchtermuchty; already noticed, but in this copy without the Latin verfion. 7. A Hudibraftic Hiftory of John Broffy, the celebrated Stormont Bard. Written at St. Andrew's in the year 1762, by the Bec-Jaune club. This being a fatire on an unknown poem, the Bango riad, and its unknown author, cannot be properly relifhed here. 8. A few Epitaphs on various perfons; and, G. A. Phillips's tranflation of the Sapphic fragment," Bleft as th' immortal Gods is he", with a parody, by the Hon. Henry Erkine. The fecond fafciculus is dedi cated to the Arch-Laureat of the Society," Rob. Strong Armigero, Mercatori Letbeano", who is ftyled alfo Scriptori lepidiffimo, poetarum fodalitii noftri facile principi." We have fo far extended our account of the contents of this collection, that any specimen we could here produce of it would be very flight; we fhall only add, therefore, that it contains much amufement, and gives altogether a pleafing view of the relaxations of claffical men. The poet does not even regard the quantities of the real Latin words which he employs. Thus he makes homo a fpondee, the last fyllables of accipitis, a dactyl, &c. &c. This we conceive not allowable, even in Macaronic. NOVELS. ART. 20. NOVELS. Modern Literature: A Novel, in Three Volumes. By 925 pp. 158. Longman and Robert Bifet, LL. D. 66 12mo. The ingenious author of this novel, in his Preface, informs us that he proposes to reprefent the manners of the times, in various fitúations, but efpecially in the literary departments," and his object feems to have been to connect, with the amufement arifing from a fictitious story, fuch anecdotes of the prefent ftate of literature and remarks upon it, as may give a diftinct view of its character and tendency. These two fubjects are not, however, in our opinion, combined with much skill, or rendered fo interesting as, from the wellknown talents of Dr. Biffet, we should have expected. The fault seems to be chiefly in the plan. As the work is now conducted, each part of the primary defign is apparently injurious to the other. To amufe by an interefting story feems for a long time, notwithstanding what is faid in the preface, to have been his principal object: but, relying probably on the literary anecdotes which were to be introduced in the latter part, he has not taken pains fo to enliven and diverfify his narrative as to fix the reader's attention. His hero, a generous and high fpirited young man of a Scotch family, advances gradually to the attainment of fame, domestic happiness and fortune, by an almoft regular gradation, with fcarcely any difficulties to afford exercife for his virtues, or changes of fortune to create an intereft in his favour. In his literary anecdotes and reflections the author fhows himself, however. to be a man of just tafte, and invariably the friend of religion and virtue. Under the name of St. Leon, he reprobates Mr. Godwin, as a philofopher, but allows him talents as a writer. The late wife of that author alfo feems to be characterized under the name of Jemima: for we cannot think Dr. B. ferious when he declares, in his Preface, "that he has been fcrupuloufly cautious to guard against any poflibility of indivi dual application." Eren to the characters in history this declaration does not univerfally apply. To the ftyle employed in this novel, we' make no general objections; but a want of fimplicity, and an occafional licence in the introduction of unauthorized words and phrafes, fuch as "circumfpiciency," "mildened," and several others, which we fhall not here enumerate. This novel therefore, though not without merit or attraction, is not altogether equal to what might have been' expected from the other works of this author; one of which we now have before us, and fhall foon be able to report in a far more favourable point of view, ART. 21. The Life of Napoleone, as it should be handed down to Pof terity. By J. Md. 12mo. 150 pp. 2s. 6d. Parfons. 1804. The new 66 Emperor of the French" is here introduced as the hero of a fictitious story. His birth and parentage are, we believe, accu rately rately flated: but, inftead of a warrior, he is reprefented as a pettifogging attorney in Corfica, who, being driven from thence by the detection of a forgery, takes refuge in France, and becomes lieutenant of a gang of robbers, the captain of whom is called Maximilian, and defigned to represent Robespierre. After fome adventures, by which the treachery and cruelty of both these heroes are exemplified, they are betrayed by one of their accomplices, feized, and of courfe executed. The tale is fhort, and of no great intereft, from its too flight connection with the known facts; but the writer feems to poffefs abilities, in the exercise of which he is evidently actuated by an ardent zeal for virtue. MEDICINE. ART. 22. This is a compendium of the Materia Medica, written