attention to the correction of typographical errors-and in consequence, the accents are often misplaced, the words both Italian and English, so mis-spelled, as to produce important misrepresentations of the sense, and the genders, parts of speech, &c. incorrectly stated. In the American edition, these errors have been carefully corrected, the whole text examined by the folio edition of ALBERTIS, many definitions and idioms added, and the vocabulary itself enlarged by about two thousand of the most important words, omitted in the London copies.-To make it more useful, the texts of the classics most commonly read in the schools and by beginners in this country, as the Scelta of Goldoni, the Notti Romane of Verri, the Gerusalemma Liberata, the Tragedies of Monti, and the Italian Reader, compiled for the use of Harvard University, have been consulted, and several hundred words not contained in London editions have been added from them.

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COLLECTANEA GRÆCA MINORA; with Explanatory Notes, collected or written by ANDREW DALZEL, A. M. F. R. S. E. Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Sixth Cambridge edition; in which the Notes and Lexicon are translated from the Latin into English. 1 vol. 8vo. Price $2,25.

Preface to the Sixth Cambridge Edition.

It has long been a complaint, that the notes of Collectanea Græca Minora, being written in Latin, were not so useful as they might be to beginners, for whose use they were prepared. In this edition, therefore, the notes and lexicon have been translated into English; so that the work may be used without any previous knowledge of the Latin language. So numerous are the words and idioms in Latin authors, which may be illustrated by a knowledge of the Greek language, from which they were borrowed, that no reasonable man can doubt that the Greek should be studied first.

In this edition a few notes have been added, particularly upon the most difficult part-the extracts from Tyrtæus. The text also has been diligently compared with the latest and best editions of the works, from which the extracts were made, belonging to the library of Harvard University; and a few new readings have been introduced, which throw light on obscure passages. It is hoped, therefore, that those who have heretofore used and approved the work, will be still better satisfied with it, now that it is more free from errors, and more easy and instructive to young students.

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Extracts from a Review of this Edition.

The best criterion by which to estimate the value of works designed to facilitate the purposes of education, is actual experiment. The present selections from Greek literature have been many years before the public, and have constantly been coming more widely into use. Of the first volume there have appeared in England and Scotland at least eight, we believe nine, several editions, and five or six of the second; and in the United States, we have now the fourth edition of the whole work from the press of the University at Cambridge. A book, to meet with such success, must be well adapted to its end.

Of all the editions which have thus far appeared in Great Britain or America, we do not hesitate to pronounce this to be the most correct. It exhibits the clearest marks of indefatigable diligence and conscientious accuracy on the part of its learned and unassuming editor. Instead of vague and indiscriminating praise, we will endeavor to explain its peculiar advantages. Our account will be a short one, though the labors which we commemorate extended through years.

The chief object of the American editor, Professor JOHN S. POPKIN of Cambridge, was to make the book a correct one. It had gone through so many editions,

and each new one had repeated so many of the errors of the last, and made so many of its own, that both the text and the notes had become very much disfigured. Not only accents and letters were often wanting, but words, and sometimes whole lines were omitted; especially in the notes. In the third American edition, these were in a good degree amended; in the fourth the same purpose has been most assiduously pursued. To do this the original sources of the notes and text were consulted, and these, together with other good editions of the several writers, were diligently compared. Not a few fractures and dislocations were repaired by means of an early edition of the Collectanea. When the sense was found broken and obscure, it appeared on examination that words, lines, and sometimes several lines had been omitted; particularly where a word was repeated at no great distance, the intervening words were sometimes passed over in printing.

We hope we have said enough to justify our preference of Professor POPKIN'S edition of the Græca Majora over any other. To give a more distinct idea of what he has accomplished, we venture to affirm, after a close computation which may be relied upon, that of errata in the copy greater and less, he has corrected as many as ten thousand. If after all his care and pains, he has made any or left any, they can be easily marked and corrected, as the present edition has been made on stereotyped plates. It was an undertaking of long and toilsome diligence to correct the press and the copy of a work of this kind, collected from so many sources, and referring to so many authorities.

Not less than five hundred volumes were of necessity consulted.

An EPITOME of GRECIAN ANTIQUITIES. For the use of Schools. By CHARLES D. CLEAVELAND. Price $1,00.

To the Publishers.

I received a few days since your letter of inquiry concerning the "Epitome of Grecian Antiquities," and am happy in the opportunity of expressing an opinion of that little work.-While it was in progress the plan received my full approbation; and the diligence of the compiler in procuring and consulting all the proper authorities and the unusual care bestowed in superintending the publication led me to expect a well executed work. In this I have not been disappointed. PorTER'S Archælogia Græca is voluminous and expensive, and the works of ROBINSON and Bos have not been re-published in this country. Some work of the kind is absolutely necessary for the classical student in every stage of his progress. In this state of things Mr. CLEAVELAND's well digested manual supplies a deficiency and obviates an objection, which has heretofore existed, to making Grecian Antiquities a separate and particular study in our Academies and Classical Schools.

