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* wrsvory, crronooay, &e, 
N this class we have to notice a 
work of no ordinary consideration. 
“64 new Analysis of Chronology,in which 
an Attempt is made to expluin the His- 
tory and Antiquities of the primitive 
Nations of the World, and the Prophe- 
cies relating to them,. on Principles 
tending to remove the Imperfection and 
Discordance of preceding Systems.”’ By 
Wirtras Hares, D. D. Sn three Vo- 
lumes, Vol. I. Ato. : 
This work, we are assured, is the re- 
sult of many years study of the history, 
antiquities, and prophecies, respecting 
the principal nations recorded in the 
Bible; namely, the Hebrews, _Is- 
raelites, and Jews, the Assyrians, Ba- 
bylonians, and Egyptians, the Medes 
and Persians, the Grecians and Ro- 
mans, It was originally suggested by 
the embarrassments and interruptions 
experienced by the author in his histo- 
rical researches, who found,what most 
scholars have had such frequent cause 
to lament, that the chronological sys- 
tems even of the best writers, as they 
stand at present, are utterly insufficient 
to” adjust and harmonize the leading 
dates of sacred and profane history ; 
all of them differing from each other, 
more or less, in the principles upon 
which they are founded, and in the 
application of those principles: some- 
times adjusting sacred by protane chro- 
nology, and sometimes the reverse, 
without any settled rule or standard, 
in a short, but modest preface, Dr. 
Hales has explained the methods taken 
to produce the *‘ New Analysis.” 
“¢ His first attempt was to examine 
-earefully the principles upon which the 
reigning systems wete built, in order 
to seek a solid foundation for a general 
system. This led him into a minute in- 
vestigation of the evidences. for and 
- against the longer and shorter compu- 
tations of the Patriarchal generations 
’ from Adam to Abraham, found in the 
Masorete and Samaritan Hebrew texts, 
in the Greek version, and in Josephus ; 
Montaixz Mac. ho. 206. 
~ daxuany 31, ISL. 
HALF YEARLY RETROSPECT OF LITERATURE, : 
and the result was aconviction of the uns 
tenableness of the shorter computation,. 
which he discovered to have been first 
fabricated by the Jews, about the time 
of the publication of the Sedar Olam 
Rabba, their great system of chrono- - 
logy, in A. D. 130. 
‘¢ His next attempt was to retrieve 
the genuine chronulogy of Josephus, 
many of whose leading dates had been 
adulterated by his early editors, in order 
to make them correspond with the 
Jewish system, which unfortunately 
was too soon adopted by several of the 
primitive christian writers.” 
The rectified era of the creation, 
B. C. 5411, forms the basis of Dr. - 
Hales’s system. 
The first volume of the work (all 
that is now before us,)is confined to 
Dr. Hales’s preliminary apparatus; in 
which he appears to have thrown all 
such matters as were merely of a con- 
troversial nature. It contains, 1. A 
General Introduction, shewing the ne= 
cessity of his undertaking, from a re. 
view of the present state of chrono= 
logy, of the leading systems, and of 
the means of improving it, on scientific 
principles. 2. Elements of Tecknical 
Chronology; and 3. Elements of Sacred 
Geography ; both essentially connected 
with Historical Chronology, and de- 
sizned to supply defects, and to cor- _ 
rect mistakes, -in the elementary trea- 
tises of Beveridge and Wells. 
The second volume, which we shalk 
have great pleasure in nolicing here- 
after, is to comprise the whole body of 
Sacred, and the third the several 
branches of Profane chronology. ; 
Another work of first-rate impor- 
tance will be found in *S Annals of the 
East India Company, from their ‘stab- 
lishment by the Charter of Queen Eliza- 
beth, 1600, to theUnion of the London 
ond English East India Companies, 
1707—8. By Joun Brucs, Esy, M. P. 
F.R.§. In three Volumes, tio. 
The annals of the Hast India Com- 
sany, the author observes, form a> 
et rt eee 
subordiuae 
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