fomewhat upon the plan of one printed in London two or three years ago, under the title of a Practical Synopfis of the Materia Medica". The claffification of both these productions is founded for the moft part on that of the late Dr. Cullen; fince whofe great work on this subject so many changes have taken place in pharmaceutical chemistry, as to render new views of that branch of medical knowledge neceflary. Pharmaceutical chemiftry, forms the first part or divifion of the prefent compendium; the fecond divifion confifts of what is properly called the Materia Medica; and the third is devoted to Pharmaceutical Operations and Compofitions, taken from the last editions of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias. Two Appendixes are fubjoined, in the firft of which is given the medical history of the Gafes, of Electricity, and Galvanism; and, in the fecond, the heads of a lecture on extemporaneous Prefcriptions; followed by Tables of changed Names (printed in the manner Thus, befides the fimilarity in the general claffification, this author, after the example of the Practical Synopfis, gives a tabular view of the contents of each clafs, and in treating of each article he affixes, as the author of the Practical Synopfis has done, the Linnæan names and claffes, with the natural orders, native places, &c. For inftance: Practical Synopfis. Colchicum autumnale. Hexandria. Trigynia. Liliaceæ. Indigenous, Radix. Meadow Saffron. Murray's Mat. Med. Colchicum autumnale. Meadow Saffron. Colchicum. Hexand. Trigyn. Liliaccæ. Radix. Indigenous. Ariftolochia ferpentaria Gynan- Aristolochia ferpentaria. Serdria. Hexandria. Sarmentacea.pentaria Virginiana. Virginian Virginia, Carolina. Serpentaria Snake root. Gynand. Hexand. Virginiana Radix. Virginia Snake Sarmentos. Radix. Virginia, Carolina, root. of of that belonging to the Thefaurus Medicaminum) and an English and Latin Index. In refpect to practical obfervations, this work appears to us fcarcely equal to that with which we have juft now compared it; but as an elementary treatife it poffeffes feveral advantages, and is certainly well adapted for the use of students, being written in a concife, yet, at the fame time, perfpicuous manner, and prefenting, on the whole, the best view extant (if we except Dr. Duncan's new Difpenfatory) of the prefent improved state of pharmaceutical chemistry. ART. 23. A Syftem of Diffections; explaining the Anatomy of the Human Body; the Manner of difplaying the Parts, and their Varieties in Difeafe. Vol. II. Part II. with Plates. By Charles Bell, Fello of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ed. Fol. 79. 6d. Longman and Rees. 1803. We are glad to fee that this ufeful work (the preceding numbers of which have been noticed in fome of the former volumes of the British Critic) is carried on in the fame fatisfactory manner in which it was begun. If completed with the fame attention to clearness and accuracy of engravings and defcription, it will prove a most acceptable and valuable addition to the libraries of students and lovers of anatomy. The prefent number exhibits diffe&ions of the arm; of the neck and face; of the nervous fyftem of the vifcera; with an account of the manner of diffecting the brain and eye. DIVINITY. ART. 24. A Sermon preached before the Society for the Suppreffion of Vice, in the Parish Church of St. George, Hanrver-Square, on Thi rfday the 3rd of May, 1804. By Richard Watson, D. D. F. R. S. Lord Bishop of Landaff. To which are added, the Plan of the Soci'y, a Summary of its Proceedings, and a Lift of its Members. ovo. 72 pp. 18. Cadell and Co. Rivingtons, &c. 1804. "An inceffant contention for mastery fubfifts", fays the Bishop of Landaff, "in every civil ftate, and efpecially in every overgrown metropolis, between the laws on the one hand, and the manners of the people on the other. This warfare commences with the very commencement of government, and it ends only with its diffolution". It is carried on, he adds, with variable fuccefs, according to circumftances; and is not finally extinguifhed, till the general prevalence of profligate morals puts an end to the government felf". P. 1. This end, therefore, which is as certain as any thing in this world, " may be retarded by whatever retards the progrefs of vice". The means most applicable to our own cafe, as a nation, are, fays this able teacher," the religious inftruction of the people, and the due execution of the laws, adapted to the circumstances of the times; neither fo ftrict as to render the execution of them impracticable, nor fo lax as to encourage the growth of any fpecies of immorality." On religious inftruction, and that which is an effential inftrument of it, the places for religious worship, many valuable observations are here made. It is particularly ftated, that the vast population of the metropolis |