688 
is keeper of the Duke of Gorua’s exten- 
five collection of medals and coins, began 
to publith ** Annalender gefammten Nu- 
mifmatik’’— General Nomimatical An- 
nals, for the! llufration of Ancieat and Mo- 
dein Hiftiry. We find, however, though 
the contiary mizht have been expected 
from the title, thar thefe Arinals will not 
comprehend the coins of the middle ages. 
Several cultivators of anciest hittory 
and geography, likewi’e communicated 
the refults of their refearcnes. RBurr- 
MANN, of Berlin, in his ‘ Aveltefte 
¥Erdkunde der Morgenliadex”’—Moit An- 
cient Geography of the Orientals, endea- 
-vours to prove that the fcite of Paradife, 
according to their traditions, was in In- 
dia, the country fituats betwixt China and 
the Perfian Gulph. Hasse, of Kiniof- 
berg, in bis “€ Zigeuner in Herodot.”” &c. 
combats the generally received opiaion, 
that the Gypfies firft came from Egypt into 
Europe about the beginning of the fif. 
teenth century; and finds in Herodotus 
(V..9) traces of their exiféace in Hun- 
gary at 2 veryremote period. Lunwe- 
MaNN drew from Strabo, compared with 
later writers, the materials for his {ficcefs- 
ful prize differtation, “¢ Deferiptio Cau- 
caft Gentiumque Caucafiarum. Here- 
MANN, the author cf feveral publications 
in illufration of Heyne’s Mythology, 
gave us row a work on the * Fete von 
Hellas’? — the Feftivals of Greece, in 
which he pretends to have firft conidercd 
them in their proper point of view, and to 
have fhewn the real purpofes for which 
they were initituted. 
M.Eorricer, of Weimar, long cele- 
brated as cne of the mo% learned archzow 
Jogifts of Germany, furnifned, ina little 
work, equally aniufing and infruétive, 
entitied “ Sabina; oder, Morgentcenten in 
dera Putzzimmer ciner Romerin’’— Sa- 
bina; or, Morning Scenes in the Dreffing- 
Room of a Roman Lady—an excellent 
contributica towards a correct knowiedce 
cf the private life of the Romans; by 
which means enly many pafiages in an- 
cient Latin authors can be explained. 
“ Die hiftoriiche Kun& des Gricchen in 
€ehrer Eniitenhung und Fertbildung,” by 
CREUZER, of Marburg, throws muca 
}ight on the fubject he has uncertaken to 
Uluftrate; viz. the origin and progieffive 
improvement of hioriography among 
the Greeks. 
All thefe works on Greek and Roman 
antiquities might, with equal propriety, 
have been ciaflcd under the liead of 
. PUtLOLOGY, 
"Which is thereby rendered interefting 
’ fe thefe even who are nut profeffed cuiti- 
Retrofped? of Sn, Literainre.—Philohgy. 
vators of it. That, however, there ig 10 
want of friends and patrons of the ftudy 
of philology in general appears from the 
circumilance, that befides the ** Commen- 
tarii Soc. Phil. Lipfienfis (which have been 
continued feveral years, though the cir- 
culation be not fo extenfive as it’ me- 
rits,) another journal, en itled “¢ Puilo~ 
jogie,” has been begun by HanFF, of 
Stuitgard, for the purpofe of diffufing a 
tafe for, aud facilitating the ftudy of; 
the beft Greek and Roman authois; and 
Marraiz, of Altenburg, has met with 
fufficient encouragement to induce him to 
publifh his ‘ Miicellanea Philologica ;”— 
or, ColleStion of fmall Tra&s, by phile- 
logitts of eftablifhed reputation. 
At the two laft Leipzig Fairs likewife, 
there again came forth a great number of 
new editions of ancient Greek and Roman 
claffics, commentaries, &c. JeNnisca, of 
Berlin, publithed his “ Vorlefungen tiber 
die Meierwerke der Griechifchen Poe- 
fie,’ &c.—Leétures on the Matter- pieces 
of the Grecian Mufe, in which he takes 
a comparative view of the chief poétical 
produtions of modern Europe. M. Ja- 
COB1, of Gotha, aman of the mot refined 
tate, gave, befides a continuation of his 
edition of the ‘* Anthologia,” a German 
Anthology, undef che title of ** Tempe,”” 
and drawn from that fource. The fol- 
lowing Greek claflics were likewife illuf 
trated in a manner that claims our appro- 
bation; Orpheus, by SCHNEIDER, of. 
Frankfort ; Theocritus, by Daux, of 
Roftock ; Sophocles’s Philocletes, by 
Barry; and tne fame poet’s Ele&ra; 
by ErrurDr. Lance’s edition of Ifo- 
crates feems not to have been fufficiently 
prepared for the prefs. Flournox publith- 
cd from the MSS. of the late learned 
M. Fiscuea, of Leipzig, to wom phi- 
lology is fo much indebted, a * Com- 
mentary on the Plutus of Ariftophanes,”’ 
and ** Remarks on Xenophon’s Cyropz- 
dia.” A German tranflation (the firft 
that appeared in that language) of “ Arif 
totle’s Rhetoric,” was given by VOIGT, - 
of Prague, who has Jong been engaged in 
the critical ftudy of that author’s works, 
TremMaNnn, in his * Verfuch wber Luck 
an’s Philofophie und Sprache’’—Effay on 
the Philofophy and Style of Lucian, 
Ktrongly recommends thé writings of that 
author, FroriLtLo, of Gortingen, fur- 
nified, in a feparate publication, * Ob- 
fervattones Critice’? on Atheneus, the 
excellent edition of whofe works by 
SCHWEISGHAUSER goes on without in- 
terruption. 
Cf the Latin claffics, four feries of edi- 
tions weié begun almoft at the fame time; 
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