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Professor at Dartmouth College.

In Press. GROVES'S GREEK LEXICON. A Greek and English Dictionary. By the Rev. JOHN GROVES. With additions, by the American editor.

The object of the compiler of this work (as stated in his Preface) was, to offer to the public a Dictionary, which young Greek scholars could use with ease and advantage to themselves; but sufficiently full to be equally serviceable as they advanced; a book, that would answer for School, for College, and more particularly for reading the New Testament and the Septuagint.

In the arrangement of the words, the alphabetical method has been adopted, as best suited to the capacity and diligence of the young learner. Immediately after each word is placed its form of declension or conjugation, together with any peculiarity attending it, such as the attic genitive of contracted nouns, the future or perfect of any dialect peculiar to certain verbs, &c. Next is placed the derivation or composition of the word. The English significations of the Greek word follow next. In this part two or three synonyms have been given for each signification. After the significations are subjoined any irregularities or varieties arising from dialect, &c. and some of the more difficult inflexions of each word are added. A considerable number of new words have been introduced. These consist of words Occurring in the authors usually read, and in the Septuagint, which are not to be found in Schrevelius. They are also taken from the Greek tragedies now generally read at schools, and from elementary books latterly introduced. All the inflected parts of words which are in Schrevelius are to be found in this Dictionary, with many others. These consist of oblique cases of nouns, pronouns, and participles; of persons, tenses, moods, &c. of verbs. There is no English attached to these parts and inflexions, but a reference is given to the theme, where all the significations will be found. This part of the work has been particularly attended to

where it respects the New Testament; and thus the work will be useful both to beginners and to those persons who may wish to revive their knowledge of Greek, especially of the New Testament; they will also find in this Dictionary all the words occurring in the Septuagint. Every thing has been retrenched that did not coincide with the young scholar's capacity; and he has here given to him what he will notice at present, instead of what he may look for at a more advanced period of his studies; he has here laid before him what will be immediately useful, for what might be serviceable hereafter.

This American edition, in conformity with the plan of the work, will be improved by the addition of considerable supplementary matter particularly adapted to the wants of younger students, for whose use the work is principally designed.

Will speedily be Published. HOMER'S ILIAD, with English Notes. In 2 vols. on the plan of GOULD's edition of Virgil, Ovid, Horace, &c.

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Professor HEDGE made his Logic after twenty years experience in teaching the science. His object was to form a system adapted to the present improved state of intellectual philosophy. The Logics before in use were deficient in parts of primary importance. The instruction they furnish on the article of reasoning is almost exclusively confined to the principles of sylogism. They contain very little relating to moral evidence and those modes of reasoning by which the practical business of life is carried on. The success which has attended the sale of HEDGE'S Logic is ample proof that it is suited to the wants of the community. It has superseded those before used in most, if not all, the Colleges in New England and in several of those in the middle, southern, and western states. It is also extensively used in Academies and Schools of the higher order, in various parts of the United States. In the different editions this treatise has been carefully revised by the author, and in the fourth edition two chapters were added, containing the principles of controversy-and a body of rules for the interpretation of written docu

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JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY of the English Language, as improved by TODD, and abridged by CHALMERS, with WALKER'S Pronouncing Dictionary combined;-to which is added, WALKER'S KEY to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names. Edited by JOSEPH E. WORCESTER, A. M., A. A. S., &c. 1 vol. 8vo. Price $5,25.

This Dictionary comprises a complete reprint of Mr. Chalmers's Abridgment; Mr. Walker's Principles of English Pronunciation, his Pronunciation of all the words found in his Dictionary, together with his Critical Remarks on the pronunciation of particular words; and also Walker's Key entire.

It possesses the following advantages, not found in the three works above mentioned, of which it is chiefly composed.

1. The words added by Mr. Todd, exceeding fourteen thousand in number, are discriminated from the rest.

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5. To the many thousand words not found in Mr. Walker's Dictionary, the pronunciation has been given according to his Principles.

6. With regard to the Pronunciation of many words, respecting which other orthoepists differ from Walker, and he has neglected to exhibit this difference, the mode adopted by others is here given.

7. An Appendix, containing besides other matter, all the further additional words, (about one thousand,) inserted by Mr. Todd in his second edition, published in London in 1827.

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"Of muscular actions, even of those well understood, some of the most curious are incapable of popular explanation, without the aid of Plates and Figures."Paley's Theology, Chap. ix.

