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 preferred, 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 eulogy 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 encomium.

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 compliment,

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 lion."

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It is in the department of ancient clafficks, that the emulation of the German literati appears chiefly to be stimu lated. Many have come forth from the school of Heyne. The edition of Homer's Iliad, by Profeffor Wolf, who prefixed an elaborate collection of proofs, deduced from internal and external circum, ftances, that all the poems ascribed to Homer were not written by the fame hand, has excited great attention in France, where it has been oppofed by the learned Reviewer of the hiftorians of Alexander the Great.

The doubts which have been started in England, on the authenticity of the four celebrated orations supposed to have been delivered by Cicero after his return from exile, and which had been refuted by Gefner in his lectures before the Royal Society at Göttingen, from 1753 to 1759, were revived by Mr. Wolf, who reprinted, in 1801, the arguments on both fides of the queftion, with his objections to those of Gefner, and intima, tions that the authencity of another fa mous oration of Cicero might be difputed. Accordingly, in the following year, he printed the oration pro Marcello, with an introduction, and commentary, maintaining it to be fpurious, Thefe essays, which we apprehend to have been merely fportive, threw the publick cenfors of literature into no fmall perplexity and confternation; and they feem to have thought Wolf, like Antæus, to be invin cible on the foil from which he sprung,