On examining the original, the scholar will find that to the couplet But if to-morrow comes, why then I'll hafte to quaff my wine again,' Anacreon has no claim. It is entirely the offspring of Mr. Moore's imagination. But it is fo much in the ftyle of the jocund minstrel, that were he to fit in judgement upon it, we may almost presume he would approve of its infertion. Ode XVth in the Vatican MS.-IXth Barnes. free." "Soon, my bird, I'll fet Or with gently-fanning wings Shade the minstrel while he fings: This ode is exquifitely tranflated. The rigid critic will not pafs unnoticed the diffuseness with which Mr. Moore has ren, dered Πεπρακε μ' ἡ Κυθήρη The fecond line of the couplet On his harp then fink in flumbers, has not the fhadow of an archetype in the original: but he who can condemn such a beauty muft have a frozen heart. It is certainly conceived and expreffed in Anacreon's best manner, Ode XXIId in the Vatican MS.-XXth Barnes, The Phrygian rock, that braves the storm, Was once a weeping matron's form- Is now a swallow in the fhade, Oh! any thing that touches thee. Nay, fandals for thofe airy feet Thus to be prefs'd by thee were fweet!' P. 92. On this ode Mr. Moore makes the following judicious remarks. Ogilvie, in his effay on the lyric poetry of the ancients, in remarking upon the Odes of Anacreon, fays" In fome of his pieces there is exuberance and even wildnefs of imagination; in that particularly, which is addressed to a young girl, where he wishes alternately to be transformed to a mirror, a coat, a stream, a bracelet, and a pair of fhoes, for the different purposes which he recites-this is mere fport and wantonnefs." It is the wantonnefs however of a very graceful mufe—ludit amabiliter. The compliment of this ode is exquifitely delicate, and fo fingular for the period in which Anacreon lived, when the fcale of love had not yet been graduated into all its little progreffive refinements, that if we were inclined to queftion the authenticity of the poem, we fhould find a much more plaufible argument in the features of modern gallantry which it bears, than in any of thofe faftidious conjectures upon which fome commentators have prefumed fo far.' P. 92. We think Mr. Moore has tranfgreffed the licence with which all tranflators must be indulged, of prefenting the fpirit rather than the letter of their original, in his verfion of these two lines. Εγω δ' εσοπόρον ετην Όπως αει βλεπης με. Oh! that a mirror's form were mine, To fparkle with that fmile divine; Reflecting thee, and only thee!' Had he stopped at the end of the first couplet, his version would have been exact and elegant. The two laft lines contain a conceit better adapted to the epigrammatic mufe of modern Italy than the natural and fimple ftyle of the Grecian bard: and the expreffion be reflecting thee is by no means confonant to the general polish of the tranflator's diction. We have taken the liberty of making thefe remarks, not with a view of depreciating the general merits of the work before us, or of irritating its author by trifling objections to paffages which have perhaps coft him much reflection and pains: but to fhow that we have not inattentively perufed his verfes, and that our opinion may have the more weight with the public when we recommend this tranflation as enlivened by the fpirit of the Teian mufe, as chafte, elegant, perfpicuous, and lively. Mr. Moore's notes are appropriate and inftructive, and his exhibition of parallel paffages is made with temperance and judgement. The work is neatly printed, and ornamented by three engravings executed by T. Nugent. The Anacreontics which Mr. Moore has written in allufion to the frontifpiece of this volume prove that he has touched the Grecian lyre till he is at length able to handle it with a mafter's ease." Efays on Gothic Architecture, by the Rev. T. Warton, Rev. J. Bentham, Captain Grofe, and the Rev, J. Milner. (With a Letter to the Publisher.) Illustrated with ten Plates of Ornaments, &c. felected from ancient Buildings; calculated to exhibit the various Styles of different Periods. 8vo. 8s. 6d. Boards. Taylor. 1800. 