tions; and will contain a new chapter on the subject of Female Accomplishments.

Dr. Blomfield is about to print a second edition of the Agamemnon, and an Abridgment of Matthia's Greek Grammar, for the use of the younger students in Greek. The Choephora will be put to press shortly.

Bekker's Thucydides is completed. His edition of the Greek Orators will be published by the University of Oxford.

Professor Monk has been occupied for three or four years in preparing a Life of Dr. Bentley; a work which, it is expected, will be sent to the press early in the ensuing spring. The biography of this scholar, the most celebrated of those who ever established a reputation in the department of classical learning, is intimately connected with the history of the University of Cambridge for above 40 years, a period of unusual interest, and with the literary history of this country for a still longer time. It has been frequently remarked, that such a work is a desideratum in English literature: and this it is the author's endeavour to supply. He has industriously sought for documents which may throw light upon the events of those days, or tend to illucidate the character, the conduct, and the writings of Bentley. For this purpose he has searched the voluminous manuscript collections of Baker, of Cole, and of Hearne, as well as other records preserved in the British Museum, the Bodleian, the Lambeth Library, and those in the University of Cambridge. He has also availed himself of a very important correspondence between Bentley and the first scholars of his age, as well as of a still more extensive assortment of papers, comprising letters of Bishop Atterbury, Bishop Sherlock, Bishop Greene, Dr. Conyers Middleton, Dr. Andrew Snape, Bishop Hare, Bishop Zachary Pearce, and many other highly distinguished characters, who were intimately connected with the leading events of Bentley's history; also the whole of the manuscripts left by Dr. Colbatch, his principal opponent in Trinity College. He has omitted no means in his power of obtaining a sight of Bentley's letters, which are in private hands, having made applications to all quarters where he thought that such deposits were likely to be found. In several of these cases he has been successful: still he is persuaded that there exist other specimens of his correspondence in quarters to which he has not been able to discover any clue. Should this notice meet the eye of persons who possess such papers, or who can afford intelligence respecting them, the author will feel highly obliged by a communication upon the subject.

We are glad to hear that Professor REUVENS of Leyden has it in contemplation to publish a Periodical devoted to Ancient Inscriptions, and Archæological Researches. We trust he will secure the co-operation of Professors Boissonade, Osann, &c.

IN THE PRESS.

Mr. J. R. Bryce has in the Press a second edition of the Elements of Latin Prosody, with considerable improvements. We understand that Professor Hermann has at length put his Eschylus to press.

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Stephens' Greek Thesaurus, Nos. XIV. and XV., i. e. Part XI. of the Lexicon, and III. of the Glossaries. 17. 5s. each, and 2l. 12s. 6d. large. The whole is pledged to be delivered in 39 Nos. The prices to be hereafter raised.

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As it has ever been considered superfluous to print a work, which is only intended as a book of reference, in a large type, in order to swell the Volume, the present Translations have been published m such a form as to be sold at a moderate price. Each Author, as published, may be had separate.

Museum Criticum, No. VII.

Eschyli, qua Supersunt, Fabula et Fragmenta, Supplices. a G. Burges. duod. Pr. Ss. In Usum Scholarum.

Of all the remains of the Greek Dramatic Poets, we believe no play is so corrupted in the language, and obscure in the arrangement, as the Supplices of Eschylus. Potter, who had a kindred poetical genius, has in his translation given us something like what the original author might be supposed to have written. Mr. Burges has made a similar attempt, and has given us a Greek Play, of which a considerable part is original, by conjectural emendations or substitutions. This play is not indeed that which passes under the name of Eschylus, but it is an attempt, in which few scholars since the days of Scaliger, have been possessed of sufficient knowledge of the Greek language to succeed. We may resume the consideration of this ingenious performance in a future number.

Mr. Burges has also just published the Eumenides, in the same form for Schools. Pr. 7s. In the Preface, he takes occasion to rectify a mistake, which he had made in the Supplices,

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relative to Dr. Blomfield; an instance of candor, of which we shall hail the imitation.

