s 
Red Sea, &c. are of the moft brilliant 
kind, much may be expected. . It is to be 
hoped that he will be rewarded as his me- 
rits deferve, and his plan in the prefent 
inftance fanétioned by authority. 
lam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
A Lover oF Merit. 
Fuly 1, 1803. 
a 
Té the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ; 
Correfpondent in the Gentleman’s 
Magazine for February lait, (figned. 
D. H.) gives a hint about the M S. 
Dante alluded toby Mr. Pennant, which 
will, Ihope, be attended to. Every illuf- 
tration of Dante, either graphic or other- 
wife, fhould be brought tolight. I with 
Mr. Fufeli could be prevailed on to fuppiy 
the lofs of the marginal-drawings which 
Michael Angelo drew in his Dante.— 
(Vid. his Le&tures on Painting, p. 129.) 
There is, perhaps, no artift living better 
qualified to wield the mighty pencil of 
that wonderful painter. A Dante Gal- 
lery by this great mafter—for fo Mr. Fu- 
feli deferves to be termed—could not fail 
of being highly interefting. Pe:haps, too, 
the horrors of hell, depiéted by him after 
Dante, would render a more important 
fervice to morality than all the thunders 
of the pulpit. I hope, Sir, fome of your 
ingenious Correfpondents will take this 
hint into confideration, and expatiate on 
it. I hope alfo that it will be attended to 
by the admirable artif% in queftion. If it 
fhould, I fhall be proud and happy at 
having fuggetted it. 
W. 
P. S. Dante has been lately rendered fa- 
miliar to the Englith reader by the excellent 
verfion of the Rev. Mr. Boyd. 
Iam, Sir, your’s, &c. 
: —— ES $ 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
4 Sl R, : 
Correfpondent in a former Number 
\. of your Magazine, requires to be 
infurmed where he may learn the origin 
of the cuftoms which prevail on the 1{t of 
April, and on St. Walentine’s-day. If he 
will turn’ to Mr. Brand’s edition of the 
Pspular Antiquities of Mr. Baurne, 
(Neweafile-upon- Tyne and London,1777) 
he may be fully fatisfied on this point. 
- Gnreturn for the information which J 
give, ! fhall bee to receive fome. 
Who was the author of Curfory Re- 
_ Queries ana Replies, Se. 
 [Augicl, 
marks on Tragedy, on Shakefpeare, &c. 
London, 1774 ? 
Isthere any Englifh tranflation of Cin- 
thio’s novel of Othello fo old as Shake- 
{peare’s time ? If ‘not, where did he find 
the ftory ? — 
Who was Mr. Spence, the tranflator of 
Varillas ? . . 
Can any of your Correfpondents dire& 
my Notice to the Philodoxios of L. B. 
Alberti, or favour me with the argurient 
of that piece ? 
Iam, Sir, yours, &c. 
A. B. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
ie anfwer to the inquiry of a Conftant 
Reader in the Monthly Magazine of 
May laft, refpeéting a Dictionary of the 
Symbolic Charaéter, there is a perion 
now engaged in compiling fuch a Dic- 
tionary, and the work is in confiderable 
forwardnefs; but whether on the plan re- 
commended by Dr. Anderfon, the Com- 
piler does not know, having never feeu or 
heard of that plan before ; and would be 
glad if the Inquirer would favour him 
with a {ketch of that plan through the 
medium of your Magazine. The Author 
intends to publifh his work by fubfcrip- 
tion, when completed, and hopes to meet 
with the liberality of the public. 
Iam, Sir, your's, &c. 
Fune 15, 1803. 
x. ¥Z. 
=e Oe 
For ihe Monthly Magazine. 
What from the low, the earth-devoted crew, 
From folly, and from felt-condemuing 
fhame, 
To objeéts of a nobler, purer hue ~ 
Shall elevate our true ambitious aim ? 
Philofophy unbends her brow ferene, 
If temper’d with the Mufe’s aid, 
F:om heaven brought down to this our darks ; 
ling iphere. 
HE phrafe employed at p. 324, and’ 
‘jufily criticized by C. L. at p. 5255 
the Enquirer is defirous of correéting 
trom the organ of perception to the pers 
ceiving thing, or the percipient. On the 
other points in difcuffion he feels no mo- 
tive torepeat, to explain, to amend, or to 
proleng what has been already ftated; 
but is content to abide by the hefitarion or 
decifion which the reafooings advanctd © 
on both fides may be adapied to pro- 
duce: 
Ta 
