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ART. XV. Advice to Young Ladies, on the Improvement of the Mind and the Conduct of Life. By THOMAS BROADHURST. 8vo. pp. 137.

IT is impossible to read these pages without feeling a respect for the author, who has addressed his pupils in such a strain of calm good sense, and with so warm and affectionate a solicitude for their welfare. Here are no tricks of composition to flatter the ear and deceive

the understanding, but chaste principles are inculcated in chaste un affected language. Advice on the various subjects of literature, science, and moral conduct, is rarely given in a more engaging manner.

ART. XVI. Advice from a Lady to her Grand daughters; in a Series of familiar Essays on various Suljects. 12mo.

TO impart the lessons of expe- topics which every moralist has rience to youth is the appropriate touched on, so she can feel no disemployment of old age: and to re- appointment at the humbler esticeive them with attention is the re- mate which may be made of her ciprocal duty of those for whose be- productions. They display, however, nefit they are intended. The au- a religious turn of mind and a benethor of these essays, as she aspires volence of heart which are of more not to the praise of genius in the substantial value than various other treatment of her subjects, as she qualities of a more shewy seinboasts not of shedding new light on blance.

CHAPTER XIX.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

ART. I. An Introduction to the Knowledge of Rare and Valuable Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, &c. By the Rev. T. F. DIBDIN, P. S. A. 2 vols. Crown

8vo.

THIS is the third occasion on which, in the course of our annual Jabours, it has been our duty to announce the publication of this work, a sufficient proof that it has obtained the approbation of the public. Our chief office on the present occasion is to mention the variations of this from the preceding edition. The authors now first introduced are thirteen, M. Antoninus, Apollodorus, Apuleius, Aristides, Aurelius Victor, Ausonius, Herodian, Josephus, Maximus Tyrius, Oppian, Orpheus, Photius, and Theophrastus. The notes contain several biographical accounts of editors, of the ancient classics, and chiefly of the English scholars. The account of Greek bibles and testaments, of Lexicons, dictionaries, and grammars, is considerably en larged. Some recent editions of authors before noticed are now added. The index analyticus, and the accounts of Latin editions of Greek authors, which were contained in the last edition, are admitted in the present. We have to notice a slight error in the article of Euripides. Mr. Porson is said to have formed the text of the Medea, entirely according to the ancient Greek edition of that play, which was printed with three others at Florence, about the close of the fifteenth century. Mr. Porson was not an editor to subscribe to the authority of any MS. or edition, however excellent, and in the present instance has certainly in no

sense made the Florence edition the basis of his own. All that he observes is, that on account of its rarity, he has collated it with the most religious, if not superstitious care. The edition of Pausanias, by Facius, is complete in four volumes. Mr. Dibdin's doubts respecting the existence of copies of the Florentine Homer of 1483 on vellum, are certainly unfounded. "A copy on vellum is in the national library at Paris, which was brought thither from Venice or Florence, a few years since. The volume containing the Odyssey, &c. on vellum, is in this country, and was in the va luable collection of Mr. R. Heathcote." Beloe's Anec. of Lit. III, 304. 304. The copy at Paris contains, we believe, both the Iliad and Odyssey. That which was sent to this country contains only the Odyssey and smaller poems. Both certainly came originally from Florence, and a particular description of them may be seen in Bandini's catalogue of the MSS. of the Me dicean library.

As a valuable specimen of Mr. Dibdin's work, we transcribe the description of an extremely rare and imperfect early edition of Lucretius, scarcely known till of late, and which no editor has hitherto had the advantage of consulting.

"LUCRETIUS. B. C. 54. FERRANDUS. Brixiæ. Fol.

"EDITIO PRINCEPS: of uncommon rarity, and scarcely known to the clas sical world. Audiffredi, Edit. Ital. 420,

quotes Biblioth. Port. Mauri et Gamba,
pt. ii. p. 28, from which are the following
words: •
Ha in fine THOMA FERRAN-
DO AUCTORE. Insigne scoperta della
prima ed originale edizione di Lucrezio,
sinora ignota. Ha 104 fogli e 36. versi
ogni pagina intera. Si riconosce esser
fatta in Brescia, ed anteriore all' anno
1473. per altre simili dello stesso stam-
patore, che noi abbiamo la sorte di essere
i primi a far conoscere.' Panzer, t. iv.
263, has shortly described it, and refers
to Cl. Boni, 1. c. p. LXXX. Harles, in
Suppl. Not. Lit. Rom. t. i. 149, thus ob-
serves: De editione antiquissimâ, et
principe, neque antea cognitâ, cel. Mor-
rellius in epistolâ ad me d. 11. Maii,
Venet. 1793, datâ, hæc scripsit. Inno-
tuit nuper Lucretii editio, omnium, quas
novimus, vetustissima. Ea est in folio,
charactere rotundo. Thoma Ferrando
auctore, ut in fine legitur. Brixie factam
fuisse, ex Epistolis Phalaridis aliisque
libris ejusdem impressionis satis adparet.
Ad annum 1473 referenda videtur, quo

