The Classical Journal: Volume 12, September–December 1815: (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)

A precursor of modern academic journals, this quarterly periodical, published between 1810 and 1829 and now reissued in forty volumes, was founded and edited by Abraham John Valpy (1787–1854). Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, Valpy established himself in London as an editor and publisher, primarily of classical texts. Edmund Henry Barker (1788–1839), who had studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, became a contributor and then co-editor of this journal, which fuelled a scholarly feud with the editors of the Museum criticum (1813–26), a rival periodical (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). Although its coverage overlapped with that of its competitor, the Classical Journal also included general literary and antiquarian articles as well as Oxford and Cambridge prize poems and examination papers. It remains a valuable resource, illuminating the development of nineteenth-century classical scholarship and academic journals. Volume 12 contains the September and December issues for 1815.

Table of Contents:
Part XXIII. Bishop Pearson's Minor Tracts; Remarks on Dr Johnson's Latin epitaph on Mr Thrale; Collatio Codicis Harleiani 5674; Remarks on Latin metre; Notice of Mr Jones' Grammar of the Greek Tongue; Notice of Brunck's Anacreon; Observationes criticae in Euripidem; Account of the prices and purchasers of the collection of the late J. Edwards; Inquiry into the causes of the diversity of human character; Biblical synonyma; A passage in Cicero's Cato Major illustrated; Answer to Mr Bellamy's essay; On the different Latin expressions of the verb 'to run'; Remarks on Mr Blomfield's edition of the Persae of Aeschylus; Bentleii emendationes ineditae in Aristophanem; On the 77th verse of the Hippolytus; The gallantry of Saladin and his brother Malek; Recherches sur Apollon; Notice of Collatio versionis Syriacae quam Peschito vocant; Answer to a late book against Bentley; Wallace; Observations on the 'Remarks in Sir W. Drummond's dissertation'; Bentleii epistolae duae; On the Margites of Homer; Dr Crombie's remarks; The life of Isaac Casaubon; Ode graeca; Cambridge prize poems for 1815; Sir William Browne's medals; Biblical criticism; Lockett's Arabic syntax; Notice of Tiberius Rhetor de figuris; On the word 'palimpsestus'; Cambridge prize poem for 1790; On the prosody of Greek verse; Adversaria literaria; Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents; Part XXIV. Biblical Criticism; Notice of Utriusque Leonidae carmina; Notice of Hamilton's general introduction; Oratio habita Cantabrigiae; Remarks on I Tim. iii. 16; Remarks on the meaning of a Hebrew word; Remarks on the defence of Gabriel Sionita; Remarks on Sir W. Drummond; Arabian tales, originally Persian; Momi miscellanea subseciva; Inquiry into the causes of the diversity of human character; Prometheus; Remarks on the Cambridge MS of the Gospels and Acts; Notice of Rich's memoir on the ruins of Babylon; Biblical criticism; On the Greek and Latin accents; De lectione 'keroplastas'; Imitative versification, ancient, and modern; D. Heinsii oratio de utilitate; In Carmina epodica Aeschylea commentarius; Bentleii emendationes in Equites; Classical criticism; An answer to a book against Bentley; Notice of Frey's Hebrew, Latin, and English dictionary; Notice of Dr Marsh's Horae pelasgicae; Barkeri epistola ad Schaeferum; Notice of Poetae minores Graeci; Notulae quaedam in Platonis Menexenum; Notice of a grammar of the Persian language; Notice of the Megha duta; Biblical criticism; Bentleii epistolae; Adversaria literaria; Apologia; Mots ou omis par H. Etienne, ou inexactement expliqués; Euripides emendatus; Virgil explained; Prices of the library of Ralph Willett; Literary intelligence; Notes to correspondents.