Retrofpec? of Dameftic Literatyre—Cloffical Literature, &e. 649 
quired maturity of judgment and profun- 
dity of knowledge, would, in all human 
probability, have made many interelting 
difcoveries in the fcience of mineralogy, 
had he not been cut off almoft in the com- 
mencement of his career: but the ways 
of Providence are infcrutable, and we 
fubmit to its decrees without a murmur! 
Dr. Russe has given an account of 
the voluntary expanfion of the {kin in the 
neck of the cobra de capello, or hooded 
fnake of the Eaft Indies; and a defcrip- 
tion of the parts which perform that of- 
fice is added by Mr. Home. Mr. 
HatcuHet’s analyfis of the magnetical 
pyrites, and his obfervations on the change 
of fome of the proximate principles of 
vegetables into bitumen, are very fatis- 
factory. 
The Royal Irifh Academy has alfo puh- 
lifhed another volume (the ninth) of its 
“« Tranfadions,” containing, as ufual, 
many interefting papers on matters of f{ci- 
ence. . 
We mutt proceed to 
CLASSICAL LITERATURE. 
bs TPY®IOAQPOYT IAIOY AAQXIZ, 
Verfione Latina, plurimis Obfervationibus, 
duobus Indicibus,, et variis Excurfibus, il- 
lufrata aTaoma NoRTHMORE.” 
An edition of this work was publithed 
by Mr. Noxthmore fome years ago, and 
was received with general approbation, 
both at home and abroad. Encouraged 
by this reception, Mr. Northmore tas re- 
turned to his favourite author, and re-pub- 
lithed his former work, with the addition 
of many new obfervations, which teftify 
to his extenfive claffical reading and his 
critical fagacity. 
“* Thucydides, Grace et Latine. Acce- 
dunt Indices ex Editione Waft @ Du- 
keri.” 
This isa very elegant and accurate edi- 
tion of Thucydides. The anonymous 
editor ftates, that he undertook the {uper- 
intendance of it at the requeft of a book- 
feller whofe intention it is to publith the 
Greek hiflorians ina fimilar form. The 
prefent editor has taken the Aldine editi- 
on as the bafis of his own, changing the 
reading, where required, by the fenfe or 
by the authority of manvfcripts. A vo- 
lume of annotations, and various read- 
ings, is promifed at fome future period. 
_ © M. Tullit Ciceronis de Officiis, Libri 
tres, ex Recenfione Jo. Mich. © Jac. 
_Frip. Heusincerorum. Patrui ma- 
joris.”? 
This edition of Cicero’s Offices is 
abridged by Conrad Heufioger, from a 
larger critical edition of the fame work, . 
, 
MONTHLY Mac, No. 133t. 
by his father: and uncle. The-notes dif- 
play much learning and acutenefs. 
“© The Synonymes of the Latin Lan- 
guage alphabetically arranged; with cri- 
tical Diflertations upon the Force of its 
Propolitions, both in a fimple and com- 
pounded State. By Joun Hitt, L.L.D. 
ee ; 
In the execution of this very difficult 
work, Dr. Hill is. faid to have evinced 
much ingenuity, accuracy, and learning: 
in ftating the power of the different terms 
brought together, the learned philologitt 
ftates that he had adopted the plan of M. 
D’Alembert, and has been guided uni- 
formly by an expreffion of the point in 
which they allagree. ‘* Reverfing afier- 
wards the {ynthetic method, by which this 
point was at firft apprehended, he has tried 
to fhew, by a variety of exemples of claf- 
fical authority, how each of the terms col- 
lated holds of that general definition to 
which they all refer asa ftandard.”? With 
the comparifons of fynonymous words are 
intermixed, according to alphabetical on. 
der, critical differiations on the force of 
the prepofitions, ina fimple and com- 
pounded ftate. 
“* Vocabulary, inteaded as an Introduc- 
tion to the Study of the Synonymes of -the 
Latina Language.” By Joun Hirt, 
Te, bce. 
This is an abfraét of the larger work 
of the learned Profeffor: it contains all 
the words there iJluftrated, with defini- 
tions of each, and one clear example of 
itsufe. Jt is an admirable {chool-book. 
Mr. Wuiraker’s ‘* Concife Introduc- 
tion to the Latin Language’ may be uled 
with advantage. 
MEDICINE, SURGERY, &c. 
Dr, RowuEy has written “* 4Treaii/e 
on Madnefs and Suicide,” with the Modes 
of determining with Precifion mental Af- 
fe€tions, 8c. &c. 
After a definition of the difeafe, fome 
remarks on the prevailing modes of prac- 
tices which are condemned as injudicious 
and un{cientific, Dr. Rowley gives an ac- 
count of the appearances, upon diflection, 
of perfons who have died infane. from 
thefe appearances, the theory deduced%s, 
that a diztention of the venous fyitem of » 
the brain is the immediate caufe of infa. 
nity: paffions, he obferves, certainly force 
a greater quantity of blood to the brain 
than ufual. When this operation is too 
often repeated, the veins are kept in’ a 
conftant jtate of difention, their coats are 
weakened, and at length the finufes them- 
felves become over diffedded. 
ward flow of bleod through the arteries, 
te ie ‘ and 
The in- 
