I have received an account o f the following tranflations,
— — 'which have been fince made.
Henriade; Riable Baiteux ; Gellert’s Work's; Anderfon’s Hiftory of Commerce;
Robertfon’s Hiftory of Charles V. from the French tranilatiofl ; Pallas
Sambungen Mongolifchen Volkenfchaften ; Englilh Grammar; Homer’s Iliad;.
VlrgS’s fEneid ; Lucian’s Dialogues; Milton’s Paradife Loft ; Coyer’sHiftoire
de J . Sebiefti; Montefquieu’s Efprit des Loix ; Mallet’s Hiß. de- Danemarc ;
Hiß, Generale de Voyages; Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgicks; Cicero de Natura
Deorum i Plato’s Works ; Heliod; Coxe’s'Rufllan Difcoveries; Les
lncas de Marmontel; Biefield’s Political Inftitutions ; Hiß. de la Maifon de
Brandenburg! ; Memoir es de Sully, Blackftone’s Commentaries; Hift. Aug.
Script. Sex; Pope’s Efiay on Man ; Locke on Education; Livy; feveral
Epiftles and Odes of Horace; Young’s Six Weeks Tour, tranflated by particular
order of the emprefs, for the purpofe of diffufing the knowledge o f
practical agriculture, &c. &e.
With refpeft to clalfical literature; the Greek language is
yet taught in very few o f the fchools, is fcarcely known to
the laky, and is a rare qualification even among the regular
clergy. Latin is more common, being underftood by
many o f the regular clergy, and not unfrequently cultivated
by perfons o f improved education. Many o f the clafficks
have been tranflated by natives into the Ruffian
tongue; feveral editions o f the moil approved Greek and
Roman authors have been publiihed.at Molcow and Peterf-
burgh, but the editors have been chiefly foreigners,.endou-
raged to this attempt by the patronage o f theft: among the
Ruffian nobility who are not deficient in antient literature,
and excited by the opening genius o f the nation. Among
the natives, however, who have rendered themfelves
illuflrious in this branch o f knowledge, I mull not omit
the name o f Plato archbiihop o f Mofcow, who is highly
eminent for claffical learning,; and, among the naturalized
foreigners,