LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 339 



dtxctors of the Classical Journal above named, the Museum Criticum 

 says : " When we speak of their incessant attacks upon us, it is 

 right to mention, that for the last few years we have had but small 

 acquaintance with the Classical Journal, having found that the 

 information to be derived from its pages by no means compensated 

 for the disgust excited by the vanity, dullness, and execrable taste of 

 the leading writers, and still more by their unweai'ied spirit of 

 detraction." And once more : here is a specimen of haughty style 

 and rampant prejudice, from the same learned periodical. In 

 " Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk," Sir Walter Scott, speaking of the 

 literature of Edinburgh, had chanced to say : " Mr. Dunbar, the 

 Professor of Greek, has published several little things in the Cam- 

 bridge Classical Researches, and is certainly very much above the 

 run of Scholars." "T7ie Cambridge^ Classical Researches," being the 

 second title or heading of the Musewm Criticum, that sensitive 

 journal deemed it necessary thus to take notice of Scott's remarks : 

 " What the common. run of scholars at Edinburgh may be, we know 

 not ; but what Mr. Dunbar is, the world has had some opportunity 

 of learning from a work which he calls a continuation of Dalziel's 

 Collectanea Groica. Our only wish is to contradict most positively 

 the assertion that he has ever been a contributor, small or great, to 

 this publication. How such a strange misstatement originated, we 

 camiot form the least conjecture." The date of these amenities of 

 literature is A.D. 1832. 



Barker's attempt to popularize classical studies was strongly sup- 

 ported by Prof. Anthon, of New York, whose editions of classical 

 writings were always at once reprinted in England and largely Tised, 

 showing that there was a want in this direction unsupplied. Barker 

 and Anthon were both well abused, but imitated. Major translated 

 Person's Euripides : and later, Dr. Arnold issued a Thucydides with 

 English elucidations ; and now all English Scholars annotate copi- 

 ously in English. Prof. Anthon, in 1845, in the preface of his own 

 Classical Dictionary, recalls the surprise which was excited in 1825, 

 when, on having been employed to prepare a new edition of Lem- 

 priere ia. 1825, he hinted the propriety of making some alterations 

 in the text. The answer received by'him from one quarter was, 

 that one might as well think of making alterations in the Scriptures 

 as in the pages of Dr. Lempriere ! ' 



Here is E. H. Barker's autograph. It is contained in a volume 

 printed at Padua in 1729, and bound in Italian vellum. It contains 



