from the days of Themistocles to those of Demetrius Phalereus, yet no particular era will afford Mr. Warton the complete synchronism he seems to wish for; as tragedy was deprived of her famous triumvirate before the arts of philosophy and eloquence had attained the perfection which they soon after received from the hands of Plato, Aristotle, and Demosthenes.’ And wonderful is it for what Mr. Hallam calls ‘the languid students of our present age’ to turn over the journal of his daily studies. It is true, it seems to have been revised by himself; and so great a narrator would group effectively facts with which he was so familiar; but allowing any discount (if we may use so mean a word) for the skilful art of the impressive historian, there will yet remain in the _Extraits de mon Journal_ a wonderful monument of learned industry. You may open them anywhere. ‘_Dissertation on the Medal of Smyrna_, by M. de Boze: replete with erudition and taste; containing curious researches on the pre-eminence of the cities of Asia.—_Researches on the Polypus_, by Mr. Trembley. A new world: throwing light on physics, but darkening metaphysics.—Vegetius’s _Institutions_. This writer on tactics has good general notions; but his particular account of the Roman discipline is deformed by confusion and anachronisms.’ Or, ‘I this day began a very considerable task, which was, to read Cluverius’ _Italia Antiqua_ in two volumes folio, Leyden 1624, Elzevirs;’ and it appears he did read it as well as begin it, which is the point where most enterprising men would have failed. From the time of his residence at Lausanne his Latin scholarship had been sound and good, and his studies were directed to the illustration of the best Roman authors; but it is curious to find on August 16, 1761, after his return to England, and when he was twenty-four years old, the following extract: ‘I have at last finished the Iliad. As I undertook it to improve myself in the Greek language, which I had totally neglected for some years past, and to which I never applied myself with a proper attention, I must give a reason why I began with Homer, and that contrary to Le Clerc’s advice. I had two: 1st, As Homer is the most ancient Greek author (excepting perhaps Hesiod) who is now extant; and as he was not only the poet, but the lawgiver, the theologian, the historian, and the philosopher of the ancients, every succeeding writer is full of quotations from, or allusions to his writings, which it would be difficult to understand without a previous knowledge of them. In this situation, was it not natural to follow the ancients themselves, who always began their studies by the perusal of Homer? 2ndly. No writer ever treated such a variety of subjects. As every part of civil, military, or economical life is introduced into his poems, and as the simplicity of his age allowed him to call everything by its proper name, almost the whole compass of the Greek tongue is comprised in Homer.