1. The Mathematical Correspondent, Edited by G. Baron, New York, 1804. 2. The Analyst, Edited by Robert Adrain, Philadelphia, 1808. 3. The Scientific Journal, Edited by W. Marratt, New York, 1818. 4. The Ladies' and Gentlemen's Diary, Edited by M. Nash, New York, 1820. 5. The Mathematical Diary, Edited by Robert Adrain and afterwards by Mr. Ryan, New York, 1825. 6. The Mathematical Miscellany, Edited by C. Gill, New York, 1836. [pp. 394-416]

1841.] The Lzfe of Lenhart the Mathenzatician. 395
shared the same fate, "if the learned had not stepped in to
rescue these classical words from the invasion of the Gothic
accent.~' The same view of humanity which led Scaliger
to his opinion about Dictionary~making, would we think lead
most men to a similar Opinion in regard to editing a Mathematical 3 ournal; for of all occupatioiis, it does appear to us,
to be one of the most tedious and farthest removed from the
ordinary tastes of men. To review aiid correct, and for the
fear of giving offence, to publish the productions of contnbu
tors, (as most editors have to do) whatever their abilities in
mathematics may be, is an office of criticism not altogether
agreeable to every mind. ~~~hen then we consider the
drudgery of editiiig a Mathematical Journal, and that little
or no pecuniary emolument is ever derived from s[~ch an
avocation, we do not wonder that the journals at the head
of this article had each so short an existence. But we are
glad to learn, that the Mathematical Miscellany, whose pages
were 50 rich with mathematical leanling, will be resumed in
the spritig. It surely will be a reproach on mathematicians,
if they do not su~tain a work so useflil in excitii1g mathenia~tical inquiry, and in creating a wholesome emulation in so
noble a science, when they have so able a 1i1athematic~ian~
as Professor Gill, willing to undertake the drudgery of editor.
Besides other mathematical jounials, the "Ladies Diary,"
has been sustained in England from 1704 up to the present
time, enrolling amongst its contri butors many of the ablest
mathematicians that England has ever produced, atid has
done much to advance and disseminate mathematical know
ledge in Great Britain; and it has been the great magazine
from which aiithorshave derived the examples which illustraate the mathematical text books for schools and colleges. We
hope that the same advantage may be derived to our counfltry from the Mathematical Miscellany.
Our chief object in noticing the journals at the head of this
article, is to giv~ our readers a biographical sketch of one of
the ablest coutnbutors to their pages, who from tlie peculiar
circumstances of his life is little known; though his produc tions have elicited much inquiry in regard to his personal
history. We allude to William Lenhart of York, Penusyl
van in.
We shall endeavour to ex'~ibit our subject in all the ~i
cissitudes of his lite, in privacy and in public, in the careless
ease of the domestic circle with all its joys and all its sorrows,
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