meneutici, patriftici, dogmatici, polemici, afcetici homiletici, liturgici, fynodici. The codices, of which an account is given in the first volume, amount to 975; and those in the first part of the fecond volume to 475. Mr. Denis has, as far as was poffible, affigned the ages of the different MSS. and we are prefented with fac fimiles of the characters of two of them only. Among the most ancient may be reckoned a Codex Hilarii de Trinitate, belonging to the fourth, fifth, or fixth century; and future editors of that Father, as alfo of Lactantius, Cyprian, Bede, Ifdorus of Seville, Rhabanus Maurus, Petrus Longobardus, &c. and of the Christian Latin poets, will find a confiderable store of new materials either tranfcribed into, or pointed out by, this catalogue.

We must not forget to obferve, that where articles in other departments of literature are found, bound up in the fame volume with theological works, they are likewife defcribed with them.

HOLLAND.

Ibid.

ART. 66. Berichten van de Zendingen der Euangelifche Brædergemeente onder de Heidenen.-Accoun: of the Miffions of the Evangelical Bra therhood among the Heathen. No. 3-4; from p. 163 to p. 315. Zeilt and Amiterdam.

The third part contains, 1. The Continuation of the Account of the Miffions of the Brotherhood among the Heathen. ney of Hans Wied from Paramaribo to Hoop in the year 1794. In 2. The Jourthe former of these articles, we are prefented with the hiftory of the endeavours of the Brotherhood to propagate the Gofpel among the Laplanders and Samojedes; of the Miffions to Georgia, Surinam, and Berbice. The latter of thefe articles gives an account of the fituation of Hoop, and of the meatures adopted there for the purpose of the miffion. The author, accompanied by his wife, left Paramaribo on the ift of July, and returned thither on the 16th of September. In P. 229, he defcribes the preparation of the Indian beer from the caf fabi root, which was first chewed by an old woman. toms of the Indians are likewife here noticed. Many other cuf

The fourth number con prizes, 1. The Life of Matthern Stach, the firft Miffionary to Greenland, who died, 1787, in the 77th year of his age. 2 and 3. Obfervations on the State of the Miffion, from the middle of the year 1795 to 1797, and from the 1ft of July, 1797, to the 30th of June, 1798, at Paramaribo; among the Hottentots, at Bavianikloof; in Greenland, Labrador; in the Welt Indies, in Antigua, St. Kitt's, St. Thomas, Santa Cruz, and St. John; as alfo in North America.

ACKNOW

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

W. W. will find our fincere and candid opinion on the work he recommends, in the Review for the prefent month. If we cannot be fo unlimited in our applaufe as the perfons he mentions, he may recollect, that the very circumftances which remove the limits of their praife, are likely to produce a contrary effect on our decifion. We have been much urged on the fubject of this book, and have fpoken with reflection and care.

To 7. S. who wrote on the fame fubject, and whom we anfwered last month, we now add, that we are forry it was not in our power to decide more according to his wishes.

We cannot fuppofe C. S. S. to be ignorant, that the Elements of Euclid are the proper work for commencing the study of mathematics; yet what else can we confiftently re.commend? The editions of Euclid are many, and a very good one added to the number, was reviewed by us last month, P. 498.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. William Smith, Member of the Bath Society of Agriculture, is printing a work on the natural order of the various ftrata in different parts of England and Wales, with practical obfervations.

Dr. Watkins has it in contemplation to publish an account of the Clergy of the Church of England who were fufferers in the Great Rebellion, an improved edition of Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy; to be comprifed in two volumes,

octavo.

The Rev. John Moore, Prefident of Sion College, is preparing Notes on the Latin Sermon which he preached before the Clergy, on the Seventy Weeks of Daniel, and is about to publifh at their request.

Sir Henry Englefeld has in the prefs a Walk through Southampton, which comprises an interesting survey of the long neglected antiquities of that town, and will contain engravings of fome of the most remarkable objects.

A new tranflation, in French, of Pope's Rape of the Lock, will be published in a few days, handfomely printed in poft quarto, with notes, by the tranflator, Mr. Defmoulins, of Southampton.