DEAR SIR, I should not act consistently with the respect I have for your literary attainments, or with the opinion I entertain of your readiness to promote the cause of learning, if I were not to lay before you that intelligence, which I have communicated to many other scholars with considerable effect. Hoogeveen, the editor of Vigerus, and author of a well-known book on the Greek Particles, has left behind him an Analogical Dictionary, the plan of which is entirely new, and is so formed as to shew the powers and mutual dependences of Greek words by the arrangement of their terminations. I have seen a specimen of it, and I entirely concur in opinion with Sir George Baker and Dr. Warton of Winchester, that it is worthy of the same encouragement which English scholars gave to Hoogeveen's work on the Particles. The manuscript is in the hands of his son; the publication depends on the number of subscribers in this country: the contents will fill a large quarto, and the price of the subscription is one guinea and a half. I ought to state that some heads of houses and other respectable members of the University of Cambridge have promised to subscribe, and I have great satisfaction in adding that the Dean of Christ Church and the President of Magdalen College have authorized me to put down their names. The great distance at which I live from Hampshire-the few intervals which I have from labour, and the numerous engagements which crowd upon me in my vacations hitherto, have prevented me from trespassing upon your hospitality. But I will not abandon all hope of refreshment from orthodox tobacco, and of instruction from your conversation upon Greek criticism at Winchester Lodge. I have the honour to be, dear Sir, your very faithful well wisher, and obedient servant, Hatton, near Warwick, March 6, 1793. SAMUEL PARR. Of the success of this publication I can speak from no authority. Added to that satisfaction which Parr always derived from doing good, he re ceived a copy of verses, the grateful effusion of the younger Hoogeveen, of which I shall quote a few. Viro plurimum Reverendo S. P. D. Janus Hoogeveen. Palladis Argivæ cultor celeberrime, PARRI ; * Obsequor, ut votum quantocius exequar, estque * Non quantas debet, sed quas habet, optime Parri, Serviet æternum mens tibi grata. Vale! Delphis, A. D. v Maii clǝlɔccxcIII. I shall dismiss Dr. Parr's foreign correspondence for the present, after the insertion of one letter from Professor Bekker, who had seen him in England, and one from Professor Hermann of Leipsic. I understand that there were letters of the great Heyne in the collection. They are not to be found. Samueli Parrio, S. P. D. Immanuel Bekkerus. Indignari se arbitrabar, vir venerande, silentii mei diuturnitatem, qui post singularia tua in me officia annum totum sine ulla litterula observantiæ et amoris teste prætermisissem. Tu vero ne indignare. Neque enim defuit mihi, quem deesse nefas sit, animus dierum apud te jucundissimè actorum cum pietate et desiderio memor, virtutumque tuarum ipso aspectu et brevissimo usu manifestarum admirator: defuit otium et tranquillitas. Cùm enim redux incidissem in tempora publice privatimque gravissima, quæ me ad vos rejecissent, si ullus in museis vestris. homini peregrino locus pateret, feci quod reliquum esse videbam, ut mente a rerum externarum tædio avocata, et in bonarum artium studiis defixa temperarem a querelarum frustra nec tuto jactandarum impotentia, quæ ægritudinem nec levaret, et cum amicis meis communicaret. Id consilium an cum aliquo ad litteras fructu ceperim, tu existimabis, quando Thucydides meus et oratorum Atticorum volumen primum ad te deferentur; id quod spero hac æstate fieri posse. Existimabis autem humanius quam severius, neque ab homine male vexato rerumque suarum jamdudum pertæso, eam posces operis absolutionem et perfectionem, quam assequi soleat animus, liber, erectus, curis invictus, talis denique qualem tuum cognovi. Vale, vir præstantissime, et me, ut amabas, ama. Samueli Parrio, viro summè reverendo, S. D. Magnopere gavisus sum, Parri, vir summè reverende, quùm quod prius a Barkero acceperam, a Gesenio, qui te valde laudat, et Bohtio confirmatum vidi, bene te mihi velle, et in multis rebus mecum consentire. Non potest enim mihi non esse gratissimum, amicum et consentientem habere virum, quem omnes in litteris antiquis primarium esse fatentur. Accepit autem quasi cumulus gaudio meo, quùm cognovi consentire nos etiam aliis in rebus, quàm in solis litteris. Nam quùm tu, ut ex Gesenio audivi, Reginæ partes in infelici illa lite acerrimè tuereris, suas velim me quoque, quum etiam hic duæ essent factiones, plerisque culpantibus Reginam, paucis defendentibus, in his fuisse, qui eam strenuè defenderent. Itaque quod his litteris adjeci exemplum Trachiniarum, si exiguam a se ipso habet, aliquam velim ab animo meo commendationem habere, qui tibi etiam ob illam consensionem deditissimus est. Vale. D. Lipsia d. xix. Maii a ciɔɔcccxxII. CHAPTER V. TRACTS OF WARBURTON AND A WARBUTONIAN. The labours attendant on the care of his pupils and his parish, were insufficient to satisfy the craving activity of his mind. Bellenden was hardly ushered from the press, ere he began to meditate another attack; and no doubt, some of the materials for the fresh warfare were collected before the second preface saw the light. At Colchester, even part of these materials appear to have been in preparation. Parr, at this time, engaged in correspondence with Mr. Potter,* then about to publish his Euripides; and who, in one of his letters, writes thus: I understood you that you wished to see Lowth's letter and Brown's, I should not else have sent them; they will serve to light your pipes, if you are not afraid they will give your tobacco a brimstone smell. I the more readily recommend Leland to this use, as you think it true Virginian. I am, dear Sir, your most obliged and obedient servant, Scarning, April 4, 1778. R. POTTER. * Mr. Potter, well known in the learned world as the translator of the Greek tragedies, was much indebted to Parr for critical and literary aid. There is a large correspondence. During his abode at Norwich, Parr had caused a tract, said to be written by Dr. Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, entitled, "The Delicacy of Friendship, a 7th Dissertation, addressed to the Author of the 6th, printed 1755," to be copied in MS. as the printed work was seldom to be found. The copy was superscribed thus: Transcribed at Norwich in 1779, by Shelford and Kett, Norwich boys of great worth, who are now dead. Kett died in 1780, and Shelford in 1781, much esteemed by their friend and master, Samuel Parr, This 7th Dissertation is so styled, because Dr. Jortin had published "Six Dissertations on different subjects;" in the 6th of which, he had criticised some opinions of Dr. Warburton. The "Delicacy of Friendship," therefore, was an ironical attack on Jortin, and as it was anonymous, was warmly reprobated by Dr. Lowth, and most learned men of the day. Whether Parr had secured it as a curiosity, or an instrument of annoyance, is unknown; certain it is, that soon after Dr. Hurd was his Diocesan, he converted it to the latter purpose. In 1788, Bishop Hurd published a new edition of Bishop Warburton's Works, leaving out certain juvenile tracts and translations, which were probably thought unworthy of the matured talents of this great man; and, instead of " a Life,” a note was added, promising one to the purchasers of the Works. Parr immediately laid hold of these omissions, as pretences for warfare. It appears from his correspondence, that, when Henry Homer was at Hatton in the summer of |