Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Classical Literature, &c. 617 
Mr. Frirowes’s “ Body of Theology,” 
contains much that is both of interest 
and value. It appears to have bor- 
rowed, in a few instances, from the best 
parts of Butler and Barrow. 
Nor are we less pleased to observe 
that the Brshor of Lonpon’s “ Tracts on 
various Subjects,” all of which have been 
published separate before, are now as- 
sembled in a volume. ‘They consist of, 
1. A Review of the Life and Character 
of Archbishop Secker. 2. An Exhorta- 
tion to e religious Observance of Good 
Friday. 3. A Letter to the Inhabitants 
of Wsvehbate: 4. An Essay towards a 
Plan for the more effectual Civilization 
of the Negro Slaves, on the Trust-Estate 
in Barbadoes. 5. Charge at the primary 
Visitation of, the Diocese of London, in 
1790. 6. Charge to the Clergy of "the 
Diocese of London, in 1794. 7. A Let- 
ter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Lon- 
don, on the Profanation of the Lord’s 
Day. 8. Charge to the Clergy of the 
Diocese of London, 1803. 9. A Letter 
to the Clergy of the Diocese of Loudon, 
on the Neglect of kneeling at Church 
where the Liturgy directs it. 10. The 
beneficial Effects of Christianity on the 
Temporal Concerns of Mankind, proved 
from History and from Facts. 11. A 
Summary of the principal Evidences of 
the Truth and Divine Origin of the 
Christian Relig:on. 
Dr. Graves’s “‘ Lectures on the Four 
Lust Books of the Pentateuch,” discover 
a depth of research, and a judicious ar- 
rangement of materials, which reflect 
great credit on their author. They are 
divided into three parts. The frst re- 
lating to the authenticity of the Penta- 
teuch, and the truth of the history, both 
of common and miraculous events, con- 
tained in the four last books of it. The 
second is on the theolegical, moral, and 
political principies-of the Mosaic law. 
The third contains a review of the chief 
objections which have been advanced 
avainst the divine original of the Mosaic 
lw: The first and third parts consist of 
six lectures each; tne second of only 
four. 
Nor must we forget to speak of the 
Bisnop of Groucester’s “ Preparation 
for the Holy Order of Deacons.” t cor- 
contains a sensible and pious elucidation 
of the question proposed to candidates 
for deacon’s orders on being * moved by 
the Holy Ghost.” 
Here also we shall mention Mr. Cor- 
LreR’s “Lectures on Scripture Facts.” 
hey appear to have been laboriously 
compiled, and contain a great deal that 
1S instructive s’ but might have been 
greatly benched by compressi on. 
Mr. Fvanson’s * Ser mons,” appear to 
be those of a conscientious man, plain, 
rational, and of a practical tendency ; 
though some of them are tinctured with 
opinions not perfectly consonant to the 
doctrines of the established church. The 
Memoir of his Life, prefixed, however, 
evinces him to have been a man of dis- 
interested views, who readily abandoned 
his ecclesiastical preferment, when long- 
er possession of it militated with his 
conscience, 
Ainong the more valuable of the 
“ Single Sermons” which have been pub- 
lished, we .may enumerate the Brsxop 
of Mrarn’s © at che Anniversary of the 
Magdalen Institution ;? Dr. Bewt’s on 
the “ Education of the Poor ;” Dr. On- 
sLow’s “ On the Testimony of the Spirit 
of God in the Faithful;’ aud Mr. Bar- 
ie ’s & At the Consecration of the Lord 
Bishop of Oxford.” 
CLASSICAL LITERATURE. 
Connected rather with this class than 
immediately belonging to it, is Dr. 
Crarke’s “ Letter addressed to the Gen- 
tlemen of the British Museum.” It pre= 
sents a brief view of the principal facts 
upon which the Alexandtian Cistern has 
been presumed to be the Sarcophagus 
of Alexander the Great; the ancient and 
modern evidences relating to which are 
placed on opposite pages, arranged in 
the form of question and answer. Hav- 
ing determined from Heredian that Alex- 
Ander was buried in a FYOPOS, and from 
Jater evidence that similar cisterns were 
denoimnated cope. Dr. Clarke proceeds 
to the testimony of Saint Augustine, that 
Soros and Sarcophagus were ‘appellations 
for the same thing ; adducing Juvenal’s 
authority for giving the latter ‘appellation 
to the receptacle of Alexander’s body; 
and closing the evidence in both pages 
with the assertion, tnat the veneration of 
the people for the tomb of Alexander 
attached alike to the Soros of the ancient 
and the Cuistern of the modern writers. 
Tt would be very easy to take exception 
to several parts of the additional evi- 
dence which is here given: but it may 
perhaps be enough to say, that the iden- 
tity of the Cistern, as the real tomb, is 
still sb judice. 
TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES. 
“ Antiquities of Westminsier; the Old 
Palace ; ‘St. Stephen's Chapel, Orn oye 
by Jouw Tuomas SMITH. 
Although the name of Smith appears 
in 
