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Including Notices of We orks in Hand, Domeflic-and Foreign. 
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WY E underftand that Mr. Goon has 
completed the text of his Tranfla- 
tion of Lucretius, and that his copious and 
elaborate Notes arenearly halt finifhed. The 
work will probably be publifhed in- three 
elegant quartos, inthe courleof the enfuing 
fpring. The profe tranflation of this 
work, by Guernier, is but ill-calculated 
to convey thofe glowing and animated de- 
fcriptions, that paramount’ perfection of 
the poetic.art, which are to be traced in 
every line of the highly firifhed original. 
And the verfe tranflationof Creech, few, 
if any, have had patience toread through. 
While the learned réader difcerns in' Lu- 
cretius the bafis of almoft every pbilofo 
phical fyftem, which has, from, time to 
time, been prefented to the world as fome- 
thing new, the man of tate and fentiment 
developes an almoft infinite variety of paf- 
fages imitated by pcets of all ages, and 
nearly of every nation. The propriety of 
accompanying the announced. tranflation 
with a large body of critical and explana- 
tory Notes is therefore ebvious. Thefe 
will contain copies of the principal imita- 
tions by other poets, whether Latin,. 
French, Ftalian, Spanifli, or Englifh: oc- 
cafional obfervations on the different tranf- 
lations of Lucretius in our own as well as 
foreign languages; and comparifons of 
the doétrines elucidated or referred to by 
the poet, with a multitude of others which 
have been advanced or maintained by 
more’ modern philofophers. The under- 
taking is undoubtedly creat ; but the tran 
jator has been engaged. in it for fome 
years » anda more favcurable pericd for 
ufhering it into the world could not eafily 
occur than while the public’ cfiriofity, is 
excited by Mrs Wakefield’s very iplendid 
and correét edition of-the original. 
Mr. T. Taytor, who ‘has fo honour- 
ably devoted his lite to the ftudy of the 
Greek Philofophers, is at length emabled to 
put to prefs his tranflation of tle Metaphy- 
fics of Ariftoile. In tranflating this moft 
dificult work, Mr. Taylor has paid the 
greateft attention to the precife meaning 
of every word in the original; the uncom- 
mon accuracy and’ profundity of Ariftotle’s 
conceptions, and the pregnant brevity of 
his diftion, demanding the clofeft literal 
exaétnefs. Copious notes will be given, 
which, though principally philofophical, 
will occafionally be critical ; errars in the 
Greek text will be frequently noticed, and. 
emendations propoted, either from the 
Commentaries of Alexander Aphrodifi-< 
enfis and Syrianus on this work, or from 
conjectures of the tranflator. Inthe courfe 
of thefe notes tod, it witl be fhewn, that 
this work is wholly of the piraitic kind.; 
and that the objeétions made by the Stagi- 
rite, in various parts of it, to Plate’s dec. 
trine of ideas, are rather pretended than fe- 
rious, rather dialectical tham derhenftra- 
tive. The tranflater fays, he will en- 
deavour to prefent the Englith reader with 
the manner as well as matter of Ariftotle 5 
to combine profundity with perfpicuity ; 
rigid accuracy of tranflation, with purity 
of ftyle; and the confummate fkill of the 
Stagirite, with the magnificent conceptions 
of Plato. Thenames of fubfcribers are 
received, accompanied by one guinea, 
being half the price at which the work wiil 
hereafter be publifhed. 
Dr. BeppoEs has in the prefs a coliec~ 
tion of Obfervations in the external and 
internal Ufe of Nitric Acid in Siphylis.. 
He had no intention of publifhmg-another 
feparate work on this fubject, but fo many 
new and interefting fa&s have been tranf— 
mitted to him, that he very gladly com- 
plies with the defire ef his correfpondents 
in fending them to the prefs. 
Mr. Davy’s. Refearches on nitrans 
oxyd, with an account of its effects in te- 
{fpiration by a great number of perfons 
who have experienced them, will immedi- 
ately appear. 
refpectably known to the literary world, is 
editing an edition of Milton, which wilf 
{peedily appear in fix volumes, octavo. 
Mr. Hoxicrorr has announced for - 
{peedy publication an Enelifh tranflation 
of the famous Memoires Secrets fur la 
Rufie, which have excited fo lively an in- 
‘tere(ft upon the continent. Mar. Holcroit. 
now reiides in Germany, and was, we be- 
lieve, the editor of the Europeam Repertory, 
a re{peQable periodical work gevoted to 
foreign literature, but which, from a vari- 
ety of caufes, has unfortunately been dif- 
continued. i _ 
Mr. W. Dupre, who has been for a 
confiderable time a prifoner in Franee, has — 
in the prefS and will {peedily publifh Lex- ~ 
egra= 
The Rev. H. J. Topp, of Canterbury, 
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