Ferredus idem Brixiæ statuta civitatis illius impressit. Lucretii primum editorem se Ferrandus produit, duin Lucreeii, ait, unicum meas in manus cum pervenisset extemplar, de eo imprimendo hesitavi, quod erat difficile unico dicto exemplo, quæ librarii essent præterita negligentia, illa corrigere. Verum ubi alterum perquisitum exemplar adinvenire non potui: hac ipsa motus difficultate, unico etiam dicto exemplari volui librum quam maxime ra. rum communem multis facere"

"I saw this very scarce production in the library of Lord Spencer, which, with the editio princeps of Virgil, 1469, are, I understand, the only copies of these works that ever came into England. It is to be regretted that neither Wakefield, nor Eichstadt collated this editio princeps of Lucretius, which, for correctness and valuable readings, is considered to be a very important publication. A copy is in the sumptuous library of Count Angelo D'Elci, of Florence."

ART. II. Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, by the Rev. WILLAM BELOE. Vol. III. 8vo.

THIS volume is executed on the same miscellaneous plan as its two predecessors, which are noticed in the last Annual Review. The former part of the volume is arranged under the heads of Biblical, and Theological literature; the latter and principal part relates chiefly to various classical printers, editors, and works, of the fifteenth century, and under all these heads descriptions are given of many rare and valuable articles, which the author has had the opportunity of examining in various public and private Regardless of friends intestate he dy'd,

may not be unacceptable to our bibliographical readers.

"It is in duodecimo, and is lettered on the back, "New Testament by Tyndal, first edition 1526. It has no tite page. There is a portrait pasted to the first leaf, with G. Vertue ad vivum delin. 1738, et sculpsit 1752. Underneath the print is this inscription.

libraries. One of the most remarkable of the biblical articles, is the first edition of Tindal's "New Testament," printed in 1526, of which only a single copy is known to exist, which was purchased by Dr. Gifford, and by him bequeathed to the Baptist library at Bristol. The following extract from Mr. Beloe's description of this rare volume,

"Hoh Maister John Murray of Sacomb,

The works of old Time to collect was his pride,

Till oblivion dreaded his care;

So the Rooks and the Crows were his

heir.

"Quere, who was this John Murray?

"On the opposite leaf is a printed pa per pasted, which says, that "On Tues day evening (13th of May, 1760) at Mr. Langford's sale of Mr. Ames's books, a copy of the Translation of the New Tes‐ tament by Tindal, and supposed to be the only one remaining which escaped the flames, was sold for fourteen guineas and

a half. This very book,was picked up by one of the late Lord Oxford's Collectors (John Murray written in the margin) and was esteemed so valuable a purchase by his Lordship, that he settled 201. a year for life upon the person who procured it. His Lordship's library being afterwards purchased by Mr. Osborne, of Gray's Inn, he marked it at 15 shillings, for which price Mr. Ames bought it. This translation was finished in the reign of Henry the Eighth, an. 1526, and the whole impression, as supposed (this copy excepted) was purchased by Tonstall, Bishop of London, and burnt at St. Paul's Cross that year.

"N. B. This choice book was purchased at Mr. Langford's sale, 13th May, 1760, by me John White, and on the 13th day of May, 1776, I sold it to the Rev. Dr. Gifford for 20 guineas, the price at first paid for it by the late Lord Oxford. This is signed John White.

“Dr. Gifford, it is well known, was assistant Librarian at the British Museum, and I believe a Baptist. He left his library to the use of the Baptist Society at Bristol. He is said to have been a lively and much admired preacher, of whom it might have been said, as it was of one of the early Reformers, vividus vultas, vividi oculi, vividæ manus, denique omnia vividi, He died in 1784. This by the way. "Then follows a print of the Earl of Oxford, formerly the owner of the book, who died in 1741."

The principal part of this volume, as we have observed, relates to the works of Greek and Roman literature, printed during the fifteenth century. The following are the principal heads of the arrangement: Greck books from 1476 to 1500;Greek books by Aldus, before 1500; Greek books by Aldus, without date early printers and editors: rare books of the fifteenth century: Greek books in capital letters rare editions of Latin poets in the

fifteenth century Latin translations of the Greek poets.

articles which pass under his reMr. Beloe's description of the view, it cannot be denied, are accurate and diligent, and manifest an extensive acquaintance with the subject of his investigation. Yet we cannot but regret, that with his opportunities of research, his descriptions should so frequently relate to works, not common indeed, or destitute of value, but sufformer bibliographers, to most who ficiently known by the writings of take an interest in such studies. The nature of Mr. Beloe's arrangement has led him to some unneces sary repetition. The Greek books of the fifteenth century in capital letters occur both under their own. distinct head, and under that of Greek books from 1476 to 1500. On the whole, we cannot but observe, with respect to this part of has expended the greatest share of Mr. Beloe's volume, on which he his labour, that it was unquestionably that on which his diligence was least needed, for the greater part of its contents had been an、 ticipated by Mr. Dibdin's late publication, whose descriptions are also. in many instances more minute than those of his fellow-labourer in the same field. Reference is in some cases properly made to them by Mr. Beloe, but in a great majo. rity of instances they pass unnoticed.

Two more volumes are promised by Mr. Beloe, which will be accompanied by a general index, and will complete the work.

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