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Valuable New Publications, ADAPTED FOR USE IN COLLEGES AND DISTRICT SCHOOLS, RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK.


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Valuable New Publications,
ADAPTED FOR USE IN
COLLEGES AND DISTRICT SCHOOLS,
RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY
HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK.

Liddell and Scott's New Greek and English
Lexicon.

Based on the German Work of Francis Passow; with Corrections
and Additions, and the insertion in Alphabetical Order of the
Proper Names occurring in the principal Greek Authors. By
Henry Drisler, M.A., under the Supervision of Prof. Anthon.
Royal 8vo, Sheep extra. $5 00.

An Abridgment of the above, by the Authors, for the Use of Schools, revised
and enlarged by the Addition of a Second Part, viz., English and Greek. (In press.)

This is, indeed, a great book. It is vastly superior to any Greek-English Lexicon
hitherto published, either in this country or in England. No high school or college
can maintain its caste that does not introduce the book.—N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.

A work of authority, which, for real utility and general accuracy, now stands, and
will be likely long to be, without a rival in the English language. It has been honored
with the most unqualified commendation of the London Quarterly, and many
other high critical authorities of Great Britain.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

This Greek Dictionary must inevitably take the place of all others in the classical
schools of the country.—Knickerbocker.

Anthon's Classical Dictionary,

Containing an Account of the principal Proper Names mentioned in
Ancient Authors, and intended to elucidate all the important
Points connected with the Geography, History, Biography, Mythology,
and Fine Arts of the Greeks and Romans, together with
an Account of the Coins, Weights, and Measures of the Ancients,
with Tabular Values of the same. Royal 8vo, Sheep extra. $4 75.

The scope of this great work is very extensive, and comprises information respecting
some of the most important branches of classical knowledge. Here may be found
a complete encyclopedia of Ancient Geography, History, Biography, and Mythology
The department of the Fine Arts forms an entirely new feature; embracing biographies
of ancient artists, and criticisms upon their productions. In fine, this noble
work is not only indispensable to the classical teacher and student, but eminently
useful to the professional gentleman, and forms a necessary part of every library that
aims to be complete. It has been pronounced by Professor Boeckh of Berlin, one of
the leading scholars in Germany, “a most excellent work.”

Anthon's Latin Lessons.

Latin Grammar, Part I. Containing the most important Parts of
the Grammar of the Latin Language, together with appropriate
Exercises in the translating and writing of Latin. 12mo, Sheep
extra. 90 cents.

The object of this work is to make the young student practically acquainted, as
each step of his progress, with those portions of the grammar which he may from time
to time commit to memory, and which relate principally to the declension of nouns
and conjugation of verbs. As soon as the beginner has mastered some principle relative
to the inflections of the language, his attention is directed to exercises in translating
and writing Latin, which call for a practical application of the knowledge he
may have thus far acquired; and in this way he is led on by easy stages, until he is
made thoroughly acquainted with all the important rules that regulate the inflections
of the Latin tongue.


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Anthon's Latin Prose Composition.

Latin Grammar, Part II. An Introduction to Latin Prose Composition,
with a complete Course of Exercises, illustrative of all the important
Principles of Latin Syntax. 12mo, Sheep extra. 90 cents.

The present work forms the second part of the Latin Lessons, and is intended to
elucidate practically all the important principles and rules of the Latin Syntax. The
plan pursued is the same with that which was followed in preparing the first part,
and the utility of which has been so fully proved by the favorable reception extended
to that volume. A rule is laid down and principles are stated, and then exercises
are given illustrative of the same. These two parts, therefore, will form a Grammar
of the Latin Language
, possessing this decided advantage over other grammars, in
its containing a Complete Course of Exercises, which have a direct bearing on each
step of the student's progress.

Anthon's Dictionary of Greek and Roman
Antiquities,

From the best Authorities, and embodying all the recent Discoveries
of the most eminent German Philologists and Jurists. Edited by
William Smith, Ph.D. Illustrated by a large number of Engravings.
Corrected and enlarged, and containing, also, numerous Articles
relative to the Botany, Mineralogy, and Zoology of the Ancients,
by Charles Anthon, LL.D. 8vo, Sheep extra. $4 75.

