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NOW COMPLETE.

ANCIENT CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH READERS.

EDITED BY THE

REV. W. LUCAS COLLINS, M. A.

In 20 Vols., crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d. each.

Or in 10 Vols., neatly bound with calf or vellum back, price £2, 10s.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"We gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity to recommend the other volumes of this useful series, most of which are executed with discrimination and ability."—Quarterly Review.

"These Ancient Classics have, without an exception, a twofold value. They are rich in literary interest, and they are rich in social and historical interest. We not only have a faithful presentation of the stamp and quality of the literature which the master-minds of the classical world have bequeathed to the modern world, but we have a series of admirably vivid and graphic pictures of what life at Athens and Rome was. We are not merely taken back over a space of twenty centuries, and placed immediately under the shadow of the Acropolis, or in the very heart of the Forum, but we are at once brought behind the scenes of the old Roman and Athenian existence. As we see how the heroes of this 'new world which is the old' plotted, intrigued, and planned; how private ambition and political partisanship were dominant and active motives then as they are now; how the passions and the prejudices which reign supreme now reigned supreme then; above all, as we discover how completely many of what we may have been accustomed to consider our most essentially modern thoughts and sayings have been anticipated by the poets and orators, the philosophers and historians, who drank their inspiration by the banks of Ilissus or on the plains of Tiber, we are prompted to ask whether the advance of some twenty centuries has worked any great change in humanity, and whether, substituting the coat for the toga, the park for the Campus Martius, the Houses of Parliament for the Forum, Cicero might not have been a public man in London as well as an orator in Rome?"-Morning Advertiser.

"It is difficult to estimate too highly the value of such a series as this in giving 'English readers' an insight, exact as far as it goes, into those olden times which are so remote and yet to many of us so close. It is in no wise to be looked upon as a rival to the translations which have at no time been brought forth in greater abundance or in greater excellence than in our own day. On the contrary, we should hope that these little volumes would be in many cases but a kind of stepping-stone to the larger works, and would lead many who otherwise would have remained in ignorance of them to turn to the versions of Conington, Worsley, Derby, or Lytton. In any case a reader would come with far greater knowledge, and therefore with far greater enjoyment, to the complete translation, who had first had the ground broken for him by one of these volumes."-Saturday Review, Jan. 18.

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W. BLACKWOOD AND SONS' EDUCATIONAL WORKS.

Now complete, in 20 vols., fcap. 8vo, 2s. 6d. each,

Ancient Classics for English Readers.

1.-HOMER: THE ILIAD. BY THE EDITOR.

2.-HOMER: THE ODYSSEY. BY THE Editor.

3.-HERODOTUS.

BY GEORGE C. Swayne, M.A.

4. THE COMMENTARIES OF CÆSAR. By ANTHONY TROL

LOPE.

5.-VIRGIL. BY THE EDITOR.

6.-HORACE. BY THEODORE MARTIN.

7.-ÆSCHYLUS. BY REGINALD S. COPLESTON, B.A. 8.-XENOPHON. BY SIR ALEXANDER GRANT, Bart., Principal of

the University of Edinburgh.

9.-CICERO. BY THE EDITOR.

10.-SOPHOCLES. BY CLIFTON W. COLLINS, M.A.

11.-PLINY'S LETTERS. By the Rev. ALfred Church, M.A., and the Rev. W. J. BRODRIBB, M.A.

12.-EURIPIDES. By W. B. DONNE.

13.-JUVENAL. By EDWARD WAlford, M.A.

14.-ARISTOPHANES. By THE EDITOR.

15.-HESIOD AND THEOGNIS. By the Rev. J. DAVIS, M.A.

16.-PLAUTUS AND TERENCE.

BY THE EDITOR.

17.-TACITUS. By W. B. DONNE.

18.-LUCIAN. BY THE EDITOR.

19.-PLATO. By CLIFTON W. COLLINS, M.A.

20. THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY.

By Lord Neaves.

45 GEORGE Street, Edinburgh; 37 PATERNOSTER Row, LONDON.

SUPPLEMENTAL SERIES.

ANCIENT CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH READERS.

EDITED BY THE REV. W. LUCAS COLLINS, M.A.

ADVERTISEMENT.

The marked success and general popularity of the Series of 'ANCIENT CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH READERS,' lately concluded in Twenty Volumes, has been accompanied by some regrets, expressed both by the friendly critics of the press and in private quarters, at its not having been made somewhat more comprehensive.

This has induced us to announce the issue of a 'Supplementary Series,' intended to comprise the works of some few Latin and Greek authors which, for various reasons, were not included in the original plan.

This Series will appear, like the preceding, in quarterly volumes, at half-a-crown each, and in the same size and type. It will not be extended beyond eight or ten such volumes. These will include the works of ARISTOTLE, THUCYDIDES, DEMOSTHENES, LIVY, LUCRETIUS, OVID, CATULLUS (with TIBULLUS and PROPERTIUS), ANACREON, PINDAR, &c.

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CONTENTS OF THE FIRST SERIES.

HOMER: THE ILIAD. By the Editor.
HOMER: THE ODYSSEY. By the Editor.
HERODOTUS. By George C. Swayne,
M.A.

XENOPHON. By Sir Alexander Grant,
Bart.

EURIPIDES. By W. B. Donne.
ARISTOPHANES. By the Editor.

PLATO. By Clifton W. Collins, M.A.
LUCIAN. By the Editor.

ÆSCHYLUS. By Reginald S. Copleston,
B. A.

SOPHOCLES. By Clifton W. Collins,
M.A.

HESIOD AND THEOGNIS. By the Rev. J.
Davies, M.A.

GREEK ANTHOLOGY. By Lord Neaves.
VIRGIL. By the Editor.

HORACE. By Theodore Martin.

J VENAL. By Edward Walford, M.A.
PLAUTUS AND TERENCE. By the Editor.
THE COMMENTARIES OF CÆSAR. By
Anthony Trollope.

TACITUS. By W. B. Donne.
CICERO. By the Editor.

PLINY'S LETTERS. By the Rev. Alfred
Church, M.A., and the Rev. W. J.
Brodribb, M. A.

Each Volume may be had separately, price 2s. 6d. in cloth; or the whole Series, bound in 10 Vols., vellum backs, for £2, 10s.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON.

Orders received by all Booksellers.

ANCIENT CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH READERS.

Extracts from Reviews of First Series.

British Quarterly Review.

"It is impossible to praise too highly the conception and execution of this series of the Classics. They are a kind of 'Bibliotheca Classicorum' for unlearned readers, but executed by men of the most accomplished scholarship, and therefore conveying the very colour and tone of the authors. They will be as pleasant to scholars as they are valuable to those who know only their mother tongue."

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Saturday Review.

"It is difficult to estimate too highly the value of such a series as this in giving English readers' an insight, exact as far as it goes, into those olden times which are so remote and yet to many of us so close. It is in no wise to be looked upon as a rival to the translations which have at no time been brought forth in greater abundance or in greater excellence than in our own day. On the contrary, we should hope that these little volumes would be in many cases but a kind of stepping-stone to the larger works, and would lead many who otherwise would have remained in ignorance of them to turn to the versions of Conington, Worsley, Derby, or Lytton. In any case a reader would come with far greater knowledge, and therefore with far greater enjoyment, to the complete translation, who had first had the ground broken for him by one of these volumes."

Standard.

"A series which has done and is doing so much towards spreading among Englishmen intelligent and appreciative views of the chief classical authors."

Examiner.

"The great merit of this series is that its volumes, instead of furnishing translations of classical works, give their story in modern prose, made as accurate and lifelike as their scholarly authors can make them."

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS,

EDINBURGH AND LONDON.

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