ART. 48. An hiftorical Account of the Tranfactions of Napoleone Buonaparte, First Conful of the French Republic, from the Period he became Commander in Chief of the French Army in Italy, in April, 1796, until the prefent, of his having compelled the Emperor of Germany, a fecond Time, to make Peace with the French Republic, and acknowledge its Independence, in February, 1801. In this Work is compriz d the Campaigns of Italy in 1796-7, the Command of the French Army on the Craft of France, Flanders, &c. The Expedition to Malia and Egypt in 1798, the Chief Confularship of France, with the Campaigns of Italy and Germany in 1799, 1800, and 1801. By G. Mackereth. 8vo. 88 pp. 2s. 6d. Printed by Jones, Soho. No Publisher. This hiftorian of Bonaparte, who is alfo his panegyrift, wifely fuppreffes his campaign in Paris, against the then exifting conftitution of the country. It will be feen, even by his title page, that he cannot write English; and more will not eafily be feen, as the publisher does not choose to be named.

ART. 49. The Sound and Baltic confidered in a political, military, and commercial View, intended to illuftrate the relative Connections and maritime Strength of the Northern Powers; to which are added, Obfervations upon Egypt, and the Trade of India, as connected with the Baltic or Eaft Sea. Tranflated from a German Pamphlet, published at Berlin in April laft. 8vo. 3. Debrett. 1801.

This pamphlet obtained a confiderable popularity in the north of Europe, which it might well be expected to do, as it was obviously written in defence of the Northern Confederacy against this country, and with the intention of keeping up the prejudices which exifted against us. It was understood to have been written under the sanction of the Pruffian government, and its great tendency is to prove the practicability of excluding England from a commercial intercourfe with the powers on the continent. It does not appear to merit any other refutation than it has already received from the argumentative powers of Lord Nelfon in the North, and of Sir Ralph Abercromby and our gallant brethren in the Eaft. It is however very plaufibly written, and contains fome facts very well worth the confideration, not only of government, but of thofe of our merchants whofe interest is involved in our trade with India, as well as with Denmark, Pruffia, Sweden, and Ruffia.

ART. 50. The Elements of Reading, being felet and eafy Leffus, in Profe and Verfe, for young Readers of both Sexes. By the Rev. T. Adams, A. M. Author of Lectiones Selecta, the Elements of useful Knowledge, Sc. Sc. 12mo. 4s. Law. 1800.

Thefe introductions to reading have lately multiplied upon us fo faft, that every month we have one or more to notice. That this is at leaft as good as many others fufficiently appears, from its having paffed through three editions. That it will pafs through as many more, is

very probable, for the felection feems remarkably well calculated to intereft the curiofity, and improve the minds, of very young readers.

ART. 51. Viridarium Latinum; or, Recueil des Penfées et Bons Mots, les plus remarquables tirés des plus illuftres Orateurs, Poetes, et autres Ecrivains tant Grecs que Latins, Traduits en Italien, et en François, Article par Article, a Cotés des Originaux. Auquel on a ajouté ure colletion Angloife de maximes inftru&ives et amufantes Extraits des Auteurs les plus célebres, le tout deftiné à l'avancement des jeunes Perfonnes, qui étudient ces differentes langues, ainfi qu'a l'amusement des Perfonnes d'un age mur. Par Gaetano Ravizzotti, Auteur d'un Grammaire, en Anglois et en Italien; d'une Introduction a la même, en Italien et en Anglois, et d'une Collection de Poefte Espagnole, &c. Dedié a l'Honorable Guillaume Temple. 8vo. 5s. Dulau. 1801.

We have before fpoken favourably of fome of M. Ravizzotti's productions. The prefent felection is made with tafte and judgment, and the tranflations are fufficiently accurate. We are much, however, inclined to doubt whether it will anfwer the author's purpofe, as its use for the object propofed does not feem fufficiently obvious. There are few, if any, extracts from Greek authors.

FOREIGN CATALOGUE.

GERMANY.

ART. 52. Herodis Attici quæ fuperfunt adnotationibus illuftravit Raphael Fiorillo Bibliotheca regia Academ. Georg. Auguft. à Secret. Prafiza et Epiftola Chr. G. Heynii ad Auctorem. Lipfia, Sumt. Cafpari Fritfcht. 8vo. 1801.

