The Classical Journal

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 10 contains the September and December issues for 1814.

Part XIX: Conjectures on the Chronology of the Travels of St Paul; Note of Aug. Matthiae's observationes; On the use of 'an' or 'ke' with an optative mood; On the book of Jasher; On the Latin poetry of Professors Barrow and Duport; In carmina epodica Euripidea commentarius; Cincio ad clerum; D. Nestor Novarenus; On the words 'herpis', 'olpis', 'olpe', 'elpos', 'elphos', and 'celtis'; Distinctive mark over the indeclinable particles of the Latin language; On the Greek inscription on the Rosetta Stone; Cambridge Greek, Latin and English prize poems for 1814; Bishop Pearson's minor tracts; Euripides corrected; Manuscript of Aeschylus; Juvenal vindicated; Oratio Norvicensis; Notes on Aeschylus; Index to three volumes of Brunck's Analecta; Derivation of English words and phrases from the Spanish and Italian; Classical connexions; On the inceptive power of 'S'; Notice sur la vie et les ecrits de M. Larcher; Notitia codicis manuscripti Sallustii et Eutropii; Nodell epist. critica; Cambridge prize poem, Greek; Adversaria literaria; Notice of Grant's Greek grammar; Poicilographia graeca; Momi miscellanea subseciva; A short account of the anatomy and physiology of the brain; Oratio; Literary intelligence; French literature; Notes to correspondents; Materials for the improvement of the new edition of Stephens' Greek Thesaurus; Part XX. An Answer to a Book against Bentley; Biblical synonyma; Inquiry into the causes of the diversity of human character; Dissertatio T. S. Bayeri; On the Attic months; Answer to Mr Bellamy's essay; Answer to the 'Remarks on the topography of the plain of Troy'; Conjectural criticism on Virgil; Carem Toghrai; Genders; Arabic proverb; Biographical memoir of Griesbach; Manuscripts; A passage in the Cato Major; Notice of Klotzii Opuscula; Bibliography; Modern words derived from the east; On the affinity between the German and English dialects; Error in the Periplus; Defence of a passage in Herodotus; Inscriptions at Barcelona; Passage from Persian poems; Renaudot's Travels of Two Mahommedans; Hebrew criticism; Adversaria literaria; Houardius carceres invisens; Letter; Notice of Pausanias' description of Greece; Notice of Gyles' Elements of Hebrew Grammar; French literature; Classical connexions; In carmina epodica Euripidea commentarius; French literature; Notice of Dr Crombie's gymnasium; Geometrical problem; Answer to the observations on the researches in Greece; Notae in Euripidis Med.; Supplement to the materials for the improvement of the new edition of Stephens' Greek Thesaurus; Curae posteriores; Literary intelligence; French literature; Notes to correspondents.

This influential periodical, published 1810-29 and reissued here in forty volumes, was edited by the classical scholar and London publisher Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). Later co-edited by Edmund Henry Barker (1788-1839), it was a rival to the Cambridge-based Museum criticum and a precursor of modern academic journals.