The following lines will convey the fenfe, but not the fpirit, to the English reader. The dome he enters, and the father's eyes Sudden his long-loft Jafon recognife, Down his wan cheek the tears fwift streaming flow; His fon, the lovelieft of the human race. This defcription will not ftrike every reader as much as it deferves. It is an original draught from nature; but has been copied and familiarifed to us by a number of fucceeding poets, The interceffion for Demophilus, which fucceeds, and who had been exiled by Arcefilaus, king of Cyrene, to whose honour the Ode was compofed, though likewife a little too long, is fometimes forcible, and fometimes pathetic. The fifth is chiefly confined to his praife, and fprinkled with fome moral fentiments and flowers of poetry. The Olympic Odes, omitted by Mr. Weft, are not attempted by Mr. Banifter, on account, he fays, of Mr. Pye's spirited and poetical tranflation.' To thefe gentlemen we confider him as scarcely inferior in fpirit and elegance; we muft except, however, fome highly finished paffages in Mr. Weft's tranflation, which are fuperior to all competition. Mr. Banister, like him, indulges himself in pretty great liberties with respect to the original; and often paraphrafes rather than tranflates. Mr. Tafker's fidelity is fuperior to our present author's; but he is excelled by him in elegance and harmony. The liberties he takes are, however, in general, very excuse able. Few of the Greek poets will bear a clofe verfion, and Pindar, we think, lefs than any. Cowley remarks, that 'his Pegafus flings writer and reader too, that fits not fure.' His Imoke has undoubtedly fometimes been mistaken for fire; and his flights, however fublime, are defultory and unequal. We find in Athenæus, that within about one hundred years after his death, in the time of Eupolis the comedian, his Odes were fallen into contempt, and the prince of lyric bards was the fre-quent object of Ariftophanes fatire. But it was not, always a difgrace to be ridiculed by Ariftophanes, and no stress can be laid on the fluctuation of public tafte, Pindar is again reftored to his deserved honours; and though we cannot think his rambling dithyrambics always entitled to our unqualified praife, his rational piety (fome allowance must be made for the time in which he lived), and fublime morality, often excite our warmest approbation. A ftriking inftance occurs towards the conclufion of the sighth Pythian Ode. Thofe • Those who enjoy a rich and affluent state Are view'd with wonder by the gazing thiồng, Four noble youths beneath thy hand But through the streets they run, with wild affright, While felf-tormenting thoughts their minds employ. And ah! too foon the fick'ning flame decays, The paffage defcribing the return of the unfuccefsful combatants is not frictly exact to the original, nor equal to it in beauty, An expreffion, towards the conclufion, greatly resembles that in the Wisdom of Solomon + (ii. 5.) For our time is a very fhadow that paffes away:' and the reflection that follows is worthy an infpired writer. In the opening of the eighth Nemean Ode we find a warm panegyric on beauty and virtuous love. The translation does not appear inferior to the original; and with this pleasing spe cimen we shall close our article. 4 Beauty rever'd by men below and gods above, Herald of Venus and ambrofial love, Delighting ftill to fix thy feat On virgin eyelids, foft and fweet, Thofe happy few enjoy thy kind regards, Content it's chafte and calm delights to prove.' The New London Medical Journal. Vol. I. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Deighton. 1792. THO HOUGH periodical publications, especially such as offer opinions, and confequently are connected with our own plan, can fcarcely be, with propriety, the object of our no tice, yet however delicate the talk, we cannot, when called on, decline our duty; nor can we refufe the Editors of the New London Medical Journal the attention which we have lately bestowed on Medical Facts and Opinions, and which we have, for many years, paid to Dr. Duncan's Commentaries. The London Medical Journal, it is now well known, has yielded to a fimilar work, published after longer intervals, under the title of Medical Facts and Opinions.' The title was either too popular to be wholly loft, or the plan of more fre quent publication too advantageous to be at once refigned. Ο Επαμεξος, κίας σας Ανθρωποι The ? The New Medical Journal is the confequence either of the bookfeller's fagacity, or the editor's judgment; and we' own that we are not difpleafed with the attempt. From opinions delivered with candour mankind must be benefited, though they fhould difagree; and the world will naturally attend to those who may best deferve it. The work before us is defigned to convey an account of fuch cafes as, either from the progrefs or treatment, deferve to be recorded. The editors mean not, however, to