5 MARCH 1837, Page 18

The Fourth Volume of Mr. THIRLWALL'S History of G recce,

in LARDNER'S Cyclopoodia, finishes the history of the Pelopon- nesian war, and brings down the work to the general peace, which ARTAXERXES, in conjunction with AGESILAUS, dictated to the States of Greece. The relieving episodes to these necessarily uninteresting accounts, told in detail, of conduct and actions that were only the symptoms of decline, are—a very able review of the internal condition of Athens during the period the volume treats of, into which both ARISTOPHANES and SOCRATES are artfully niched, and at a length proportioned less to their historical than their• ilitutlectual influence; and a good account of the expedition of CYRUS and the retreat of the Tea Thousand.