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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

LIST OF WRITERS(Continued.)

GEORGE LONG, M.A., late Fellow ofTrinity College, Cambridge.

CHARLES PETER MASON, B.A., Fellow ofUniversity College, London,

JOSEPH CALROW MEANS.

HENRY HART MILMAN, M.A., Preben-dary of St. Peters, Westminster,

AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN, Professor ofMathematics in University College,London,

WILLIAM PLATE, LL.D.

C. E. PRICHARD, B.A., Fellow of BaliolCollege, Oxford.

PHILIP SMITH, B.A.

LEONHARD SCHMITZ, Ph.D., F.R.S.E.,Rector of the High School of Edin-burgh.

WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D.(Editor).

ARTHUR P. STANLEY, M.A., Fellow andTutor of University College, Oxford.

WILLIAM RAMSAY, M.A., Professor ofHumanity in the University of Glasgow.

ADOLF STAHR, Professor in the Gymna-sium of Oldenburgh.

LUDWIG URLICHS, Professor in the Uni-versity of Bonn.

ROBERT WHISTON, M.A., Fellow of TrinityCollege, Cambridge,

< As we have mentioned the work, we may add that the title gives a very inadequate idea of

the

contents, as regards either extent or quality. Who would suppose that it contains the Fathers of the

Church, and also heretics of note?

Who would look here for an account(the best it has ever been our

fortune to see) of the works of St. Jerome? Indeed, it is not easy to determine how low down in point

of date it was intended to come,

We have a copious account of Theodore Gaza, who died A.D. 1478,

Many of the articles are elaborate dissertations, and some of them highly interesting, e. g.that on

Epictetus.

scattered over the volume, give it a living character.

The genealogical tables, too, are of great value; and the engravings of coins, thickly

Altogether, this Dietionary, the work of thirty-six

scholarsall names of note, who have made great use of the best German writersis, on most subjectsconnected with Greek and Roman literature, in the Christian as well as heathen sense, a library initself. English Journal of Education,

TAYLOR, WALTON, AND MABERLY,