6¢6 = Retrofpec? of Domeftie Literature.—Claffical Literature, &c. 
explaining the Courfe of the Nerves,” are 
executed in his ufual ityle of correct- 
nefs and elegance. . 
Mr. Jesse Foor, in a Second Part, 
has added thirteen to the number of 
6< Cafes of the Succefiful Pradtice of Vifice 
Lotura, for the Cureof DifeafedBladders.”” 
A plate of the apparatus is annexed ; 
alfo cafes of difeafed affections from 
-phymofis, with a defcription of a new 
mode of operating for its cure, and a 
plate of the initrument for performing 
it. i 
Drs. Duncan have publifhed ano. 
ther volume of their Avzals of Medicine. 
“<< Pharmacop@ia Collegit Regit Medi 
corum Ediaburgenfis.” 
Tt is {uficient to announce the pub- 
lication of this truly fcientific and mof 
valuable work: the eighth edition of 
this Difpenfatory was publifhed in 
1792 ; and the Edinburgh College, it 
feems, purpofe to republif their Na- 
tional Pharmacopesia every ten years, 
Dr. SAUNDERS has publifhed a third 
edition ot his ‘* Treatife on the Liver." 
We notice the republication of this 
excellent work, becaufe the Doctor has 
taken occufion toillufrate and correct 
fome of the opinions which he formerly 
entertained. 
CLASSICAL LITERATURE. 
The Rev. M. Urowuarrt has, pub- 
lifhed fome ** Commentaries on Glaffical 
Learning.’ They evince confiderable 
tafie and learning, but the information 
contained in them i$ not novel; the 
work will neverthelefs be contulted 
with great advantage by claffical ttu- 
dents. 
In the courfe of the Jaft half-year an 
anonymous tranilation has appeared of 
“< The Lyricks of Horace, comprifing bis 
Odes, Epades, and. Secular Ode into En- 
glifh verfe, with the Latin text revifed 
and fubjoined. able, 
that.is all the praife to which it can 
poffibly afpire. veh 
Mr. Preston has tranflated into 
Englifh verfe the “‘ Argonautics of Apol- 
lonius Rhodius; with Notes critrcal, bifto- 
vical, and explanatory,and Differtations,in 
three Offavo Volumes.” 
In his diflertations on the genius and 
charaéter of Apollonius, Mir. Prefton 
has eftimated his poetical talents much 
more highly than it has been cuftomary 
eo rate them. But the critical acumensy. 
the various learning, and the very cul- 
tivated tafte of his tranflator have ena- 
bled him to make geod his cafe; and 
the ancient, whom Virgil and Valerius 
Flaccus fo frequently felected as their 
It is refpectable, and 
models, willrifein efimation in confe- 
quence of Mr. Prefton’s elegant eluci- 
dation. The frit volume contains an 
ampie and inftrnétive preface, together 
with the whole tranflation of the Argo- 
nautics, The fecond is entisely o¢- 
cupied by notes, which abound 
with information. The third confiits 
of feveral eflays or differtations, on 
very interefting fabiects, and executed 
with great tafte, ingenuity, and Jearn-’ 
ing ; and preceded by two tranflations 
illu#rative of the Poem, the one an Ac- 
count of the Argonautic Expedition, 
tranflated from Apollodorus ; the other 
a profe tranflation of part of the Ar- 
gonautics of Onomacritus; written 
under the name of Orpheus, The EC 
fays are feven in number. 1. On the 
Life of Apollonius Rhodius. 2. On the 
Argonautic Expedition. 3. On the 
Manners of the Heroie Ages, confider- 
ed with a Reference-to Poetry. g: On 
the Poetical Charaéter of Apollonius. 
s. Apollonius compared with Virgil. 
6. On the Geography of Apollonius 
Rhodius. 7.On the Hefperides: and 
their Gardens. ate 
TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES. 
The only work we have to notice 
under this divifion is Mr, GouGu’s 
“* Hifiory and Antiquities of Plefhy,? 
which is 2 valuable acceflion to our pre- 
fent {tock of antiquarian literature. 
MATHEMATICS. 
We muft apologize: for not having 
hefore mentioned. the publication of 
Profeflor Rosperrson’s ** Geometrical 
Treatife of Conic Seétiovs.” | | 
This very able and lucid work is dis 
vided into four books: in the firft the 
general properties of the fections are 
deduced from the cone, and thelr 
general properties conftitute afoundas 
tion for the fucceding books. The fes 
cond book is on the Ellipfe and Hy- 
perbola. The third book treats of the 
Parabola, the Direttrices of the Sec+ 
tion, the Afymptotes of the Hyperbolay 
Conjugate Hyperbolas, and of Hyper 
bolic Se€tors, and Traphezia., The 
fourth book treats of fimilar deétions,: 
genera] properties, circles having the: 
fame curvature with the feétions im gi- 
‘ven points, ard of ftraight lines cur 
harmonically by the fections. This 
book alfo contains Problems ufefal in: 
the theory of Aftronomy, and methods: 
of finding two mean proportionals, and, 
of trifefiing an Angle. by means of the 
feétion. © , . : 
To this Treatife of Conic Seétions ts, 
added a Treatife on the Primary Pro- 
As perties 
