ness is not to be reckoned: in elucidating | and perhaps, the present is one of those his text, many renowned critics have, in successive generations, applied great acuteness and unwearied industry; and what has been the result? Not simply discordance of opinion, complete, frequent and warmly expressed, but in several instances, the suggestion of three or four widely differing solutions, too often, all doubtful. Among these, the Annotator's duty has been to select that, which in his judgment seemed the most probable, the want of space precluding him from doing justice to the different arguments. On this head, therefore, it is incumbent on him to bespeak the candor and favor of better informed men, should, by chance, these Notes attract for a moment their attention. We have all our favorite opinions and hypotheses: on disputed points, on Virgil in particular, we have many of us formed conclusions, early, and not to be shaken. Even where we privately retain some doubts, it is perhaps in human nature, on these points, even to resent any attack on opinions which we favor, and believe to be well founded." In preparing the notes, as the design, in some respects, differs from that of other annotators of school editions, a few prefatory words in explanation appear necessary. On general subjects of history or of mythology, of chronology or of geography, these Notes are not designed to give information, or to abridge the labor of the youthful student in consulting such a dictionary as that of Dr. Lempriere. They are meant to be confined strictly to the elucidation of the text. On every occasion, without exception, where any difficulty, either of construction, or in the sense, or in the metre, seemed likely to arise, the best information has been dili gently sought and applied; with a few grammatical or etymological remarks interspersed, which may lead the youthful student to enquire and think for himself, and may facilitate his future progress in the Latin tongue. Hildebrand, or the History of Pope Gregory VII, and his age, by John Voight. 8vo. pp. 625, Weimar, 1815. We suspect that among the severest strokes which could possibly be struck at the Papacy would be a true and faithful history of certain parts of its course: the most difficult to meet with an answer from a Catholic adversary. The first part, intitled "Hildebrand and his Age," commences with the events which followed the middle of the tenth century, at which time three Popes contended for the triple Tiara, but the whole three were set aside by the Emperor, Henry III. The Author reports succinctly the later events of the reign of Pope Leo IX. after whose death Hildebrand was sent into Germany, to propose a new Pope; for the choice depended principally on the Emperor. Nicolas II. was raised to the Pontifical throne, during the minority of the Emperor Henry IV. After his death, Hildebrand followed to his utmost his plan of rendering the mfluence of the Emperors less predominant in electing the head of the Church; but the Court of Vienna persisted in its pretensions, and went so far as to nominate a Pope of its own choice; while the clergy of Rome nominated Alexander II. The second part of the Volume presents "Pope Gregory VII., (Hildebrand) his character and his reign." His grand project was, to deliver the church from all dependence on temporal power, and to obtain for it a dominion over all secular powers; this is placed beyond a doubt by his own letters, of which this author has availed himself. This plan included the means of breaking the attachments of the clergy and the bishops to the States where they dwelt; to effect this he introduced the celibacy of Ecclesiastics: he abolished the rights of feudality, of investiture, and the punishments for Simony. By the superiority of his genius, he at length succeeded, and Henry II. was reduced in 1073 to the necessity of writing a supplicatory letter to him. The authenticity of this letter has been disputed; but this writer thinks it genuine. The remainder of the Volume com prizes the history of the troubles in Germany, of the Council held at Rome under Gregory VII. and the oppositions which bis enactments met with in foreign Countries; with other events, continued to the time of his death. 2 L2 Literary Register. 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