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 38 contains the September and December issues for 1828.

Part LXXV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus as a Critic and Historian; Translation of Athenaeus; Notice of Letters Addressed to a Young Person in India; Notice of A Visit to the Seven Churches of Asia; Notice of 'An essay on ancient coins'; De versibus spuriis apud Aeschylum; Letters to Mr Archdeacon Travis; Oxford English prize essay for 1827; Notices of foreign works; Parriana; Oxford Latin prize poem for 1782; Adversaria literaria; Letters on the authorship of Junius; Literary intelligence; Correspondence; For the purposes of education; Part LXXVI. Notice of Researches into the Origin and Affinity of the Principal Languages of Asia and Europe; Extracts from neglected books; An inquiry into the truth of history; Cambridge prize poems for 1828; Necrology; Philological remarks on Greek, Latin, and Celtic words; Notice of Cardwell's Nichomachean ethics; Laudes Suttonianae; Oxford Latin prize poem for 1827; Adversaria literaria; Prologue and epilogue to the Adelphi of Terence; Notice of Viger's Greek Idioms; Notices of foreign works; Literary intelligence; Correspondence; 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.