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and Sermons. The former show much critical learning, extensive knowledge of languages, both ancient and modern, and familiarity, far beyond common attainment, with the literature of Europe. The review of Mr. Mathias's Componimenti Lirici, will be very useful as a guide to those who would make themselves acquainted with the best productions of the Italian poets; that of Mitford's Harmony of Language, shows how much attention Mr. Herbert has paid to the grammmatical structure of languages, and evinces his power of discrimination in points often difficult to discuss, especially as regards the laws of accent, both in modern and ancient languages; a point most important indeed to the true knowledge of the structure of versification, and at the same time much neglected and widely misunderstood.* The notes on the Horatian metres, will show to those studious of such interesting inquiries, more than any previous work, the great delicacy and exactness of the laws which governed them; while the review of Mr. Gifford's Massinger, as respects the writer's system of versification, cannot be read without profit. The Sermons at the conclusion of the volume are for the most part on what may be called occasional subjects; they are written elegantly, impressively; and on disputed points, as in the one before the Bishop of Chester, temperately, and with due allowance for difference of opinion, as a churchman equally pious and conscientious, though taking particular doctrines or duties under different points of view, and drawing conclusions and inferences from them more widely apart than can be looked on by some without disquiet and alarm.

RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH OF SAINT MARY REDCLIFFE, BRISTOL.

(With Exterior and Interior Views.)

IT affords us much pleasure to lay before our readers some authentic particulars relative to the works proposed to restore this noble specimen of ecclesiastical building to its pristine grandeur; derived from the joint Report of Messrs. Britton and Hosking, the one well known for his antiquarian disquisitions and his love for all that concerns the Christian architecture of Great Britain; and the other for his thorough knowledge of construction and architecture.

These gentlemen, having carefully and fully surveyed the fabric, commenced by drawing the attention of the parish authorities to the injuries it has sustained, from the long-continued

access of damp and moisture, both in the superstructure and foundation walls-produced, as to the former, by the insufficient means for carrying off the rain and snow-and, as to the latter, by the want of drainage; both which deficiencies they principally ascribe to the original arrangement for the discharge of water from the roofs, and want of drainage round the fabric. To the former of these defects they attribute, in a great degree, the injury to, if not destruction of, the external faces of the masons' work upon the walls and buttresses.

They describe the roof covering as, throughout, in a very defective state, though heavy expence is annually

* If we remember correctly, there is a note by Joseph Scaliger on Ausonius on this subject, showing that it had not escaped the attention of that singularly-learned scholar; but the subject is only treated on in passing.

+ See p. 133. In the passage, undoubtedly corrupt, Mr. Gifford's additional line is quite inadmissible, and Mr. Herbert's change of "all" into "without" too violent; we would prefer reading "gone all," or some equivalent word.

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