ner, to fhew the great benefit of the new husbandry, above that of the old: but they are too numerous, as well as too long, to be inferted here. We cannot, however, deny our readers, the pleasure of perufing the following reflections, upon fome very interefting experiments, which we are obliged, unwillingly, to omit. The partifans of both kinds of husbandry, will do well to confider, that the great principle which we are endeavouring to inculcate, and on which almost the whole fuccefs of the new husbandry depends, is admitted in the old husbandry: viz. thoroughly to divide and loofen the earth. This principle is fo generally received, that there is not a husbandman who does not know, that one plowing more than ordinary does his land as much good as dunging it would do. His experience has certainly taught him, that this extraordinary plowing produces him better crops: but he is not fufficiently fenfible, that of all the ways of im• proving his land, no one is more effectual, or less expenfive than this. Were the full value of it known, it would ⚫ be practised more; and every farmer would give all his lands at least one plowing extraordinary. • What we propose, is therefore not a novelty capable of giving any husbandman the least dislike to the new husbandry. We all proceed upon the fame principle, and agree as to its effect. All of us fay, the earth must be well divided and thoroughly loofened: but we differ in the manner of doing it. We propose a method by which the ground is much better • prepared than in the old way. In this confifts all the novelty. Whoever rightly confiders it, and compares it with the principles and experiments, will readily receive it: but he that is determined before-hand not to enter into this ex< amination, will never enjoy the benefits of it, but will continue plodding on in the old beaten track; not from reason, but because others did fo before him. The advantages of the new husbandry are however fo great, that it would be doing the public an injury, not to endeavour to make them more and more known. The fittest way to answer this end, feems to be, to exhort all husbandmen to convince themselves, by ftudying the theory of the new husbandry, weighing the folidity of its principles, and confulting the experiments which have been already made.-Every man of common understanding, cannot but fucceed in the practical part; and his example being imitated by others, the new husbandry would foon become the general method.' Chpa. Chap. III. of this Part, gives us the Culture of Maiz, or Indian Corn: and Chap. IV. contains, Experiments on Smyrna Wheat.-But for these particulars, we refer to the work itfelf. Part III. Treats of the Culture of Spring-Corn, Millet, and Rice, Leguminous Plants and Pot-Herbs, Flax and Hemp, artificial and natural Grass, and the Vine. In this part we meet with many curious obfervations, and accurate experiments; all tending to fhew ftill farther the advantages of the new husbandry. But as we have already felected feveral paffages from the fecond part, for this very purpose; we may, perhaps, be excufed from giving any extract from the third: which, however, is worthy the perufal of every lover of agriculture. The fourth and laft part treats of the various inftruments peculiar to, or useful in, the new husbandry: but as the defcriptions of them cannot well be rendered fufficiently intelligible without the plates with which they are accompanied ; we fhall beg leave to conclude our account of the work before us, by ftrongly recommending it to the notice of the public, as a clear, confiftent, well-connected, experimental System of Agriculture. P The Works of Horace in English Verfe. By feveral Hands. Illuftrated with Notes Hiftorical and Critical. Volume the fecond and laft. 8vo. 5s. fewed. DodЛley. F NOR an account of the first volume of this work, we refer the reader to our Review for the month of January, 1758. This fecond and laft volume contains the fifth book of Odes, or Epodes; the Satires, Epiftles and the Art of Poetry. Mr. J. Duncombe is here alfo the principal tranflator. His affiftants are, William Duncombe, Efq; J. P. Shard, Efq; William Cowper, Efq; Mr. Fawkes, and W. C. Efq; The Epodes appear to be entirely Mr. Duncombe's own. He has been affifted only in the Satires, which, as the reader may fuppofe, are differently executed according to the different talents of the feveral Gentlemen concerned. Mr. Duncomb, no doubt, understands the author perfectly but his poetry, in this volume, is equally mufical and fublime with what we have read in the firft. At the the end of the Odes we find this poftfcript. The reader is defired to add the following judicious remark to the Notes at the end of Book III. Ode 29. of the preceding volume. It was communicated to us by the learned Dr. Lowth. Non eft meum fi mugiat Africis Malus procellis, Ver. 57, & feq. All the modern Commentators feem to have quite mif• taken the meaning of Horace in the two last stanzas of this beautiful Ode. They are a continuation of the philofophical rant begun four ftanzas above. In this conclufion he is a perfect Epicurean: he treats a principal branch of religion, namely, prayer to the Gods, and truft in them for fuccour in diftrefs, with the greateft ridicule, by ufing the moft contemptuous expreffions, and