Vout. 1V.] Retrofpelt of Domeftic Literature—Natural Hiftory, &c. bit 
muft not forget the ‘‘ Biographical Ancc- 
dotes of rhe Founders of the French Re- 
public.” 
with much fpirit and vivacity, and con- 
tains a variety of original and very intc» 
refting matter. 
CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND 
CRITICISM. 
The learned and laborious Dr. Vin- 
cent has traced the ** Voyage of Nearchus 
from the Indus to the Pah: EOE 
voyage, fo daring and dangerous during 
the infancy of navigation, when it was 
projected, was undertaken by command 
of Alexander, for the purpofes of obtain- 
ing a knowledge of the Perfian and 
“Arabian Gulphs, and of eftablithing a 
commercial’ interccurfe between Egypt 
and India. Dr. Vincent has colleéted 
his materials from the original journal, 
preferved oy Arrian, and illuftrated the 
voyage by authorities, ancient and tmo- 
dern. Many geographical cnarts accom- 
pany this curious work, which difplays 
“deep inveftigation, affiduous refearch, and 
very extenfive learning. An abftrufe 
philological “* Effay on the Originality 
and Permanency of Biblical Hebrew,” is 
the production of the Reverend Gerald 
Fitzgerald, profeflor of Hebrew in the 
univerfity of Dublin. The objeéts againft 
‘which fo much Hebraical and chronolo- 
gical learning are applied, are the doc- 
trines which Mr. Paine has preached in 
his Age of Reafon. Mr. George Baker 
has tranflated the “ Hiftory of Rome, 
from the Original of Lavy.”” Mr. Baker 
feems perfetily te have entered into the 
{pirit of his author, and has accommo- 
dated his ideas to the Englifh idiom, 
without wandering too widely from the 
original meaning. Notes and illuftretions 
are added t» this work, which have done 
credit to the tranflator, and fervic, to the 
public. Profeffor Porfon has edited, for 
the ule of {chools, the “* Hecuba of Euri- 
pides +” Jt is illuftrated with a few fhort 
notes, principally explaining the grounds 
of the emendations. The indetatigable 
Mr. Wakefield has publifhed fome inge- 
nious critical ** Remarks’? on the pre- 
ceding book, and exprefies juft furprize 
that his name is not even mentioned by 
the learned profeffor. Mr, Clubbe’s poe- 
tical tranflation of ‘* Horace’s Epiftles to 
the Pifos om the Art of Poetry,” is faithful, 
yet familiar. In the fame gentleman’s 
tranflation of ‘ Horace’s fix Satyrs, ina 
Style between free Imitation and literal 
\Verfion,”’ the familiarity becomes ridi- 
culous, if not difgufting ; to make Horace 
talk about Dr. Trufler and little Borow- 
Jafki, is literally coupling, like another 
Montary Mae. XXVI. 
This, little volume is written _ 
Mezentius, the living with the dead. 
Mr. Bofcawen has publifhed a fecond 
volume of his ** Tranflation of Horace.” 
Mr. Bofcawen is undoubtedly a man of 
tafte and learning; and if we are difaps 
pointed in the perufal of his verfion, it is 
probably from the impoffibility of doing 
. Juttice to the original in the Englifh lan~ 
guage. The ‘ Mufzi Oxonienfis Speci- 
minum fafciculus fecundus,’’abounds with 
curious and recondite learning ; and great 
critical acumen is difplayed on the part 
of thofe learned gentlemen, whofe com- 
munications have enriched this intereft~ 
ing work. Mr. Plumptre has attempted . 
to corroborate his former conjeéture, that, 
under the character of Gertrude, Shak- 
{peare intended to calumniate Mary 
Queen of Scots, in an “ Appendix to his 
Obfervations on Hamlet.” : 
NATURAL ‘HISTORY AND 
PHILOSOPHY. 
In the entomological department, the 
indefatigable and moft ingenious M. Sepp 
is yet bufilyemployed. A fecond volume 
has appeared of the *‘‘ Infeéts of the 
Netherlands, de{cribed from his own Ob- 
fervations, exactly drawn from the Life, 
engraved and coloured by that celebrated 
and very accurate Naturalift.” A work 
fo fplendid .and fo beautiful, does not 
often come before us, even in thefe times 
of extravagant iconography. A tranfla— 
tion has appeared of M.. Von Uflar’s 
*¢ Chemico-Phyfiological Obfervations on, 
Plants, with Additions by M.Schmeif- 
fer.’” From the refults of feveral expe- 
riments, Uecifive that an accelerated ger-~ 
mination in plants is produced by the 
application of oxygen, M. Uflar obferves, 
“that the quantity of fuper-oxygenated 
muriatic acid (which he recommends 
fhould be mixed with the water for 
moiftening the feeds) may poflibly be 
too great; in which cafe the plant be- 
comes over-irritable from the accumula- 
tion of oxygen; for the fame reafon he 
advifes alfo, that the germinating plants 
fhould not be immediately expofed to the 
fun ; light is too powerful a ftimulanc. 
M. Schmeiffer’s “ Syftem of Mineralogy” 
is a laborious work, not a little obfcured 
by the uncouth jumble of German and 
Englifh idiom which pervades it. Dr. 
Okely’s * Pyrology; or, the Connection 
between Natural and Moral Philofophy,” 
contains fome curious, but unconnected 
matter: the inveftigation of Caloriqueis 
fanciful and ingenious; it is a fort of 
deity with the doétor—omniprefent and 
omnipotent! life and fenfe depend on it 
the aétion of the foul on the body, and the 
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