An Abridgment of the above, by the Authors, for the Use of Schools. 12mo,
half Sheep. $1 25.

As a Dictionary, it is the best aid to the study of Classical Antiquity which we possess
in our language. Valuable as this Dictionary must be to the students of ancient
literature, it will be of scarcely less service to the students of ancient art; for the illustrations
have been selected with care and judgment.—Athenœum.

The articles which we have consulted appear to us admirably done: they are terse
in style, and pregnant, yet not cumbrously so, with accurate knowledge—the best
and latest authorities are constantly cited. A work much wanted, invaluable to the
young student, and, as a book of reference, will be most acceptable on the library table
of every scholar.—Quarterly Review.

Anthon's Zumpt's Latin Grammar.

From the Ninth Edition of the Original, adapted to the Use of English
Students, by Leonhard Schmitz, Ph.D. Corrected and enlarged,
by Charles Anthon, LL.D. 12mo, Sheep extra. 90
cents. (Third Edition, revised.)

An Abridgment of the above, by the Authors, for the Use of Schools. 12mo
(Just ready.)

The student who uses Zumpt's Latin Grammar will obtain from it such a complete
thesaurus of golden rules and principles that he will never be willing to spare it a
moment from his table.—Professor Frost.

Anthon's Latin Versification,

In a Series of Progressive Exercises, including Specimens of Translation
from English and German Poetry into Latin Verse. 12mo,
Sheep extra. 90 cents.

A Key is published, which may be obtained by Teachers. 12mo, half Sheep. 50
cents.

This work contains a full series of rules for the structure of Latin Verse, accompanied
by a complete course of exercises for their practical application, and renders
this hitherto difficult branch of study comparatively easy and pleasant of attainment.
It forms the fourth and concluding part of the Latin Lessons.


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Anthon's Latin Prosody and Metre.

From the best Authorities, Ancient and Modern. 12mo, Sheep extra.
90 cents.

In this volume, which may not unaptly be regarded as the third part of the Latin
Lessons, the young scholar will find every thing that may be needed by him, not only
at the commencement, but also throughout the several stages of his academic career.

Anthon's Caesar's Commentaries on the
Gallic War;

And the First Book of the Greek Paraphrase; with English Notes,
critical and explanatory, Plans of Battles, Sieges, &c., and Historical,
Geographical, and Archæological Indexes, by Charles
Anthon
, LL.D. Map, Portrait, &c. 12mo, Sheep extra. $1 40.

The present edition of Cæsar is on the same plan with the Sallust and Cicero of
the editor. The explanatory notes have been specially prepared for the use of beginners,
and nothing has been omitted that may tend to facilitate the perusal of the work.
The Greek paraphrase is given partly as a literary novelty, and partly as an easy introduction
to Greek studies; and the plans of battles, sieges, &c., must prove eminently
useful to the learner.

Anthon's Aeneid of Virgil,

With English Notes, critical and Explanatory, a Metrical Clavis,
and an Historical, Geographical, and Mythological Index, by
Charles Anthon, LL.D. Portrait and many Illustrations. 12mo,
Sheep extra. $2 00.

The notes accompanying the text have been made purposely copious, since Virgil
is an author in the perusal of whom the young scholar stands in need of very frequent
assistance. The illustrations that accompany the notes form a very attractive feature
in the volume, and are extremely useful in exemplifying the allusions of the author.

Anthon's Select Orations of Cicero,

With English Notes, critical and explanatory, and Historical, Geographical,
and Legal Indexes, by Charles Anthon, LL.D. An
improved Edition. Portrait. 12mo, Sheep extra. $1 20.

The text of this edition is based upon that of Ernesti, and the notes are comprehensive
and copious, laying open to the young scholar the train of thought contained
in the Orations, so as to enable him to appreciate, in their full force and beauty, these
brilliant memorials of other days, and carefully and fully explaining the allusions in
which the orator is fond of indulging.

