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"We have endeavoured, with the aid of recent editions, thoroughly ro elucidate the text, explaining the various difficulties, critical and grammatical, which occur to the student. We have consulted throughout, besides the older commentators, the editions of Ritter and Orelli, but we are under special obligations to the labours of the recent German editors, Wex and Kritz." Two Indexes are appended, (1) of Proper Names, (2) of Words and Phrases explained. "A model of careful editing," says the ATHENÆUM, being at once compact, complete, and correct, as well as neatly printed and elegant in style."

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Theophrastus.

THE CHARACTERS OF THEO. PHRASTUS. An English Translation from a Revised Text. With Introduction and Notes. By R. C. JEBB, M.A., Public Orator in the University of Cambridge. Extra fcap. 8vo. 6s. 6d. The first object of this book is to make these lively pictures of old Greek manners better known to English readers. But as the Editor and Translator has been at considerable pains to procure a trustworthy text, and has recorded the results of his critical labours in an Introduction, Notes, and Appendices, it is hoped that the work will prove of value even to the scholar. "We must not omit to give due honour to Mr. Febb's translation, which is as good as translation can be. Not less commendable are the execution of the. Notes and the critical handling of the Text."SPECTATOR. The SATURDAY REVIEW speaks of it as a very handy

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HELLENICA; OR, A HISTORY OF GREECE IN GREEK, as
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This work is intended to supply the pupil with an easy construing book, which may at the same time be made the vehicle for instructing him in the rules of grammar and principles of composition. The notes profess to teach what is commonly taught in grammars. It is conceived that the pupil will learn the rules of construction of the language much more easily from separate examples, which are pointed out to him in the course of his reading, and which he may himself set down in his note-book after some scheme of his own, than from a heap of quotations amassed for him by others." The Notes are abundant, explicit, and full of such grammatical and other information as boys require."-ATHENÆUM. "" This is really," the MORNING POST says, "what its title imports, and we believe that its general introduction into Grammar Schools would not only facilitate the progress of the boys beginning to learn Latin, but also relieve the Masters from a very considerable amount of irksome labour a really valuable addition to our school libraries."

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Church (A. J., A.M.)—HORÆ TENNYSONIANÆ, sive Eclogae e Tennysono. Latine redditæ. Cura A. J. CHURCH, A.M.

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Latin versions of Selections from Tennyson. Among the authors are the Editor, the late Professor Conington, Professor Seeley, Dr. Hessey, Mr. Kebbel, and other gentlemen.

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