The Works of Apuleius (Golden Ass, God of Socrates, Florida, On the Doctrines of Plato)

...serve, into the body of an extemporaneous harangue. The sixth and last is the De Mundo LiberBook on the World., a translation of an anonymous Greek treatise erroneously ascribed to Aristotle, which we have not thought worth inserting. The treatise on Plato is not included here, as it has already been given in the sixth volume of Mr. Bohn's edition of the entire works of Plato.

The Golden Ass has been several times presented to the English public, but, it is believed, never yet so completely or faithfully. The God of Socrates has once previously been translated (by Thomas Taylor), but the Florida and the Apologia (or Defence) are now given in English for the first time. The able metrical version of Cupid and Psyche, first published in 1801 anonymously but attributed to the pen of Hudson Gurney, Esq., and the well-known poem of Psyche by Mrs. Tighe, are adjoined because of their appropriateness and merit. The latter was highly popular at the time of its first publication, went through several large editions, and was elaborately reviewed and praised in the Quarterly Review of May, 1811.