A WEEKLY LITERARY JOURNAL: CONTAINING I. ESSAYS, ON SUBJECTS OF LITERATURE, THE FINE ARTS AND MANNERS. II. BIBLIOGRAPHIANA. ACCOUNT OF RARE AND CURIOUS BOOKS, AND OF THE BOOK SALES IN THIS COUNTRY, FROM THE CLOSE SOLD BY LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATER- NOSTER ROW; J. HATCHARD, BOOKSELLER TO HER 1807R THE DIRECTOR. No. 13. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1807. Φανερόν, ότι δύναται ποιόν τι το της ψυχής ήθος και Μουσική παρα σκευάζειν ARIST. It is manifest that Music is capable of producing a permanent effect, in forming the character of the soul. To the Director. Sir, Tnose persons certainly entertain a very mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts, who consider them merely as subservient to amusement, or at most to that cultivation of mind which, Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros. The history of the world evinces that they have all a natural and close alliance |