Mr. Fiorillo, a difciple of the celebrated Mr. Heyne, presents here to the public the firft fpecimen of his talents and proficiency in claffical literature. After the perufal of his book, notwithstanding the many confpicuous proofs of application it prefents to the reader, we cannot help thinking that the author has not yet made a proper ufe of the precepts of his excellent mafter, whofe tafle, wife moderation, and accuracy, we are forry to mifs in a great deal of Mr. Fiorillo's production. As for the two well-known infcriptions, attributed to the famous rhetorician Herodes Atticus (though they feem rather to be the work of one Marcellus) Mr. F. confeffes himself, that he had almost nothing to add to the commentaries of Salmafius, Visconti, and others, but that he has made them a vehicle for accidental obfervations and conjectures. By

this method, widely differing from that of Heyne, he has compiled an abundance of notes, rather deterring than inftructing; and as he parts from his author at every opportunity, in order to ramble over the fragments of ancient poets, it frequently happens that, notwithstanding the great number of notes, the reader finds himself difappointed in confulting the commentary at difficult paffages. Would it not have been much more to the advantage of the reader, if Mr. Fiorillo had given an entire tranflation of Visconti's excellent commentary, which has never been publicly fald, and if he had joined to it his own notes and digreffions? Now he has given fhort extracts of fome notes of Visconti, others he has paffed over entirely; and to the excellent and instructing differtations of that learned antiquarian, he has fubstituted the thorns and thiftles of grammatical obfervations (not very new for the greater part) and of critical conjectures. Among the latter, there are fome which give a favourable opinion of the author's talents for criticism; others are too rafh, and many of them evidently falfe. P. 127, Mr. F. propofes a fragment of Chaeremon, Athen. XIII. p. 609, where he correćts, in the firft verfe, καὶ σώματος μὲν ὄψις κατειργάζετο, which cannot be true, the Senarius being too fhort (unâ fyllabâ brevior). The true lecture is ava xaтnuуάbeтn, as Mr. Herman has proved, in his Notis ad Hecubam, v. 556, p. 130. In a series of fragments, p. 162, &c. which have relation to the famous cotlabos of the ancients, the author has ftumbled feveral times. In a fragment of Dionyfius (Athen. XV. 668, F.) he proposes xai giv ixeiv ov isiv, inttead of ; a conjecture which we highly approve : but, in the fame paffage, the words εἰς ὅσον αἱ λάταγες χωρίον ἐκτέταται, ought not to be difturbed. In the verfes of Achaeus (Ibid. p. 668. A.) Tortes, inβάλλοντες, ἀγνύντες, τίμου λένοντες,where Mr. Toup (Emend. in Suid. T. II. P. 470) reads, with great probability, Tiv' Aéyovres, our author propofes the much interior conjecture, Fouo 2. adding thefe words, Memorabilis eft ufus verbi ina, quod de poculis dicitur poft coenam fractis et abjedis. In this obfervation, we dare fay, Mr. P. is quite mistaken; the word Baxa defigning here the action of the person that flings the corlabos or the wine, trom the cup, towards a certain fcope. He augments this error, when he pretends that, in the paffage of Euripides, Athen. XV. p. 666, πυκνεῖς δ ̓ ἔβαλλον Βακχίου τοξεύματος κάρα γέροντος--the jaculationes Bacchi, Baxxiou roževμata, are fragmenta calicis. On comparing this paflage with another of Afchylus, p. 667, D. C. it will appear that here too the poet understands the cotlabos, the fcope of which was the head of fome old man. We are perfuaded that the author would have made this obfervation himself, if he had taken the trouble to perufe the whole chapter of Athenaeus, instead of picking up only fome fragments from it. P. 89, we find the conjecture, 48' ägi μńλwv mog‡ugiwr. where the author pretends that girogpigiwy must be joined; a tmefis, the poffibility of which it would be difficult to prove by any inftance of a fimilar kind. Some other errors, of too great precipitation, we pals over. Confidering, however, the many initances of learning, ingenuity, and diffufe reading, Mr. F. gives in this book, we cannot but exprefs our concern, that he has not been a little more cautious in felecting the mature fruits from thofe that are crude, Befides the text

of

of the Infcriptions and Commentary, this volume contains the Life of Her des Atticus, chiefly drawn out of the new edition of the Biblioth. Gr. of Fabricius, where this article is enriched with Mr. Eichstadt's learned notes and additions; the fragments of Herodes Sambographus (which are a hors-d'œuvre, this Herodes being not the Athenian orator) a fpeech of the rhetor Atticus on the Republic, with Reifke's notes; and an Epiftle of Mr. Heyne, de finibus ftudii critici regundis, worthy to be recommended to the perusal of all young men who, having confe crated their talents to this part of literature, aim at perfection in it.

ART. 53. Bibliothecae Arabica Specimen D. J. prafide Chr. Fr. Schnurrer lit. gr. et orient. prof. 3c. In 4to. 52 pp.