PALEY'S Natural Theology has long been held in high estimation as a work eminently useful to young persons both for the quantity and clearness of the information it imparts, and the valuable deductions and conclusions which the author establishes in the progress of his work. But every person not previously conversant with the subject must have felt the want of some figures, some delineations for the eye, in order to comprehend fully the subjects treated of. These illustrations are beautifully executed in thirty six lithographic plates, large octavo size, with descriptive letter press; and render very clear the different mechanical functions of the bones, muscles, arteries, veins, viscera, &c. of animals, and many similar and curious operations in the vegetable kingdom. It is an indispensable accompaniment to one of the best books in the English language.

In Press. A GRAMMAR of the ITALIAN LANGUAGE, with Exercises. By PIETRO BACHI. Instructer at Harvard University. 12mo. This book has been compiled from the best Grammars of the Italian tongue, extant in Italian, English, and French, special use having been made of Barberi's celebrated "Grammaire des Grammaires Italiennes." It is divided into four parts, Pronunciation, Orthography, Analogy, and Syntax. The pronunciation is more fully treated than in any other Grammar, and illustrated by English combinations of letters representing the Italian sounds. Every Italian word is accented throughout the book, so that the pupil grows familiar with the genius of the language in this respect, while he is acquiring a knowledge of its grammatical structure. The verbs are given with unusual fulness, and the irregular verbs are arranged and exhibited after a new method very convenient for reference.The rules of the Syntax are supported by examples carefully cited from the best writers, and followed by appropriate exercises. A copious Alphabetical Index closes the volume.

In press, and will soon be published. JUVENAL'S SATIRES, with English Notes. An expurgated edition of the Satires of Juvenal, with copious English Notes, after the plan of Gould's edition of Virgil. By the editor of Greek Delectus, Phædrus, &c.

IRVING'S ELEMENTS of ENGLISH COMPOSITION; serving as a sequel to the study of Grammar. By DAVID IRVING, LL. D. Author of the Lives of the Scottish Poets. Second American from the sixth London edition. Price $1,25.

Extracts from the Preface.

Though it was my principal object to treat of prose composition, yet a few observations on poetry incidentally occur. The remarks which have been suggested with regard to the nature of figurative language, apply equally to prose and to poetry; but the poets have furnished me with the most copious and beautiful illustrations.

The rules of criticism are more successfully inculcated by particular examples than by general precepts. I have therefore endeavored to collect abundance of apposite quotations, in order to illustrate every branch of the subject.

An INTRODUCTION to LINEAR DRAWING; translated from the French of M. FRANCEUR; with alterations and additions to adapt it to the use of Schools in the United States. To which is added, the Elements of Linear Perspective; and Questions on the whole. By WILLIAM B. FOWLE, Instructer of the Monitorial School, Boston. Price 75 cents.

From the Translator's Preface.

An elementary treatise on Drawing, adapted to the use of common schools, cannot but be well received. Besides the professions which make the art of drawing their particular study, anatomists, naturalists, mechanics, travellers, and indeed all persons of taste and genius, have need of it, to enable them to express their ideas with precision, and make them intelligible to others.

Notwithstanding the great utility of this branch of education, it is a lamentable

fact, that it is seldom or never taught in the public schools, although a very large proportion of our children have no other education than these schools afford. Even in the private schools where drawing is taught, it is too generally the case that no regard is paid to the geometrical principles on which the art depends. The translator appeals to experience when he asserts, that not one in fifty of those who have gone through a course of instruction in drawing, can do more than copy such drawings as are placed before them. Being ignorant of the certain rules of the art, (and they are the most certain because mathematical,) they are always in leading strings, and unless endowed with uncommon genius, never originate any design, and rarely attempt to draw from nature. It is to remedy this defective mode of teaching, that the translator has been induced to present this little work, en the elements of drawing, to the American public.

Preface to the Second Edition.

The favorable reception of the first edition of this Treatise, has induced the Translator to revise it carefully, and to add to it a Second Part, containing the elements of Perspective Drawing, to which the First Part is a good introduction. Questions, also, upon the more important parts of the book are added; and the Translator hopes that this more correct and enlarged edition will meet with the same favor that a liberal public has bestowed upon its predecessor.

The LATIN READER. Part First. From the fifth German edition, by FREDERIC JACOBS, Editor of the Greek Anthology, the Greek Reader, &c. &c. Edited by George BancroFT. Stereotype edition. Price 873 cents.

The Latin Reader, which is here published, was compiled by Professor FREDERIC JACOBS, of Gotha, who having long been engaged in the cares of instruction and the pursuits of a scholar, is in every respect qualified to make judicious selections for the purposes of teaching.

The editor, in publishing this work in America, has been influenced by a sincere belief, that it forms an easy introduction to the language and character of the Roman world. His duties as a teacher led him to the comparison of many similar works now used in England and on the continent. This seemed to him the best; and having already used it in the school with which he is connected, he has found his opinion confirmed by his experience.

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