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my Octavo University edition, at the 
fourteenth chapter of Genesis. The date 
1913, it seems has been ascertained to 
belong to the event related in the fifth 
verse, and the editor has sagaciously ta- 
ken advantage of the words ‘fourteenth 
year” occurring in that verse, to give the 
date of 1926 to the beginning of the 
chapter. I refer your readers to the 
passage itself as the quotation would be 
too long: I cannot better illustrate the 
case, than by giving an historical narra- 
tive dated as follows : 
1799.——-Buonaparte had now been 
nine years in possession of the 
sovereign power of France, when 
1808. his immeasurable ambition led 
him to seize treacherously on 
that of Spain. 
Here the second date is proper, and 
the first may be supposed to have been 
added by an University editor. 
In the particulars of Punctuation 
and Paragraph-marks every editor seems 
to have followed his own fancy. I have 
done the best I could with them.* 
I do not give the above detail as a com- 
plete list of the errors which I have found 
even in the two editions which I have 
principally consulted. Several things 
of this sort I corrected without ta- 
king any account of them. What I 
have now troubled you with, however, 
may perhaps be of some utility. The 
Clarendon Press has done itself honour ° 
by its editions of the classics—let it give 
us «correct Bible. 1 am, Sir, 
Yours, &c. M. Smarr. 
Weybridge, Surry. 
Ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR 
SHALL feel myself highly obliged to 
any of your correspondents, who 
through the medium of your valuable Ma- 
gazine, will give me any information on 
the following subjects. 
Has the African society received any 
certain intelligence of the fate of Mungo 
Parke? 
What has been the success and what is 
the present state of the missionaries who 
were left at Otaheite, Tongataboo,and the 
Marquesas, by the ship Duff, in 1797; and 
has any account been made public of 
* In Genesis xlix. 26, there is a variation, 
which seems not to have been accidental, in 
placing the colon: my three University edi- 
ditions have it after Bills, and Wilson after 
progenitors. My other two authorities give 
me no assistance here. 
Mungo Parke.—Lancaster’s Plan of Educatwn. [¥eb. 1, 
their proceedings since Capt. Wilson’s 
Voyage was published? 
Mr, Lancaster’s improved plan for 
educating youth is a matter of immense 
importance to parents, as well as to the 
rising generation ; but as his method has 
not been generally explained; a short 
account of its principles would be highly 
gratifying to numbers of your readers. 
In your 24th volume, page 316, I in- 
serted a query respecting the cause and 
prevention of ropimess in bread, beer, 
perry, &c, to which a correspondent. has 
obligingly sent an answer, in vol. 25, 
page 315, mentioning a method to pre- 
vent that disease in beer, but the chemi- 
cal cause has not been explained. 
Yours, &c. Tuos, Davis. 
Easthan, Worcestershire, 
Jan. 6th, 1809. 
a 
' For the Monthly Magazine. 
THE DILLETANTI TOURIST, 
In a seRres of LETTERS, from an AMA= 
TEUR im LONDON, to @ FRIEND near 
MANCHESTER.—WNo. II. 
[With a Plate.] 
bien us hope, that the fifth great 
epocha of the civilized world, 
may be derived and denominated from 
the splendours of British genius; that 
it is reserved for Great Britain to prove 
that the purest system of civil freedom, 
is creative of the noblest powers of in- 
tellectual excellence.—Let us hope, that 
the liberal policy of our prmces and our 
statesmen will excite and second the 
genius of their country; and that we may 
shortly see the arts and sciences revolvy- 
ing in planetary splendour round the en- 
livening sun of British liberty; refined to 
a degree of perfection unattained in for- 
mer periods ; deriving vigour from its heat, 
and lustre from its beams.” So says the 
unassuming and accomplished author of 
the Rhymes on Art, and what British 
heart does not sincerely join in the pa- 
triotic wish. If any doubt then existed in 
the mind of Mr. Shee as to the accom- 
plishment of his wishes, I think the pre- 
sent noble collections now under consi- 
deration (being mostly brought together 
since the publication of the above,) will 
go, in a great measure, to remove them; 
at least, in my humble opinion, if it does 
not, the blame cannot attach to their 
proprietors. 
According to the arrangement made in 
my last, I shali now commence with the 
first room in the department of antiqui- 
ties 
