are considered as having added, by the institution and increase of libraries, to the glory of nations, and some of the most celebrated monarchs, by the foundation of learned societies and the establishment of learned libraries, have increased the glory of their reign, and the reputation of their era. The maintenance at publick expense of a society of learned men, and the riches of the Alexandrian library, have illustrated the age of the Ptolomies; and Louis XIVth, in rational estimation, has acquired a higher title to renown, by the creation or patronage of learned academies, and by the splendid augmentation of the royal library, than by the extent of his conquests and the brilliancy of his triumphs. It is a subject of high congratution to record the establishment of an institution in the metropolis of New-England, which will be useful to various classes of our citizens; which will assist and facilitate the researches of the learned, attract and gratify the ingenuous curiosity of strangers. Let men of leisure and opulence patronise the arts and sciences among us; let us all love them, as intellectual men; let us encourage them,as good citizens. In proportion as we increase in wealth, our obligations increase to guard against the pernicious effects of luxury,by stimulating to a taste for intellectual enjoyment; the more we ought to perceive and urge the importance of maintaining the laws by manners, manners by opinion, and opinion by works, in which genius and taste unite to embellish the truth. GENTLEMEN, POETRY. ORIGINAL. It has been remarked, that the poetick department of the Anthology abounds rather in selected than in original productions; whether this be the result of choice or necessity, the following lines will not be considered inapplicable, since they partake the nature of both characters, and hence, if in other respects worthy to appear, it is presumed they will not be rejected. FROM THE RUNIC. The Power of Musick is thus hyperbolically commemorated in one of the Songs of the Runic Bards.”* I know a Song, by which I soften and enchant the arms of my enemies, and render their weapons of no effect. I know a Song, which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds, for the moment I sing it, my chains fall in pieces, and I walk forth at liberty. I know a Song, useful to all mankind, for as soon as hatred inflames the s of men, the moment I sing it they are appeased. sons I know a Song of such virtue, that were I caught in a storm, I can hush the winds, and render the air perfectly calm. THE SONG OF A RUNIC BARD. IMITATED IN ENGLISH VERSE. I. I KNOW A SONG, the magick of whose power II. I KNOW A SONG, which, when in bonds I lay, I KNOW A SONG, which when the wild winds blow To bend the monarchs of the forests low, If to the lay my warbling voice incline, Hush'd are the gales, the spirit of the storm Calms his bleak breath, and smooths his furrow'd form, CAMBRIA SELECTED. ZEMBO AND NILA. AN AFRICAN TALE: BY JAMES MONTGOMERY. WHERE the beauteous Niger roll'd Soft as desert fountains flow, Sweet as ocean breezes blow, Came a lonely negro maid, Where the sleeping brute was laid. O what wild enchanting grace Sparkled o'er her dimpled face, While the moonlight of her eyes Glow'd and glanced with fond surprize, Bright thro' shadow beam'd her lips; She was beauty in eclipse, Sportive, innocent, and gay, All in nature's disarray, Unashamed as infancy, Dancing on the father's knee; Fearless as the babe at rest, Pillow'd on the mother's breast: But to crown her conquering charms, Pearly bracelets twined her arms, Brilliant plumes her temples graced, Flowery foliage wreath'd her waist; The startled nymph, with silent awe, The lovely dreadful monster saw, Mark'd the sleek enamell'd pride Of his variegated hide, Marbled o'er with glossy dyes, Nila's bosom o'er the sight Calm refreshing dreams attend thee! From the snake, whose tainting breath When, like whirlwind, flood, and fire, Tygers-so my parents say- Light as the silvery shadows sail Zembo from the grove emerging, Slid so slily through her heart, Now she saw with transports sweet Gallant Zembo at her feet; Tho' her trembling lips were seal'd, Love her hidden soul reveal'd: Zembo read with glad surprize All the secrets of her eyes; Wild with joy his eager arms Sprang to clasp her modest charms; Startled, like the timid deer, Nila fled with lovely fear; He pursued the nimble maid To the broad palmetto shade; There the flowery wreaths she found Which the tyger's front had crown'd; These on Zembo's brow she twined, Whispering thus in accents kind: “Noble youth! accept, tho' small, This reward;-'tis Nila's all; If my hero claims a higher, Yonder, Zembo-lives my Sire." Sheffield, Sept. 1807. FOR NOVEMBER, 1807. Librum tuum legi & quam diligentissime potui annotavi, quæ commutanda, que eximenda, arbitrarer. Nam ego dicere verum assuevi. Neque ulli patientius reprehenduntur, quam qui maxime laudari merentur. PLIN. ARTICLE 62. Letters concerning the constitution and order of the christian ministry, as deduced from scripture and primitive usage; addressed to the members of the United Presbyterian Churches in the city of New-York. By Samuel Miller, D. D. one of the pastors of said churches. New-York, Hopkins & Seymour. pp. 355. 12mo. 1807. FOR what purpose the episco pal controversy has lately been revived in this country, we confess ourselves utterly at a loss to determine. Whoever has been the aggressor, let him know that it is a most unnecessary and reprehensible violation of charity and peace. No man can be so absurd as to maintain seriously, at the present day, either the jus divinum, or the uninterrupted succession of any hierarchy on earth. It is also very generally agreed, except by a few of the most pertinacious of episcopal and presbyterian ecclesiasticks, that neither our Saviour, nor his apostles, have left on record any draught of church government, to be implicitly adopted in subsequent ages, as an unalterable model, a quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus. Especially is it absurd to insist upon the peculiar claims of any one form of ministerial arrangement in a country like ours, where the indispensable restraints of secular government can hardly be tolerated, and much less the encroachments of any order of clergy, whether they advance under the covering of the tiara, the mitre, or the Scotch bonnet. Let a few uncharitable piscopalians deny, if they please, the right of presbyterian ordination, and frighten old women of both sexes about the invalidity of ordi nances, which are not administered by a regular priest; and let the presbyterian talk, if he choose, of the divine right of classes, and synods, and presbyteries, and general assemblies, and espy, in every page of the primitive writers, ruling elders, and teaching elders, and feeding elders, and kirk' sessions; what is all this to the humble, private, unassuming laick? Every christian is willing, while he can preserve the power of his religion, conscientiously to submit to any ecclesiastical arrangement, which circumstances render expedient. He is satisfied that, whereever church is not connected with state, pastors and people will always mutually adopt the least inconvenient form, though unsupported by the authority of unin |