ing the contents of this publication, we adopted Mr. Dibdin's own analysis of his work; in addition to the subjects there mentioned, it however contains an account of lexicographical and gramma

tical works, in which we think that a better arrangement might have been employed, by separating the ancient from the modern treatises.

ART. II. Bibliographical Dictionary. Vols. V. and VI. 8vo. THE preceding volumes of this work we have already had occasion to notice, as they were presented successively to the public. The editor is now understood to be the rev. Adam Clarke. The present volumes partake, in a considerable degree, of the merits and defects of their predecessors. In continuation of our former articles, we shall proceed to notice a few passages in the order of their alphabetical occurrence.

VI. 5. To the list of macaronic poems may be added that of the late Dr. Geddes. Under the article Mattaire, one of the most valuable performances of that writer, his treatise on the Greek dialects, is overlooked.

After the mention of Bentley's Manilius, we are told, "Dr. Harwood thinks this the best edition ever Dr. Bentley published. The notes are excellent, and the text not licentiously altered." To Dr. Harwood's judgment (which is never to be implicitly adopted) we may oppose one of much greater weight, that of Ruhunkenius, who, speaking of the cautious limits observed by Hemsterhusius in the exercise of conjectural criticism, observes, omnino nihil in contextu, nisi vetustarum membranarum auxtoritate movendum censebat, ne Bentleio quidem veniam dans licentia, quam sibi sumsit in Manilio recensendo." Elog. Tib. Hemsterhus.

Under the article Manutius, to remedy the deficiencies of the preceding accounts of the Aldine classics, which the editor had not indeed the means of rendering complete, which were afterwards placed within his power, a list of all the editions published by the three Manutii, arranged according to their subjects, is inserted from the late interesting work of M. Renouard, entitled Annals de l'imprimerie des Alde, ou histoire des trois Manuci, et de leurs editions. Paris, 1803. We rejoice in the opportunity of adding our testimony to the merits of this work, which may rank with the best performances in the department of literature to which it be longs.

V. 114, is cited "Musæus, Gr. et Ang. a Gilb. Wakefield, 8vo. Lond. 1797." Where was this work discovered? V. 128. It is not probable that any edition of the Dionysiacs of Nonnus was ever published at Eton. 118, is an error of the press, totally disguising the work which the editor intends to describe; Hymni-we suppose for Heynii. Ty pographical errors, indeed, scarcely pardonable, too frequently disfigure the pages of this work.

VI. 7. In the account of Quintilian, the very valuable edition by Spalding, now publishing in Germany, of which two volumes have already appeared, is overlooked. The edition of Rollia should have been described as incomplete, nearly a fourth part of the original being omitted.

P. 56. The name of Michael Scott occurs as author of a treatise de procre atione hominis, recnon de physiognomia. The memory of this obsolete sage, long dormant, will be revived in the present age by the marvellous agency attributed to him, in the splendid poem of romance lately published by Mr. Walter Scott.

P. 18. Under the title Xenophon Ephesius, the edition of Locella, 1796, should have been ins rted, which is indeed the first valuable and complete edition of that writer. The first edition, by Cocchi, bearing the name of London in the title-page, was, we believe, really printed at Florence. See Paciandii proloquium de lib. erot. ant. prefixed to some editions of Longus. It is justly characterized by Mr. Clarke as a bad edition, full of errors. A valuable anecdote relating to this subject is preserved, honourable to the critic of whom it is told, and proving the efficacy of conjectural criticism, and the approxi mation to the truth at which it is capable of arriving, when cautiously and skilfully employed. We shall transcribe it in the words of the narrator. "Felicis critices illustre documentum dedit" (Hemsterhusius) "in Xenophonte Ephe sio. Hic scriptor, ætate demum nostra, mendose et negligenter editus in Italia,