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volution are not difficult to be calculated: 
Lhe Pope loft the moiety of his fpiritual 
domains, while in thofe that remained to 
him, his authority became abridged, and 
evea equivocal, 
The Roman clergy, impoverified. on 
one hand by the recent changes, and be- 
ing placed in oppofition, on the other, to 
the Proteftant minifters, who were auftere, 
indigent, and ftill more fimple in them- 
felves than in their doétrine, became in- 
terefted to lead an edifying, and exemplary 
life, fo that in this point of view Luther 
became the reformer even of Rome herfelf, 
But the temporal abafement of the Ca- 
tholic clergy was only produced flowly, 
and by degrees. From the peace of Aug{- 
burg, to that of Weitphalia, {piritual and 
political affairs were fo interwoven, that 
thofé princes who ftill remained in the 
Roman communion, generally chofe their 
minifters from among the members of the 
clergy ; but after the year 1648, a met- 
cantile and financial fpirit fucceeded, and 
produced an entire change. 
The creation of the order of Jefuits 
forms a new epoch in the annals of the 
Popedom. The reforms which tock place 
in the Cathoiic ftates .are confidered as 
another eventful period, proceeding out 
of the Lutheran revolution ; and the bat- 
tle of Lutzen, in which Gultavus Adol- 
phus and the Proteltants triumphed, is 
contemplated as a mof inaufpicious event 
to thofe who denominate themfelves the 
ducceflors of St. Peter. 
*¢ Figures d'Homere, d’aprés l’Antique, 
par H. Gui Lu. TiscHBEiN, DireCteur de 
Académie Royale de Peinture et de 
Sculpture de Naples, &c.; avec les Ex- 
plications de Gra. G. Herne, Profefleur 
de Poéfie et d’ Eloquence a lUniverfité de 
Gottingue, et Membre de Plufieurs So- 
ciétés Savantes—The Figures of Homer, 
after the ancient Models, by H. WiL- 
LIAM TisCHBEIN, Director of the Royal 
Academy of Painting and Sculpture at 
Naples, &c.; with the Explanations of 
Gr. G. Herne, Profeflor of Poetry and 
Eloquence in the Univerfity of Gottin- 
gen, &c. 
Of this work, alike grateful to the 
fkiltul artift, the accurate critic, and the 
enlightened fcholar, four numbers only 
have, as yet, appeared. Nor will it be 
accounted Jefs valuable, when 1t is recol- 
leétcd, that fuch men as Heyne and Tifch- 
bein bere join in burning incenfe on the 
altar cf the prince of poets. A refidence 
ef twenty years in Italy has enabled the 
former to contemplate and to colleét a 
number of the choicefk monuments of ans 
Retrofped? of French Literature:—Mifcellaneouss 
cient art, which have either a dire& of 
remote connection with the events of the 
Iliad and the Odyfley, but which have 
either been copied in a faulty, or inter- 
preted in an incorrect manner. In confe- 
quence of this, an ob{cure point has been 
frequently cleared up, or an obfolete cuf- 
tom readily explained, merely by the in- 
fpe€tion of the works left by contempd- 
rary artifts. 
No. I. contains—1. A head of Homer, 
after the Farnefian buft, defigned by 
Tifchbein, and engraved by Morghen. 
2, Homer inftruéted by the Muies, after 
a Cameo, appertaining to the late Sir 
William Hamilton. 3. The apotheofis of 
Homer, after a filver cup wrought in relief, 
belonging to the Herculaneum Mufeum. 
4. Helen conduéted to the galley of Paris, 
(the caufe of the Trojan War) after an 
Etrufcan farcophagus from the Galiery of 
Florence. 5. ‘Tne heads of the feven prin-~ 
cipal heroes of the Iliad, from feven: an. 
tique bufts. And 6. The body of Anti- 
lochus, placed on a car by Nettor. 
No. Il.—1. The head of Ulyffes, 
full fGize, after one of the fineft marble 
buits in exiftence, defigned by Tifchbein, 
and engraved by Morghen. 2. Ulyfies 
in the I{land of Calyp{o, after a Cameo. 
3. Ulyfles with Autolychus, copied from 
a painted vafe. 4. Ulyffes wounded in the 
lez while hunting the wild boar. 5. . 
Ulyffes recognized by Euryclea, in con- 
fequence of a fcar, after an engraved 
gem. And 6. Ulyfles and the Syrens, 
imitated from an Etrufcan farcophagus. 
No. III.—1. A head of Diomede, after 
a buft from the Clementine Mufeum. 
2. Dolon furprifed by Diomede and Ulyffes, . 
after an engraved coraline. 3. Diomede 
in the attitude of cutting off the head of 
Dolon, engraved after a coraline. 4. 
Diomede confulting with Ulyffes after this 
event, from the print of a gem, figured 
in the ancient paftes of the Abbé Dolce. 
5. Diomede and Ulyffts, fecretly intro- 
ducing themfelves into an inclofure, from 
the fame colleétion. And 6. A warrior 
conducting a pair of horfes. 
No. IV.—1. Head of Polyphemus, after 
a marble buft of the natural fize, in the 
late Mufeum of the King of Sardinia, at 
Turin. 2. Ulyffes demanding hofpitality 
from Polyphemus, after an engraved ftone 
in the colleStion of the Abbé Dolce. 3. 
Ulyfes fupplicating, from an engraved 
ftone in the fame colleétion, 4. Ulyffes 
prefenting the cup to Polyphemaus, from 
a very fine cornelian, in the colleétion of 
the late Sir William Hamilton. 5. Po- 
lyphemus about to devour one of the com- 
panions — 
