elements of geometry in two volumes quarto Cambridge 1815 this book had also no stops except when a comma was wanted between letters as in the straight lines AB, BC I should also say that though the title is unpunctuated in the author's part it seems the publishers would not stand it in their imprint this imprint is punctuated as usual and Deighton and Sons to prove the completeness of their allegiance have managed that comma semicolon and period shall all appear in it why could they not have contrived interrogation and exclamation this is a good precedent to establish the separate right of the publisher over the imprint it is said that only twenty of the tracts were printed and very few indeed of the book on geometry it is doubtful whether any were sold there is a copy of the geometry in the university library at Cambridge and I have one myself the matter of the geometry differs entirely from Euclid and is so fearfully prolix that I am sure no mortal except the author ever read it the man went on without stops and without stop save for a period at the end of a paragraph this is the unpunctuated account of the unpunctuating geometer _suum cuique tribuito_[531] Mrs Thrale[532] would have been amused {236} at a Dobson who managed to come to a full stop without either of the three warnings. I do not find any difficulty in reading Dobson's geometry; and I have read more of it to try reading without stops than I should have done had it been printed in the usual way. Those who dip into the middle of my paragraph may be surprised for a moment to see "on account of his disinclination to travel with a lady in the coach he continued his mathematical studies until his death and [further, of course] until his executors sold the type." But a person reading straight through would hardly take it so. I should add that, in order to give a fair trial, I did not compose as I wrote, but copied the words of the correspondent who gave me the facts, so far as they went. A RELIGIOUS PARADOX. _Philosophia Sacra, or the principles of natural Philosophy. Extracted from Divine Revelation._ By the Rev. Samuel Pike.[533] Edited by the Rev. Samuel Kittle.[534] Edinburgh, 1815, 8vo. This is a work of modified Hutchinsonianism, which I have seen cited by several. Though rather dark on the subject, it seems not to contradict the motion of the earth, or the doctrine of gravitation. Mr. Kittle gives a list of some Hutchinsonians,--as Bishop Horne;[535] Dr. Stukeley;[536] the Rev. {237} W. Jones,[537] author of _Physiological Disquisitions_; Mr. Spearman,[538] author of _Letters on the Septuagint_ and editor of Hutchinson; Mr. Barker,[539] author of _Reflexions on Learning_; Dr. Catcott,[540] author of a work on the creation, &c.; Dr. Robertson,[541] author of a _Treatise on the Hebrew Language_; _Dr. Holloway_,[542] author of _Originals, Physical and Theological_; Dr. Walter Hodges,[543] author of a work on _Elohim_; Lord President Forbes (_ob._ 1747).[544]