1808.] 
lent. Even the professor of chemistry 
and mineralogy has three hundred 
pounds, besides fees. Let it not be said 
that these have families to maintain, for 
by their institution they are celibatarians, 
as well as their brethren of Maynooth, 
Those who do not reside in the house 
are diflergntly paid: the professor of 
English has ene hundred pounds; the 
treasurer and secretary, seventy-nine 
pounds; the'physician, lifty-six pounds ; 
and the agent, three hundred pounds. 
When we consider that no fees whatever 
are paid by the students, we cannot but 
consider the appoitments very moderate 
where the confinement is for ten months 
of the year wninterruptedly. phat 
The accommedation of the students 
has hitherto been indifferent: to-wit, an 
empty reom without fire or candle, fur- 
niture, or books: generally three and 
sometimes four to one room: each pays 
for his own cloaths, washing, &c. which, 
besides his entrance money, may- he 
rated at twenty pounds per annum. On 
this plan the original building accommo- 
dates two hundred students... The 
first addition was calculated to give 
better accommodation to at least fifty 
more, . that is, to give each his separate 
room. The second additional wing re+ 
mains unfinished. At present however 
there is more room than subjects: the 
return of 1808 being two hundred and 
five, instead of two hundred and fifty. 
The great vacation lasts two mouths, 
but even then no student can absent him- 
self without leave from his bishop. 
General Course of Studies, 
and Class- Books, 
We come now to the course of studies, 
which though net quite so perfect as Dr. 
Milner believes, is however more so than 
we cduld expect from an infant establish- 
ment. 
For Humanity there are two classes: 
both till of late, taught by one master. 
The under class explains Sallust, Virgil, 
and Horace, as also portions of the Greek 
Testament, Lucian and Xenophon, ‘This 
being the lowest class in the house, we 
may nearly ascertain what degree of pro- 
ficiency is necessary to be admitted. A 
little knowlege of Latin is all that is re- 
quired. There is no examination as to 
English, Irish, French or Greek. The 
higher ciass of humanity assumes the 
new fangled title of Belles-lettres. But 
these belles-lettres consist of the Gospel 
of St. Luke, Acts of the Apostles, Epis- 
tles of St. Paul, Homer, Epictetus, Xeno- 
Montary Mag., No. 172. 
at Maynooth, 
near Dublin, 439 
phon (again!) explained. In-Latin, Ci- 
cero, Livy, Seneca in part, Pliny, and 
Horace once more! We search in vain 
for the distinct year, mentioned by Dr. 
Milner, for the poetry, and another for ° 
rhetoric: there being neither professor 
nor time for such belles-lettres as these, 
The “ rules of Latin versificution, we cons 
sider of less signification than those of Irish 
and English speeckification.” Having twa 
professors for two ianguages, we should 
consider the partition more natural, were 
each to have butonelanguagetoteach: and 
not one to be master of Latin and Greek, 
and the other of Greek and Latin. In 
the statutes (cap. 5) mention is made ef 
a third class of Latin and Greek: bue 
that forthe present remains adead letter, 
Few, very few, are detained two years in 
these schools: but in general they cons 
tent themselves with what previous knows 
ledge of Latin they have picked up elses 
where. 
Among the classics omitted, there are 
some whose absence we considen as good 
company in an ecclesiastical seminary ¢ 
such as Terence and. Plautas, Catullus, 
Tibullus, Propertius, Juvenal and Ovid, 
notwithstanding all their beauties; but 
even clerical readers might safely peruse 
the nervous Tacitus, the: rapid Demos- 
thenes, the florid Isocrates, the pious 
Chrysostom, the critic Longinus ; part of 
these we shall presume, was uuderstood 
by the &c’s. the List of the Class-books, 
Quitting these lower regions, we now 
ascend (somewhat per sulium over head 
and ears of poets and thetoricians) 
to the realms of light philosophical, 
Here we are detained as short a time as 
possible, that is for two. years at most: 
for we must soon svar still higher, 
Logic, the art of thinking and of reas 
soning, is an essential acquisition for those 
who are to think and reason for thems 
selves and others. Not indeed the dia- 
Jectics of the old schools with the pe- 
dantry of Barbara Celarent, $c. but 
something less methodical perhaps, 
though more‘rational.. For some years, 
the new seminary was in quest of a pera 
son to teach this science: by the statutes 
1t appears to have been joined in one 
course with the other branches of phiig- 
sophy. The gentleman now professing 
logic, metaphysic, and ethics, had ih 
professor of theology, aud his lectures 
have been supposed to savour of -his for 
mer employmeuts. What-ve regret with 
him is the paucity of books, not indeed of 
treatises af logic, and such as are taught 
in our universities; fpr of these he might 
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