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himself a nephew, by marriage, of Anna, daughter 

 of the Protector Eichard, and that he was the 

 supposed author of the Life of Oliver Cromwell 

 which came out in several editions about that 

 time ? All honour to the brave bishop, who, in 

 spite of the ignorant prejudice which obscured the 

 illustrious name of Cromwell, resolved that the 

 Banquetting House, which had once resounded to 

 the tread of so true a monarch, should now wit- 

 liess the returning prosperity of his house. 



J. Watlen. 



REV. GEORGE WHITEFIBU). 



(2°'» S. V. 156.) 



I should be glad to be informed by Mb. Bing- 

 ham if the following sermons, preached by Mr. 

 Whitefield at Glasgow in 1741, are to be found in 

 the volume, Baynes, 1825, from which he quotes. 

 Those I refer to, I think, could scarcely have been 

 heard of in England to form any part of a collec- 

 tion of Mr. Whitefield's Works. They were, as 

 most of them bear, Taken from his own Mouth, 

 and published at the earnest Desire of many of the 

 Hearers, by the Glasgow booksellers, and are well 

 printed in a 12rao. size, but upon coarse paper, 

 to be sold at an easy rate, viz. all preached in 

 the High Churchyard of Glasgow : — 



On Fridaj' forenoon, Sept. 11th, upoii ^er. xxxiii. 16., 

 pp. 20. 



On Fridaj' afternoon, Sept. 11th, upon Luke xv. (a 

 Lecture), pp. 28. 



On Saturday forenoon, Sept. 12th, upon Luke iv. 18, 19., 

 pp. 20. 



On Saturday afternoon, Sept. 12th, upon Acts ix. (a 

 Lecture), pp. 40. 



On Sabbath morning, Sept. 13th, upon Jer. vi. 14., 

 pp. 24. 



On Sabbath evening, Sept. 13tb, upon Rom. xiv. 17., 

 pp. 35. 



On Monday afternoon, Sept. 14th, upon 2 Tim. iii. 12., 

 pp. 28. 



On Tuesday afternoon, Sept. tl5th, upon 1 Cor. i. 30. 

 (his farewell), pp. 39. 



Tradition has handed down that there then grew 

 some fine old trees in the cathedral churchyard 

 below one of which Mr. Whitefield had his pulpit. 

 In these discourses he makes several allusions to 

 this venerable spot, where his large congregations 

 were assembled, seated on the extensive field of 

 gravestones. Dr. Gillies, Minister of the Black- 

 friars or College Church, Glasgow, his good friend 

 and subsequent biographer, states (Memoirs, edit. 

 1798, p. 158.) — 



" His morning discourses, which were mostly intended 

 for sincere but disconsolate souls, were peculiarly fitted to 

 direct and encourage all such in the Christian life. And 

 his addresses in the evening to the promiscuous multi- 

 tudes -who then attended him were of a very alarming 

 kind. There was something exceedingly striking in the 

 solemnity of his evening congregations, in the Orphan- 

 house Park at Edinburgh and High Churchyard of Glas- 



gow, especiallj' towards the conclusion of his sermons 

 (which were commonly very long, though they seemed 

 short to the hearers), when the whole multitude stood 

 fixt, and like one man hung upon his lips with silent 

 attention " 



See farther. Historical Collections relating to re' 

 markahle Periods of the Success of the Gospel, and 

 Eminent Instruments employed in promoting it, by 

 John Gillies, Glasgow, 1754, 8vo., vol. ii. pp. 339- 

 399. 



Can I also be informed who is the author of 

 The Enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists com- 

 pared, London, 1751-2, 8vo. ; 3 parts in 2 vols., in 

 which Whitefield and Wesley are severely re- 

 viewed.* G. N. 



Egyptian sculpture. 



(2°"* S. V. 88. 223. 304.) 



I am glad to find the attention of E. H. D. D. 

 has been drawn to this subject ; but he is mis- 

 taken in his remarks (p. 304.). There is no difii- 

 culty in the translation as to the point he raises, 

 for Diodorus (i. 98.) distinctly states that 



" It is said that half of this statue [the Pythian Apollo] 

 was made at Samos by Telecles, and the other half at 

 Ephesus by his brother Theodorus; and that the two 

 parts (to. jnepTj), -when put together {crvvTedivra), fitted so 

 exactly that the whole might be taken for the work of 

 one person. This part of the mechanical execution is by 

 no means in use among the Greeks, but in Egypt it is 

 carried to the greatest perfection." f 



Plutarch (Pericles) records that Phidias con- 

 structed his gold and ivory statue of Minerva in 

 the Parthenon so skilfully that the precious metal 

 might be taken off and weighed. 



If E. H. D, D. will refer to Menageries (ii. 341. 

 U. K. S.), he will see an extract from Quatremere 

 de Quincy's work, showing how Phidias and the 

 other great sculptors worked in ivory, with illus- 

 trations of the number of separate pieces — about 

 twenty-five — required to form the face of the 

 statue. 



The question with Winkelmann and others is, 

 how can the statement of Diodorus, that the 

 Egyptian statues were constructed in separate . 

 pieces and afterwards joined together, be recon- 

 ciled with the patent fact that all their now exist- 

 ing statues are made of a single block ? It is 

 suggested that by ^6^0^ he meant a wooden statue: 

 all such, as well as ivory ones, having perished^ 

 no existing confirmation of Diodorus's truth in 

 this respect is extant ; for if he means a stone 

 statue, all such evidence contradicts him. 



r* By Dr. George Lavington, Bishop of Exeter. — Ed.] 

 f Booth's translation is very loose : he has quite over- 

 looked x'^P'-'^^v^^^ "■"■' a-kXriKow, which means that they 

 worked [upon one statue] apart or remote from each 

 other. There is nothing " wonderful and amazing " 

 (Booth) in several men working on the same block of 

 stone. 



