CLASSICAL STUDIES 



ESSAYS ON 



ANCIENT LITERATURE AND ART. 



With the Biograjihy and Correspondence of Eminent Philologists. 



By BARNAS SEARS, President of Xewton Theol. Institution, B. B. 



EDWARDS, Prof. Andover Theol. Seminary, and C. C. FELTOS, 



Prof. Harvard University. 12rao. Price $1.25. 



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