BL 721 D992 .849 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Stereotyped by C. DAVISON, PREFATORY NOTE. THIS work on Mythology, as stated in the first edition, is compiled from various authors, who have treated the subject either directly or indirectly; and the author is happy to find that the method adopted meets with approbation. The diligent researches of students and antiquarians have been richly rewarded. Still the subject seems inexhaustible, and is ever gathering fresh interest from the result of new investigations. There is yet much to be learned of the foundations upon which the history of Mythology rests; and Müller remarks, that "this must be left to the highest of all historical sciences-one whose internal relations are scarcely yet dreamt of the history of the human mind." Heeren, Müller, Moritz, Millin, Wordsworth, Smith, Anthon, Elmes, &c. &c. |