Let it be done: let this Tranflation, which is inftructive, and may be of ufe to the Publick, be printed.

PEOPLE are aftonish'd that the Turks have come to fuch Perfection both in the Paper and Types.

From FLORENCE.

HE Latin Tranflation of Euftathius's Commentaries upon Homer's Ilias and Odyssée, which F. Alex. Politi has been fo long about, is now ready to be publish'd, in two Volumes in Folio, on large Paper and fine Letter; as we may judge by the Preface already printed. THIS Preface begins with extolling Politi's own Order of Canon Regulars of the Schola Pia, eftablish'd in Italy in the end of the fixteenth Century, for inftructing Youth in Religion and Literature.

He fays, that as all the Wisdom and Politeness of the Greeks are fumm'd up in Homer, fo they are in a higher degree in his Commentator; and therefore bringing him into Italy in Latin, is to enrich it with all the Treasures of the Greek and Latin Languages. He congratulates his having finish'd it, notwithstanding many Difficulties he had to struggle with.

HE fhews the Method he used in his Tranflation, and fays, that there had been publish'd feveral Editions of the Greek Text, either in whole or in part; one at Rome in 1542, which he fays was only of the first five Books of the Ilias, by Nic. Majoranus. The reft was not pub•lifh'd till 1550, in a smaller Character than the five Books. He takes notice of the Abridgment of thofe Commentaries by Adrian Junius,

and

and of the Edition of that Abridgment with the Text of Homer, at Bafle 1558. In 1560 the fame Printers at Bafle gave a more correct Edition of Euftathius's Commentaries intire, than that at Rome. Many others had extracted little Pieces out of them, and publifh'd them before those two Editions; among others, Guavinus Camers publish'd fome, under the Title of Ta περὶ τῆς Γραμματικῆς Κανονισματα, in the Book entitled Horti Andonidis, 1496. Alduş.

THESE were almoft all the Helps that Politi had for his Publication of the Text of Euftathius. There were two Manufcripts of those Commentaries at Florence, in the Great Duke's Library; one of them very ancient, in two Vol. Folio, on Vellum, fuppofed to be as old as Euftathius's time; the other on Paper, more modern, which he supposes copied from that at Venice, or that it might have been brought from the Popoli Library at Bologna. That Copy of it in the Vatican, is not a MS. but a printed Copy on Vellum of the Edition 1542. Majoranus could find but two MSS, when he printed it that Year: the one was Cardinal Ridolphi's at Florence, and the other Cardinal Cervin's. After this Account, the Tranflator fpeaks of Notes which he has added, (fome of which were given him by M, Antonio Salvini, upon the first Books of the Ilias.)

From JEN A.

R. Walch, now Profeffor in Ordinary of

D Divinity, in the room of Mr. Dauz, has

just publish'da Differtation against Dr. Burnet's Treatife de ftatu Mortuorum & Refurgentium.

From

From VERONA.

OHN Albert Tumermani has printed in 8vo, an Italian Poem of about 450 Lines, entitled, I Ganarini, The Canary-Birds. This little Treatife is much valued here, and the more, becaufe the Author is not above 16 years old. His Name is Ignazio di Perfico. The Poem is dedicated to the young Signior Jerom. Afcanio Juftiniani.

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From PARIS.

HERE is now printing by Subfcription, Le Theatre des Grecs; or, the Theatre of the Greeks, by Father Brumois, a Jefuit, in 3 Vols. 4to. The Undertakers are Mr. Rolin Sen, & Jun, and Mr. Coignard.

THE Courfe of Sciences upon the new and Simple Principles, in order to form the Language, the Mind, and the Manners in the common Courfe of Life. 1 Vol. Fol. of 8 or 900 Pages in two Columns. By Father Buffier, a Jefuit. This is not the Title of a Work printed, but of a Project, which F. Buffier has formed of bringing, into one Volume in Folio, all the Treatifes which he has fucceffively publifh'd hitherto in different Volumes in 12mo. viz. t.. A French Grammar. 2. A Treatise of Eloquence. 3. A Treatife of Poetry. 4. Of Metaphyficks, or of firft Truths. 5.Of Logick. 6: Of Metaphyficks, fitted to all Capacities. 7. An Examination of Vulgar Errors. 8. Of Civil Society, and the means to make one's felf happy, by contributing to the Happiness of thofe with whom we live. 9. An Analysis of the most plaufible Proofs of Religion.

HAVING made, in this Scheme, a fuccinct Model of the new Plan propofed in thefe different Treatifes, and of the Method which he follow'd'; F. Buffier tells us, that when he was just ready to publifh his Course of Sciences, fuch as he defcribes, the Bookfellers were affronted, that there was not a Treatife of Phyfics, which he would not undertake for two Reafons: 1. Because he could not turn this Subject into any new Shape, it being already managed as well elsewhere, as he was able to do. 2. Because be look'd upon it as a heap of Conjectures more or lefs ingenious, which made him take one part of Phyfics to be rather a Probability (not to fay a Pyrrhonifm) than a Science. If he did not bring Mathematics into his Collection; it is because (he thinks) they are not concerned with common Life.

THESE feveral Treatifes are to be printed this Year in Folio in one Volume for Libraries That fo (as F. Buffier fays) being connected together by new and fimple Principles, they make one complete Body, which cannot be feparated: which, fays he, will make the most extraordinary Work of its kind that has appeared in our days.

HOWEVER, this Edition will be more exact than any of the Volumes already printed s the Author having made fome new Reflections, and made ufe of fuch which have been made by Men of Senfe. He will likewife explain Difficulties which have been started to him, whether by his Friends in private, or by Works publifh'd upon the Subject. He adds to this, Differtations which have not as yet been publifh'd, concerning the Method of ftudying or teaching the Sciences; and the good Taste of Learning, Wit, &c.

From

From AMSTERDAM.

R. de Varenne, whofe Learning and

Μ M Merit is well known, is now about

a French Tranflation of a Latin Work, to be printed in Germany, under the Title of Bible Phyfique. The Tranflator affures me, That, among other curious things, there will be a Differtation upon Cr-b-lice, and that the whole confifts of 10 Volumes in Folio..

From DUBLIN.

A Splendid Edition, both with regard to the

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Paper and Types, of the two following Books, is just publish'd here.

P. Ovidii Naf. Metamorphofeon, Lib. XV. Interpret. & Notis illuft. Dan. Crifpinus ad ufum Ser. Delphini; buic Edit. accedunt Annotationes ex Jac. Conftantii Fanenfis, Henrici Loritii Glareani, &c. &c. &c. Or, The XV. Books of the Metamorphofes of OVID, with the Dauphin's Notes, and others from the Illuftrations of Conftantius, Loritius, Micyllus, Ciofanus, Heinfius, Burman and other celebrated Commentators, in 4to. Printed for George Grierfon, 1729.

Cornelii Taciti opera quæ extant, &c. Or, The Works of CORNELIUS TACITUS, revised and illuftrated with Notes by Theod. Ryckius; to which is added, the Life of SEJANUS, 3 Vol. 8vo. Printed for G. Grierfon, 1730.

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