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Account of the Leipzig Fair at Easier. [Nov. 1, 
antiquities and criticism, there was no 
want of researches of intrinsic value, 
though not always distinguished by 
number of sheets or volumes. The 
octogenay Heyne, gave in his two Lec¬ 
tures on tlie Fortunes of Byzantium, a 
pattern for the manner of writing a topo¬ 
graphy of the Ancient World. Classical 
Mythology continues to be considered, 
in a more compreliensive point of view, 
as the archive for the symbolical learning 
of the primeval world, and loses more 
and more the appearance of mere tales for 
the nursery. The ingenious Creuzer’s 
jbijmbolik und Mythologie dcr Griechen, 
abounds with hints and erudite dis¬ 
quisitions, while viewing the subject 
from this more exalted place of obser- 
THtion. Much is to be traced back to 
the primitive sources of the first ages 
of mankind in Asia. Gorrer’s Mythen- 
geschichte der Aiiatischei% Welt^ will 
present to cooler enquirers much matter 
for investigation, or may become to his 
countrymen wbat Count de Gebelins 
Monde primitij' w&s in his time. Gru- 
iER's Worterbuch der Klassischen Mytho¬ 
logies (A—D) a work which has been 
many years bringing to maturity, gives the 
first complete views of wliat lias, during 
the last forty years, been collected and 
sifted by German skill and critical acu¬ 
men, in the department of mythology. 
In that of archaeology, properly so called, 
Bottiger^s Explanation of the Aldro- 
liandine Marriage, is accompanied with 
an excellent dissertation on the Art of 
Painting among the Ancients, by Mr. 
Meyer, of VVeimar. Homeric criticism 
was revived by Lobek, in his collec- 
xion of the Fragments of Ante-Homeric 
Poets. Lyric poetry was enriched by 
VoLGEs/s collection of the Fragments of 
Sappho. A new edition of Pindar is 
preparing by Bockth, according to his 
ideas respecting metrical arrangement 
tmd breaking of the lines. The tragic 
writers seem to have enjoyed peculiar 
attention. The learned Hermann gave 
hi his edition of the liemiles fur ensy of 
h/ariyideSy a valuable contribution to the 
metrical criticism of that poet. Seid- 
XER and iMATTni’a proceed with una¬ 
bated ardour in new editions of all the 
tragedies and fragments of Euripides; 
*iid Erfurd continued his large tind 
smaller editions of Sophocles, acquiring 
with every step more mastery of his 
liubject. 
A not her vnlnm e of Sc ii L E I E R MA cii E p/s 
Traiisifttion of Plato could not fail to 
with a weicgmet Asu had en¬ 
riched his Phcedrus with Scholia from a 
manuscript found in Munich, and with 
his own annotations. 
Another volume of the Collection of 
Annotations on Aristophanes, viz. all the 
Commentaries on the Nubes, is finished 
by Beck. Such a colleciion, with so 
many notes by the editor himself, is » 
valuable addition to the stock of criti¬ 
cism. Of the later epic poets, Musceus 
has found a critical commentator and 
translator in Passow, whose work is ac¬ 
companied with a learned inquiry re¬ 
specting Musaus and the fragments of 
his poems. 
The most learned work announced at 
the fair, was SchafePs new edition of 
Gregorius de Dialeclis, with critical and 
palaeographical remarks by the learned 
Bast, in Paris. Sch.eper likew'ipe su¬ 
perintended a new edition of Al.sop’s 
Fables by Furia. There was no want 
either of re-impressions of older esteemed 
editions. Here the enterprising printer 
and publisher Taxtchnitz, in Leipzig, 
particularly merits honourable mention. 
From his ofiice came forth two neat 
correct editions of the smallest size, of 
Sophocles and Pindar, both printed un¬ 
der the cars of the critical and accurate 
SciKEFER, vvho likewise superintended a 
new magnificent edition of Valkenaer’s 
TkeocrituSy printed at the same press. 
This edition, of the largest size, and 
printed with a new type, is executed in 
so splendid a manner that it may clial- 
lenge comparison with the finest pro¬ 
ductions of the press in other countries. 
CoRAis’s edition of Polyienus, and 
Plutarchy the newest of that beautiful 
series of the Bibliotheca Grscca, is in¬ 
deed printed at Paris, by Didot; but at 
the expense of the brothers', Zosimali in 
Vienna, who with rare zeal had caused 
this collection of these ancient writers to 
be prepared for the use of their modern 
Greek countrymen. In Rochlitz, Denk- 
malen Glucklicker Stunden, is a well 
executed translation of Sophocles' An¬ 
tigone, which had been acted several 
times at Weimar. Koreff, a native of 
Breslau, but residing at Paris, sent a 
metrical translation ofTibulJus, which is 
decently printed in 4to. at Paris, and 
has likewise intrinsic merit. Later in 
summer was finished a new work of 
J. H, Voss, his long expected transla¬ 
tion of Tibullus. Many had failed in 
their attempts to transfuse the beauties 
of the most tender of eiegaic poets into 
the German language; hei'e we dis- 
cern the hand of a master. 
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