Books for Charity-Schools.....Greek Verfion of Gray's Elegy, 323° 
and the exhortation at the end might,. 
with fome alteration, be eafily adapted to 
the ufe of common charity-fchools. Some 
of the little penny and twopenny numbers 
of ** The Cheap Repofitory,”’ might alfo be 
diftributed with advantage among the 
children. ‘ 
The great difficulty, however, with 
children is, to make what is their duty 
pleafant to them. I fhould, therefore, 
advife, that books fhould be occafionally 
given, in charity fchools, as. prizes to 
fuch children as excel. “As it is a ‘great 
object to cultivate in them religious feel- 
ings, and as all children feem to be enter- 
tained with the perufal of it, perhaps 
“ The Pilgrim’s Progrefs,”’ of which there 
are cheap editions, would be a good book 
to be diitributed in this way. There is 
another popular book which I will alfo 
venture to recommend, and that is ‘* Ko- 
binfon Crujoe;’ a book which inftruéts 
as well as pleafes ; a book admirably cal- 
evlated to excite a f{pirit of enterprize, to 
fhew the advantage of ingenuity and in- 
duftry, and to cultivate religious fenti- 
ments. Your correfpondent mentions 
eivil hiffory; if that branch of difcipline 
fhould be deemed compatible with the 
very limited courfe of inftruction’ to 
which thofe inftitutions are necefflarily 
confined, I know of no book fo good as 
“© The, Hijtory of England, in a feries of 
Letters from a Nobleman to his Son,*’ com- 
monly attributed to Lord Lyttelton, but 
really written by Dr, Goldfmith. 
IT remain, Sir, yours, &c. 
Low Layton, 
April 8, %798. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
_ SIR, : 
pap AyANG been difappointadl of fceing 
’ the colleétion of medical fatts, 
which a correfpondent of yours has long 
fince promifed to publifh: I have com- 
NEPIODIDASKALOS. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
Believe there never was a time, when 
claffical books were in fo much re-— 
queft, and -claffical Jearning fo much, 
talked of and arrogated in this country, 
with fo little real knowledge of the fub- 
ject, as at this moment. 
We bring from. 
{chool a fuperficial acquaintance with 
Horace and Virgil, Homer and a few 
Greek plays, with one or two authors 
more: we then fancy ourfelves-in com- 
plete poffeffion of ancient literature, and 
promulgate our decifions with all the au-— 
thority of accomplithed critics. I as 
confirmed in thete fentiments by a note- 
which TI read; this day, in the  Pur/uits 
of Literature; a poem, not equal in me- 
rit to the eftimate of its doating author,, 
nor yet fo defpicable as’fome, who want 
fufficient magnanimity to defpife fo pro~ 
fligate a cenior, are willing to periuade 
themielves. In addition to, a moft out- 
rageous panegyric on the late Greek pro- 
feflor at Cambridge, a itanza of his ver-) 
fion of “* Gray’s Elegy,” is immoderately 
extolled. This ftanza, with your per- 
miflion, I will examine by the rules of. 
rigid criticifm; and can aflure your. 
readers, that it is neither more nor lefs 
exceptionable in its proportion, than the 
whole performance: for every line of 
which, may be pointed out at leaft one 
grofs error, either of perverted meanings 
folceciftica! expreffion, or vicious fyntax. 
The examination, however, of this jingle 
ftanza, will ferve to convince all the 
world, but the panegyrift himlelf, what 
fort of a fcholar and critic this mighty 
dogmatiit mult be regarded ; who has a 
competent degree of ichool-learning, and - 
no more: who is incapable, I dare 
fay, of difcerning between the late pros 
feffor and the prefent, between RICHARD 
Porson ana William Cooke, Nor 
-have I any doubt, but others would be 
mitted the refult of my own obfervations! "able to point out faujts which I have not 
and experience to prefs. This Essay 
will probably appear in the beginning of 
next month; and J hope will exhibit an 
impartial view of the whole evidence, as 
it now flands, both for and againf? the new 
plan of treatment; cluding a variety of 
cafes which have been recently communi- 
catéd to me, by different practitioners in 
London.—As I have no favorite theory 
to fupport, it will be my firft with and aii 
fe arrive at the truth, whitherfoever it may 
ead me. At fome future period, 1 fhall 
endeavour to fupply what may appear to 
be deficient, and corre&t what thall be 
peinted out as erroncous. 
Great Ruffel-Sircei, 
— May 17,1798, WILLIAM BLAIR. 
noticed, inthis very ftanza : 
The boat of heraldry, the pomp of power, 
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er 
gaye, 
Awnait alike th? inevitable hours 
The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
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