284 MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



Hase's Ancient Greeks. Translated from the German. Post Svo., 

 pp. 358. Murray. 



THE accomplished Mrs. Austin has placed the literary world under a fresh 

 obligation, in addition to the many favours received by her previous produc- 

 tions ; and it is to be hoped that her industry has reaped a more solid reward 

 than the commendations of her reviewers. 



The idea that occurred to us on turning over the leaves of this elegant little 

 manual was that the school-boys of the present day are much to be envied by 

 their elders for having their path smoothed by light and easy books like this 

 before us. Without doubt it supplies what had before been a lamentable de- 

 ficiency, ill supplied by Potter's Archaeologia and Paul's abridgment of the 

 same work. We ourselves recollect Potter ; and certainly never was there 

 book so miserably inefficient, so very unsatisfactory, for the purpose of illus- 

 trating the historians or the orators, which last, indeed, cannot be read by 

 the tyro without some assistance in the way of technological explanation. 



Dr. Hase (Ph. D. of Dresden) has divided his work into two parts : one il- 

 lustrating the heroic age, and the manners, government, laws, religion, and 

 military establishments of Greece before the decline of the monarchies ; the 

 second explaining the social, political, and religious institutions of the historic 

 age, in which oligarchy and democracy took the place of absolute rule, and 

 ranged the different states into two parties, the advocates either of oligarchal or 

 democratic sway, the adherents of Athens or Sparta. The manners of the two 

 parties were essentially different one from the other ; and they require and 

 receive in Dr. Hase's book a separate description. 



We wish this manual all the success which it undoubtedly deserves,, and 

 hope to see it very widely diffused through our universities and classical semi- 

 naries. A similar book is much wanted to supply the defects of Adam's 

 Roman Antiquities. Germany, we believe, can furnish the materials ready 

 to the translator's hand. 



Jerningham ; or The Inconsistent Man. 3 vols. Smith, Elder, & Co. 



THERE are two heroes to this work. The one is a decided advocate for re- 

 ligious establishments, and the " ancient order of things ;" the other is the 

 inveterate foe of all religion, and a thorough leveller in politics. He is a dis- 

 ciple of the Shelley school. The author makes the latter state his infidel 

 opinions, and then calls in the other to answer them. What the author's own 

 opinions are on politics or religion is not very clear ; but the moral tendency 

 of his work is very doubtful. If Christianity had not more sincere or able de- 

 fenders than our author, it would fare but indifferently with it. Considered as 

 an intellectual production "Jerningham" is respectable. It is in description 

 the author excels. 



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