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Lives of the British

the British Generals,

FROM THE PERIOD OF THE CONQUEST.

BY JOHN PHILIPPART, ESQ. hcl pdf Author of the "Northern Campaigns of 1812 and 1813, &c."— "Memoirs of General Moreau," and several Pamphlets in "The Pamphleteer."

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NOTES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

WE have made arrangements to procure an early account of the present state of literature in all the countries which have been lately wrested from French Usurpation. We hope to receive for our next number the accounts from Germany and Holland.

We have engaged a celebrated scholar, who is now resident at Paris, to furnish us with Critical Notices of the most important Editions of the Classics, as well as of the Critical Works, that appear on the Continent. A Writer, to whom we are much indebted, has also promised to supply us occasionally with similar Notices.

We shall lose no time in laying before our readers a collation of the various marginal notes contained in the editions of the classics formerly belonging to Dr. Bentley, and now deposited in the British Museum.

H. S. B. on the Greek Fathers in our next.

J. T.'s Illustration of Luke, vii. is received.

We shall give a review of Mr. Hobhouse's Travels through Albania and Turkey, as early as possible, from which we shall extract his account of the present State of Literature in Greece.

W. on the conformity of the Greek, Latin, and Sanscrit Languages, shall, if possible, appear in our next. We trust W. will favor us in every number.

J. W.'s remarks on M. A. Antoninus in our next.

H. H. Joy's Poem came too late for our present number.

Me we shall not neglect.

Professor Beattie's Inscription in our next.

A Friend to clear Definitions shall soon have a place.

Hiero-botanicus has our thanks.

W. A. H. dated November, is received.

The Defence of Public Schools will be concluded in our next.

In our former Numbers we exhausted the question of the Nachash. If we had not, the letter of M. B. &c. would only throw ridicule on it.

M.S. M. is not forgotten.

In Carmina Epodica Euripidea Commentarius in our next.

Mr. Seager on Lucian shall appear in No. XVII.

The Latin Prize Poem of Mors Nelsoni shall not be delayed beyond

our next.

Collation of Suetonius is destined for the same.

The Poetry of School-boys cannot be expected to be immaculate. We therefore decline inserting the observations of R.A. on the "Muse Edinenses" noticed in our 12th Number.

Professor Scott's Essay will be renewed in our next No.

I.

II.

IIL.

OUR EARLY NUMBERS CONTAIN

THE FOLLOWING SCARCE AND VALUABLE

GREEK, LATIN, AND ENGLISH TRACTS:
CARMINA HOMERICA, Ilias et Odyssea a rhapsodorum interpolatio,
·nibus repurgata, et in pristinam formam reducta ; cum NOTIS ue
PROLEGOMENIS, studio RICARDI PAYNE KNIGHT. 2d edition
with very many additions, concluded in this No.

A copy of this book was lately sold by Auction for upwards of £7.
A Chart of 10 Numerals in 200 Languages, with a Descriptive
Essay. By the Rev. R. Patrick, Huil.

Account of Herculaneum. By the Rev. Mr. Hayter.

IV. An Introductory Essay on the Prepositions of the Greek Language.
By Professor Moor.

V. All Bishop Pearson's minor Tracts chronologically arranged.
VI. T. Falconer's two Letters to the Gent. Mag. On the Oxford Strabo.
VII. De Græcorum Verbis in Regulâ flectendis; à f. 9. G. Hauptmann.
VIII. G. Canteri de ratione Emendandi Græcos Auctores, Syntagma
recens auctum.

IX. Wasse On Latin Scholiasts.

X.

Oratio de Publicis Atheniensium Moribus, à Valckenaer.

XI. Lamberti Bos regulæ præcipuæ accentuum.

XII. Ruhnken's Animadvv. in Xenophontis Memorabilia.

XIII. Oratio de Linguæ Arabicæ utilitate, antiquiiufe et præstantiâ ; à

Hyde.

XIV. De Ludis privatis ac domesticis Veterum: à J. C. Bulengero.

We shall be obliged to our readers, if they will take every opportunity of requesting any of their friends, who have travelled for the sake of information, to transmit to us whatever researches or valuable discoveries they may think worth communicating to the public.

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