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day, like bats in a summer's evening in Europe, without injuring me, who sometimes caught them in their flight." The reader would suppose Thunberg to be outdoing St. George or Baron Munchausen, if the translator had not luckily explained his own English by inserting the name Draco Volans.. that is, the flying lizard,.. in the text.

219. The Stigmata.

I know not who was the author of the Telemacomanie: he speaks in the Preface of his profound respect and high esteem for Fenelon, and denies that he had composed a brutal and seditious criticism upon the Telemaque, which his enemies imputed to him, and which infamous and scandalous libel, they said, was the cause of his banishment to Auvergne. Certainly there is nothing either seditious or scandalous in the present work, but it is a most extraordinary compound of heathen learn

ing and Catholic bigotry. In intolerant and barbarous bigotry indeed the writer is only surpassed by the Eclectic reviewer, who affirms that "thousands of unhappy spirits and thousands yet to increase their number, will everlastingly look back with unutterable anguish on the nights and days in which Shakespere ministered to their guilty delights."

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What, (says this Catholic-Methodist,) would our ancient Bishops, the Saints and Doctors of the Gallican Church, have said if they had seen one of their brethren amuse himself with writing Romances! What would St. Loup the Bishop of Troyes have said, he who could not suffer that the Bishop of Auvergne, St. Sidonius Appollinaris, should amuse himself with making verses and speaking in them of Jupiter and Venus and Mars? What would St. Sidonius have said himself, he who so positively assures us, that from the day when he em

braced the religious profession he renounced that amusement, ab exordio religiosa professionis huic principaliter exercitio renunciavi.' The profound respect which I feel for the character and for the personal merits of M. de Cambray makes me blush with shame for him at learning that such a work should have proceeded from his pen! That with the same hand with which he offers every day upon the altar of the living God that adorable chalice which con. tains the blood of Jesus Christ, the price of the redemption of the Universe, he has presented to those very souls which were then redeemed, the cup with the poisoned wine of the Whore of Babylon,.. for thus it is that the Fathers have called all those detestable books, which under ingenious fictions and elegant language, contain nothing but tales of gallantry and amours, descriptions of the temple and the statue of Venus, and of the enchanted island of Love, and the

empire of little Cupid with his bow and arrows,.. as the greatest of the Gods!"

This writer resembles the Eclectic Critic also in the mixture of sound sense and just feeling, which makes his bigotry at once more disgraceful and more mischievous. But he mingles with it a baseness of adulation from which the Englishman is free. "Oh, (says he,) how much more natural and more efficacious for the instruction of Messeigneurs les Enfans de France, would it have been, to have done for them what the late Archbishop of Paris, Perefixe, did for the King, to whom he had the honour of being preceptor. Instead of making a romance and writing a fabulous history full of false events tragical or comical, he wrote the true history of the reign of Henry IV. his grandfather, and instructed him thoroughly by a family example which he set before his eyes, of the great art which he has since so well put in practice, of conquering his

enemies, and making himself beloved by his subjects. How is it to be wished. that the Archbishop of Cambray had imitated in this the Archbishop of Paris, and that with the same polish, the same elegance of stile, the same grace, and the same grandeur and nobleness of sentiment with which he has written the Romance of the Adventures of Telemaque, he had written the life of Louis the Great! and instead of proposing to his illustrious pupils, children of the greatest and most powerful monarchs of the world, the sons and grandsons of two princes who are the love and the delight of the human race, the romantic adventures of a little Kingling of Ithaca, whose dominion was not of such extent as the least of the provinces of the Kingdom of France, and who was not so powerful as our Kings of Ivetot and our Sires de Pons, he had proposed to them their incomparable grandfather as a model! What funds of genius, of wisdom, of

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