adence of his sentences is too evidently
laboured.

FOOTNOTES
[1] There is a little memoir of James St. Amand, in the preface, that
will interest some readers. He was of Lincoln College, Oxford, about
1705, where he had scarcely remained a year, before his ardour for
Greek literature induced him to visit Italy, chiefly with a view of
searching MSS. that might serve for an edition of Theocritus. In
Italy, before he had reached his twentieth year, he was well known
to the learned world, and had engaged the esteem of many eminent
men; among others, of Vincenzo Gravina, Niccolo Valletto, Fontanini,
Quirino, Anton Maria Salvini, and Henry Newton, the English
Ambassador to the Duke of Tuscany. Their letters to him are
preserved in the Bodleian. By his researches into the MSS. of
Italian libraries, he assisted his learned friends, Kuster, Le
Clerc, Potter, Hudson, and Kennet, and other literary characters of
that time, in their several pursuits. He then returned to England by
way of Geneva and Paris, well laden with treasures derived from the
foreign libraries, all which, with a large collection of valuable
books, he bequeathed to the Bodleian. He died about 1750. He
desisted from his intention of publishing Theocritus, either from
ill health, or weariness of his work, or some fear about its
success. His preparations for this edition, together with some notes
on Pindar (an edition of which he also meditated), Aristophanes, the
Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius, Demosthenes, and others, remain
in the Bodleian.
Dr. Shaw, in his edition of Apollonius Rhodius, has since made use
of his notes on that poet, and pays a tribute to his critical
abilities in the preface.
[2] Warton's distinction between them is well imagined.
"Sinillis est Theocritus amplo cuidam pascuo per se satis foecundo,
herbis pluribus frugiferis floribusque pulchris abundanti, dulcibus
etiam fluviis uvido: similis Virgilius horto distincto nitentibus
areolis; ubi larga floruni copia, sed qui studiose dispositi,
curaque meliore nutriti, atque exculti diligenter, olim hue a pascuo
illo majore transferebantur."

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JOSEPH WARTON.

The Memoirs of Joseph Warton, by Dr. Wooll, the present Head-master of
Rugby school, is a book which, although it contains a faithful
representation of his life and ch