6 As we are far from being flaves to what a French author has justly styled le petit goût de comparifon,' we have ever regarded what is commonly denominated Gothic architecture as a grand and beautiful variety, not to be estimated by a comparifon with the Greek, but by the peculiar impreffions and fentiments which it is calculated to excite. We therefore fee with pleasure the prefent collection of the bett effays which have hitherto appeared on the subject. The want of a concife hiftorical account of Gothic architecture has been a just caufe of complaint: the fubject is peculiarly interefting to every Englishman, as his country contains the beft fpecimens of a ftyle of building not unequal in grace, beauty, and ornament, to the most celebrated remains of Greece or Rome. This style of architecture may properly be called English architecture, for if it had not its origin in this country, it certainly arrived at maturity here; the fcience and taste of our forefathers being equally. confpicuous with their piety and liberality. On this fubject, England must be confidered as a country, for it was under the Saxon dynafly this ftyle of building was introduced, and under the Norman dynasty it received its ultimate degree of beauty and perfection. To remedy this want of a convenient manual on this interefting fubject, it appeared beft to collect what had been already said by feveral authors of celebrity, in detached works, and which had been received as authorities. In this view, the Rev. Mr. Bentham's Elay on Saxon and Norman Architecture, in his elaborate History of Ely Cathedral, ftood foremost for selection, arrangement, and accurate discrimination of historical facts: next to this, captain Grofe's Preface on Architecture to his Antiquities of England is to be valued; which, although founded in a great degree on Mr. Bentham's opinions, yet contains fome new points and authorities; in particular, his copious notes will be found very intereft ing, and containing nearly all that has been faid by fir Chriftopher Wren on the fubject, which, being 'difperfed through many pages of the Parentalia, could not be given as a regular narrative. The concise history by profeffor Warton, in his notes on Spenfer's Fairy Queen, has received too much applaufe to be neglected; his words, though few, are important on the subject. To these the liberality of the Rev. Mr. Milner has allowed me to add, for the gratification of the public, the hiftory of the origin and progrefs of the pointed arch, lately publifhed by that gentleman, in his learned work on the Hiftory and Antiquities of Winchester. He also has been pleased to fuperintend the felecting of the feries of examples on Plates VIII. IX. and X. which tend strongly to corroborate the opinions he maintains.' P. iii. The editor proceeds to offer fome remarks on the term Gothic architecture; but when he propofes to fubftitute the progreffive terms of Saxon and Norman, he forgets that these kinds of architecture are to be found almoft over all Europe, and the appellations of course become improper, as they refer to one country only. Mr. Taylor might alfo have recommended many other books on Gothic architecture, befides thofe he has published himself-a recommendation which will often be attributed, perhaps, to self-intereft, and which, in reality, carries too much of fuch an appearance along with it. The work, moreover, would have been improved, if a catalogue of the best books on the subject, English and foreign, had been fubjoined. It is unneceffary to dwell on the able effays inferted in this publication, which have already paffed the ordeal of criticism, and been favourably received by the profeffional world. We fhall only obferve that their republication is judicious and accurate; and fhall now proceed to the confideration of the few parts of the prefent work that are original. To the preface fucceeds Obfervations on the Means neceffary for further illuftrating the Ecclefiaftical Architecture of the Middle Ages, in a Letter from the Rev. J. Milner, M. A. F. S. A. to Mr. Taylor.' Mr. Milner propofes to fubftitute the term pointed ftyle for that of Gothic; but there is, in plain truth, no very pofitive objection to the adjective in common use. Ignorant minds alone can affociate with it the barbarism of the ancient Goths and Vandals, who had apparently no concern in this mode of building, though Mr. Gibbon afferts that a reprefentation of the royal palace on the reverfe of a coin of Theodoric is the earlieft delineation of the Gothic order. If this be true, the term would be highly juft, as Theodoric was king of the Goths. But in a larger and more liberal view, as the Gothic nations and language overfpread Europe, on the fall of the Roman empire, and during the period of time when this order was first inftituted, there is no great impropriety in applying the term Gothic to the ftyle of architecture in queftion, as contra-diftinguished from the preceding Roman. Mr. Milner can pafs no opportunity of blaming the alterations of |