Anthon's Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil.

With English Notes, critical and explanatory, by Charles Anthon,
LL.D. 12mo, Sheep extra. $1 50.

Dr. Anthon's classical works are well known, not only throughout the Union, but
in Great Britain. In this edition of Virgil's pastoral poems, that elegant ancient author
is more fully and clearly annotated and explained, than he has ever yet been in
any language. To masters of seminaries and school-teachers in general, the work
will prove invaluable, from the mass of information which the learned compiler has
thrown together in his remarks.—New Orleans Advertiser.

In this volume Dr. Anthon has done for Virgil's Pastorals what he had previously
done for the æneid—put it in such a form before the classical student that he can
not fail to read it, not only with ease, but with a thorough appreciation and admiration
of its beauties. The critical and explanatory notes are very copious and very
satisfactory, and make perfectly clear the sense of every passage.—N. Y. Courier.


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Anthon's Sallust's Jugurthine War and
Conspiracy of Catiline,

With an English Commentary, and Geographical and Historical Indexes,
by Charles Anthon, LL.D. New Edition, corrected and
enlarged. Portrait. 12mo, Sheep extra. 87½ cents.

The commentary includes every thing requisite for accurate preparation on the part
of the student and a correct understanding of the author. The plan adopted by Professor
Anthon has received the unqualified approbation of the great majority of teachers
in the United States, and has been commended in the highest terms by some of
the finest scholars in the country.

Anthon's Works of Horace,

With English Notes, critical and explanatory, by Charles Anthon,
LL.D. New Edition, with Corrections and Improvements. 12mo,
Sheep extra. $1 75.

This work has enjoyed a widely favorable reception both in Europe and our own
country, and has tended, more than any other edition, to render the young students
of the time familiar with the beauties of the poet. The classical student, in his earlier
progress, requires a great deal of assistance; and the plan pursued by Professor Anthon
in his Horace and other works affords just the aid required to make his studies
easy and agreeable, and to attract him still further on in the path of scholarship.

Anthon's First Greek Lessons,

Containing the most important Parts of the Grammar of the Greek
Language, together with appropriate Exercises in the translating
and writing of Greek, for the Use of Beginners. 12mo, Sheep
extra. 90 cents.

The plan of this work is very simple. It is intended to render the study of the
Greek inflections more inviting to beginners, and better calculated, at the same time,
to produce an abiding impression. With this view, there is appended to the several
divisions of the Grammar a collection of exercises, consisting of short sentences, in
which the rules of inflection just laid down are fully exemplified, and which the student
is required to translate and parse, or else to convert from ungrammatical to grammatical
Greek.

Anthon's Greek Prose Composition.

Greek Lessons, Part II. An Introduction to Greek Prose Composition,
with a complete Course of Exercises illustrative of all the
important Principles of Greek Syntax. 12mo, Sheep extra. 90
cents.

The present work forms the second part of the Greek Lessons. The object of the
editor has been to make the student more fully acquainted than could be done in an
ordinary grammar with all the important principles of the Greek Syntax. And in
order to impress these principles more fully upon the mind of the pupil, they are accompanied
by exercises explanatory of the same; in other words, the theory is first
given, and its practical application follows immediately after. This is the only mode
of familiarizing the student with the niceties of Greek construction, and has never
been carried out to so full an extent in any similar work.

Anthon's Grammar of the Greek Language,

For the Use of Schools and Colleges. 12mo, Sheep extra. 90 cents.

The author's object in preparing the present work was to furnish the student with
such a view of the leading features in the Grammar of the Greek language as might
prove useful to him, not only at the commencement of his career, but also during its
whole continuance. Nothing has, therefore, been omitted the want of which might in
any degree retard his progress; and yet, at the same time, the work has been brought
within such limits as will render it easy of reference and not deter from perusal.
Every effort has been made to exhibit a concise outline of all the leading principles
of Greek philology.


