The right hand of fellowship, by Mr. Buckminster, is the splendid performance of a young man of genius. The following simile was received by the auditory with a murmur of applause; and we doubt not it will afford a high gratification to the reader.

Is there not, amidst all the varieties of difcipline and faith, enough left us in common to preferve a unity of fpirit? What though the globes, which compofe our planetary system, are at fometimes nearer than at others, both to one another and to the fun, now croffing one another's path, now eclipfing one another's light, and even fometimes appearing to our fhort-fighted vifion to have wandered irrecoverably, and to have gone off into boundless fpace; yet do we not know that they are still reached by fome genial beams of the central light, and continue, in their widest aberrations, to gravitate to the fame point in the fyftem? And may we not believe that the great head of the church has always difpenfed, through the numerous focieties of christendom, a portion of the healing influences of his religion; has held them invifibly together, when they have appeared to be rufhing fartheft afunder; and through all the order and confufion, conjunction and oppofition, progrefs and decline of churches, has kept alive in every communion a fupreme regard to his authority, when clearly known, as a common principle of relation to him and to one another?

In the extract which follows, Mr. B. has, with a few masterly strokes, drawn the true characters of the great Mayhew, and the virtuous Howard.

Surely the defk, where fuch men as Mayhew and Howard have flood, is privileged above the common walks of publick inftruction.-Of Mayhew we have heard and read only, but enough to know, that pofterity will hear and read of him also. They will be curious to learn more of that intrepid fpirit, which nothing could deprefs; of that vigorous understanding, which broke fo easily the little meshes which were spread to entangle it. However they may hef itate to follow him in all his fpeculations, they will never hesitate to admire his noble attachment to his country, its

liberties, its churches, and its literature; they will not be interested to depreciate the independence of his virtue, the manlinefs of his piety, and the undiffembled love for the caufe of his Redeemer.

Howard we have feen; and who that has feen him has forgotten the patriarchal fimplicity of his character, united with a tenderness, which would have been admired even in a brother? Who that

knew him is not eager now to affure us, that he had ingrafted the moft fublime virtues and honourable accomplishments of his predeceffor on the found and uncorrupted stock of his own integrity?

In the last extract we have marked a word, which appears to us to be incorrectly employed. As Mayhew and Howard only stood in the pulpit, other publick instructers ought not, in the same sentence, to have walks assigned to them.

ART. 10.

A discourse delivered at the request of the American revolution society, before that society, and the state society of the Cincinnati, on the death of Gen. Christopher Gadsden, Sept. 10, 1805. By Nathaniel Bowen, A. M. rector of St. Michael's, and member of the American revolution society. Published at the request of the two societies. Charleston. W. P. Young. p. 22.

THERE are various defects in this discourse. The style is too

Inverted. In the composition of the sentences, there are too many members and useless adjectives. Two or three instances of bad grammar are discoverable. The relatives, that and which, are too often elliptically omitted, and the former is sometimes used, when the latter should have been prefer red, both on account of perspicuity and euphony. We are willing to believe any thing commendatory of Gen. Gadsden, but the generality of readers would have been more pleased with a biographical narration, than loose eu logy in the body of the discourse, and disjointed historical facts in the notes. From the present work the future historian can glean nothing; and no funeral orator of an illustrious statesman or renown. ed commander will consider it as a model for eloquence or enco◄ mium.

ART. 11.

A supplement to Johnson's English Dictionary. By George Mason. Re-printed from the London Quarto edition. New York, for I. Riley & Co. 8vo.

MR. Mason has unquestionably produced a very useful work, which we recommend to all the proprietors of Johnson's dictionary. We are sorry to find in his preface, that he has treated the

great luminary of his age with disrespect, and, we believe, with injustice. He talks of his inaccu racies, of his various inconsisten▪ cies with himself, of his want of diligence, of the narrowness of his intelligence, of his mistakes, of his negligence, and deficiency, of his highly ridiculous observations.

The dictionary of Johnson is a stupendous work, considered as the production of one man; and has been regarded by the best judges, as superiour to the French lexicon of the forty academicians. According to Garrick's compli ment,

He has beat forty French, and will beat forty more.

The genius of Johnson ought not to have been degraded to the mechanical drudgery of such a work, though no man living could have executed it so well. It was Hercules cleansing the Augean stables, the most arduous, and least glorious of his labours. The task of Mr. Mason was compar atively easy. He had only to pick up what might have dropped or been overlooked by the labouring hero. The task was performed by the removal of the filth. Nothing remained for Mr. Mason but the light labours of the broom. Mr. Mason, in his attack on the Doctor, reminds us of Shakespeare's "flea on the lip of a lion."

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