Munusculum Juventuti; seu Phædri Fabula Versibus Hexametris Concinnata; necnon specimina quædam solutæ orationis, non tam ad sensum earundem fabularum aperiendum, quam ad regulas linguæ Latinæ illustrandas, accommodata. Auctore Daniel French, Armig. Jureconsulto. Pr. 8s. To this we shall return.

Mr. Briggs, who is well known to scholars, by the emendations of Theocritus, which are subjoined to Mr. Gaisford's edition of that poet, has just published the Greek Bucolic Poets. We hope to give some account of this work.

Professor Gaisford has published a complete collection of the Scholia on Hesiod and Theocritus, forming the 3rd and 4th volumes of his edition of the Poeta Minores Græci. His Stobæus is in the press.

Aristophanis Nubes, fabula nobilissima, integrior edita auctore Carolo Reisigio Thuringio: accedit Syntagma Criticum cum additamentis et commentatio de vi et usu av particule. Lipsiæ, 1820.

Aristophanis Pax, ex recensione G. Dindorfii. Lipsiæ, 1820. A sixth volume of Matthiæ's Euripides has just appeared, containing his notes upon the first four plays.

A Key to the Latin Language, embracing the double object of speedily qualifying students to turn Latin into English, and English into Latin: and peculiarly useful to young gentlemen, who have neglected or forgotten their juvenile instructions.

We have examined this elegant little work, and find more originality than is often found in similar elementary books.

An Introduction to Latin Construing; or, easy and progressive lessons for reading; to be used by the pupil as soon as the first declension has been committed to memory, adapted to the most popular grammars, but more particularly to that used in the college at Eton; and designed to illustrate the inflection of the declinable parts of speech, the rules for gender, for the preterperfect tense, and of Syntax; having the quantity of the words marked, and accompanied with questions, to which are added some plain rules for construing. By J. Bosworth,

Latin Construing: or, easy and progressive lessons from Classical authors; with rules for translating Latin into English, designed to teach the analysis of simple and compound sentences, and the method of Construing Eutropius, and Nepos, as well as the higher Classics, without the help of an English translation; intended for the use of junior classes in schools, and of those who have not the advantage of regular instruction, for whom the quantity of those syllables, on which the pronunciation depends, is marked; to which is added, a full account of the Roman calendar, with rules for reducing the English to the Roman time, and the Roman to the English.

These two little volumes are calculated to introduce the pupil to Latin construction, according to the rules of Syntax, as given in the Eton, Valpy's and Ruddiman's Grammars.

An Enquiry into the doctrines of Necessity and Predestination, &c. by E. COPLESTON, D. D. Provost of Oriel, Oxford. Iliacos intra muros peccatur et ultra.

Dr. Copleston is the able defender, and one of the brightest ornaments, of the University of Oxford. In this work he has shown his orthodoxy in religious, and his sagacity in metaphysical, discussion. But he will acquire strong claims to the gratitude of disputants on all subjects, if he executes the plan mentioned in his Preface,—an attempt to prevent the equivocal use of words. If this were done with respect to the terms most commonly employed in abstract reasoning, "it would tend" to use his words, "to abridge many a useless, and to settle many a mischievous, controversy. It is the key to a thousand errors, which have abused mankind under the false name of 'philosophy; and nothing would tend more to the advancement of knowledge, than such an enquiry into the use of words; bécause the same vigor of mind, which is now often strained and baffled in contending with imaginary difficulties, would then be exerted in a right direction, or at least would not be spent in vain. Something of this kind I hope hereafter to be able to execute, not however without apprehension of incurring the displeasure of those, who, if my speculations are well founded, will appear to have lost their time in logomachy, and to have wasted their strength in endeavouring to grasp a phantom, or in fighting the air."

As a specimen of the author's manner of arguing and writing on the subject, we extract the following passage: