the fancy, with what emotions of the heart, does he assault and subjugate the whole man; and at once, captivate his reason, his imagination, and his passions. To effect this, must be the utmost effort of the most improved state of human nature. Not a faculty that he possesses, is here unemployed; not a faculty that he possesses, but is here exerted to its highest pitch. All his internal powers are at work; all his external, testify their energies.

3. Within, the memory, the fancy, the judgment, the passions, are all busy. Without, every muscle, every nerve, is exerted; not a feature, not a limb, but speaks. The organs of the body, attuned to the exertions of the mind, through the kindred organs of the hearers, instantaneously vibrate those energies from soul to soul.

4. Notwithstanding the diversity of minds in such a multitude, by the lightning of eloquence they are melted into one mass; the whole assembly, actuated in one and the same way, become, as it were, but one man, and have but one voice. The universal cry is, - LET US MARCH AGAINST PHILIP,* LET US FIGHT FOR OUR LIBERTIES, US CONQUER, OR DIE!

LET

* Phil'ip, the king of Mazedon, who subverted the liberties of Greece. He died 835 B. C.

END.

A POPULAR TREATISE ON MYTHOLOGY.

THE AGE OF

OR,

FABLE:

Stories of Gods and Heroes.

BY THOMAS BULFINCH.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

From Prof. Charles D. Cleveland, of Philadelphia.

"It is no less my duty than my pleasure to express to you my unqualified approbation of the book, which treats of the subject (mythology) in a manner far more interesting than I have seen it treated in any other work of the same design. I am particularly pleased with the illustrative and tasteful quotations from our own poets, which cannot fail to add very much to the interest of the book, to impress its facts upon the mind, and to show the intimate connection between ancient mythology and English poetry, and how necessary it is, to appreciate the allusions of the one, to have a good knowledge of the other.""

From the North American Review, for Jan., 1856. "THE AGE OF FABLE.- Mr. Bulfinch's object is to furnish the English reader with such information as to the mythology of the Greeks, the Romans, and the Northern na. tions, as will enable him to understand mythological references and allusions in earlier and current literature. This was a desideratum, and he has more than supplied it. He has told in pure and graceful English all the principal stories within his professed scope.

"We thus have, we believe for the first time, a Pantheon' which might hold an unchallenged place in the drawing room, or be read, with no shock to the moral nature, by a child of tender years. The book needs only to be known to be widely esteemed, and welcomed into general use."

PICKERING'S GREEK LEXICON.

A Comprehensive Lexicon of the Greek Language

ADAPTED TO THE USE OF

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES.

BY JOHN PICKERING, LL. D.,

President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin; of the Antiquarian Society at Athens, etc., etc.

In One Volume, 8vo. 1468 Pages, Sheep. Price, $3.75.

From Professor Edward Robinson, of New York.

"There can be but little hazard in pronouncing the Lexicon of Mr. Pickering to ha the best extant for the use of colleges and schools in the United States; for which, indeed, it has been specially prepared. Within the last few days, one of the best Greek editors and critical scholars in the country, himself a practical teacher, has expressed to us his opinion, that a young man, at school or in college, who uses Pickering's Lexicon, will usually get his Greek lessons with greater ease and accuracy, and in far less time, than by the aid of any other Greek Lexicon."

From Rev. Dr. Bullions, Prof. of Greek in the Albany Academy, author of a Greek Grammar, &c.

"In respect to fulness, it contains all the information that the advanced student will ordinarily need; and at the same time, by the insertion of the oblique cases of irregular nouns, and the parts of irregular verbs in alphabetical order, to a much greater extent than is usual, it is peculiarly adapted to the wants of the younger student. The work should command, and probably will have, an extensive circulation." From J. P. Robinson, Chairman of the Committee on Greek Exam

inations at Harvard University.

"I have read, with much pleasure, several favorable notices of this Lexicon in the public papers. I wish to add my humble testimony to that of the other writers, in commendation of this valuable work. I took up Becker's edition of the Oratores Attici, which is in 7 vols. 8vo, without notes, and read through the oration of Eschines against Timarchus, with Pickering's Lexicon, comparing it with the English edition of Liddell and Scott's large work, and Donnegan's. As a convenient and useful manual, I have no hesitation in giving it the preference over either of the others."

From Isaac G. Hubbs, A. M., Principal of Mt. Washington School, New York City.

"I am using Pickering's Lexicon in my school, with very great satisfaction. Our pupils prefer it to a variety of others to which they have free access, and find it better adapted to their wants. I would heartily recommend this most valuable book to z ntlemen of our profession who may not have adopted it, believing, as I do, that none would be used with greater advantage by their pupils."

From Walter Chisholm, A. M., Prin. of Brooklyn Gram. School. "The late edition of Pickering's Greek Lexicon fully realizes my expectations of it. It appears, on a careful examination, to be exactly the work required for schools and colleges, the articles treated of being stated in such a manner as to appear neither so diffuse as to bewilder, nor so short as to be unsatisfactory. The careful insertion, too, of such irregular forms as the unassisted student could not discover, while nothing is given which might tend to render him indolent, are excellences not to be overlooked. The great pains bestowed upon the prepositions and other particles will no doubt greatly aid the young scholar in the attainment of a knowledge of the Greek language.”

Professor Felton, in the Christian Examiner.

"Pickering's Lexicon in its present form, is, in every respect, an excellent one. It does great honor to the ability, unwearied industry, and vast attainments of its author. It is particularly adapted to the range of Greek words studied in the schools and col leges of the United States; and American editions of the classics have been specially ferred to."

LEVERETT'S LATIN LEXICON;

ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.

