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 31 contains the March and June issues for 1825.

Part LXI. Philephi Epistolae; Notice of Cousin's '3d, 4th, and 5th books of Proclus on the Parmenides of Plato'; Notice of The Wonders of Elora; Notice of Morier's Two Journeys in Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople; Schlegel's 'History of the elephant and sphinx'; Observations on Hades; In Demosthenem commentarii; Some remarks on the value of Roman tragedy; Barkeri dissertation de variis bassis; Observations on Greek iambic, trochaic, and anapaestic verse; An inquiry into the nature of efficacy of imitative versification, ancient and modern; Notice of The Agamemnon of Aeschylus; Cambridge prize essay for 1824; Notice of An Introduction to the Elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar; Subjects for themes. essays, declamations, and verses; Unpublished notes on Strabo; Porson's canons; Remarks on the Latin Alcaic and Sapphic metre, as exhibited in the odes of Horace; Literae quaedam ineditae; Oriental manuscripts and antiquities; Notice of Grammatical Parallel of the Ancient and Modern Greek Languages; Notice of Shelley's 'Translations of Homer's hymn to Mercury, and the Cyclops of Euripides'; On the pyramids of Egypt; The Porsonian canon; Oxford Latin prize poem; Nugae; Letter from Professor Boissonade; Adversaria literaria; Literary intelligence; To correspondents; Part LXII. Hades; The Anglo-Saxon church; Notice of Peintures antiques de vases grecs; Literae quaedam ineditae; Barkeri dissertation de variis bassis; On the poems of Calphurnius and Nemesian; Notice of Cousin's '3d, 4th, and 5th books of Proclus on the Parmenides of Plato'; Puerilia; Notice of 'das heldbuch von Iran'; Notice of Iracae Persicae descriptio; Notice of Dr Young's Account of Some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature and Egyptian Antiquities; On the life and writings of Casimir; Biblical criticism; A. Couleii plantarum libri sex; Classical criticism; Notice of Fasti Hellenici; Notice of Voltaire's Thoughts, Remarks, and Observations; Classical criticism; Biblical criticism; Necrology; Adversaria literaria; Oxford English prize poem for 1825; Literary intelligence; University intelligence; To correspondents; For the purposes of education.

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.