Retrospect of Domestée Literature— Classics. 
diately after the restoration, when many 
of Nixon’s prophecies are said to have 
been fulfilled, should also. have omitted 
to notice him. The story of Nixcn’s 
death is, that having been sent for by 
the king, he was accidentally starved, as 
he himself had foretold; this is. said to 
have happened at Hampton-court, where 
two places are pointed out by the person 
who shows the palace, each of which, has 
been said to have been the scene of his 
famishment. ‘Phis part of the story will 
not bear the test of inquiry beter than 
the others; there is no entry im the pa- 
rish-register of the burial of such a per- 
son in the reign of James I.: one of the 
closets pointed out as that in which. 
Nixon was by accident locked up, }was 
evidently builtin the reign of Wilhan iif, 
and it is needless to observe, that» the 
whole palace was built subsequently to. 
the reign of Henry: VIL. which is by 
some said to have been the time of 
Nixon’s death. When, in addition. to 
these circumstances, we observe that 
the particulars relating to the Cholmon- 
deleys in the printed accounts of Nixon, 
are at variance with the real and known 
history of that family, we cannot help 
regarding his story as very suspicious, if 
not wholly legendary.” 
_ At the end ef all are some useful ad- 
ditions and corrections. 
Here also we have to notice ‘‘Hercula- 
nensia ; or Archeological and Philologi- 
cal Dissertations, containng a Manu- 
script found among the Ruins of Hercu- 
laneum, and dedicated (by permission) to 
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,” 
by Messrs. Drummond and Watpo.e. 
The following are the titles of the dif- 
ferent dissertations. 1. ‘* On the Size, 
Population, and Political State, of the 
aneient City of Herculaneum.” 2. “Ona 
Campania in general, and that Part of it 
called Felix.” $8. “Qathe Etymology 
of Herculaneum.” 4. On. some In- 
scriptions found among the Ruins of 
Herculaneum.” 5. “Qn the Names cf 
Places in the Campania Felix being fre-- 
quently derived from the Pheenician.” 
6. “On the Knowledge of the Greek 
Language, and on the State of the Art 
of Painting among the Romans, before 
and about the Time of the Destruction 
of Herculaneum.” 7. “On the Mates‘ 
rials on which the Ancients wrote.” 
3B. “ Paleographical Observations on the 
Herculanean Manuscripts; written at 
Palermo in the Year 1807.” 9, “ On 
the Manuscript of Herculaneum eps ray 
Seay.” 10. “Inscriptions at Hercula- 
Monruty Mac. No. 201. 
. ponere, 
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neum; at Stabiz; Excavations at Pom. 
peu; Inscription there; subject of Pic- 
tures at Herculaneum :” of these, one 
of the most curious is the ninth disser- 
tation on a manuscript, which Cicero 
appears to have copied, or compiled 
from, when digesting his treatise, ‘* De 
Natura Deorum.” ‘From the first part 
of it,” Mr. Drummond observes, ‘ Cis 
cero has taken the 14th, 15th, and 16th 
chapters of his first book; but towards, 
the conclusiun of the manuscript, I find 
the charge of atheism urged against the 
Stoics with a vehemence which has been 
avoided by the Roman orator.” A com- 
plete transcript of the manuseript itself 
follows the dissertation; together with 
another copy, in which the gaps and 
deficiencies of the original have been 
supplied by the academicians of Portici. 
The work itself is highly deserving of ate 
tention from scholars. Among the 
plates at the close, the second exhibits 
the different forms of the Etruscan let- 
ters, as preserved by the more eminent 
antiquaries. 
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