exclude other medical effays of a more general and theoretical nature, meaning chiefly, in the latter department, thofe difquifitions which trace any difeafe to its caufe, or des tect the operation of a common caufe operating differently, according to the effects of fituation, climate, or conftitution. Original effays on chemistry are alfo to be admitted. A care ful and concife abftract of medical publications is to follow, particularly of those foreign works, and medical or philofophical journals, connected with their plan. Medical news of every kind, with biographical memoirs of eminent perfons, and a lift of the new medical publications, are to conclude each Number. A very flight knowledge of the numerous publications in medicine, and the fciences connected with it, will fhow that this plan is very little proportioned to the extent of a quarterly publication of the fize before us. If our authors cull only the choiceft, they will find little room for original effays. If they go back, as they have done, to works published fome years Gince, their difficulties will be increased. We must repeat too what we have often had occafion to notice, that, in collec tions of effays, furnished by voluntary affliftants, complaifance, the partiality of friendship, and many other motives, will greatly leffen the value of communications. With thefe hints the editors will probably not be offended: we meant to affift, not to injure their work. It is next neceffary to confider parti cular effays. Cafe of bony Excrefcence on the Infide of the Jaw, by Edward Harrison, M. D. Phyfician at Horncastle, Lincolnshire.The excrefcence confifted of bony fibres, fhooting from the dif eased periosteum. It was removed by a chiffel, and prevented from returning by the application of a cauftic. The editors mention two fimilar cafes from Mr. Hunter's lectures, where the disease returned on account of the periofteum not being deftroyed by the cauftic. That ufed by Dr. Harrifon was the corrofive fublimate. Cafe of Nafal Hæmorrhage, with Petechiæ. By the fame. It was a cafe of fcurvy from fcanty diet, and unalimentary provifions. Our author employed the St. Lucia bark with opium; the former in dofes much too small. An An Account of the Discovery of Azote, or Phlogisticated Air, in the Mineral Waters of Harrogate. By T. Garnett, M. D. Physician at Harrogate. Our knowledge of the aerial contents of mineral waters is increafing. This is the first inftance of phlogifticated air having been found in cold waters: the medical effects are yet to be afcertained. Dr. Garnett's explanation of the method, by which the waters may have been impregnated with this air, is ingenious; but we fufpect the operation is not fo extenfive, as to account for the whole of the air, and many other fources might be suggested. A Cafe of Tænia, or Tape-Worm, cured by Flowers of Sulphur. By the fame.-The dofe of the fulphur taken was half an ounce, and it is certainly an eafy remedy for a cafe fo diftreffing, and which often ends in atrophy. It has been often mentioned by other authors. Obfervations on Venefection in Thoracic Inflammation; with a Cafe. By Mr. Stringer, Surgeon, Reigate in Surry.Mr. Stringer, in this effay, propofes fome doubts and difficulties of which he does not appear to fee the full extent. That there are inflammations of the lungs, which will not bear bleeding, we well know; but that they proceed from acrimony, and are to be relieved by opium, is doubtful. His inftance is that of a man who attempted to hang himself. He had convulfions with symptoms of apoplexy. Copious and fudden depletion of the venous fyftem did not do fervice; but the convulfions were quieted by 50 drops of the tinctura Thebaica. This fubject, with the cafe, would require a very long difcuffion. In inflammations of the lungs, opium is of very doubtful effect, even when they are attended with putrid fever; and, in the inftance recorded, we fufpect that the convulfions, produced by fullness of the veffels, were continued from debility and irritability. This is the substance of the five effays recorded in this Number; and, in general, they do not appear to us to be fuch. communications as the plan requires. If we except Dr. Garnett's effay, we must own that little is added to the stock of medical knowledge by the prefent collection.-But in this refpect, the Journal may probably improve. The first work noticed in the second department is the London Medical Journal in its new form, or rather the original obfervations on cafes recorded, for the editors do not mention the works analysed in that publication. This plan is, we think, neither delicate nor political: it is not delicate, as it appropriates, a little unfairly, the labours of their predeceffor, under the new title; and it is not political, as the comparison is not very favourable. As a collection of medical papers, it was undoubtedly within their plan; as á continua |