The means of oppofition to this fyftematic attack, recommended by Dr. Outram are temperate, and effectual; they are indeed obvious, and are fuch as have been recommended by others, but they are here ftated with peculiar clearness and propriety. In the Preface to the Extracts, which form the proofs of this fermon, Dr. O. further recommends "to counteract ASSOCIATION, by ASSOCIATING, under the requifite fan&tion." P. vii. This is an important idea which feems to require further developement, and on which we fhould like to fee fome specific plan propofed. The fecond difcourfe in this volume is alfo highly appropriated to its object; and the author speaks of academical establishments, both the old and the new, with the fpirit of a man whose value for them is derived from a correct knowledge of their excellence. He points out the objects, particularly fought in the regulations of the New College, and pays the debt of gratitude due to thofe who have most contributed to its establishment. It is followed by a fhort but excellent Latin prayer of benediction, which, we prefume, was pronounced by him, as Public Orator, at the time of laying the first ftone. But the largest part of the book, and the moft laborious, though a mere work of compilation, is the collection of extracts, judiciously disposed under heads, in fuch a manner as to give a complete view of the principles and practices of the Arminian and Calviniftic Methodifls. The fections are thirty-one, and the mere recital of their fubjects will show, in fome degree, the force and fufficiency of them. They are these. "1. On the numbers of the Arminian (or Wesleyan), and the Calvinistic Methodists, more particularly the former. 2. On the mode of afcertaining the tenets of the Arminian and Calviniftic Methodists. 3. On Chriftian Perfection, as maintained by the Arminian Methodifts. 4. On Unconditional Election, and the efficacy of Divine Grace (infallibly attaining its end, be our natural inclination or reluctance what it may) as maintained by the Calviniftic Methodists. 5. On human depravity, as believed both by the Arminian and Calviniftic Methodifts. 5. On the Grace of God, confidered as an almighty or miraculous influence (be the freedom of the will what it may) by both the Arminian and Calvinistic Methodists. 7. On the New-Birth, and its Pangs, ordinary and extraordinary. 8. On the perceptible "This and the following fections refer both to the Armi. nian and Calvinistic Methodists." Prefence Prefence of God. 9. On talking with God, and receiving from his Holy Spirit explicit affurance of pardon or acceptance. to. On afferting the falvation of particular perfons. 11. On Works, or habitual Holinefs, confidered as a condition, or an evidence of Salvation. 12. On afferting the Salvation of fome particular Criminals, and death-bcd penitents. 13. On profeffing regard for the Doctrines, Difcipline, and Minifters of the Eftablished Church. 14. On reviling the Clergy. 15. On violating the difcipline, and ufurping the authority of the Church. 16. On feparation, confidered as inevitable. 17. On praifing Separatifts." 18. On the policy of declining the name and character of a feparate Sect. 19. On aiming at an univerfal Hierarchy. 20. On the advantages of affociation and confeffion. 21. On the advan= tage of Novelty. 22. On the fhelter of inward Feelings, and metaphyfical perplexity. 23. On felf-denial, exemplified in renouncing Errors. 24. On felf-denial in other things. 25. On claiming a divine Mission, and miraculous Gifts. 26. On ufing the ftyle of the Apoftles, and other infpired writers, or claiming to be considered as placed in fimilar circumftances with them. 27. On a prefumptuous application of texts, moft of them ufually confidered as belonging exclufively to Chrift. 28. On fpeaking with familiarity of Chrift. 29. On claiming to be confidered, before all others, as holy, or as the people of God. 30. On claiming to be regarded as more peculiarly the objects of Providential Care. 31. On judgments." What they term experiences, though not mentioned in thefe heads, feem to belong to fection 7th, and those that follow. It will be perceived at once that a very extenfive view is here given of the principles and conduct of feparatists: and that the whole muft form a moft ufeful work of reference, for those who would clearly understand the tenets and conduct of thefe people. It will appear the more important, when we confider that the extracts are taken from all their principal writers; from the works of Welley, Whitfield, and their most celebrated followers, Toplady, Romaine, Hill, Hawker, &c. from their principal magazines, as the Arminian, the Evangelical, the Chriftian Obferver, &c.;-from Overton's True Churchman, Nightingale's Portraiture, &c. The fervice which Dr. Outram has rendered, by collecting and arranging thefe documents, is of the moft valuable kind, and we congratulate the Clergy on the acceffion of fuch a. manual, to explain and keep in their minds the defigns and machinations of their active enemies. ART. ART. X. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. By the WE E enter upon the examination of this work with feelings of delicacy, which our relative fituation to the author renders neceffary, but with the di pofition to render juftice to its various and valuable contents. One remark it is impoffible not to make; that, if the preceding volumes were efteemed worthy the attention of the Bibliographer and Collector of books, this must be ftill more fo; as it comprehends a greater variety of fubjects, is more fkilfully metho dized, and demonftrates that experience has increased and extended the author's refources, and materially augment his powers of employing them. This volume alfo will be found to combine more amufement, than would at first fight appear to refult from a feemingly dry and uninteresting fubject. The reader will find a confiderable proportion of Biographical anecdote mixed with ufeful and not unfre- . quently important information. But it is time to justify these affertions, by placing the contents feverally before him. The introduction brings us acquainted with a new and almoft inexhauftible fource of amusement. The oriental Literary Treasures collected by Sir Gore Oufeley, during a refidence of twenty-years in the Eaft Indies. The following is a defcription of one of these manufcripts. “No. 4. Beharistan. "The Garden of Spring." A book on Ethics and Education, illuftrated by