: Retrofpect of American Literature.— Me ticine. 
piety very fuitable to the fubjeét upon 
which he treats ; but it is to be regretted 
that fo refpe&table a writer, in whom we 
could have wifhed to find an advocate for 
Chriftian charity and moderation, ihould 
advance fuch violent, exclufive, high- 
church opinions, which only tend to roufe 
the afperity of controverly, to agitate 
mens’ minds, and revive difputes which 
have too long haralled and diftraéted the 
Chriftian world. 
«© A Companion to the Falts and 
Feftivals of the Epifcopal Church,” &c. 
by the fame author, is entitled to much of 
the praife which belongs to the preceding 
work ; but is likewife deformed by a large 
portion of the narrownefs and bigotry 
which are equally hoftile to the {pirit of 
focial benevolence and Chriftian charity. 
Bihhop WuHiTeE’s ‘‘ Sermon” delivered 
before the General Convention of the Pro- 
teftant Epifcopal Church in the United 
States of America, at the confecration of 
‘Bihop Parker, of Bofton, in the ftate of 
Maffachufetts, is a fenfible, impreflive, 
and well-written difcourfe, abounding in 
indications of the mild, unaffuming, cha- 
ritable, and ferious character, for which 
this amiable prelate is univerfally diftin- 
guifhed, 
Another ‘* Sermon’’ preached before 
the fame Convention, by the Right Rev. 
BenjJAMiIn Moore, D.D. Bithop of the 
Proteftant Epifcopa! Church in the State 
- Of New York, deferves to be commended 
for neatnels, good fenfe, and a judicious 
manner of exhibiting the traths which it 
is defigned to illuftrate. 
«© A Difcourle delivered jane the 
Members of the Portfmouth Female Afy- 
lum,” by Timotay ALDEN, Jun, 
A. M. paitor of a church in Portfmouth, 
aifords evidence of the benevolent difpofi- 
tion of the author, and is well calculated 
to promote the charitable purpofe of the 
inftitution at whofe requef it. was 
preached. 
The Rev. Mr. Houtmes’s *§ Sermon 
delivered before the Miffionary Society of 
the State of Mafflachufetts,’’ exprefles and 
recommends the zeal which ought to ac- 
tuate inftitutions for that pw pole, and 
reflects much credit on his piety and fe- 
rioulnefs. 
Much praife is due to the Rev. Dr. Lr- 
VINGSTON’s ‘ Sermon delivered before 
the New York Miffionary Society, at 
their Annual Meeting, April 3, 1804.” 
Io this fermon the reader will find an 
unufual portion of the warmth and ani- 
‘mation which fuch a fubje&t and fuch an 
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occafion are calculated to infpire. Few 
perfons, we are confivent, wiil perufe it 
without fharing with the author in many 
of the fanguine and interefting fentiments 
which he fo fuccefsfully endeavours to 
ditplay and excite. This performance, 
in a word, is a good example of what fuch 
an occafion ought to produce. To the 
fermon is fubjoined an Appendix, in 
which many things are detailed, iluf- 
trated, and confirmed, which could not 
properly have found a place in the body 
of the Sermon, and which I:kewife are too 
much extended to have been conveniently 
inferted in the form of notes at the bot- 
tom of the page. 
MEDICINE, 
Within the period embraced by this 
Retrofpeét, a new fpring feems to have 
been given to medical enterprize in the 
United States. The firft number of a 
new periodical publication, conduéted by 
Dr. Coxe, has mede its appearance in 
Philadelphia, under very flattering au- 
{fpices; and the firft part of another perio- 
dica] work, undertaken by Profeffor Bar. 
TON, of the univerfity of Penn‘ylvaniay 
has been for fome time pat in the prifs. 
There is every reafon to believe that thefe 
publications will be ably fupported by the 
gentlemen who have aflumed the manage. 
ment of them ; that they will be the vehi- 
cles of many valuable and interefting com- 
munications from aan in all parts of 
the United States ; and that they will ob- 
tain an extent of circulation anfwerable 
to their merits and ufefulnefs. 
Dr, Coxs’s work, imitled ** The 
Philadelphia.Medical Muieum,” the firit 
number of which was pudlifhed in the 
month of September, 4304, is intended to 
be continued quarterly, The number 
now before the public contains feveral 
very important articles of original matter, 
which evince the editor's diligence in the 
collection of materials, and the judginent 
and difcrimination with which they are 
feleSted. Befides the body of original 
communications, Dr. Coxe has colleéted 
a large mafs of medical and philofophical 
inteliigence, much of it original, and all 
of it poflefiing a ref{pe&table degree of im- 
portance, which he arranges “under the 
head of a Medical and Eipisiope ical Re- 
gifter. On the whole, we think the ap 
pearance of this firft nnmber is well calcu- 
lated to prepoffels the public in favour of 
the work. and to excite confident expecta. 
tions of its future ufeiulnels and reputa- 
ticn. : 
The firt part of Profeffor Barton's 
4P publication, 
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