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THE

NATIONAL

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

EDITED BY

EDWARD I. SEARS, A. B.

VOL. IV. No. VII. MARCH, 1862.

"Pulchrum est bene facere reipublicæ, etiam bene dicere haud absurdum est."

NEW YORK:

EDWARD I. SEARS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

1862.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by

E. I. SEARS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

OF.

I. THE MEN AND WOMEN OF HOMER...

1. Όμηρου Απαντα· Η. E. Homeri Opera Omnia, Ex Re-

censione Et Cum Notis Samuelis Clarkii, S. T. P. Accessit

Varietas Lectionum. Ms. Lips. Et Vratislav. Et Edd. Vete-

rum Cur Jo. AUGUSTI ERNESTI Qui Et Suas Notas Adspersit.

2. Prælectiones Academica Oxonii habitæ. By JOANNE

KEBLE, A. M. Poetica Publico Prælectore.

3. Homeri Carminia, cum brevi annotatione accedunt variæ

Lectiones et Observationes veterum Grammaticorum, cum

nostræ ætatis Critica, curante C. G. HEYNE.

II. FALLACIES OF BUCKLE'S THEORY OF CIVILIZATION.

1. History of Civilization in England. By HENRY THOMAS

BUCKLE. Vol 1.

2. History of Civilization in England. By HENRY THOMAS

BUCKLE. Vol. 2.

III BURIAL CUSTOMS AND OBITUAL LORE....

1. Essays on Epitaphs. By SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D.

2. Dart's History of Westminster Abbey, its Monuments and

Epitaphs.

3. A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions. By

TIMOTHY ALDEN.

4. Burning the Dead; or, Urn Sepulture, Religiously, So-

cially, and generally considered; with Suggestions for a revival

of the practice, as a sanitary measure. By a Member of the

Royal College of Surgeons.

IV. MODERN ITALIAN LITERATURE.

1. Della Literatura Italiana nella seconda metà del Sicolo

XVIII. Opera di CAMILLO UGONI.

2. Famiglie Celebri Italiane del C. POMPEO LITTA.

3. Storia di Napoli dal 1784 at 1825. Del GEN. COLLETTA.

4. Teatro Comico dell' AvVOCATO ALBERTO NOTA. 5 vols.

V. NECESSITY FOR A GENERAL Bankrupt Law.....

1. The Commercial Agency Annual.

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THE

NATIONAL QUARTERLY REVIEW.

No. VII.

DECEMBER, 1861.

ART. I.-1. 'Ouηрov Аñαντα. H. E. Homeri Opera Omnia, Ex Recensione Et Cum Notis Samuelis Clarkii, S. T. P. Accessit Varietas Lectionum. Ms. Lips. Et Vratislav. Et Edd. Veterum Cur Jo. AUGUSTI ERNESTI Qui Et Suas Notas Adspersit. Lipsiæ.

2. Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii habita. By JOANNE KEBLE, A. M. Poeticæ Publico Prælectore. Oxford.

3. Homeri Carminia, cum brevi annotatione accedunt variæ Lectiones et Observationes veterum Grammaticorum, cum nostræ ætatis Critica, curante C. G. HEYNE. Lipsiæ.

THE greatest mind that ever mortal had, was, beyond all dispute, that of Homer. For at least twenty-eight hundred years-most probably three thousand-his works have continued to astonish and delight the human race. No great poet has appeared in any part of the world, whether in the East or in the West, in Italy or Persia, in France or India, in England or in China, who has not directly or indirectly drawn inspiration from the inexhaustible Homeric fountain. None except those who have made examinations, of which but few even among scholars are capable, have any adequate idea of the amount borrowed, often without the alteration of a word, by the most renowned of the world's poets, from the divine Homer. What is still more remarkable is, that it is those who have followed him most closely that have succeeded

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