COMPILED CHIEFLY FROM THE

MAGNUM TOTIUS LATINITATIS LEXICON OF FACCIOLATI AND FORCELLINI, AND THE GERMAN WORKS OF SCHELLER AND LUENEMANN.

EDITED BY F. P. LEVERETT.

A NEW EDITION,

EMBRACING THE CLASSICAL DISTINCTIONS OF WORDS, AND THE
ETYMOLOGICAL INDEX OF

RIDDLE'S

FREUND'S
FREUND'S

LEXICON.

In One Volume, Royal Octavo, Sheep. Price, $5.00.

The present edition of this standard and favorite Latin Lexicon has been much improved by the transfer to its columns of the classical distinctions of the words, as given in the Lexicon of Dr. William Freund, of Germany, and translated by Riddle. The classical degree of each word is indicated by placing a figure directly under the first letter of the word in its column. For example: A word without a figure under it is Classical, and fully Ciceronian; or else it is a proper name, to which classic laws do not apply. The figure 1, placed under a word, denotes that it is rare in Cicero. These words are Classical, but not of the first authority; though many of them are peculiar to that writer. The figure 2, placed under a word, denotes that it is Classical, but not Ciceronian. The classical prose writers are Cicero, Cæsar, Sallust, Livy, Veleius, Celsus, the two Senecas, Quintilian, Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny the elder, and Pliny the younger. The figure 3, placed under a word, denotes that it does not belong to classical prose. Some of these words are anti-classical, and some of them are occasionally found in the Poets; but most of them are post-classical, belonging to Low Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin, Medieval Latin, and many of them to the New or Modern Latin, coined chiefly for the convenience of the sciences. These distinctions the student perceives at a glance.

From the New York Review.

"For comprehensiveness of plan, for accuracy of detail, for general skill and philosophical arrangement of its contents, for the precision and correctness of its statements, for the care of its execution, and the beauty and exactness of its outward appearance, it is, so far as we know, without a rival. Whoever makes it his counsellor soon begins to rely upon it as an almost unerring authority. In a single volume, the student finds that for which he has been accustomed to seek in many different quarters; besides a vocabulary, he finds, in its careful notations of quantity, the advantages of a gradus; in its full quotations from authorities, he finds little need for the cumbrous volumes of a thesaurus; and its explanations of ancient geography and art leave him little to look for in treatises of a more restricted character. We know that this is high praise: we have not uttered it, however, without well weighing our words, and without a full knowledge, derived from daily experience, of the book of which wo write. * The student of Latin, of any degree of capacity or acquisition, will feel, in the use of this volume, that he has an authority which is neither defective nor erroneous. Whenever he has occasion to turn to a word, he will find at a glance the quantity of its syllables, its derivation, its primitive meaning, and the manner in which its other definitions are derived from this. and the different shades of its signification in various phrases. He will have placed before him illustrations of the manner in which the ancient authors use it in every connection and for every significa tion. He will find the manner in which, for different purposes, it is united with other words. We make no attempt to compare it with other works of the same nature. So far as we know, there is no book, having or professing to have the same object, that has the slightest claim to competition with it."

GARDNER'S LATIN DICTIONARY.

A DICTIONARY OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE;

PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO THE

CLASSICS USUALLY STUDIED PREPARATORY TO A COLLEGIATE COURSE

BY FRANCIS GARDNER, A. M.,

INSTRUCTOR IN THE PUBLIC LATIN SCHOOL, BOSTON.

In One Volume, Royal Octavo, Sheep. Price, $2.25.

The basis of this work is the LEXICON OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE, prepared by the late Mr. Leverett; a work which has been received with great favor by the public. But it is obvious that a work so full and comprehensive as that is must contain much that can be of but little use to the young student. In preparing the present work, great care has been taken that it should embrace all the words occurring in those authors which are usually read previously to the college course, viz.: Virgil, Cicero's Select Orations, Sallust, Ovid, Cæsar, Nepos, Phædrus, etc. These words, with their respective definitions, have, in most cases, been inserted entire; their abridgment consisting chiefly in erasing a part of the citations from the authors in which they are found.

But although attention has been particularly paid to the authors here named, yet it must be obvious to every one that a work which shall embrace and define every word in those authors must be a tolerably comprehensive dictionary of the whole Latin language, and that, with the aid of it, almost any common Latin classic might be read.

From the New York Review.

"In order to adapt Mr. Leverett's Lexicon more particularly for the use of school boys, by reducing its size by the omission of those heads and articles which are entirely useless to them, an abridgment of it has been published, expressly adapted for their It was executed by Mr. Francis Gardner, a gentleman who has for some years been engaged in classical pursuits, as a teacher in the Public Latin School in Boston, whose perfect accuracy and knowledge of the subject were a sufficient guarantee that his work would be skilfully and ably performed.

use.

"To the manner in which it is executed we wish to call attention. Of an Encyclopæ dia of the Latin language, it is desired to preserve those parts which are useful to a school boy, and reject the rest. Those words which will recur in his earlier studies must be inserted, with such definitions as will be necessary there; those phrases which he will meet with must be retained, as well as all the explanations of ancient science, art, customs, philosophy, history, and geography, which he will need. The only reasonable method of abridging is that which shall be made on such principles as we have described, and the reader will at once see what a careful discrimination and thorough knowledge of books it must require. To the other qualifications of a good lexicographer which we have mentioned, it adds, as a requisite, full knowledge of the details of every book on which the school boy will be exercised, that the dictionary may be prepared to meet all his wants.

"The mere abridgment, however, is not the only way in which the work has been adapted for schools. Whole articles have been entirely rewritten, the arrangement of definitions and phrases and their dependence on each other changed, that the scholar may more easily understand the full force of each. These additions will be acknowledged to be such as will be real aids to the careful scholar."