^26S Na/io?2s lately become Literary. [Ch. XXVI.. 



Lathrop, Dr. Seabuiy, president Smith, Dr. Linn, 

 Dr. Strong, Dr. Clarke, Dr. Emmons, and several 

 others, of difTerent kinds and degrees of merit, 

 have received much public approbation*. 



In the Philosophy of the Human Mind the 

 eighteenth century did not produce a greater 

 effort of genius, than the Treatise on the JVill, by 

 president Edwards. A work of his son, the late 

 Dr. Jonathan Edwards, president of Union col- 

 lege, on the same subject, is also an honourable 

 monument of talents and learning. And perhaps 

 it may be asserted, that within the last thirty 

 years a fondness for metaphysical subtleties and 

 refined speculations has remarkably characterised 

 the theological publications, particularly in the 

 eastern states of America. 



In Classic Literature, the United States have 

 given birth to little that can be deemed remark- 

 able. The first translation of a classic author 

 ever made and published in America was by 

 James Logan, several times before naentioned, 

 v/ho, in IT'ii, published a version of Cicero's 

 treatise De Sencctutey with explanatory notes. 

 Since that time several works of a similar kind 



celebrated, that it is unnecessary to dwell on them here. His 

 Sermons, in three volumes, were first published in 1765. Their 

 uncommon merit is>\vell known. They have undergone a num- 

 ber of impressions. 



* Beside the more formal volumes of sermons above mention- 

 ed, it would be easy to select smaller collections of discourses on 

 particular subjects, which do honour to the genius, learning, and 

 taste of their respective authors; and the single sermons of 

 merit are much more numerous ; but it is obviously impossible 

 to indulge such minujte details, consistently with the requisite 

 brevity. 



