672 
delivers here many judicious remarks on 
Xenophon, which however are only gene- 
ral, and will receive their fuil light by 
the fecond part, in which the particular 
works of the hiftorian will be feparately 
examined. The whole is an introduétion 
to a general hiftory of the hiftorical art 
among the Greeks. ene 
<¢ Ariftophanis Nubes, cum Scholiis, re- 
cenfuit GoDEFR. HERMANNUS,Profeffor 
Lipfienfis.” Prof. Hermann, well krown 
in the literary world by his excellent treatife 
De Metris Grecorum Romanorumque,” 
having got the manufcript notes of the 
once illuftrious profeifor Ernefti at Leipzig, 
has publifhed them along with his own 
remarks, in which he very often arraigns 
Mr. Brunck, and all the former editors, for 
their ignorance of metre, and fhows a 
mature judgment in difcerning the true 
readings, almoft obliterated by the careleff- 
nefs of the former editors, The large 
preface prefixed to the whole ts full of 
_ very ingenious: and uncommon remarks, 
worthy to be difcuifed more at large by 
our literati. 
““Q. Horatii Flacci Opera. Ad exemplar 
Benthit_ recudenda curavit, argumentis 
premifiis, notis criticis adje€tis, vita auc- 
toris enarrata, indicibusque et verborum 
et rerum iluftravit Jou. Ceri, FRIp. 
WeETZEE, ‘Philof. \D; Lyczei Primiflavi- 
enfis Rettor, Liegnit. t. i, pp. xxviii & 
432. t. li, pp. 196, 8ve. 1799.” The 
critical part:of this edition is not of fuch 
confequence us to excufe the arrogant 
mManner-in which the editor fpeaks of 
Bentley’s merits, The explanatory part is 
confined to extenfive arguments prefixed 
to every poem, the Life of the Poct accord- 
ing to Suetonius, another Life ‘accurately 
written by the editor, a very valuable re- 
Jation of the events which happened in the 
years 688—745 ab U. C ; to which is 
added, Stemma Gentis Octavie ab Augufto 
ad Neronem, which is particularly well 
done; and a triple Index Nominum, Syn- 
tacticus et Yerborum, 
“« Ilithyia, oder die Hexe; ein archdolo- 
gifches Fragment nach Leffing” (Ilithyia 
or the Witch, an archezologic Fragment 
after. Leffing), von C. A. Bérricer 
profeffor at Weimar, Weimar, Hoffmann, 
1799. pp- §4. 8vo, Lefline had fuppofed 
that a gem reprefented in the works 
of Stephanonius and Mafei, which both 
thefe editors had taken. for, a piéture 
of sigrippina, contained rather a repre- 
fentation of Hithyia. This fuppofition is 
fully proved in this programma, in which 
the author, with his ufual learning, and 
fayacity, has shown that the fuppofed 
‘Inable additions, was 
Retrofpet? of German Litevature—Philologgi 
Agrippina is no other than the Geddefs of 
Birth, in the fame pofture, with her knees 
thrown over one another, and knitted 
hands, by which fhe prevented the de- 
livery of Alcmena. Many other ob- 
fervations, illuftrating other fubjeéts of the 
ftudy of antiquities, are occafionally thrown 
in; and the whole is calculated for a {fpe- 
cimen cf the manner in which the author 
intends to raife a new fabric out of the con- 
fufed chaos of old Grecian lore, He is 
fully convinced that there are many effen- 
tial faults in the common way of treat« 
ing mythology, and will point out a new 
method for conficering thefe fables of old, 
as the moft precious relics of antient hiftory. 
‘¢ Theophrafti Charaéteres, {. Notatio- 
nes Morum Atticorum, Grece, ex librorum 
{cripterum copiis’ et fide interpolati et 
aucti, virorumque do€torum conjeéhuris 
correcti, Editor Jo. Gort. ScHNEi- 
DER, Saxo. Jenae, Frommannn, 1799, 
pp. 222, 8vo.”” The new additions, pub- 
hithed by Mr. StEBZNKEES at Altorf, 
from fome Italian manufcripts, and which, 
by Hlling up confiderable lacune in the 
common text, had thrown a new light on 
many paflages much controyerted till 
now by the editors, drew the attention of 
Profeffor Schneider of Frankfort ; and aca. 
cordingly this is the firft complete edition 
of Theophraftus’s Charaéters, which the 
editor has rendered highly valuable by 
his fagacious critical remarks and illufra- 
tions. A fmaller edition, with very vas. 
publifhed a few 
weeks ago. 
Of Mr. Jacogs’s “ Commentary on 
the Anthologia Greca,”’ the firft part of 
the fecond volume has appeared : ** FRID. 
JacoBs Animadverfiones in Epigrammata 
Anthologia Gr. fecundum ordinem Ana-- 
Je€torum Brunckii. Vol. ii. pars 1. Lipf. 
Dyck. 1799, pp. 420, 8vo.”” . It compre- 
hends the epigrams contained in the fe- 
cond volume of Brunck’s Analeéta, to 
P- 154, and ftill exhibits the fame pro- 
found learning and. critical fagacity, 
by which this Commentary is rendered 
one of the moft valuable: produétions 
which have for a long time been publithed. 
** Scriptores Erotici Greci. Biponti, 
(or rather Argentorati, the printing-office. 
having been transferred thither) Part i, 
pp. 267; part il. pp. 416."’—Thefe two 
volumes contain Helicdorus’s Theagenes 
and Charicleas, by Profellor MirscHER- 
LICH of Gottingen, who, by the-aid of 
the antient editions, the readings ex- 
tracied by D’Orville from a Turin Codex, 
and mentioned in his Commentary on 
Chariton, and by his owa critical fagacity, 
ihe has 
