Retrospect of Domestic-Literature—Antiquities. 
CLASSICAL LITERATURE. 
First in this department-we place The 
Voyage of Neurchus and the Periplus of 
the Krythrean Sea,” translated trom the 
Greek, by Wiiuram Vineryr, D.D. 
Dean of Westminster. 
Having concluded his Commentary on 
Ancient. Cominerce, relinquished — his 
pursuits connected with the subject, and, 
in fact, “promised to intrude no more 
upon the indulgence of the public,” the 
Dean of Westininster was persuaded by 
a literary friend, that the Commentary 
without the Orivinals, was incomplete. 
In deference, therefore, he proceeded to 
the full execution of the. plan recom- 
mended. 
The Greek text of both works is that » 
ef Nicolas Blancard; but in the voyage 
of Nearchus it has been corrected trom 
the edition of Gronovius, (Leyden 1704) ; 
and most of the readings of his best Flo- 
rentine manuscript admitted into the 
text. That manuscript, Dr. Vincent 
adds, was one of those procured by Lo- 
renzo de Medicis, and it is inestimable. 
Immediately following the pretace we 
have a most beautiful engraving,» by 
Bond, of the portrait ef Alexander the 
Great, from a coin in the Bodleian Li- 
brary at Oxford, 
Of the accuracy of the translation, no 
one willentertain.a doubt. At the close 
of all, are a few “* Notices received since 
the publicstion of the second edition of 
the Commerce of the Ancients im the 
Indian Ocean.” 
In this class also, rather than with 
books of Natural History, we. shall place 
“ Lhe History of Animals of ARtsvorve, 
and his Treatise of Physiognomy,” trans- 
lated. trom the Greek, by Mr. Tuomas 
Yayior. Of this volume, being. the 
iifth of the translation of Aristotle’s 
works, we are told tifty copies ouly vere 
printed. At the end, we have an alpha- 
betical table of the names of the ani- 
mals employed by Aristotle in his history. 
In the “ Acharnenses of Aristophanes 
in usum stucliose Juventutis emendata et 
illustruta,’ we have a valuable edition of 
a Greek comedy: with the collations 
of diferent manuscripts, A few read- 
igs appear to have been derived from 
Mr. Bentley’s notes on Aristophanes, - 
preserved in the British Museum, 
liere also we have to notice a new 
translation of ‘ Homer’s Iliad,’ into 
blank verse, by My, Morricr. It is, 
at least, not interion to Cowper's. . 
ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, &e. 
In the First Part af the XVIth Volume . 
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of “ Archaologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts 
relating to Antiquity,” published by the 
Socrery or An11QuARIEs, we have the 
continuation: of a work which ‘it has’ 
often been our lot to praise. It consists” 
of nineteen articles. Foe hic hang eS 
I. Copy of a Letter Missive from King 
Edward the Fourth to Thomas Stoner, 
Esquire, with the King’s Sign Manual, 
preserved. among. the Records in the 
Tower; communicated by Samuet Ly- 
sons, Esq. F.R.S. Director. filer 
Written in the tenth year’of Kin 
Edward the Fourth, A: D. 1470. 
IT. Copies of three remarkable Petitiong 
to. King Henry the Sixth, with that King’s 
Sign Manual, preserved among the Re- 
cords in the Tower; witha Schedule an- 
nexed to one of them, containing an Ac- 
count of the Robes provided for the Royal’ 
Colleges of our Lady of Eton, and of our 
Bady*and St. Nicholas of Cambridge ; 
communicated by SamuEt Lysons, 
Esq. } 
ILI. Account of three unpublished Greek 
Coins, in Letters from the Rev. SrEPHEN: 
Weston, B.D. F.R.S. and F.A.S. to the 
Earl of 4.eicester, President. The first 
ol these letters relates to an autono- 
mous small Brass Coin of Sala in Phrygia. 
The second relates to a Coin of the Atu-" 
sii of Assyria, on the Caper, which is 
not to be found in Hunter, Haym, Pel= 
lerin, Rasche, Eckkel, or Sestini; and 
perhaps is the only remaining memorial 
ofa city, sot recorded by Ptolemy, Ste~’ 
phanias Byzantinus, or Strabo. The 
third ietter offers to the inspection of- 
the Society aCoin of Heraclep, likewise 
undeseribed by any numismatical au~ 
thor.. Aa es, 
- IV. Account of a Greek Coin of Ta~ 
bia, in a Letter from SamvuEL Barnan- 
piston Howes, Esq. F.A.S. to Craven 
Orde, Esq. ° | 
V. Accourt of an Ancient Manuscript: 
of St, John’s Gospel, by the Rev. Jou® 
Minne, FLAS. in a Letter to the Rev. 
John Brand, . This curious manuscript, 
which bears intrinsic evidence of an un- 
tiquitv as high as the age of St. Cuth- 
bert, is suid to have been taken from lus’ 
tomb. ‘Lhe account is illustrated with 
a fac simile of the first page. 
VI. Copy of an Original Minute. of 
Counct! for the Ceremonial of the Fune~ 
ral of Queen Catherine, the divorced Wife 
of Henry the Fighth; communicated by 
Wiriiam Intesewortn, Esq. FLAS. 
VU.-A Survey. of the Priory of Si. 
Helen's in Eondon, taken in the taenty=- 
third year of Bing Henry the Fighth ; 
compa u- 
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