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minis inserta exempla, quorum tibi copiam facio pro lubitu. Jam menses effluxerunt, postquam typis describenda transmiseram folia ex opere desumpta, ut de typorum charactere, quin et totius operis magnitudine, et forma, aliquid præsciscere possemus. Selegi particulam ex litera Z, non quidem rariorum observationum (quas alias dedi) fertilem, sed in qua omnia commentatorum meorum nomina simul comparent, neque longioribus disquisitionibus lector absterretur. Malo tamen fato accidit, ut per typorum penuriam non licuerit integrum quod destinaveram folium dare; quod sero demum intellexi. Hinc interrupta series. Scias autem, novos typos curatum iri, sed ejusdem formæ. Si quid vel horum, vel etiam Notarum ipsarum ratione animadverteris, fac quæso consilii Tui me certiorem. Exempla Hamburgum etiam et Parisios transmittere decrevi. Significabis mihi proxime, qua via commodissime illud fieri queat; et num forte aliquid mittendum habeas, sive ad CI. Wolfium, sive ad Parisienses, cui addi possent mea: interim' Parisienses omittam, usque dum perlatus ad nos fuerit exspectatus dudum fasciculus: de quo tum, simul inquiram, num tempus semestre statutum, quo Bibliothecæ Regiæ reddendum est Lexicon illud Mstum, putetur ab eo quo Parisiis exiit die, an vero quo ipse illud accepero, quod omnino sciendum mihi esse sentis. Quod autem ad Valesiana tua: sine dubio rectius illorum edendorum curam abjecisti, valde enim mutila et manca sunt, ut olim vidi. Præterea Verweius a Cel. Grævio exemplum, (quod descripserat, et ad sua loca retulerat) nactus fuit multo, ut videtur, accuratius; ut ex paucis locis, quæ ex apographo Verweiano inter legendum obiter supplevi, disces. Forte tamen alterum ex altero in nonnullis locis juvari amplius posset: quare aliquando, si commodum tibi fuerit, Tuum cum meo conferre visum est. Parabo aliquod his mensibus quod Miscellaneorum Tuorum particulam constituat. Verbum denique addo de locis Hesychii quæ tangis.

Pag. 906. in v. Tv, postrema etiam correxerat L. Bos. Obs. Crit. p. 189. Tyváλλws. μáτyv. Transponenda tantum syllaba. In v. Пlúxa notaveram Homeri loca Il. E. 70. . 607. et I. 617. Conf. ante v. πʊxaσávτwv (ubi xaλvþávτwy ex superioribus emendaveram, quod et priores Editt. agnoscunt) idem illud πύκα ποιητοῖο. Σατὲς pro Σατεΐς recte emendas ex collatione vocis TTs, ubi Dores σarès dicere notatur; quod commode adstruis fide siculæ Inscriptionis. Sed hausta glossa ex Schol. Aristoph. ad Nub. 624. Conf. Kuhn. ad Polluc. vi. 73. p. 609. 67. Immo Zarès jam correxerat Florens

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in Wolfii Anecdotis T. iv. p. 268. Tantum.-Vocor ad amicos, quibus hanc vesperam dare debui, jam introeuntes. Vale itaque, Vir Clarissime et Amicissime, meque porro

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Harlemi, xxvii Januarii MDCCXXXVIII.

Viro Clarissimo J. P. D'Orville S. P. D.
L. C. Valckenaer.

Quod tu comiter jubebas, Vir Celeberrime, id hoc ipso die tandem effeci; dedi literas super Ammonio ad Cl. Dukerum, quibus si ita respondeat, ut ne plane me a Grammatico edendo repellat, alacer in incepto pergam. Specimen edit. typis curavi describi. Ne quæso moleste feras, quod te submisse rogem, ut, cum a gravioribus aliquantulum vaces, id levi oculo inspicias: Ita velim censeas, id a tirone profectum, qui id unum studet, ut juvenili conamine Tibi ac Tui similibus sese commendet. Si non plane displiceat, neque nolit Dukerus V. C. eodem fere pede pergam: sin; rogo, quantum qui maxime ut verbo id monere ne asperneris. Ad legem, quam præscribes, ita me componam, ut hac in parte, quod minus deceat, nihil committam. Docuit me Cl. Wesseling Emanuelem Martinum Ammonium latine redditum illustrasse, sed neminem opinor in his regionibus eam editionem unquam vidisse. Descripseram e libro Vessiano Glossarium Dosithei (ita indicat Catalogus. Ms. nomen nullum præfert). Inter alia, quæ huic libro erant adjecta, nonnulla ex Hygini Genealogia legebantur: nolui committere ut id celarem; dixi librario, si id e re sua esse judicaret Hygini editor, me id lubenter traditurum. Accepit is conditionem, et postea significavit, dedisse sese operam ut Miscell. Observ. posset inseri. Vellem prius apographum ad Ms. exegisset. Hoc nolui ignorares. Vale, Vir celeberrime. Dabam Lugd. Bat. 111. Kal. Jan. ciociccxxxvIII.

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NOTICE OF

BIBLIOTHECA BIBLICA; a select List of Books on Sacred Literature; with notices, biographical, critical, and bibliographical. By W. ORME. pp. xiv. 491. 8vo. Edinburgh. 1824.

