New books published by W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers' Hall Court, Ludgate Street, London.

  • Simpkin and Marshall.
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[1825]
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    whom is Schoell, whose review (as stated by me) was written when the two first volumes only had appeared ; and lastly I have given the Review of the late Mr. Kett, which relates to the five first volumes, which were all at that time published.—Dr. Dibdin has not, as the Reviewer states, given any opinion at all respecting Invernizius’ Edition, but has inserted that given in the Bibliographical Dictionary of Clarke in his introduction, and an extract from some work which he has forgotten to cite. With respect to the edition of Ausonius published under the superintend- ance of Tornmsius I shall present the Reader with some little information, which, I trust, will prove interesting and alleviate in some measure the dryness of a Reply to a Reviewer whose want of candour is equalled only by his want of that sagacity, which is the life and soul of one who holds an office of so important a nature. I shall take the liberty of pointing out his igno- rance that Lugduni is the Latin for Lyons and not for Leyden, and that Toruaesius is the Latin for Tournes, which having done, I shall not give myself the trouble of pointing out various inaccuracies of lesser moment, but shall atone for my omission of this book, which is more interesting as a curiosity than valuable on account of any internal merits, by giving some account of it: Jean de Tournes has in ♦l'** -muon profited by the labours of Etienne Charpin and n..:w»a«ne de la Barge of the Cathedral at Lyons, and has given, besides the Ephemerides, Parentalia, Commemoratio Professorum Burdigalensium, Heroum Epitaphia, and some Epigrams, Epistolte ad patrem de filio, ad Hesperium, patris ad filium, ad Heronem secunda, tertia, et quarta, ad Paulutn de Ostreis, and the Eclogaria, with the exception of the verses on the Signa Ccelestia; to print which this Jean de Tournes obtained a Royal privilege, dated December 15, 1557, in which he has permission to print or cause to be printed the edited or inedited Works of this Poet: this privilege has led the Reviewer into another error, by inducing him to suppose that De Tournes published an edition in 1557, and which he conceives “ to he rarer than the one we have just described, as we find no mention made of it by any writer.” I beg leave to correct a mis-statement of the Reviewer relative to my praise of Dr. Grainger’s version of Tibullus : for, in truth, I have not ex- pressed any opinion concerning it, but have given a brief extract from the Monthly Review, which 1 have not forgotten to cite; nor do I believe that I have in a single instance, concealed my authorities, or arrogated to myself that praise which rightly belonged to another. In the Review of my account of the Oxford re-impression of Olivet’s Edition of Cicero, I meet with another mis-representatiou ;—the Reviewer observes, “ the form and typography of the work, which Mr. Moss calls ‘ splendid but not ostentatious ” but these words, unfortunately for this Reviewer, are the first expressions to be found in the extract from the Critical Review, extracted by me, and before alluded to by this Gentleman, who whilst he attributes to me expressions which my own sense of honesty and truth would have restrained me from giving publicity to, defrauds me of my due by not giving me credit for what he has translated from my Manual into his own idiom.—After having detailed the sources which Olivet made use of in the compilation of his Edition, and the opinions of Ernesti and Gibbon respecting its merits, I observe—“The Oxford Edition is a very splendid one, and has this advantage over the preceding, (of Olivet) that it contains a collation of some MSS. by Hearue and Ernesti s Cla\is. vo . , m JOS. W. moss. September 1!), 1825. V. S. The Editor of the Literary Gazette would do well to pay a little more attention to dates, names of places, persons, &c. than lie lias nt ici o done ; for I have observed numerous errors in this, (the third) as well as m the two preceding Reviews of my Manual of Classical Libliogiapb).