526 Retiofpet? of Domeftic Literature...Natural Hijlory and Philofophy. 
fometimes even paraphraftic; and he has 
taken many liberties with the original 
which fome perfons may think not quite 
juttifiable: but we prefume there are not 
many who will regret that fome of the 
low buffoonery and licentioufnefs of Lu- 
cian are omitted in this lively and fpirited 
tranflation. ' 
Mr. M‘'CarTNeEy, minifter of Old 
Kilpatrick, has tranflared The Treatife of 
Cicero e Officiis with fidelity, but without 
much elegance: he has frequently illuf- 
trated the text in his notes and obfer- 
vations in a manner fuitable to the capa- 
cities of young perfons. 
It may be proper to mention that Meffrs. 
Rosrnsons have fplendidly republifhed, 
both in quarto and octavo, Brotiers accu- 
rate and veluable Edition of Tacitus. 
PHILOLOGY AND CRITICISM. 
A .duodec:ino volume bas been pyb- 
ee by fubfcription, entitled, Te Siruc- 
uve.of ibe Engl Li/b Li ANQUARE, CA pupiting an 
éaly and fomil: ar Method of acquring a 
grammatical Knowledze of iis conftituent 
Paris. A work of this kind is particularly 
ufeful toforcigners. and to them indeed it 
is principally addrefied. On the whole it 
will be conficered as a ufeful perform- 
ance, although perhaps the method might 
have been made fomewhat more « ealy 
and familiar ;? the ty pographical errors, 
which ereatly perplex thofe for whom this 
work is intended: are utterly inexcufable. 
L’ Abbé Tarpy, late M.A. in the uni- 
verfi'y of Paris, has publifhed, in French 
and Englith, dz explanat ory pronouncing 
Dictionary of the Prench Language, wherein 
the exad? Sound and, Art Wom oe of every 
Syllable ave diftinétly marked according to 
Mr. Walker’s Method, This work has 
every appearance of being |i ikely to prove 
nufeful afffant to the ftudy of French : 
feems to be executed with induttry, 
ability, and accuracy. 
Mr. Oe EN, has publifhed the fourth 
pare of bh s W “elf and. Englifh DiGi DHGTY 
This tabori ious -and ufeful werk is now 
conduéted tothe end of the létter I. 
Mr. Si 1 ER, of Corpus Chrifti college, 
Oxford, has publi fhed a very ingenious 
differtation Ov the Syntax of the Latin 
Verb. We Ae in his advertifementr, 
that this volume is only a {mall part of 
what is intended to bean entire grammar 
of the Laun language, which, if “the pre- 
fent fhould meet with approbation, he de- 
figns to acc ompliih. We fincerely hope 
ee he will not te difcouraged from the 
completion of his purpofe. 
We can {p in terms of the higheft 
approbation of Tbe Latin Primery by the 
eak 
Las 
Rev. R. Lyne: this is one of the moft 
fimple, eafy, and excellent introduétions to 
the ftudy of the claffics that we know of : 
it is divided into three parts; the firft con- 
taining rules for conftruétion (which it has 
long been lamented are very infufficiently 
furnifhed in our fchool grammars) ele-~ 
gantly from the Latin poets: the fecond 
part alfords rules of pofition, teaching the 
clafic way of writing Latin with regard 
to the arrangement of words according to 
the peculiar idioms and cuftoms of the La- 
tin tongue: the third part into which this 
very ufeful one is divided, contains a 
large and pl lain defcription of the: Latin 
verfe, and of the many kinds of compofi- 
tion in vérfe, a fammary account of Te- 
rence’s metres, and a more minute one of 
metra Horatiana. The prefent edition 
(the fecond) is revifed and enlerged by the 
author. 
The title-page of Mr. CRaBB’s Com- 
plete Introduction to the Knowledge of the 
German Language betrays a degree of 
confidence and felf-fuperiority which is 
very unbecoming: Mr. Crabb’s grammar is 
refpectable, | but far from being fo complete 
as he is willing we fhould imagine. 
‘The Rev. Mr. Tasker has publifhed 
a fecond edition of his Serzes of Letters to 
a profefiona! Friend, examining the feveral 
Wounds and ibe Deaths menitoned in thé 
Wiad, the Eneid, and the Pharfaha of Lu- 
can, and iryliig them by the Taft of Anatomy 
é Phyftology. Mr. Tafker has executed 
ne iaborious underta King with confider- 
able dexterity. “he prefent work, how- 
ever, is not confined to this fingle fubject : 
Mr. T. treats on a great variety of fub- 
jeéts conneéted chiefly with criticifm and 
poyfiology. 
NATURAL HISTORY AND 
PHILOSOPHY. 
We cannot more properly introduce 
this article than by noticing the publication 
of Traéts relati. ing 10 Natui al Hiffory, by the 
Prefident of the Linnean Society: fome 
of thefe tracts have already been before the 
“public, but they are now, for the firft time, 
colleéted into a volume. ‘The firft article 
is a tranflation of Linnzus’s preface to the 
Mufeum Adolphi Frederici, a work con- 
taining defcriptions of the various natural 
produétions in the mufeum of the then 
king of Sweden: its date 1s 1754. The 
fecond article is as originally publifhed in 
the firft volume of the Linnaan Tranfac- 
tions: it is a general outline of the: pro- 
erefs of natural biffory. Obfervations on 
the irritabili ty of vegetables form the fub- 
jeCt of the third paper, which Dr. Smith 
read before the Royal Society in 1798. 
The 