the fevereft irony. Ad miferas preces decurrere, & votis pacifci; as mean and abfurd; as equally unworthy of the dignity of the Philofopher, and of the Divine Nature. Tum me, &c. "Then, for"footh, fays he, (i. e. when I have ftruck a bargain with "them) Caftor and Pollux will be fure to take care, and carry me fafe, even in a wherry, thro' the most dangerous "feas, and the most dreadful storm." The whole train of this Ode, in which confifts its greatest beauty, will fufficiently justify this interpretation. If authority is ftill wanting, take that of the old Scholiaft, who remarks on the three laft lines, that they are an irony. Dr. Bentley's arbitrary alteration of feret to ferat, entirely deftroys the fenfe of the paffage.' . The Editors, Meffrs. William and John Duncombe, begin their Preface to the Satires and Epiftles with a translation of Father Sanadon's portrait of Horace, which, as it is not very long, we shall tranfcribe. Horace was undoubtedly one of the finest geniuses that the age of Auguftus produced. But wit alone, abstractedly confidered, is but a poor recommendation. Nay, experience every day fhews us, that it leads those who poffefs it into the greatest errors, if it is not under the direction of good fenfe and judgment. The wit of our bard fhines thro' all his works; but I will be bold to fay, that they derive their chief merit from the good fenfe contained in them. His thoughts are the genuine offspring of Nature. They are dictated by truth and reason. Unambitious to deck his ftyle with frivolous ornaments, which serve only to amufe fuperficial minds, he makes amends for the want of thefe, by the fublimity and luftre of his ideas and figures 'in in his Odes, and by the chaftenefs of his elocution, and the propriety of his images, in his Satires and Epiftles. Graces every where flow from his pen, and please the more, because they feem natural and unftudied. His poetry is not a barren foil: the useful and agreeable spring up together: we are at the fame time entertained and inftructed. The mind finds itself enriched by fables, hiftory, and geography, which are fprinkled thro' the whole work with judgment, and without affectation. The heart is here improved by a variety of wife reflections on the manners, and by lively draughts of vice and virtue. In a word, the taste is formed by a compofition just and correct, without constraint; full of grace and beauty without varnish; eafy and yet not negligent; majeftic, without bombaft; and always seasoned with fo much wit and learning, as leave no ⚫ room for disgust. It rarely happens that an author fucceeds in different kinds of compofition; but Horace is equally happy in Lyric Poetry and Satire. He has not only united the beauties of Pindar, Alcæus, Anacreon, and Sappho, in his Odes, • but found the means to trace a new path, and to substitute ⚫ himself as a model. He has the fame fuperiority in Satire. He is more correct than Lucilius, and observes a mean betwixt the flaming invectives of Juvenal, and the obscure brevity of Perfius: he has neither the bitter gall of the one, nor the peevish spleen of the other. He rather aims to correct vice, than to expose the guilty. As to his morality, tho' he had unhappily imbibed the principles of Epicurus, yet he acknowleges a fingle power, fuperior to all created beings, who will not fuffer crimes to país with impunity; to whom even Kings are accountable < for their conduct, and who ought to be the fource and end of all their actions*. Horace teaches us, that our happiness consists in the right ufe of our reafon, and in curbing the tumultuous fallies of our paffions; that we cannot too foon devote ourselves to the ftudy of wisdom; that nothing but virtue deferves our admiration; and that without it there can be no true "liberty.' The first Satire is, by J. P. Shard, Efq; adapted to the manners of the present times, and addreffed to the Earl of Corke. To the line Perfidus hic Caupo, we have the following note, with which, as it is an anecdote, we fhall oblige our claffical readers. • Mr. Markland has hit the blot in this paffage (where Caupo is palmed upon us for Juris-confultus) but has not been fo happy in his correction of it. The true reading, in all probability, is Cautor. The word is of the best authority: "Cautorem alieni periculi." C1• OERO. As likewife the propriety of its ufe for Juris-confultus, is manifeft, whofe proper bufinefs it was, " in jure "cavere.Melius ei cavere volo, quam ipfe aliis folet." CICERO de Valerio Juris-confulto." Quiq; aliis cavit (i. e. "Juris-confultus) non cavet ipfe fibi." OVID. The epithet perfidus added to it, makes a very humourous Oxymoron, as they call it, a pleafant contradiction in terms. This conjecture is, I believe, an anecdote. I heard it many years ago; but cannot certainly fay, who was the author of it; but think it was the late Dr. Cockman.' The editors have added to the Epiftles, a great number of Imitations, by different hands; of which those by the late Mr. Chriftopher Pitt are not the leaft valuable. His Imitation of the nineteenth Epiftle (to Mæcenas) of the first book, may serve as an example. To Mr. Low T H. "TIS faid, dear Sir, no Poets please the town, Warm'd by two Gods at once, they drink and write, Let no coif'd Serjeant touch the facred juice, And |