Retrofped of German Literature.—Phbilology. 
sth of volume of his ‘‘ Opufcula Aca- 
demica,” new editions of his Expla- 
nations of the Pictures of the two Phi- 
loftrati, and of the Statue of Callif- 
tratus, and of his “ Beytrage zur Ge- 
{chichte der Kunift, (Contributions to 
the Hiftory of Art in Greece and 
Italy.) 
HERMANN,a pupil of Heyne, now at Ber- 
lin, who in feveral works has treated my- 
thology according to his mafter’s ideas, 
publifhed an ‘* Auszug aus feiner My- 
thologie der Griechen,”’ (Extract from 
his Mythology of the Grecks), together 
with an Effay on the moft Ancient Ca- 
lendars,’’ wherein he follows Dorned- 
den, now one of the librarians of the 
Univerfity of Gottingen, who explains 
the Grecian Mythology by that of the 
Egyptians. 
The indefatigable Wiexanp, ftill 
in his advanced years, employed about 
the Greeks, has brought out his 4th 
volume of the ** Attic Mufeum, where 
we find tranflated by him A®{chylus’s 
Perf, in verfe, and Xenophon’s Sym- 
pofium, as alfo Demofthenes’ Olinthic 
Orations, by Jacos, of Gotha, who 
alfo publifhed the 9th volume of his 
Anthologia Greca. 
Under the title ‘* Attifche Analec- 
ten,” we find leffer poems, by Attic 
bards. 
The Fair was alfo richly fupplied 
with editions, tranflations, and elucida- 
tions, of Greek authors, particularly of 
the poets. Among thefe we diftinguifh 
HEYNE’s long-expected edition of Ho- 
mer, ‘* Homeri Carmina cum brevi 
Adnotatione; accedunt varie Leéti- 
ones et Obfervationes veterum Gram- 
maticorum cum noftre ®tatis Critica, 
&c.” Eight large oétavo volumes, 
with beautiful illuftrative engravings ; 
and likewife a cheaper edition. 
«* Ariftotelis Ars Poetica, cum Com- 
mentarlis HERMANNI. Of this let it 
fuffice to mention that the Commenta- 
tor is the fame who has fo admirably 
elucidated the metre and verfification of 
the ancients, and feveral of their poets. 
The works is tranflated into German, 
by M.VaLeETT, in Kiel, 
HEInDoRF, in Berlin, has given a 
critical edition with fuccefsful amend- 
ments of four dialogues of Plato, viz. 
Lyfis, Charmides, Hippias major, and 
Phedrus. 
Xenophon has furnifhed employment 
for feveral of the German philologitts. 
Weiske has publifhed the 5th volume 
of his edition of that author. 
Lance, of Halle, has given? fome 
Montuiy Mase. No, 103. 
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good annotations with the new edition 
of the Sympofium: BECKER of the’ 
fame Univerfity tranflates and explains 
the “* Expedition of Cyrus,” and the 
‘Retreat of the Ten Thoufand.” 
The firftt volume of an edition of 
Antoninus, in the original Greek, with 
critical annotations, was given by 
SCHULZE, now Profeffor in Kiel, who 
had already given a tranflation of that 
author. 
As to Virgils and Ovids, the har- 
veit was not confiderable. A certain 
Horn has tranflated Seneca’s Thyettes, 
with notes, and an introduétion on the 
nature of this tragedy, according to 
the rules of the modern German {chool. 
The complete edition of all ** Tully’s 
Orations,”” has been continued by 
Beck.  HutLsemMan tranflated his 
book ‘* De Legibus,”” fubjoining anno- 
tations. 
The Second Part of Greric’s edition 
of Pliny’s Letters, is performed with 
the fame diligence and judgmentas the 
firlt. 
We have further to notice fome mif- 
cellaneous collections. Befides the 
fifth volume of the above-mentioned 
‘© Opuifcula Academica,’ by HEYNE. 
WoLrF, at Halle, edited ‘“ Mii{cel- 
lanea maximam Partem Litteraria,”’ 
containing illuftrations of various paf- 
fages of ‘Tacitus, Suetonius, Plato, &c. 
The German articles in this collection 
treat of the origin of facrifices, Plato’s 
Sympofium, the mention of Somnam- 
bulifm in ancient authors, &c, ; 
To the friend of philology a molt 
welcome publication will be the “‘Con- 
tinuation of the Commentari,” by a 
Philological Society at Leipfic, and the 
new edition of ‘ Fabrici Bibliotheca 
Greca,” by Profeflor Hares, of Er- 
langen. 
In a Leipfic edition, of the ‘* Tales 
and Fables of the Perfian Poet Niza- 
mi,” from the Afiatic Mifceliany, a 
manu{cript in Berlin, has been confult- 
ed, but not with difcernment. 
Much more than the title promifes 
is performed by the diligent inquirer 
of antiquity and languages, Herr von 
Mure, of Nuremberg, in his * Lit- 
tere: Patentes Imperatoris Sinarum 
Kang-hi Sinice et Latine, cum Inter- 
pretatione R. P. Icnatit K@aGuieri, 
&c. for here we find not only much in- 
formation on the Chinefe language and 
literature, but alfo an account of the 
Jefuits’ Mifiion in China, from 1766 to 
1800, &c. 
Much more copious was the provi- 
; ae: fion, 
