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LITERARY NOTICES

A new Edition of Dr. Johnson's English Poets is in considerable forwardness, to be edited, with additional lives, by Dr. Aikin, with embellishments by Mr. Heath. The first six volumes comprize the works of Spencer, which will be followed by those of Cowley, Milton, and Butler; and it is proposed that the whole shall succeed in chronological order; but the works of each author will be sold separately.

A beautiful edition of Thompson's Seasons is nearly completed, by Bensley, with embellishments from the designs of Fuseli and Hamilton.

Another edition, foolscap 8vo. with Engravings, and a critical Essay, by Mr. Evans, is in the press.

The tenth and last volume of the English Encyclopedia, will speedily be published.

A new edition of Kearsley's English Peerage, down to the present time, will be out in the course of the month.

A Poem by Dr. Booker, author of the Hop Garden, is preparing for the Press.

The following works are also in the press:

Travels in Crimea; or, a Journal of the Tour of an Embassy sent by Catharine II. across the desert to Constantinople, in 1798; written by one of the Secretaries to the Embassy.

A Treatise on the means of purifying infected air, preventing contagion, and stopping its progress. Translated from the French of L. B. Guyters de Morveau, Member of the National Institute, &c.

and prose The Miscellaneous Works, in verse, of the late Henry Man, of the South Sea House, with a sketch of his life.

A new Edition, foolscap Svo. with a portrait, of the Conduct of the Understanding. By J. Locke, Esq.

LXVIII. CLAIMS OF LITERATURE: the Origin, Motives, Objects, and Transactions, of the Society for the Establishment of a Literary Fund.

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HE origin of this volume is expressed in a Resolution of the General Committee of the SOCIETY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE LITERARY FUND, to publish a work in prose and verse, under the title of CLAIMS OF LITERATURE; including an account of the institution, motives, objects, and transactions of the society for the establishment of a literary fund, poems recited on its anniversaries, &c. Mr. Boscawen, Mr. D. Williams, and Mr. Reeves, were requested to communicate on the subject, and to prepare papers for the publication: and by mutual agreement, with the concurrence of the special committee, the papers of Mr. Williams were received as fully sufficient for the purpose of explaining to the public the objects, principles, and tendencies of the institution of a literary fund, which form a considerable part of this work.

The contents are divided into six sections, followed by the transactions of the society, and the poems recited at anniversary meetings.

Sect. I. Is an introduction, in which it is observed, that, "THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY, to be useful, should consist more of argument than narrative, for the difficulties which affected its origin arose more from misapprehension and sophistry than from any of the common obstacles to charitable institutions.

"On the first intimation of the design, it was asked, VOL. I.

"1. What is meant by LITERATURE, when proposed as the object of a cha ritable fund?

"2. The author of the first outline of the institution was charged with assuming what he should have proved, that the benefits of literature outweigh its evils; and it was alledged, if that opinion were proved, he would not be justified in promoting those evils, and increasing the number and misery of authors, by holding out encourage-ment to the choice of literary employments.

"3. The society was charged with indirect censure of the government of the country, though that government has liberally founded schools and universities, and supports learned and opulent establishments.

"4. And, supposing the establishments of the country should not provide for all literary claimants, it was seriously and earnestly advised to leave them, as they have hitherto been left, to the discretion and patronage of the government, nobility, and opulent gentry, and not to undertake their relief by a LITERARY FUND.

"There have been important obstacles to the progress of the undertaking; and if I state the considerations and reasons which by surmounting them, founded the society, I shall in the most useful manner, write its HISTORY." p. 6–9.

"Sect. II. LITERATURE, THE OBJECT OF A CHARITABLE INSTITUTION."

In the proposals for a fund to relieve authors in distress, the expression literary was taken in the most enlarged sense; comprehending every

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Species of mental exertion which has been, or can be, communicated or diffused by language, writing, printing, or any arts analogous to them.

Genius, or the faculty of invention and discovery, is the actuating principle of all these arts; the origin of all the distinctions of man from other animals, and the source of all his peculiar happiness. This supreme distinction, when conferred on the intellect of a philosopher, generates new ideas; in the imagination of a poet, it creates new images, or personifies new ideas: even, in the art of expression, both in prose and verse, this faculty may be displayed: but to bear the characters of genius, all the ideas should be fertile in useful truths, and all the inventions interesting to humanity." p, 10, 11.

PHILOSOPHY is allowed superiority of claim; and "DISCOVERIES BY ACCIDENT, such as are daily made in natural history, natural philosophy, and the arts; if, by their means, the talents of the discoverer open a new career of enquiry, are entitled to the honours of genius. LEARNING, when not a steril admiration of former excellence, when associated with kindred enthusiasm, has unquestionably similar claims. Connected with the remark that the great class of LITERATI, or the learned, is formed of WRITERS whose minds are merely well stored memories,' it is observed that genius commands by sublimity and beautyof 'conception; learning and literary industry prefer their claims by obvious UTILITY'." p. 12, 13,

On language it is remarked, that "Fine writers may be denominated the tailors and milleners of the intellectual world. They agreeably clothe, but do not form the ideas of genius." p. 14.

"LEARNING, the study of ancient models, to form an elegant taste, and a sensibility to the beautiful and subJime in general truths, is of great importance and advantage; and I can not refuse my admiration to many of those scholars who are absorbed by it. But if SHAKSPEARE had been a profound scholar, in the common sense of the word, he would not have produced those dramas, which, sprinkfed as they are with errors and faults, astonish us by their excellencies. Penetrated by reverence for the ancient productions of the dramatic

art, his first essays, like those of other scholars, would have been in criticism and imitation; and habit would have checked and suppressed that immediate intercourse with Nature, and all those novel combinations, and original conceptions, by which he holds the whole dramatic world at his feet.” p. 16, 17.

Sect. III. UTILITY OF LITERATORE. This is proved by argument and illustrated by examples: the advantage of literature to agriculture is stated, and the following appeal made: "Who will presume to affirm the patronage and support of Virgil were misemployed and unproductive, when the fascination of his numbers revived a spirit of husbandry, nearly extinguished by civil war.

"The art of writing is a privilege bestowed by GENIUS, yet attainable by all mankind. By this discovery, all ideas and emotions of the mind may be transmitted to the world, and rendered common benefits and enjoyments. What would riches and honours avail, without the resources of this invention?

"Indeed, if literature had effected nothing more for mankind, than the perpetual accommodation of its languages to its fluctuating situations, it should have been preserved above distress. Language, as wants and desires are multiplied, advances from sound and metaphor into abstract combinations, the use of which Genius alone can wrest from the hands of Imposture; and language is the instrument of all social acquisitions.

"It is by the encouragement of learning, in this sense of it, society can dissipate those early errors and prejudices, with which the rudiments of all institutions are clogged; behind the shapeless masses of which, sophisms are converted into the semblance of truths, and men acquire the logic of vice, or become wicked from principle." p. 25, 26.

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Some historical references made in this section among which are the following:

After the subversion of the Roman empire, and in the ages of darkness and misery which succeeded, not a ray of light tinged the horizon, until CHARLEMAGNE in some degree favoured LEARNING. It became, however, the policy of the governments which then arose, and which have since prevailed to retain genius and