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The only published productions of the Rev. 

 J. H. BROMBY, M. A., the worthy Vicar of the 

 Holy -Trinity Church, are the folio wing Sermons, 

 preached on public occasions, viz. "E/^wxw; a 

 " Visitation Sermon at Hull," printed in 1809; 

 " The Judgments of God illustrated and improved 

 " in a sermon," printed in 1814 ; and a " Ser- 

 u mon, preached on the day of the interment of 

 " King George the Third," printed in 1820. 

 Our author, who took his degree at Cambridge in 

 1792, was a Wrangler of his year. His classical 

 and mathematical attainments, and his extensive 

 general knowledge, are duly appreciated by all 

 who have the pleasure of his acquaintance ; and 

 it is therefore greatly to be regretted that he has 

 not permitted the public to participate in the gra- 

 tification, which only a small number of learned 

 individuals and private friends enjoy, of possessing 

 copies of his unpublished English translation of 

 Plutarch's Treatise on Music.* This work, which 

 demanded a previous critical acquaintance with 

 all the disquisitions of classical writers, and their 

 learned commentators, on the subject of the 



* The Westminster Review, for January last, in an article on Dr. Web- 

 ster's Dictionary, refers to the principles laid down by Mr. Bromby, in 

 his dedication (p. vi), to this elegant little volume, for making our ortho- 

 graphy more stable, and reforming it where it is notoriously corrupt. 

 " His suggestions," says the Reviewer, " are those of an accomplised scho- 

 " lar, and they well deserve to be known beyond the confined circle to 

 " which the modesty of the author has restricted them.'* 