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Anthon's New Greek Grammar

From the German of Kühner, Matthiæ, Buttmann, Rost, and Thiersh;
to which are appended, Remarks on the Pronunciation of the
Greek Language, and Chronological Tables explanatory of the
same. 12mo, Sheep extra. 90 cents.

In order to render this grammar more useful to the student, recourse has been had
to the writings of the latest and best of the German grammarians, and especially to
those of Kühner, which are now justly regarded as the ablest of their kind; and the
present work will be found to contain all the information on the subject necessary to
be known by the student of Greek. It contains more numerous and complete exemplification
of declension and conjugation than any that has preceded it.

Anthon's Greek Prosody and Metre,

For the Use of Schools and Colleges; together with the Choral
Scanning of the Prometheus Vinctus of æschylus, and Œdipus
Tyrannus of Sophocles; to which are appended, Remarks on the
Indo-Germanic Analogies. 12mo, Sheep extra. 90 cents.

An accurate acquaintance with the Prosody and Metres of the Greek language is a
necessary accompaniment of true scholarship; but one great want is felt in its successful
cultivation. The present work supplies this want. It omits the intricate
questions on which the learned delight to exercise themselves, and aims only to give
what is immediately and permanently useful, in a simple and inviting style. The
Appendix, containing Remarks on the Analogies of Language, will be found interesting
to every scholar. This work, like the others of the series, has been republished
in England, and forms the text-book at King's College School, London, as well as in
other quarters.

Anthon's Homer's Iliad.

The first Six Books of Homer's Iliad, to which are appended English
Notes, critical and explanatory, a Metrical Index, and Homeric
Glossary, by Charles Anthon, LL.D. 12mo, Sheep extra.
$1 50.

The commentary contained in this volume is a full one, on the principle that, if a
good foundation be laid in the beginning, the perusal of the Homeric poems becomes
a matter of positive enjoyment; whereas, if the pupil be hurried over book after book
of these noble productions, with a kind of rail-road celerity, he remains a total stranger
to all the beauties of the scenery through which he has sped his way, and at the end
of his journey is as wise as when he commenced it. The present work contains what
is useful to the young student in furthering his acquaintance with the classic language
and noble poetry of Homer. The Glossary renders any other Homeric dictionary
useless.

Anthon's Greek Reader,

Principally from the German of Jacobs. With English Notes, critical
and explanatory, a Metrical Index to Homer and Anacreon,
and a copious Lexicon. 12mo, Sheep extra. $1 75.

This Reader is edited on the same plan as the author's other editions of the classics,
and has given universal satisfaction to all teachers who have adopted it into use.
That plan supposes an ignorance in the pupil of all but the very first principles of the
language, and a need on his part of guidance through its intricacies. It aims to enlighten
that ignorance and supply that guidance in such a way as to render his progress
sure and agreeable, and to invite him to cultivate the fair fields of classic literature
more thoroughly.

Anthon's Anabasis of Xenophon,

With English Notes, critical and explanatory, by Charles Anthon,
LL.D. 12mo, Sheep extra. (In press.)

Zumpt's Latin Exercises.

(In press.)


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Anthon's Tacitus,

With English Notes, critical and explanatory, by Charles Anthon,
LL.D. (In press.)

M`Clintock and Crooks's First Book in
Latin,

Containing Grammar, Exercises, and Vocabularies, on the Method
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Belleville, New Jersey.

I cheerfully bear testimony to the excellence of the “First Book in Latin;” it is
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Institute
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Upham's Outlines of Imperfect and Disordered
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Upham's Elements of Mental Philosophy;

Embracing the two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities.
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An Abridgment of the above, by the Author, designed as a Text-book in Academies.
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Draper's Text-book of Chemistry,

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Terse, lucid, and philosophical, and well adapted to the object for which it is published.
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Renwick's Practical Mechanics.

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Schmucker's Psychology;

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Proudfit's Plautus's “The Captives.”

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Loomis's Treatise on Algebra.

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Rane's Elements of Chemistry;

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