Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Miscellanies. 
vernment of this commonwealth, as it is 
declared by this parliament; [ trust my 
past carriage hitherto bath inanifested my 
acquiescence in the will and disposition of 
God, and that [ love and value the peace 
of this commonwealth much above my own 
concernments; and I desire that by this a 
measure of my future deportment may be 
taken, which througi tie assistance of 
God shall be such as shall bear the same 
witness, having | hope in some degree 
learned rather to reverence and submit to 
the hand of God, than to be unquiet un- 
der it: And (as to the late providences 
that have fallen out among us), however 
in respect of the partic ilar engagements 
that lay upon me, I couid not be active 
in making a change in the government of 
these nauons, yet, through the goodness 
of God, 1 can freely acquiesce im its being 
made, and do hold myself obliged, as 
(with other men) I expect protection 
from the present government, so to de- 
mean inyself with all peaceableness un- 
der it, and to procure to the uttermost 
of my power, that all in whom I have any 
interest do the same. . 
“ RicHarD CROMWELL. 
“ Tondon: Printed by D. Maxwell, 1659.” 
Mr. Beloe announces his intention of 
continuing the Anecdotes at intervals. A 
third volume, we understand, is now pre- 
paring for the press. 
So little has been done for the illustra- 
tion of Anglo-Saxon Literature, that we 
view with pleasure any thing which may 
conduce to its revival. At present we 
shall only mention the two first numbers 
of the “ Etymological Organic Reasoner,” 
by Mr. Hensnatt, If we mistake not, 
they are in part the completion of a plan 
announced some years ago. 
The very valuable materials contained 
in Mr.Warron’s “ History of English Poe- 
try,” speak of themselves the benefit deri- 
ved to the literary world by the publica- 
tion of an Index. We can only wonder 
that such a labour was not performed be- 
fore. Under the idea that the work it- 
self would ere long be continued, it has 
been formed in separate alphabets; one 
for the Dissertations prefixed, and one 
for each of the volumes. Another may 
be easily added to any subsequent por- 
tion. As faras it has yet gone, it is core 
rect and copious, 
In this class also we shall place “ Ge- 
nerul Washington’s Fac Simile Letters to 
Sir John Sinclair.” 
The still fewer works than ever, which 
in consequence of one of Lord Kenyon’s 
decisions in 1798, are now entered at Sia- 
tloner’s Fall, form the object of enquiry, in 
647 
Mr. Currsrian’s “ Vindication of the 
Right of the Universities of Great Brix 
tain to a Copy of every new Publication.” 
On the propriety of the entry, and con- 
sequent distribution of eleven copies 
among our public libraries, no friend to hte- 
rature will probably entertain a doubt. But 
there is one question, the decision of 
which seems very material in regard to 
the benefit which the Universities are 
likely to obtain from the statute of Queen 
Anne: ‘ Whether the delivery of the 
copies at Stationer’s Hall was intended to 
depend upon the entry.” If this was not 
the case, the Acts at present in force by 
which the Stationer’s Company are made 
to benefit our public libraries must be 
viewed as inadequate to their intentions. 
The looked for extension of our con- | 
quests in Spanish America has give rise 
to the publication of “* La Foresta Ese 
panolu; or, Select Passages in Prose, ex- 
tracted from the most celebrated Spanish 
authors, ancient and modern. To which 
are prefixed, Observations on the Origin, 
Progressand Decline cf Literature inSpain, 
They who may be studying the Spanish . 
language, will find this little volume of a: 
mixed nature; containing extracts both’ 
of a serious and a hvely turn. Near the 
ciose of the preliminary observations the 
best helps tuward the attainment of a 
knowledge of the Spanish language are 
pointed wut, 
Another work in this class, but of dif+ 
ferent intention, is “ The Director, @ 
Weekly Literary Journal,” of which the 
first volame is completed. It contains: 
1. Essays on subjects of Literature, the 
Fine Arts and Manners. 2. Bibhogra- 
phiana, Accounts of rare and cnrious: 
books, and of the Book sales in this coun- 
try, from the close of the seventeeth cen- 
tury. 3. Royal Institution, Analysis 
of the Lectures delivered weekly. 4. 
British Gallery, Description of the prin- 
cipal Pictures exhibited forsale, with the 
names of the purchasers. The title of 
the Paper may possibly at first sight seem 
presumptuous; but the author offers hithe 
self “as a mere guide-post to direct the 
course of others to moral and intellectual 
excellence,” “ resigning all claim to pre- 
eminence, and striving only to be the hum- 
ble instrument of pointing out to his coun- 
trymen the path which leads to the tem- 
ple of intellectual fame.” The most curious 
portion of the work, however, is that which 
is entitled Bibliopruphiana,written, we be- 
lieve, by the Rev. Mr: Drevin. The fol- 
lowing account of the sale of Archbishop 
-Tillotson’s library, though by no means 
the most ample, we quote as a specimen : 
: * Arch- 
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