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We have received, through a friend, the moft pofitive áffurances from Mr. Duppa, that he had no concern whatever in the fabrication of the pretended letters of Don Manual Efpriella, of which we are happy to acquit him. Dr. Reece is procceding at prefs, with his Practical Dictionary of Domeftic Medicine, to be comprised in one volume, Royal Octavo. An ingenious Chemift, Mr. T. E. Williams, of Reading, is printing, at his own private press, a catalogue of British Plants, particularly pointing out their medical and œconomical uses. Mr. Parkinfon's Second Volume of Organic Remains of a Former World, will be published in the beginning of June. It will contain twenty coloured plates, reprefenting nearly two hundred different Zoophytean Foffils. In the course of this Month will be published, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney, in one Vol. 4to. by Dr. Zouch, Prebendary of Durham. A Tranflation of the Satires of Boileau, with fome Account of the Life and Writings of that Poet, will fhortly be ready for publication. The Correfpondence between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Mifs Catherine Talbot, and a Series of Letters from Mrs. Carter to Mrs. Vefey, in two quarto Volumes, will appear in the course of this Month. A new Edition of Swift's Works, in nineteen Volumes $vo. will be published next Month. Mr. Johnes, the elegant Tranflator of Froiffart, has almost completed an English Version of Monftralat. It only waits, we believe, for the plates. The learned Dr. Maltby is preparing a New Edition of Morell's Thefaurus, a moft laborious, but moft useful undertaking, and few are fo competent to the work as this Editor. THE BRITISH CRITIC, For MAY, 1808. Τελεύθερον δ' ἐκεῖνο εἴ τις θέλει πόλει This then is Liberty, the truth to tell To our dear Country withing, all things well, EURIPIDES ART. I. The Hiftory of the World, from the Reign of Alexander to that of Auguftus; comprehending the latter Ages of European Greece, &c. &c. by John Gillies, LL.D. &c. &c. 2 vols. 4to. 41. 4s. Cadell and Davies. 1807. THE HE hiftorian of ancient Greece, the tranflator and commentator of the miscellaneous works of Ariftotle, and the author of several other pieces connected with Grecian literature, cannot require any introduction to the learned world. His qualifications for the tafk which he has here andertaken, will not be queftioned; and he was indeed poffeffed of advantages for executing it with fuccefs, which few writers of the prefent day could boaft: at the faine time it was a task of no ordinary magnitude, to compofe the his tory of the world, from the reign of Alexander to that of Auguftus, an interval of 300 years, abounding in the most important events, and extraordinary revolutions; a period during which the nations of Europe and of Afia, were engaged in a conftant and arduous ftruggle for dominion; during which the liberties and arts of Greece were extinguilhed; and the empire of the world, as well as the palm of fcience and of literature, was transferred from that nation to the predominant afcendency of Rome, which, at the conclufion of this period, had proceeded from the meaneft original, to the fummit of grandeur and celebrity: Though Kk BRIT. CHIT. VOL, XXXI, MAY, 1808. Though Dr. Gillies calls his prefent work a hiftory of the world, he feems inclined to confider it rather as a continuation, or fecond part, of his hiftory of Ancient Greece. The fucceffors of Alexander, who, on the death of that mighty conqueror, made among themfelves a partition of his extenfive dominions, were of Grecian original; and they carried into their newly-acquired territories, the arts, the manners, and the laws of Greece. Their hiftory is, therefore, in fact, the hiftory of Greece itfelf; and their conquefts may be confidered as an extenfion of the Grecian or Macedonian empire, deftined at length to be completely fwallowed up in the empire of Rome. This final extinétion of the Grecian fway, leads the hiflorian to trace, as a part of his plan, the gradual increase of Roman greatnefs. But it is not his object to give a complete hiftory of Rome to the age of Auguftus; but only to expatiate on thofe parts of the Roman hiftory, which were intimately connected with the revolutions in the ftates, fubjected to the Macedonian dominion. Dr. Gillies is fufficiently aware of the arduousness of his undertaking, and of the difficulty of communicating to it that unity and intereft which will be expected in fo elaborate a work. Its execution he declares to have been incomparably more difficult than that of the hiftory of Ancient Greece, on account of the variety, intricacy, and wide difperfion of his materials, and the very imperfect manner in which the annals of the turbulent period immediately fucceeding the death of Alexander have been hitherto recorded. To heighten the intereft of his narrative, he has felt it necellary to extend his refearches beyond the chronology of kings, the intrigues of courts, and the details of negotiations and battles; and to direct his attention to the local circunftances, occupations, and manners of communities at large, and of the various ranks of perfons compofing them. He has endeavoured to afcertain who were thofe ancient and once illuftrious nations fubdued, and long governed by the Greeks and Macedonians; in what characteristic particulars they either agreed with, or differed from each other what had been their purfuits, and what were their attainments. In adopting this plan, he has certainly judged wifely; for, in order effectually to intereft, as well as to inftruct, the reader, nothing is more requifite than to interfperfe the details of battles, fieges, and political convulfions, with the milder and more engaging pictures of the progrefs of manners, arts, and literature. But after all the labour that Dr. Gillies has beftowed in thus relieving and embellihing his narrative, we do not think that |