N° XXX.-New Series No. V.
ART. I.-Prælectiones Academica Oxonii habitæ, ab Edvardo Copleston S. T. B. Collegii Orielensis Socio, et Poeticæ publico præelectore,nunc Ecclesia Cathedralis Londinensis Præbendario. Oxonii, 1813. 8vo, pp. 466.
THIS work, as our readers perceive from the title page, has been before the public too long to be called a novelty. We do not remember, however, to have seen a notice of it in the contemporary literary journals; and our condition this side of the water is not unlike that of the Danish subjects in Greenland, to whom the annual ship from Copenhagen brought a year's supply of newspapers, which, being judiciously dealt out by the governor one by one, furnished the coffee-house politicians of the polar circle, with as regular a succession of news as is enjoyed at Lloyd's, with the trifling abatement, that it was all a year old. We have no reason to doubt that Dr. Copleston's prælections are new to most of our readers, nor that they will thank us for making them cease to be so.— He is already known to most of them, as having been the champion of his University, on occasion of the animated controversy, which arose from some severe animadversions in the Edinburgh Review, on the course of study and system of education pursued at Oxford. Dr. Copleston replied to these animadversions in a pamphlet, entitled The Calumnies of New Series, No. 5.