Oxford reform and Oxford professors : a reply to certain objections urged against the report of the Queen's Commissioners / by Henry Halford Vaughan.

  • Halford, Henry, 1766-1844.
Date:
1854
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    ‘ treats.’ So ‘ tlie most complete repertory of the fragmentai'y ‘ remains of [Greek] epic literature is that of Diintzerand ‘ though other compilers are named as necessary to be con- ' suited on special departments, all are Germans with the ex- ‘ ception of Mr. Clinton. The list of editions of the lyric ‘ writers is etpially significant. We are told that ‘ the compila- ‘ tions of Gaisford, Schneidewin, and Bergk, with the separate ‘ publications of Welcker, Liebel, Kleine, Matthiae, Neue, and ‘ Bach, devoted to the remains of Aleman, Archilochus, Stesi- ‘ chorus, Alca3us, Sappho, and other authors of this period, ‘ leave probably little to desire or hope short of the discovery ‘ of the entire compositions of these illustrious poets.’ For ‘ Pindar, those that have done most are Boeckh, Dissen, ‘ and Hermann, as is acknowledged by Dr. Donaldson, who ‘ himself professes merely to supply a convenient and scholar- ‘ like edition for the use of students. For the remains of the ‘ early Greek philosophers, we have to trust to Schaubach, ‘ Sturz, Bernays, and other continental scholars. On Hero- ‘ dotus. Dr. Gaisford’s labours only extend to the text, ivhich ‘ is still rather unsettled, especially with respect to orthography: ‘ for a commentary we must have recourse to Biihr. Arnold’s ‘ Thucydides is one of the most enduring monuments of ‘ English good sense, judgment, and historical and geographical ‘knowledge: but for philological exegesis of the text, it will not ‘enable us to dispense with Goller and Poppo. Bishop ‘ Blomfield, the principal English editor of ^Eschylus, is far ‘ less successful in penetrating the meaning of his author than ‘ Klausen or Miiller. For Sophocles, Hermann is still un- ‘ rivalled, while Schneidewin’s is decidedly the best commentary ‘ for students. English scholarship has as yet done but little ‘ for Euripides since the days- of Porson and Elmsley, with the ‘exception of two brilliant exercises by Dr. Badham; Germany ‘ has had Hermann, Pflugk, Witzschel, Schone, and Kirchhofi’. ‘ The standard modem editions of the whole or parts of Aris- ‘tophanes are those of Bekker, Dindorf, Fritzsche, mid Enger. ‘ The most complete collection of the fragments of Greek tragic ‘poets is by Wagner; of those of the comedians, by Meineke.