nance, he might have been S. Boniface himself; for his fair and formal speech, S. Benedict or S. Eulaly; for his merry conceits, S. Hilary; for his good husbandry, S. Servatius; for his invincible sufferance, S. Vincent the Martyr; for his recanting, S. Augustine; for his preaching to geese, S. Frauncis, or S. Fox; for his not seeing all things, S. Bernard; for his praying, a S. Pharisee; for his fasting, a S. Publican; for his chastity, a Sol in Virgine; for his pastoral devotion, a Shepherd's Calendar; for his fame, an Almanac of Saints. But if ever any were patience incorporate, it was he; and if any were hypocrisy incarnate, it was he; unto whom I promised to dedicate an eternal memorial of his immortal virtues, and have payed some little part of my vows: O felix Perne! tua solus ars vivendi." T. P:

ART. XI. Paul's Church-yard. Libri Theologici, Politici, Historici, Nundinis Paulinis (una cum Templo) prostant venales. Juxta seriem Alphabeti Democratici. Done into English for the Assembly of Divines. 4to. in 2 Parts. Centuria Prima, 8 pages, and Centuria Secunda, 8 pages. No date or printer's name.

This scarce pamphlet is the vehicle of cutting satire against the Republicans during Oliver's Protectorate, and contains many excellent hits, in the form of titlepages, of which a few may suffice as a specimen.

7. "A Catalogue of the Nobility of England and Ireland, from his Excellency the Lord Generall Crom

'well,'

well, and the Lord Deputy Ireton, to the severall Peers and Trades of each Regiment."

21. "An Act for turning all Lawes into English, with a short Abridgment for such new Lawyers as cannot write and read."

48. A Confutation of Geographers, who said we of this Island were Antipodes to none, though we tread contrary to all the world."

109. "Bellum Grammaticale. That Parliamentdome, Counceldome, Committeedome, or Sword-dome, are better words than Christendome or Kingdome."

121. "An Act for constituting six new Heraulds, in regard the old ones cannot blazon the Armes of divers new honourable Officers of State."

150. "The Archbishop of Canterbury's Triall, writt by William Prynn, declaring all the Archbishop spake or did before he was borne, and since his Buriall; being the 9th Tome of Master Prynn's Works." Birmingham.

WILLIAM HAMPER.

ART. XII. Bibliotheca Militum: or the Souldier's Publick Library. Lately erected for the Benefit of all that love the Good Old Cause, at Wallingford House, and already furnished with diverse excellent Treatises herein mentioned. London: Printed in the year 1659. 4to. 6 pages.

This pamphlet bears a similar complexion with the last, and, like it, may be dismissed with a few extracts.

8. "Patience per force: or a medicine for a mad dog; treating of the infallible virtue of necessity: by the aforesaid author" (Richd. Cromwell, Esq ) 13. "Hey.

13. Hey-te-Tyte, or to morrow-morning I found an Horse-shoe; being an excellent discourse concern ing Government, with some sober and practical expedients, modestly proposed and written by James Harrington."

Birmingham.

WILLIAM HAMPER.

ART. XIII. A Voyage to the South Sea, and along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards: their customs and manners; their Natural History, mines, commodities, traffick with Europe, &c. by Monsieur Frexier, Engineer in ordinary to the French King. Illustrated with 37 copper cuts of the Coasts, Harbours, Cities, Plants, and other curiosities. Printed from the author's original plates inserted in the Paris Edition. With a Postcript by Dr. Edmund Halley, Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. And an account of the Settlement, Commerce, and Riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay. London. Printed for Jonah Bowyer, at the Rose in Ludgate Street. MDCCXVII. 4to. pp. 335, besides Preface and Index.

This is a book, of which, at the present moment, it may be seasonable to revive the notice.

Louis XIV. having been at a vast expense to support his grandson upon the throne of Spain, thought this a proper opportunity of getting a full information of the least known parts of the Spanish West-Indies,

before

before the French, as well as all other nations, should be excluded those seas by a peace. For this end, he pitched upon our author, an experienced Engineer and mathematician in his service, whom he knew to be every way qualified to make Hydrographical Observations for the use of Mariners, and for the correction of the Charts; and also to take exact plans of the most considerable Ports and Fortresses along the Coasts whither he was going; to direct to their best anchorages, and to point out their respective dangers. He sent him at his own charge on board a merchant-ship, in 1712, to pass as a trader only, the better to insinuate himself with the Spanish Governors, and to have all opportunities of learning their strength, and whatever else he went to be informed of. Monsieur Frezier executed this plan to the King's entire approbation. He says, in the dedication to the Duke of Orleans, (for the King was dead before the book appeared) “it is a collection of the observations which he made in navigation, on the errors of the maps, and the situation of the harbours and roads he had been in; together with a description of the animals, plants, fruits, metals, and whatsoever the earth produces of curious in the richest colonies of the world; and lastly, a most exact account of the commerce, forces, government, and manners, as well of the Creolian Spaniards, as of the • natives of the country, whom he treats with all the respect which is due to truth."

The author says his principal "business was to take plans, and to bring the navigators acquainted with the seasons, general winds, currents, rocks, shelves, anchorages, and landing-places, wherever he came." There are excellent plans of Callao, Lima, and most

of

of the principal ports on the Continent of SouthAmerica. But no chart of the River La Plata, and its shores, which he never entered.

"One objection," says the translator, ❝ does indeed lie against Monsieur Frezier, arising perhaps from his ambition to be thought to correct the General Seachart of our countryman, Dr. Halley; but besides that the reputation of this chart is established by the experience of our navigators in most voyages, beyond the powers of Monsieur Frezier to hurt it, we must remember that our author is a Frenchman; and therefore we need give no further account of their difference, than is contained in the letter, which Dr. Halley wrote to the publisher on the occasion."

MR. BOWYER,

Letter of Dr. Halley.

April 6, 1917.

"I am glad to hear you have undertaken to print, in English, the voyage of Mr. Frezier to and from the Coasts of Peru and Chili. Our people are very much unacquainted with those seas; and those that are, commonly want either will or language to inform the world properly of what they find worth notice, and of what may be of use to those that shall hereafter make the like voyages. The French have the faculty of setting off their relations to the best advantage; and particularly your author has informed us, in a very instructive manner, of several things, that are not only very entertaining, but also what may be of eminent service to us, either in case of trade or war in the seas he describes. On this account, I cannot doubt but your design must answer your expectation, especially

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