To the firft pofition we heartily fubfcribe, if we lament also the feverity of his fentence, it is not that its juftice can poffibly be arraigned, but we lament that fuch feverity fhould be neceffarily exercifed upon an individual who might so easily have obtained the best of all eftcem, the laudari a laudatis.'-The trial is well given, and the portrait of Mr. Gerald, which is prefixed, is not unlike him. ART. 57. Report of the Trial of Archibald Hamilton Rowan Efq. on an Information filed, ex officio, by the Attorney General, for the Distribution of a Libel, with the fubfequent Proceedings thereon, containing the Arguments of his Council, the Opinion of the Court, and Mr. Rowan's Addrefs to the Court in full. Dublin, reprinted London. 8vo. pp. 163. 35. Kearsley. 1794. This Gentleman is among those who have, by fome, been confidered as a martyr to liberty, and is described by one of his counfel as "hunted down as a victim." After the trial which is here circumftantially given, a jury of his countrymen pronounced him guilty, and the court fentenced him to two years imprisonment, and a fine of five hundred pounds. From fome motive or other, before the expiration_of his imprisonment, he made his escape, and is now an inhabitant of France. ART. 58. The Trial of Daniel Ifaac Eaton, for publishing a fuppofed Libel, intituled Politics for the People, or Hogs Waf, at Juftice Hall, in the Old Bailey, Feb. 24th, 1794. 8vo. pp. 62. Is. Eaton. Mr. Eaton was tried on the indictment, fpecified in the first page of this pamphlet, and found" Not Guilty." On the mode of publifhing fuch trials, we have already made our remarks. FOREIGN FOREIGN CATALOGUE. GERMANY. ART. 59. Plutarchi Opera, cum adnotationibus variorum, adje&aque lectionis diverfitate, ab Hutten. Tomus V. in 8vo, Tübingen, 1793. Of this ufeful re-impreffion of one of the most inftructive and entertaining claffical writers, the character is fufficiently known from the volumes that have already appeared. This now before us contains the lives of Phocion, and the younger Cato; two patriots of dif tinguished virtue, which was, however, rendered ineffectual by the depraved manners of the ages in which they lived. Agis and Cleomenes, with the two Gracchi; four men, who, wishing to reform a corrupt ftate, were themfelves the victims of their well-meant endeavours, in as much as fuch reformations can only be carried into effect in peaceable times, when it generally happens that the want of them is not perceived. Demofthenes and Cicero, who attempted likewife to direct by their counfels and fpeeches a corrupted ftate, with its depraved inhabitants of all ages and ranks, whilft owing to a feries of events, one of those states became fubject to a foreign, and the other to a domeftic power, both alike inimical to what they termed liberty. Laftly, Artaxerxes, the younger, the weak defpot of a great empire, approaching to its fall, chiefly remarkable for the number of his fons, amounting to 115; and who, as he may be faid, on his own account, fcarcely to have deferved a place in hiftory, is indebted for that which he occupies in this volume to the fmallnefs of the fpace only which remained in it, and which would have been infufficient for any other life. To thofe of Demofthenes and Cicero the editor has annexed the entire notes of Barton, by whom they were feparately published; and we may obferve, in general, concerning this re-impreffion, that, befides the great attention paid by Mr. H. to the correctness of the text, he has, even in other refpects, done more than might have been expected from the plan which he had laid down for himself; which will certainly not be confidered as any objection to the work. Goetting. Anzeig. ART. 60. Symbolae ad Pindari Argonautica interpretanda à Jo. Frid. Wagner, Johannei Rectore, in 8vo. Luneburg, 1794. In this differtation the author inveftigates the plan and connection of the fourth Pythian Ode, entering into a critical examination of the words and fentiments, in which are many original and ingenious obfervations, the greater part of which we cannot but approve. In he long epifode on the fubject of the Argonautic expedition, Mr. W. believes that he has difcovered a connection with the