642 Retrofpect of Domeftic Literature.—Theology, Morals, See 
for valuable and authentic information as 
to the ftate of manners among. the wildett, 
moft uncivilized,’ and ignorant of the 
human race. . 
Mr, WrrxHersy is entitled to high 
praife for “* Az Attempt to remove Preju- 
dices concerniig the Fewifo Nation.” The 
faét is, that by taking it for granted that 
a certain clafs of people are cheats, ex- 
tortioners, &c. and by treating them as if 
they were fo, we actually make them 
cheats and extortioners: that Is one pow- 
erful incentive to an honeft and virtuous 
line of condu@t, namely the hope of ob- 
taining and preferving a fair name in the 
world is removed: peop'e who have no 
feputation to'lofe have none to preferve, 
and ate unambitious to acquire it. 
© On a former occafion we noticed that a 
fcifm had arifen among the Society of 
Friends, as ‘they can no longer be called 
Without a mifnomer. We are afraid that 
on a perufal of the controverfial pamphlets 
it will be foand, that a {pirit of intole- 
yance has infinuated itfelf into the coun- 
cils of the rulers of this feét, and that 
they who have been allowed to exercife 
the right of private judgment, unmo- 
Jefted by the eftablifhed Church, from 
which they diffent; that they who have 
been favoured by the Government of this 
country far above all or any otlier clafs of 
Diffenters, now deny to the members of 
their own Society that exercife of private 
judgment which their forefathers acquired 
and themfelves enjoy, and are now ac- 
tually become the perfecutgrs of fome ‘of 
their moft refpectable and religious mem- 
bers. We content ourfelves with tran- 
feribing the title pages of fome of the 
moft interefting pamphlets which have 
appeared upon this fubject. ** A Narta- 
tive of Events that have lately taken 
place in Ireland, among the Society called 
Quakers.” ‘* A Narrative ‘of the Pro- 
ceedings in America, of the Society called 
Quakers, in the Cafe of Hannah Bernard, 
&c. &c.””  ** A few Obfervations, tend- 
ing to expofe the Unfairrels of fome Cen- 
fures on the Charaéter of David Sands, in 
a Publication called ‘A Narrative of 
Events, &c. &c.”” “* A Letter to Jofeph 
Gurney Bevan.” 
‘© A@uum Apoftolorum & Epiftolarum, 
tam Catholicaruim quam Paulinarum. Ver- 
fio Syriaca Phiioxentana, ex Codice MS. 
Ridleiana in Bib. Col. Now. Oxon. repojito, 
nunc primum edita: cum InterpretationeS 
4Annotationibus JosepH Waite, S.T.P, 
Einug. Arab. apud Oxan. Prof.” 
This moft learned and laborious work 
is at length completed ; if it is confidered 
as an honor to the Univerfity of Oxford, 
how much muf it be to the individual 
Editor, who has employed upon it nearly 
thirty years of his life! 
Mr. FeLLowes, in his ‘¢ Guide to’ 
Immortality,’” has digefted into one con- 
tinued narrative, according to the order 
of time and place laid down by Arch- 
bifhop Newcome, the Memoirs of the Life 
and Doégtrine of Chrift by the four Evan- 
gelifts. The Gofpel Hiftory is divided 
inte feven portions: The firft contains ail 
that is related hy the Evangelifts previous 
to the baptifm of Jefus: the fecond relates 
the tranfactions of about fix months from 
the baptifm till the beginning of the enfu- 
Ing paffover; third, the tranfaétions of 
twelve months, from the beginning of the 
firft paffover; the fourth comprehends an- 
other year; the fifth reaches from the 
third to the fourth paflover; the fixth 
contains the tranfaétions of three days, 
from the day on which the fourth paffover 
was kept, to the end of the day before 
therefurrection ; and the feventh comprifes 
the hiftory of forty days from the day of 
refurrecétion to that of afcenfion. In this 
work Mr. Fellowes, a heterodox minifter 
of the eftablithed church, exprefles him- 
felf with great freedom on Hey do&rinal - 
i 
points, and preferves the fame liberal {pi- 
rit which animated him in his former 
production. . ea 
Mr. Tomurinsown has made an * Az- 
tempt to refcue the Holy Scriptures from 
the Ridicule they incur with the inconfider- 
ate, occafioned 
&ce. &c.” 
Whether his own Tranflations and 
Commentaries are likely to effeét this lau- 
dable purpofe, is a queftion of confider- 
able doubt. . : 
“* Memoirs of the Life and Writings of 
the late Rev. HuGH Farmer. Towhich 
is added, a Piece of his, never before pubs 
ifhed: printed from the only remaining 
MS. of the Author. Alfo feveral original 
Letters, and an Extraét from his Effay on 
the Cafe of Balaam. Taken from his MS. 
fince deftroyed, by the late 
Dopson, Efq.” <} 
The biographical portion of this work 
MIcHaEL 
gives little information which is not to be’ 
found in Dr. Kippis’s Biographia Britan- 
nica; and fome papers now make their 
appearance, which the Reverend writer 
had exprefsly defired fhould be committed 
to the flames ! Pee 
“ Difcourfes on Theological and Literary 
Subjecis ; by the laieA. ARTHUR, M. Aw 
Profeflor of Moral Philofophy in the Uni- 
verfity of Glafgow.” A pay 
. Ges This 
by incorre&? Tranjlations, 
