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4 On Partiality and Impartiality in Reviewers. . 
operate upon the heart and affections, 
and thus to influence the actions, and 
habitudes of men. 
From the active, and energetic mind 
of Dr. Anderson, a disquisition on this 
subject must have been intexesting in 
an extraordinary degree. 
Feeling as he di id, the Ata of 
war, and trembling a the frightful con- 
sequences of anarchy and confusion, I 
shoud be glad to know whether hae 
or any other papers left by Dr. A. are 
iatended to be published. . 
The extensive literary Steeles 
established by means of the Monthly 
Mavazine, induces me further to enquire, 
whether ae D: ctionary of an Universal 
Character, (noticed in a former volume) 
is in a state of forwardness. 
Coventry, Your’s, &c. 
July 10, 1509. WILttaM FLAVEL. 
—SE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T is customary to place the altar at 
the east end of the church; and; ir 
many places, for the whole iy A 
when they repeat the Creed, to turn their 
face to the east; no doubt because the -. 
great lamp of nature, that lights all to — 
the business of the day, and the light 
that has enlightened the nations, has 
gradually proceeded fromthe east. But 
why do clergymen, when they officiate 
at the altar, stand on the north side, 
with their face to the south, during part 
of the Communion service? Ts 1t be- 
cause, in the temple of Jerusalem, the 
priests under the law, did thesame? Or, 
is it because the sun, the light of the eye, 
and great emblem a the ficht of life, is 
south of us that live in. Europe? And, 
if so, do the clergy, in the southern he- 
misphere, for the same reason, turn their 
face to the north, when officiating at the 
altar? 
Jt was customary for the ancients, to. 
paint some parts, and some times all, of 
their horses red, and other parts of them 
green, purple, &c. 
yeferred to by St. John, in the book of 
Revelations, But, as 
to which I have at present conveniently 
access, do not satisfy me.on the subject, 
IT should be much obliged to any of your 
readers to tel] me, with the above queries 
‘solved, in allusion to» what custom, or 
peculiar circumstance, in the same book, 
Death is said to ride on his pale horse? 
Dues it refer to any known warrior, 
or other person, who, using to ride 
the charge is extremely just. 
And this: custom is- 
the books of . 
Jewish, Grecian, and Roman Antiquities, 
| [Aug. ly 
on a pale horse, brought death along 
with him, wherever he went. | 
Your’s, &c. 
137, St. Martin’s-lane, 
Fune 27, 1809. 
<a 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N page 188, of the Edinburgh Review, 
for April, 1809, is the following very 
flagrant observation—Knowing, well that 
translation is less necessary in this 
kingdom, than beyond the Border 
Country, I cannot help wishing more 
of notoriety, than that work has ob- 
tained.— Hear him, the Reviewer f . 
—* The state of classical learning, at 
present, in tits country, is such as by no 
means to please us; and much. goad 
might, we think, be derived from the 
plan of our Greek and Roman studies. 
In this northern part of the island, our 
system of education is rmagined, by our 
“neighbours, as defective in regard to 
Be See instr uction; avd in regard to the 
Greek language, though not the Latin, 
By our 
institutions, provision is not made for 
teaching even the elements of the Greek, 
to any but a very: small proportion, 
of the best disposed of the youths. In 
the other part of the island, however, — 
and that the principal part, classical ~ 
learning occupies an immense propor-— 
tion of the ficld of education, In fact, 
it almost covers it, leaving a very scanty 
corner, and that cultivated by a very 
antiquated sort of husbandry, for any 
other crop. Yet it is remarkable, that~- 
-England has communicated very little 
useful service toward the promotion 
of classical learning. 
tered nations of Europe, the French, the 
Germans, the Italians, are so badly sup- 
plied with translations, in their own 
language, of the prose classics. None 
of them have done even so lictle, towards 
the purifying of the text of the ancient 
authors ; to none of them is the lover of - 
ancient learning so little indebted for, 
those helps, which render bis acquisitions 
easy, and his readings delightful.” 
Query—Has _ this erudite * reviewer 
been deprived of his Jirth in the 
-High School at Edinburgh; or does he 
take it for granted, because he can- 
not read the exotic literature of a sister 
kingdom, that that literature, that that 
erudition, by his septentrional feat i is to 
he repressed. 
\ ~ What would Harvey, Clarke, Bentley, 
the author of Religio ‘ae “ah Sir Thomas 
Di i F 
James ELALL. 
None of the let- 