fubfequent part of the poem, the reconciliation of Damophilus; in the former, Jafon is the principal perfonage; the events of whofe life, and whofe character agree in fome meature with thofe of Damophilus. The 125 v. is rendered: "What dangers had fortune hung over them." Mapa in v. 258, are regarded not only as the Parcae, but likewife as the goddeffes of whatever is faid to be xaтa pv, right or juft. The latinity of this effay, is alfo fuch, as ought to be considered as a recommendation to the author in his profeffion. ibid. κατα ART. 61. Cononis Narrationes; Ptolemaei Hiftoriæ ad variam eruditionem pertinentes; Parthenii Erotica, græcè cum notis variorum et fuis emendatius edidit, ac de ejufdem nominis veteribus scriptoribus præfatus eft Ludovicus Henricus Teucherus. Leipfic, *1794. 136 pp. 8vo. As the latest edition of the works fpecified in the title, from the two first of which very imperfect extracts only have been transmitted to us by Photius, was published in Tho. Galei Hiftorica Poëticæ Scripzores, Paris, 1675, we are perfuaded that this re-impreffion of them, to the correctnefs of which we can bear teftimony, will not be unacceptable to the friends of Greek literature. Many of the fables and verfes here preserved, having been taken from the works of fome of the most eftermed Greek poets and other writers; of fome of which we have, perhaps, no further remains, (which is particularly the cafe in regard to Parthenius) they certainly deferve a greater degree of attention, than had been paid to them by Gale, Höfchelius, and Schott. The notes of Mr. T, which are confined to Parthenius, are intended to point out the fources from which the paffages quoted by him are derived, and to improve the text. He appears to have been unacquained with the conjectural emendations of this author by Brunck, in the Analecta Veterum Poetarum. Jena Litteraturz. ART. 62, Homerocentra, five Centones Homerici in quædam Hiftsriæ facræ capita, grace latine; accedunt Probe Falconiæ Virgiliani Centones in Vetus ac Novum Teftamentum fcripti; denuo edidit L. H. Teucherus. Leipfic, 1793, 8vo. In the re-publication of thefe pieces the principal merit of the editor confifts likewife in his having difcovered most of the biblical paf fages expreffed here in the lines of Homer, or Virgil, and in his occafional corrections of the text. Though fuch whimsical performances can, in our judgment, be of no other ufe than to characterize the age in which they were compofed, Mr. T, however, affures us in his preface, that the Homerocentra vel eo nomine funt lectu digniffima, quod in iis verfus Homerici ad hiftoriæ facræ capita quædam applicati, & tanquam in fede honorificentiori collocati reperiuntur, adding that utriufque opufculi magna eft utilitas ad hiftoriam divinam, & Græcas ac Latinas literas cognofcendas, &c; an opinion to which we doubt whether many of our readers will fubfcribe. ibid. ART. ART. 63. C. Cornelii Taciti Germania. Mit Stellen aus den alten Autoren belegt, erlaütert, verglichen, hie und da ergänzt, und zum Gebrauch in Schulen heraufgegeben von Joh. Fried. Schwedler, Lebrer am luther. Gymn. zu Halle. C. Cornelii Taciti Germania, accompanied and compared with paffages from ancient authors, together with illuftrations and occafional additions, intended for the use of Schools, by J. F. Schwedler, &c. First part. Halle. VIII. 139. pp. 8vo. It is probable that the Aegyptiaca of Stroth may have fuggefted the idea of this undertaking, and we fhould have been glad, as it certainly would have been rendered more useful, if the author had conformed altogether to the plan adopted by Stroth, in confining himself entirely to one and the fame country, instead of digreffing to the history of the Gauls, Perfians, and other nations. Notwithstanding this objection, however, Mr. S. must be allowed to have brought together much valuable information on the ancient state of Germany, and his work may deservedly be regarded as a proper companion to the excellent Geographico-biftorical Dictionary to Tacitus, lately published by Mr. Erneftio. We take this opportunity of mentioning a tranflation of Tacitus de Moribus Germanorum, likewife by Mr. Schwedler, with the following title: C. Cornelius Tacitus, über Wohnungen und Lebenfart Germanischer Völkerfchaften, überfetzet van Johann Friedrich Schwedler. Halle, 1793. 