interefting anecdotes and narratives, written both in verfe and profe, in imitation of the Guliftan, or "Rofe Garden" of Saadi, and like it divided into eight chapters; compofed by Nuruddin, Abdurrahman Jámi, ben Ahmed, of the village of Jám, near Herat. He was born, A. H. 817, and died at the age of 81 years, about A. D. 1492. As a Grammarian, Theologift, and Poet he was unequalled; and his compofitions are as voluminous as they are excellent. The enor mous expence which people have incurred to poffefs accurate copies of, and to adorn and embellifh his works, is no fmall proof of the great eftimation in which they were held by the Literati of the Eaft. "This volume is a fmall folio, confifting of 134 pages, written in the most beautiful Naftalik character, by the famous fcribe Mohammed Huffein, who, in confequence of his inimitable penmanship, obtained the title of Zerin Kalm, or "Pen of Gold." The leaves are of the foftest Cashmirian paper, and of fuch modest fhades of green, blue, brown, dove, and fawn colours, as never to to offend the eye by their glare, although richly powdered with gold. The margins, which are broad, difplay a great variety of chafte and beautiful delineations in liquid gold; no two pages being alike. Some are divided into compartments, others are in running patterns, in all of which the illuminations fhew the most correct, and at the fame time fanciful tafte. Many are delineations of field fports, which, though fimple outlines of gold, are calculated to afford the higheft gratification to the lover of Natural History, as well as the Artift, from the uncommon accuracy with which the forms of the elephant, rhinoceros, buffaloe, lion, tiger, leopard, panther, lynx, and other Afiatic animals are pourtrayed. It appears, by the names which are inferted at the bottom of the pages, that feveral artifts were employed in the compofition and combination of these ornaments, one for the landscape, another for the animals, and a third for the human figures, all of whom have given proofs of fuperior merit. It would take almoft a month to infpect all the excellencies of this rare manufcript; for, although fo richly ornamented in gold, 'the chafte colours of the ground prevent any glaring obtrufion on the eye, and oblige the examiner to place it in a particular point of light to fee the exquifite and minute beauties of the delineations. The paintings, which are meant to illuftrate the fubject of the book, are done in colours, and in the center of the leaves." P. xiv. The introduction judiciously intimates, towards the conclufion, the patriotic wifh that this collection may become the property of the public. To which we cannot but add our own withes alfo, that fome public fund were appropriated for the extenfion and improvement of fcience, by purchafing fuch a noble affemblage of rarities for the British Mufeum The Table of Contents informs us that the work itself defcribes, 1. The curious and valuable editions of the Hiftorians and Geographers of the fifteenth century. II. The Latin tranflations of the Greek Hiftorians, Geographers, &c. III. The Fathers, &c. &c. IV. Orators and Epiftolary writers. v. Writers of Natural Hiftory and Philofophy. VI. Commentators upon Ariftotle. VII. Grammarians. VIII. Mifcellaneous remarks relating to early typography. Among thefe articles feveral are to be fought for in vain, in any preceding English work. The fift in particular, involves much curious and useful information. The account of the Sorbonne Prefs at p. 13, will well repay the reader's attention; and we would gladly infert it here, but that the account of Livy and the different improvements of fucceeding Editors feem to prefent a fubject of more general intereft. " By "By way of conclufion to the foregoing notices of the more curious editions of Livy, the reader may be pleased to learn the progreffive additions and improvements, which feverally diftinguish them, as I have been able to glean the information from Ernefti, Harles, and other writers on the fubject, "Sweynheym and Pannartz's edition of 1469, for they, to whofe judgment in thefe matters I pay the highest deference, affign it to this year, contains 29 books. The first ten books, from the zoth to the 30th inclufive, and from the 30th to the 40th, wanting the 33d book. All the fucceeding editions want this 33d book, till that of Mentz by Schoiffer, in 1518. Yet it is to be obferved, that in fome editions the number of 40 books appears to be complete, which is to be thus explained. In the Venice editions of 1495 and 1506, the 31st book is divided into two parts, and the fecond part of the 31 being called the 32d, the 32d book is called the 334; but the 33d book had not then been difcovered. "In quibufdam editionibus hujus claffis, Liber xxx1 in duas partes fcillus eft, et alteri parti titulus Lib. xxx11 eft additus, ut e xxx11 fieret xxx111, qui tum nondum inventus erat." Ernefti Fabric. vol. i. p. 282. "I know no difference between the edition by Ulric Han and that by Sweynheym and Pannartz, except that fome conjectures of Laurentius Valla were received into the text of the former. The "The fecond edition by Sweynheym and Pannartz of 1472, appears to be a mere tranfcript of the first, wanting, as I before obferved, the prefatory epittle by the Bishop of Aleria. fame perhaps may be faid of the Milan edition of 1478, by Philip Lavagna, and of 1480 by Zarotus, except that the latter had the corrections of Philelphus. "I do not find that any edition had the advantage of a new manufcript before that of Venice 1491, with annotations by Sabellicus, but it does not appear that any of the loft books were here difcovered. "The year 1518 prefents a new æra, and introduces a new clafs of the editions of Livy. Schoiffer, the grandfon of Fuft, availed himself of an old manufcript, which was found in a monaftery of the City of Mentz, and written "Langobardicis literis," and which enabled him to produce a new edition of the Hiftorian with important additions. "Thefe additions were the 33d book, with the firft 17 chapters in a very mutilated ftate, and the latter part of the 40th book from C. 37. "I have before obferved, that to this most valuable edition two prefaces were prefixed by Erafmus and Nic. Carbachius. The preface by Erafmus, in particular, is a very remarkable one, and often quoted. It exhibits the teftimony of this great and learned man, who lived fo near the time, in favour of the claims of Mentz |