BARNES, JOSHUA, an eminent English scholar, was born about the middle of the seventeenth century. In 1695 he was chosen queen's professor of Greek, a language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility. His first publication was a whimsical tract entitled Gerania, or a new discovery of the little sort of people called Pygmies. He also wrote a Life of Edward III., in which he introduces his hero making long and elaborate speeches, besides several other books, particularly Sacred Poems; the Life of Oliver Cromwell the Tyrant; some dramatic pieces; a poetical paraphrase on the history of Esther, in Greek verse, with a Latin translation, &c. He also published editions of Euripides, Anacreon, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, with notes and a Latin translation. He wrote with even greater facility in Greek than in English, and yet he is generally allowed not to have understood the niceties of that language. He died in 1712, in the 58th year of his age.