66 PP. in 8vo, ibid. ART. 64. Johann. Hildebrand Withoffs Kritische Anmerkungen über Horaz und andere Römische Schriftsteller. Nebft einer Befchreibung der Lateinifchen Handschriften in der Duisburgischen Universitäts-Bibliothek, von H. A. Grimm, Dr. u. Prof. d. Theologie u. Bibliothekar. Zweytes Stück. Critical Remarks on Horace and other Roman Writers. By J. H. Withoff. With a Defcription of the Latin MSS. in the Library of the University of Duisburg, by H. A. Grimm, &c. Second Part. Duffeldorf. 8vo, (12 gr.) Mr. Withof, who appears to have followed the celebrated Bentley, though certainly haud paffibus æquis, does not feem to have reflected, that in Horace he has to do with an author who is, according to Quintilian, verbis et figuris feliciffime audax, and who has, at the fame time, as we learn from his own confeffion, endeavoured to render both his lyric and other poetical compofitions models of correctnefs-operofa Carmina (IV. 2, 31.) His pretended emendations of the text of Horace, therefore, are fometimes scarcely to be reconciled to the idiom of the language, frequently tend to weaken the expreffion, and are almost always unhappy. Such are, for instance, his alteration of IV. 6, 17.—Captis gravis heu! nefas beu into captis Phrygibus (nefas heu!) and IV. 4, 15, where, for Fulve matris ab ubere Jam lacte depulfum leonem, to avoid what he calls an hässliche Tautologie (odious tautology) he sube ftitutes Paulo ante depulfum, &c, With refpect to the paffage I. 1, 100 fqq, where the sense might be improved by the flight alteration Divifit medium, ut fortiffima Tyndaridarum, we may refer to Sanchez, who in his Minerva, IV. cap. 2. p. 725. has fuggefted another mode of explanation which has been overlooked by the commentators; and in I. 4, 25, the lection erue, instead of elige, agreeing exactly with the arripe of Bentley, is fupported by MSS. of refpectable antiquity. The remaining emendations are confined to Juftin and the Triftia of Ovid. That on V. 1,5, of the former author, where in the place of Omnia Graca regna concurrunt, Mr. W. propofes reading Omnis Gracia reliqua concurrit, we should be ready to adopt; as we likewife think the following alterations in Ovid ingenious, where for Lib. II. 236. Bellaque cum multis irrequieta gerit, he would read, Bellaque cum vitis irr. &c. (according to Suetonius, in vitá Augufti, c. 27. recepit et morum legumque regimen), and for Ne cadat et titulis palmas inhoneftet ademptis. The Differtation on the Caufe of the Exile of Ovid, by Dr. Grimm, contains much curious hiftorical information collected from the best authorities. In the collation of the MSS. we have a continuation of the extracts from one of Florus, from the third Book, and the various readings of a MS. of the Cento Virgilianus of Proba Falconia, after the edition of Kronmazer. Ibid. ART. 65. Animadverfionum in loca quædam veterum Poetarum, eorumque vertendorum periculum facut Henr. Crede. Marburg. Svo. We are here presented with fome new and ingenious explanations of difficult parlages in the Eneid of Virgil, Lucan's Pharfalia, and Ovid's Metamorphofes, which the author fubmits to the judgment of the public with a degree of modefty that might be confidered as a fufficient apology for lefs fuccefsful attempts. Itid. ART. 66, Kurzer Entwurf der Aftronomischen Wissenchaften, von J. E. Bode, Aftronom. u. Mitglied der K. Preujs. Acad. d. Wiffenfch. in Berlin. Mit 7 Kupfertafeln. Berlin. 1794.-Short Sketch of the Science of Aftronomy, by J. E. Bode, Aftronomer and Member of the Royal Pruffian Academy of Sciences at Berlin, with 7 Plates, Berlin, 1794. 455 PP. 8vo. (1 rixd. 6gr.) The merit of Mr. Bode is univerfally acknowledged; he fulfils in this work an engagement made to the public, in the preface to the the laft edition of his Erläuterung der Sternkunde, noticed by us in the British Critic, to give fuch an abridgement of that great work as might be deemed fufficient to answer the purposes of those who would with to acquire a general knowledge only of Aftronomy, and of those fciences which are connected with, or dependent on it; as Ma thematical |