exaggeration to fay, it equals, if not furpaffes, the works of CATO and COLUMELLA, and even VARRO:

Et dubitant homines ferere, atque impendere

curam.

VIRGIL.

And can the fwains still doubt; and ftill forbear, To plant, to fet, to cultivate with care?

As a diligent perufal of this useful treatife would animate our gentry, and fupine nobility, to improve their eftates, by the unfailing methods there recommended; fo an attentive ftudy of our author's next work, might, perhaps, contribute to put a stop to the difproportioned and deformed edifices fo prevailing at prefent, under the names of GOTHIC and CHINESE. This evidence of our author's juster taste is entitled, “A Parallel

of the ancient architecture with the modern; "in a collection of ten principal authors who "have written upon the five orders: From the "French of ROLAND FREART, Sieur de Cambray.

To which is added, an account of Architects and

Architecture, in an Historical and Etymologi"cal Explanation of certain Terms particularly "affected by Architects. By JOHN EVELYN.

F. R. S. London, M,DC, LXIV." Architecture, one of the hobleft offsprings of judgment and fancy, feems to have been the peculiar ftudy and delight of this learned family of EVELYN; as an inftance of which the following anecdotes may be produced, which will not prove unacceptable to an inquifitive reader. AUBREY in his SURRY, Vol. 4, p. 66, informs us, that "Lord “ Aylesford

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Aylesford is Lord of the manor of Albury, "who has pulled down great part of the old "buildings; to which text this note of J. EVELYN is fubjoined: "My kinfman, Capt. "GEORGE EVELYN, who had been a great "traveller, built the great dining-room and

apartment for Mr. HENRY HOWARD, after"wards Duke of Norfolk, in order to a noble palace, &c. But the Duke, growing diffolute, neglected this defign, and all other honourable "things. His grandfather, who purchased Al"bury, would have fold any eftate he had in England (Arundel excepted) before he would "have parted with this his darling villa, as I

can fhew you in that brave perfon's letter to 66 me from Padua. J. E." i. e. JOHN EVELYN. And again, page 68, on ALBURY we find another note, by JOHN EVELYN. "This invention, of "-levelling the hills by washing down the fands, "was not found out by Mr. CHARLES HOWARD, "but fhewed him by Captain GEORGE EVELYN "(a kinfman of mine) who took away a great "hill of fand at Wotton, which made that large fquare for the garden there. J. E."

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THIS fame year alfo our indefatigable writer, ever intent on the public good, publifhed two treatises more : 66 Μοτηρίου τῆς Ανομίας ; that is, "Another part of the mystery of Jefuitifm, or "the new herefy of the jefuits; publicly main"tained at Paris in the College of Clermont, the "twelfth of December, M,DC,LXI. This is the only piece of a controverfial turn, I can find among Mr. EVELYN's productions. The next performance

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"Kalendarium Hor

tenfe; or the Gardener's Almanack, directing "what he is to do monthly throughout the year, " and what fruits and flowers are in prime, 8vo. "London, M,DC,LXIV." The third edition of this work was dedicated to Mr. CowLEY, with whom our author maintained a long and inviolable friendship; a friendship that reflected equal honour on both. As a proof of its warmth and fincerity, I cannot forbear the pleasure of tranfcribing the following effay of COWLEY addressed to Mr. EVELYN:

For ftill I love the language of his heart. POPE.

"I NEVER had any other defire fo ftrong, and "fo like to covetoufnefs, as that one which I have "had always, that I might be master at last of a "fmall house and large garden, with very mode"rate conveniencies joined to them; and there de"dicate the remainder of my life, to the culture of "them, and the study of nature.

But

"several accidents of my ill fortune have "disappointed me hitherto, and do ftill, of that "felicity for though I have made the first and "hardest step to it, by abandoning all ambitions "and hopes in this world, and by retiring from "the noife of all bufinefs, and almoft company;

yet I ftick ftill in the inn of a hired house and "gardens, among weeds and rubbish, and "without that pleasanteft work of human in"duftry, the improvement of fomething which "we call (not very properly, but yet we call) our 66 own. I am gone out from Sodom

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"am not yet arrived at my little Zoar. O let "me escape thither (is it not a little one?) and my foul fhall live! I do not look back yet; "but I have been forced to ftop, and make too many halts. You may wonder, Sir, for this "feems a little too extravagant and pindarical "for profe, what I mean by all this preface: "it is to let you know, that though I have mis"fed, like a chymift, my great end, yet I ac"count my affections and endeavours well reward"ed by fomething that I have met with by "the bye; which is, that they have procured me "fome part in your kindness and efteem, and "thereby the honour of having my name fo

advantageously recommended to pofterity, by "the epiftle you are pleased to prefix to the moft "ufeful book that has been written in that kind, "and which is to laft as long as months and

years. Among many other arts and excellen"cies which you enjoy, I am glad to find this "favourite of mine the moft predominant; that "you chufe this for your wife, though you "have hundreds of other arts for your concu"bines though you know them, and beget fons

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upon them all, to which you are rich enough "to allow great legacies; yet the iffue of this "feems to be defigned by you to the main of "the eftate; you have taken most pleasure in "it, and bestowed moft charges upon its edu"cuation; and I doubt not to fee that book, "which you are pleased to promife to the world, "and of which you have given us a large ear“ nest

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"neft in your Kalender, as accomplished as any . thing can be expected, from an extraordinary "wit and no ordinary expences, and a long ex

perience. I know no body that poffeffes more "private happiness than you do in your garden; "and yet no man who makes his happiness more "public, by a free communication of the art "and knowledge of it to others. All that I

myself am able yet to do, is only to recom"mend to mankind the fearch of that felicity, "which you inftruct them how to find and "to enjoy.

Happy art thou, whom God does blefs "With the full choice of thine own happiness; "And happier yet, because thou'rt bleft, "With prudence how to chufe the best. "In books and gardens thou haft plac'd aright, (Things which thou well do'ft understand, "And both do'ft make with thy laboroius hand,) Thy noble, innocent delight:

"And in thy virtuous wife, where thou again do'ft

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"Both pleasures more refin'd and fweet; "The faireft garden in her looks,

"And in her mind the wifeft books. "Oh, who would change thefe foft, yet folid joys, "For empty fhews, and fenfeless noise;

"And all which rank ambition breeds,

"Which feem fuch beauteous flowers, and are fuch nous weeds ?"

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