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A VERY judicious and impartial volume: the opinions are given with consideration and much justness; the praise is full and strong (though not extravagant), where it could be safely given; and the dispraise is mild, but decisive. We venture a few remarks and corrections, and shall be very glad to see another chiliad of authors treated with the same sobriety and impartiality. Page 10. Alter's edition of the Greek Testament should be dated 1787-6. Page 172. "Ernesti Lectiones Academica" have no date. Mr. Orme has in many cases omitted the size of the volumes he notices: Mr. Horne gives the date 1815. Page 218. Griesbach is said to be born in 1644. Page 264. Jones's "Examination of Whiston's Hypothesis was republished at the Clarendon Press in 1803." His "new and full method was also republished there in a very neat manner, in 3 vols. 8vo. Oxford, 1798. Page 266. Under the article "Josephus," Havercamp's edition is omitted: it was published, Gr. et Lat. 2 vols. folio. Amstelædami, 1726. Under the texts which are printed in parallel columns are the notes of Edward Bernard, J. Hudson, H. Aldrich, F. Combefisius, J. Gronovius, J. Cocceius, Ez. Spanhem, and Had. Reland. None of the notes are very lengthy, excepting Bernard's, and his do not extend throughout the work; nor indeed do all the remaining annotators. The latter half of the second volume is occupied with var. lec. from the Paris Mss., prefaces to former editions, and various tracts by C. Daubuz, P. Brink, J. B. Ottius, Chr. Cellarius, Chr. Noldius, Ez. Spanhem, &c. Five indexes finish the volume.

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Page 294. Speaking of Mosch's edition of Le Long's "Bibliotheca Sacra," Mr. Orme observes, that Mosch "completed his undertaking, under great discouragements, in 1790." We wish the case had been so; and are sorry to quote the beginning of the last part, which is an index chronologicus to the whole work: "Ultimum hic habes L. B. Bibliothecæ sacræ Le Longii curis nostris emendatæ et continuatæ, non quidem integri operis, sed laborum nostrorum volumen. Sic fata voluerunt; Ultimum

est. Consilium enim nostrum mutare rationes non ficulneæ nobis persuaserunt."

Page 358-9. Of Pole's "Synopsis Criticorum," Mr. Orme observes: "I can say, from a long acquaintance with it, that a vast deal of what is important in the works of modern critics will be found in the learned volumes of the Synopsis." Now, Mr. O. would very much have increased the value of his work, if he had pointed out who those critics are; it would save the purse, and quiet the desire to possess many a volume, if their originality, or otherwise, had been shortly stated. This certainly would require reading and sober judgment; but neither of these qualifications is wanting in Mr. Orme; and in case of a second edition it might be an improvement.

Page 443. Valckenaer's scholæ on the New Testament are introduced; but as Mr. Orme has not copied the title quite accurately, we repeat it: "Selecta e scholis Lud. Casp. Valckenarii in libros quosdam Novi Testamenti. editore discipulo Ev. Wassenbergh, &c." 2 vols. 8vo. Amstelodami, 1815-17. The first volume contains the editor's "Dissertatio de glossis N. T." and Valckenaer's scholæ on St. Luke's Gospel, and the Acts of the Apostles to the end of the 24th chapter. The second volume is again commenced by the editor with a "Dissertatio de Trajectionibus in N. T. sæpe accessariis;" then follows Valckenaer on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, and the Epistle to the Hebrews. Two indexes finish the work. We have stated thus at large the contents, because no one, as far as our knowlege goes, has specified the "libros quosdam " annotated upon.

Page 465. Wetstein's edition of the Gr. Testament comes under review, and is highly praised. Valckenaer (schol. N. T. 1. 518.) appears not to value his labors; in fact, he speaks rather harshly of him: "quam de ejus N. T. homines eruditi spem per Europam conceperant omnem frustratus." An arranged index closes this beautifully printed volume. We repeat, that we shall rejoice to see another equally well filled as the present.

NOTICE OF

ACTA APOSTOLORUM.

Variorum Notis tum

dictionem tum materiam illustrantibus suas adjecit HASTINGS ROBINSON, A. M. Collegii Divi Joannis Socius. Cant. M.DCCC.XXIV. 8s. 8vo.

AFTER having duly exercised himself in the palæstra of profane literature by a very creditable edition of the Electra of Euripides, Mr. Robinson has judiciously descended into the arena of sacred criticism, where he will find objects much more worthy of his abilities and his industry. We hail the present publication as a very favorable specimen of his talents, and an omen of his future success, not doubting but that if he proceed diligently in the path which he has so happily chosen, he will leave a name to be added to that eminent list of divines, which sheds a lustre on the excellent college of which he is a member.

The conformity of the facts related in Scripture with the state of things in the times and countries wherein those facts occurred, as represented by foreign and independent testimonies, affords, in Paley's opinion, a convincing argument of the genuineness and truth of the Sacred Writings. This kind of argument, he observes, would be strong in any case, but, when applied to the New Testament, it receives additional weight, by reason of the mixed nature of its allusions, and the great extent and variety of the scene of action. We may add, too, that whilst additional confirmation is afforded to the truths of Christianity, additional interest is imparted to the investigation of those truths, when History is inlisted on the side of Religion, and the imperishable evidence of the gospel records is supported by incidental allusions to heathen literature. After a careful perusal of his work, we conceive that Mr. R. may have been actuated by sentiments similar to these when he undertook this edition of The Acts, which embrace a portion of history highly interesting, regarded merely in a classical point of view, comprising so many particulars relating to the moral and political state of the most civilised provinces in the Roman Empire.

Mr. Robinson's annotations on this valuable part of Holy Writ appear to be the substance of a course of lectures, given by him in his capacity of Classical Lecturer at St. John's College. They owe their appearance in print to the frequent so

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