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Edinburgh; Cadell and Davies, London. 1805. THE HE difference which is apparent between the favourite fubjects of ftudy profecuted by nations contiguous to each other, and even by the fame nation at different periods, is very remarkable. At the æra of the revival of letters in the Western parts of Europe, our neighbours, the Scotch, cultivated with ardour the ftudy of claffical literature; and their fuccefs, for near a century, was in proportion to that ardour. Nothing will be found fuperior to the writings of Buchanan, either in Latin verfe or in Latin profe, at the period in which he wrote; and we doubt if England has any thing compofed at that period which can be confidered as equal to them. The cafe is now totally changed. For 'a century paft nothing has been publifhed in Scotland in Q BRIT. CRIT. VOL. XXVIII. SEPT. 1806, Latin |