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defence Dr. Vincent has given an ac- 
count of the plan of religious” in- 
ftruction adopted in Weftminfter, pre- 
{cribed by the ftatutes of the {chool, 
and regularly enforced. Dr. Vincent 
alfo tells us, that much additional in- 
ftruétion is given, and he thus fairly 
and completely repels the fpecific charge 
of remifinefs in religious initruction, fo 
far as the fchool over which he prefides 
js concerned. But is this all? is not 
the charge more comprehenfive than 
‘the defence? That the boys tranflate 
the Greek Teftament twoor three times 
a week—that prayers are regularly read 
in college, and at the boarding-houfes 
‘—that boys receive the facrament four 
times a year, having been previonfly 
lectured and prepared, &c. &c. is very 
true: but is that regular and vigilant 
attention paid to the moral conduc of 
the boys, which we confider as a moft 
effentia] part of a religious education? 
Dr. Vincent feems to glance at fuch a 
queftion as this, when he fays, it will 
be urged ‘that all this is without 
effect, becaufe vice ftill exitts. Doubt- 
Jeis it does, in fchools as well as na- 
tions. Educationcan no moreextinguifh 
vice than law; butevery good govern- 
ment, and every good inftitution of 
Jearning, aim at the correétion of the 
governed, And if you afk whether 
‘we perceive the immediate effect of our 
endeavours, I muft anfwer with hefi- 
tation ; for we caft our bread upon 
the waters, but we do not expect to 
find it till after many days. We ex- 
perience no inftantaneous conviction 
or converfion, nor do we hope it; and 
if we afferted it, it might juftly be re- 
plied, that it is eafy to make boys or 
men hypocrites, but very difficult to 
make them religious. As far as my 
own obfervation ferves, it is the feed 
fown which is to ripen for the harveft, 
when the age of reflection fhail arrive.” 
Dr. Vincent has altogether acquitted 
himfelf in a moft honourable manner, 
but he forgets, when he is talking to 
the Bifhop of Meath and Dr. Rennell, 
that they are not his {cholars, but his 
equals: when he fhakes the rod over 
them, he expofes himfelf. Mr. David 
Morrice has publifhed the fecond edi- 
tion, revifed and corretted, of “*An 
Attempted Reply to the Mafter of 
Wettminfter-{choo}.”” Although it was 
neceflary that we fhould notice this 
controverfy, it is not incumbent on us 
to engage In it. 
«© The Mifcellaneous Works of Ou1- 
Retrofped of Domeftic Literature Mifcellanies. 
ver GotpsmitH, M.B.”- We. are 
truly glad to fee this new edition, the 
only complete one extant, of the works 
of Dr. Goldf{mith, who, both in profe 
and in verfe, is one of the moft chatfte, 
claifical, and correct writers that this 
country can boaft of. The editor has 
here brought together a number of 
effays and prefaces, which we did not 
know to have been the productionof Dr. 
Goldfimith, but of the authenticity of 
which, from the peculiar graces which 
adorn them, we cannot entertain any 
doubt. Some account of his life and 
writings is prefixed, which, according 
to the editor, is compofed from the in- 
formation of perfons who were inti- 
mate with the poet at an early period, 
and who were honoured with a conti- 
nuance of his friendthip till the time 
when the world was deprived of this 
fafcinating writer. Their names, were 
the editor at liberty to mention them, 
would immediately difpel all doubts as 
to the authenticity of the memoirs, and 
reflect diftinguifhed honour on the pub- 
lication. ) 
‘¢ The Works of JAMEs HARRIS, 
Efq.”* have been edited by his fon, the 
Earl of Malmefbury, who has prefixed 
an account of the life and charaéter of 
his father. His Lordthip has performed 
the tafk of biographer in a manner 
which does infinite honour to his feel- 
ings. 
% The Works of the Rev. Jona- 
THAN SwiFT, D.D. Dean of St. Pa- 
trick’s, Dublin, arranged by THomasg 
SHERIDAN, A.M. with Notes hiftori- 
cal and critical. A new Edition, in 
19 vols. corrected and revifed, b 
Joun Nicuous, F.S.A. Edinburgh 
and Perth.” For the contents of the 
eighteenth and nineteenth volumes the 
editor confiders himfelf refponfible: he 
has given the authorities for the au- 
thenticity of this original matter. 
‘©The Method of Educating the 
Deaf and Dumb, confirmed by long 
Experience, by the Abbé de l’Epgs. 
Tranflated from the French and Latin.” 
The uncommon {kill, humanity, and 
tendernefs, which the Abbé de l’Epée 
exercifed towards thofe moft helplefs. 
beings who came to bim for inftruétion 
are well known: his fyftem of educa~ 
tion, which is now adopted, we under- 
ftand, with great fuccefs in this coun- 
try, is here tranflated in a very neat 
manner, and in an elaborate and in- 
terefting preface the tranflator has 
given us a hiftory of the curions art of 
ae “giving 
a 
