58. 
posing he’ intended it for an elegant com- 
pendium of poetical and oratorical rules,— 
that is, an abridgment of what Aristotle, 
Zeno, Democritus, and Neoptolemus, had 
written on the same subjects,—which of 
these critics is right, is a matter of minor 
importance as compared with the ques- 
tion, how far the production is valuable 
as a didactic poem, and to what degree it 
is gratifying as a specimen of the elegance 
and the chasteness of the Roman muse. 
In the answer to be given to this query, 
the learned are so well agreed as to ren- 
der their sentiments on the inferior points 
searcely worth discussing under any cir- 
cumstatices, and, perhaps, not at all so in 
the present case. Looking to Mr. 
Aylmer’s object in this publication, we 
have allowed. our attention to be chiefly 
attracted ‘by its, typographical accuracy, 
the searching and seusible commentaries 
collected from Hurd, and the intelligent 
substance of the notes, which are from 
various authors, and so numerous, as 
well as judiciously selected, that they 
manifest the industry of the ingenious com- 
piler, and his anxiety to render this edition 
of Horace’s Art of Poelry, as serviceable 
as possible to the rising race of scholars. 
We have received considerable pleasure 
from the inspection of a pamphlet that has 
Jately appeared, entitled, The Political 
Pentateuch, written by Mr. Jonn. Frrz- 
WILLIAM. The form in which the author 
conveys bis sentiments is that of dialogue; 
and hisinterlocutors are, Principius, Ma- 
gistratus, Lyvgislatorius, Juridicus, and 
Armatus., The principles the conyersation 
of these personages is framed to support 
are of the purest kind, whether politically 
or morally considered ; and, for the most 
part, the arguments urged are too sound 
to be easily answered. Evidently the 
offspring of a strong, solid, and reflecting 
mind, exercised on a subject, in the in- 
vestigation of which it takes a deep and 
peculiar interest, and which it is deter- 
mined to canvass with candour; but yet, 
with all its acumen and just feeling for the 
cause of free opinion, and the liberty of 
expressing and defending such opinion, 
this public appeal is characterized by a 
tone and a spirit, with the boldness and 
honesty of which we are mucli pleased; 
and we cannot doubt, that most readers 
will join us in our approbation of Mr, 
Fitzwilliam’s work. 
Those who have rot seen Mr. BaLp- 
win’s Essay on Christianity, have much 
‘gratification to expect from its perusal, 
‘The object of the publication is to show 
‘the true principle and real essence of the 
Christian religion, and to expose the anti- 
cbristiauity of the practice of prosecution 
for the discussion of religious subjects, 
and of affixing political disability on those 
who differ from us in spiritual matters. 
‘The present pamphiet is presented to the 
Literary and Critical Proémium. 
[Aug.. 1, 
public as the first of several essays of the 
same general description; and, supposis 
that they will all be written with as Rests 
ability as that we have just read, they will 
form a valuable body of political, moral, 
and metaphysical, doctrine. Viewing reli- 
gion, not only as a bond between God and 
mau, but between man and man, Mr. 
Baldwin draws from well-founded posi- 
tions, the conclusion, that religionists are 
never more at variance with their own 
professions than when they take up arms 
against, and pursue to injury, ruin, and 
eyen death, those who are criminal only 
because they entertain sentiments differ- 
ent from those of their persecutors. 
On the cruelty and injustice of such a 
policy, the author expatiates with a depth 
of judgment, a penetration, and.an acu- 
men, that denotes his mastership on the 
subject, and goes far to prove, that, in a 
free country, every man is entitled to dis- 
cuss religious, as well as political, points ; 
and, that the surest evidence a liberal go- 
vernmient can give of its respect for reli- 
gion, and its loyalty to the constitution 
under which it acts, or ought to act, is to 
give freedom to investigation, and encou- 
ragement to the display of truth. 
It is because we think, with Mr. John 
Fearn, that, in the present state of public 
opinion, a very few persons will (unurged) 
read an elementary work on the human 
mind, that we make a point of calling the 
attention of our readers to the volume that 
gentleman has lately produced, under the 
title of Anti-Tooke ; or an Analysis of the 
Principles and Structure of Language. 
We agree with this ingenious writer, that, 
to the intellectual pretensions of our spe- 
cies, nothing can be more mortifying, 
than that we should be doomed to signify 
our thoughts in a jargon of utterance, 
with regard to the true logical import.of 
which we are profoundly ignorant. Im- 
pressed with this feeling, Mr. F. in three 
chapters, each of which is divided into 
sections and sub-sections, has gone pretty 
deeply into the subject of philosophical 
grammar; and, though he opposes some 
of the principles and opinions of Mr. 
Horne Tooke, he avows his high respect 
for the labours of that profound etymolo- 
gist; and, speaking of his ‘ justly-cele- 
brated grammatical speculations,” asserts, 
that “after every due deduction, they 
niust continue to mark a splendid epoch in 
the History of Language.” _ Insisting, 
however, that the researches of that deep 
enquirer have been followed by other yery 
elaborate and important contributions to 
the public stock, from the stores of ety- 
mology, and that the farther harvest 
which this field is capable of yielding ap- 
pears to be inexhaustible, he enters upon 
the consideration of the nature of signs, 
and gives an analysis of the generic struc- 
ture of the category of relation, as forming 
the 
