RdnfpeSl of Domejlic Literature. — Clajfical Literature. 6oi 



is confined to King's College Chapel, i« 

 certainly the beft : for the letter-prel's of 

 the firft number Teems to have been pre- 

 pared for the antiquary rather than the 

 architefl. The plates are iinqueltionably 

 good ; but in the text we have lound little 

 information of impoitance that is entirely 

 new to us. For the fake of the engra% - 

 ings yve ftrongly recommend the work. 



From a work wi'h fuch a promifing title 

 as '« The Hijhry of Chicbejhr ; interfperfed 

 ntith 'various Notes and Obfewations on 

 the early and prefent State of the Ciiy, the 

 moft remarkable Places in it' Ficimty, and 

 the County cf Siijfex in general. IVith an 

 Appendix, containing the Charters of the 

 City at three different Times ; alfo an Ac- 

 count of all the farijhes in the County, their 

 hi awes, Patronage, Appropriations, lvalue 

 in the King's Books, Firji- fruits, &c. By 

 Alexander Hay," we were Id to cx- 

 peft more than we found performed. 

 Though we readily confcfs that, in an- 

 other fenfe, we found more pertormed 'han 

 we expected. They who have a Leal 

 intereft in perufing it, will probably re- 

 ceive more plcafure from the dole than 

 the beginning of the work : for our own 

 part, we confider that the inhabitants of 

 Chichelter might have had the hiftory of 

 their city detailed to them at a lower price. 

 There are fome chapters in which Chi- 

 chefter has no more an appropriate in ereft 

 than Brecknock or Plymouth. Such is 

 too frequently the cafe with our modern 

 topographical produ6>ions. 



Mr. YATEi's " lllufration of the Mo. 

 ttaflic Hijhry and Antiquities of St. Ed- 

 mund's Bury,'" is a wurk which has been 

 long expefted : at prefent, the firft part 

 only is before us, but if from that we 

 may form our judgment, the antiquarian 

 reader will not be difappointed in its exe- 

 cution. The early notices of Bury it 

 appears are oblcure, and only clear with 

 the hiftory of the abbey. The fecond 

 chapter of the work is piincipally occu- 

 pied by the hiltory of Ea(t Anglia, the 

 l»ft of whofe fovere'igns was the royal 

 faint and martyr, Edmund. The life of 

 Edmund is the next topic of enquiry ; 

 and if we have any fault to find with Mr. 

 Yates, it is that he has detailed it with 

 more prolixity than was necefl.iry to his 

 purpole ; aiul lie has perhaps entered loo 

 deeply iJito the minute details of Saxon 

 hiftory. For the account of the abbey at 

 a later period Mr. Yates's materials were 

 numerotit, and he haJ pn b:!bly more 

 trouble in the comprciiion of ihcm than 

 in their acquirement. The number of 

 Bury rrgiitets, we believe, which have 

 Monthly Mag, Nu. 138. 



cfcaped the ravages of time, is greater 

 than has fallen to the lot of moil of our 

 monartic iniiitutions ; yet thotigh he has 

 confulted thefe occalionally as the mod 

 authentic and confiderabie fources of in- 

 formation, he has not crowded his work 

 with extrafts from them. He has endea- 

 voured to fcle'^ and arrange the multi- 

 farious and detached Intelligence he ob- 

 tained, with as liflc repetition as pofiible 

 of fimilar circumliances ; cendenfed the 

 whole, and given a chronological I'uccer. 

 fion of hiftorical events j affording at tha 

 iaine timt- a compreherlive view of mo- 

 naitic tllibliftsments, ofhcars, habits, and 

 emplo', ments, as applicable to other reli- 

 gious hou-fes as to St. Edmund's Bury. 



Two volumes of a new edition ot the 

 " EJfay to^Mards the Hijhry of Norfolk ; 

 by Francis Blo.m efielu," have ap- 

 peared in piogiels. The original work, 

 which at preknt brings a moft extraor- 

 dinary price, was pubiilhed in tblivyj and 

 why the prefent ftiould be primed in ao 

 oiRavo fize we do not know. The only 

 novelty m the new edition is a portrnit, 

 " copied Uc-.m an old print, oi iginally 

 painted a* the p-rtrait of ancthtr perlbn, 

 but prelerved and highly valued by the 

 late Mr. Thomas Miriin, as a ftnkmg 

 likenefs of the Norfolk topogrspher, 



CLASSICAL LITER.ATURE. 



At the bead of the bo ks in this clafs 

 we (hall place the " Clajjical Didionary," 

 by Dr. LfcMPRiEREj the fourth edition 

 of which, in an improved and an extended 

 form, has lately been given to the world. 



Nor muft we deny an early notice to 

 the «' Greek UJes,'" for Mr. Buchanan's 

 prize, by Mcfl'rs. Pryme and REt.iN£LL : 

 thnigh not entirely free from delefts, b;th 

 of them have general merit. Mr. Pryme 

 is a bachelor of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge j Mr. Rennell but a fcholar at 

 Eton. 



The Cambridge prize-poem, m " The 

 Death of the Duke d' Engl in," by Mr. 

 ToMLiNE, deierves ftill higher piaife: 

 and we are only f(jrry that the founder of 

 a prize fhould confine the genius ot his 

 candidate to any particular meafure of 

 verfe. The Ode is direded to be in Greek 

 fapphies. 



As a proper manual we can recommend 

 the " Progreffine Exercifes, adapted to 

 the Eton Accidence." They tend, by ex- 

 amples of a very eafy kind, to familiarize 

 the moft obvious rules. 



Nor muft we forget the Latin verfion of 

 Mr. Bloniefuld's " Farmer's Boy," by 

 Mr. CnJUiiE. It is now completed. 



Mr. JoH.Ns's " Eiymolo^iial Exercifei 

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