ART. 54. Bibliothecæ Arabica Specimen. P. 2. In 4to. 40 pp. Tübingen. 1800.

Of the two parts of the Biblio beca Arabica which we here announce, the former gives an account of works in Hiftory and Geography; the fecond of thofe in Eloquence and Poetry.

The first part contains,

1. The Hiftoria Saracenica of Elmacin ;

2. The Annals; and,

3. The Geography of Abulfeda;

4. The Hiftory of Tamerlane by Ahmed ben Arabfchah;

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5. The Hiftory of the Dynafties by Abulfarajus ;

6. The Annals of Eutychius;

7. The Life of Saladin by Bohaëddin;

8. The Compendium of the Hiftory of Egypt by Abdollatiph;

9. The Hity of the Mufulman Sovereigns of Abyffinia, or rather of the country of Adel by Macrizi;

10. The Hiftory of Arabian Coins by the fame;

11. The collection of extracts from different Arabian writers, publithed by Schultens, under the title of Hiftoria imperii vetuftiffimi regum Jemane fium jen Jucanidarum;

12. The genealogical and hiftorical pieces published by Eichhorn, under the title of Monumenta antiquiffimæ hiftoria Arabum;

13. Rerum arabicarum quæ ad hiftoriam Siculam spettant ampla collectio;

14. Documentos arabigos para a historia portugueza copiados dos originales...e vertidos em portuguez, &C.

15. Part of the abridged hiltory of Abulmahaffen, entituled Maured allarafat;

16. The Geography known under the name of Geographia Nubienfis; 17. The Elements of dftronomy of Alfergani;

18. The Fragments published from the Geography of Ebnalwardi; 19. and 20. Two works published at Rome in 1584 and 1585, of which we have very imperfect accounts only;

21. The pre-ended book of the divan of Egypt, or the Norman Code of Sily, published by Vella.

The fecond part is confecrated to pieces of Poetry and Eloquence, and to collections of Fables and Proverbs; and contains a confidera

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ble number of articles, of which many are become very scarce, as they form fmall pamphlets only.

In both parts every article prefents hiftoric details concerning the Arabic author and his editors, the different editions either of the whole, or of parts of the works; as well as of the tranflations which have been published together with the text, or feparately, both in Latin, and in other languages; to which are likewife frequently added, the opinions given of the works themselves, and of the tranflations by the most eminent Oriental scholars; and with refpect to those whose publication is of a more recent date, the judgments of the literary journals in which they have been defcribed.

Among the omiffions obferved by us in this work, as far, at least, as we understand its plan, we may point out,

1. Teftamentum et pactiones initæ inter Mohammedem apoftolum dei et Chriftianos fidei cultores, first published at Paris in 1634, by Antoine Vitray, and afterwards reprinted at Leiden, by J. G. Niffelius, in the year 1661, or, according to the Arabic title in p. 1, in 1655.

2. The Abridgment of the Annals of Baronius, compofed in Arabic by le P. Brice, of Rennes, millionary of the order of Capuchins, and printed at Rome in three volumes, quarto, 1653-1669. The first volume contains 890 pages; the fecond, 976; and the third, 1087.

3. On the Annals of Eutychius, and of the work published by Sel den, under the title Eutychii Ægyptii-Ecclefiæ fuæ Annales, fhould have mentioned the answer made to this work of Selden by Abraham Ecchellenfis, under the title Eutychius vindicatus contra Seldenium; a work, which comprifes many ufeful things, though often foreign from the fubject.

In the part which contains the works of Poetry, we have fought in vain for a book known to us only from the Catalogue of Crevenna, Zaphi Diarbecrenfis theatrum, Arabice et Latine. Patavii, 1690, 2 voll.

in 8vo.

It appears that Mr. Schn. has excluded from his plan all works tranflated from the Arabic, the text of which has not been published, and all thofe portions of text to be met with in different Oriental collections; fuch as the Repertorium of Eichhorn, the Neues Repertorium, and the Memorabilien of Pantus. We think, however, that if in a work of this kind fhould not be found the Chronicon Orientale, the Egypt of Murtadhi, the Oneirocriticon of Ebn Sirin, the works of Méfué, the Arabian Nights, &c. the literati who might confult him, would not derive all the advantage from it which they would be led to expect; and those who live out of Germany might poffibly remain ignorant that Mr. Schn. himself had publifhed fome confiderable portions of a Chronicle of the Samaritans, and on a Samaritan Commentary on the Pentateuch; that the learned Adler had furnished important materials, drawn from different Arabic hiftorians, for the life of Hakem, and for the Hiftory of the Drufes; that Mr. Paulus had discovered an inedited part of the Hiftory of Elmacin, &c,

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