i! Pe fe el ais 
[Feb, 1, 
VARIETIES, irzrary anp PHILosoPHIcaL, 
Including Nesices of Works in Hand, Domefiic and Foreign. 
%* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
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‘ DVICE> recently received from Na- 
AX pies contain turther details relative 
to the unrolling of the manuitcripts difco- 
vered at Herculaneum :—Eleven pericns 
are at prefent empioyed in unrolling and 
copying. The manufcripts hitherto in- 
{pe€ted amount to about rq4o, eight of 
which have already been interpreted and 
tran{mitted to the minifter Seratt:, that 
they may be examined by the Academy, 
and ordered to be printed. Thefe manu- 
feripts are, fix of Epicusus, entitled 
Teel 175 @vceas, On Nature. Another is 
by Philodemus ; its title is Tlept Tns Ogyiss 
Os Anger. The eighth wants both the 
tile and the name of the author. It 
treats of nature and the worlhip of the - 
gods. The next fcur are almoft entirely 
explained; but they have not yet been 
tranimitted, becaufe Mr. HAYTER and 
the Abbé Fort, of the order of St. Bafil, 
jointly are.to fuperintend their publicat.on. 
The Abbé Foti basfirft to cullate the copies 
‘with the originals. to fupply what is nece!- 
{ary, avd to tranflate. Mr. Hayter colla'es 
after him, alters what he toinks proper in 
the foppiements and tranflations, and de- 
livers the.copy to M. Foti, to be again 
tranfermbed. The delay cccationed by 
Mr. Hayter m his labours, is the reaion 
why theie manufcripts have not yet been 
fent either to the Academy cr the Minitler. 
‘Their titles are es follow: one on logic, 
entitled On the Strength of Arcuments 
drawn-from Analogy—Tligh Kavidy umes 
TON CYTE CHT aD Aperoy 5h Treaile on 
Vices and the contrary Virtues —Decs 
@ayate ; On Death. Thefe three works 
are by Philodcmus. ‘The author of the 
the fourth is Polifivatus: Teg! anroys vata 
Ppovngiws a Oz EMMY ELLA MRIS TYG MACYS 
HATE Upeovvopevas Thy Ev Tosg GAAoss O0- 
Ea Comeywv-——On unreafonable Coniempt 5 
that is of thofe who defpife unjutly what 
others commend.—This manuleript is the 
les damaged, and many paflages of tt ate 
abfolutely untouched. 
are in great part by Philodemus;. ihcy 
treat of rhetoric, of poetry, and of mc- 
yality. The publication of thefe mann- 
{cripts cannot take place with all the cx- 
pedition that could be wifhed, as the ort- 
ginals are to be.engraved betore they are 
_prefented to the public. This procets re- 
quires mucb time and monry, and the 
want of the latter will confiderably retard 
ee 
The other papirz - 
the publication. M. Rosine, bifhop of 
Puzzuoli, to whom the public is indebted 
for the fragment.of Bhilodemus on Mufic, 
is the perfon appointed by the Court of 
Naples to fuperintend the esgraving and 
the publication of thefe manufcripts. 
Mr. Prince Hoare, foreign fecretary 
to the Royal Academy, who has been for 
a confiderable time colle&ting materials for _ 
a General Hiitory of the Fine Arts, wiil 
in afew days publifh an Effliy on Na- 
tional Cultivation of the Arts of Defign, 
in part preliminary to his grand defign, 
and in part applicable to the circumftances 
of the prefent ftate of the arts in Eng- 
land. 
Mr. J. C. SaunpeRs, demonftrator 
of praétical anatomy in the anatomical | 
{chool in St. Thomas’s Hofpital, and 
furgeon to the London Ditpenfary fer 
difeaies of the eye and ear, has for fome 
time paft been preparing for publica. 
tion Au Ilivfration of the Anatomy of 
the Human Ear, accompanied by Views 
of that Organ, accurately drawn, ef the 
Natural Size, from a Series of Difleétions. 
To which he intends to add a Treatife 01 
its Dileafes, the Caufes of Deafnefs, and 
its proper Tieatment. Mr. Heatu hav- 
ing finifhed the engravings, the. work will 
be publifhed on the firft of March. 
Dr. Beppoes is preparing for the prefs 
an Almanack of Health. ~ 
Mr. Bonnycast Le, well known for 
feveral ufeful ma¥hematical works, has in 
the prefs a treatife on Trigonometry. 
We are fhortly to be favoured with a 
new trapflitien of Juvenal, from the pea 
of Mr. Hopson, of King’s College, . 
Cambridge. 
Tiaves through Germany and Italy, 
by Mr. Lemais?rReE, will appear in the 
courle of this month, 
A fourth volume of the Munimenta 
Antiqua by Mr. Kine, is almoft ready 
for publication. ' 
A pofthumous work of the late Mr. 
SrruTT, with his Life prefixed, isin the 
refs. 
; Mr. Kipp propofes to publifh anew 
edi ion of Homer, with coliations of many 
manulcripts never before examined. 
A wok of recent Travels through 
Great Britain aud Tieland, by M.GOerDE, 
has lately appeared in Germany, and has 
exched great attention. Ie is faid to 
abound 
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