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A Literal Translation of Plato's Apology of Socrates and The Crito, with 

 Notes, original and selected. By Henry Vane Hemmings, B. A. 

 Ex-Scholar Trinity College, Dublin, Translator of the Phaedo. 

 Dublin, Gibton and Overend, 7, Capel-street, 1835. 



Plato, an author most difficult to understand, has met with a trans- 

 lator in Mr. Hemmings, who has ably rendered him in a style remark- 

 able for its clearness; always faithful, generally elegant. To trans- 

 late literally, and, at the same time, elegantly, is a task confessedly 

 one of the most arduous that a literary man can attempt, and we might 

 add, the most unprofitable; for while the scrutinizing eye of the 

 learned critic would be apt to overlook the difficulty of the original 

 work, it would fall with a withering glance on any little inelegancy 

 which the correct rendering of idiomatic language seldom fails to pro- 

 duce. From those who are acquainted with the language of Plato, 

 Mr. Hemmings is sure to meet with inviting encouragement, and even 

 those who are unacquainted with that philosopher, and who are totally 

 ignorant of Hellenic literature, will read Mr. Hemmings' book with 

 a pleasure rarely produced by literal translations. The student will 

 find in it all he requires — a translation, not only literal, but elegant 

 and faithful. 



The notes are not the least worthy the attention of the scholar, the 

 selections are principally culled from Foster, Fischerus and Dacier, &c. 

 and do credit to the taste as well as judgment of the translator; 

 whilst those that are original show into what able hands the trans- 

 lation of this work has fallen. 



In conclusion, we should recommend this version to the student 

 and general reader, as an excellent elucidation of the difficulties of 

 one of the greatest philosophers of antiquity. 



Wanderings through North Wales. By Thomas Roscoe, Esq. author of 

 the Landscape Annual. Tilt, and Simpkin and Marshall, London ^ 

 and Wrightson and Webb, Birmingham, 1835. 



The third part of this beautifully illustrated work has Just made its 

 appearance, and it deserves more than a mere passing notice. It con- 

 tains three exquisite engravings, by lladclyffe, from drawings by Cat- 

 termole. Cox, and Creswick. The first is Dolbadern Tower ; the next 

 Cader-ldris, from Kymmer Abbey ; and the third, Bolingbroke's False 

 Homage to Richard II. at Flint Castle. The letter-press, too, is in 

 keeping with the engravings, and Mr. Roscoe has made it an unusually 

 interesting appendage. Surely this very talented little publication 

 must ere now be in general request ; at ail events, its merits re- 

 quire that it should be so. 



Treatise on the Geography and Classification of Animals. By William 

 Swainson, Esq. Longman and Co., 1835. 



This is the second of a series of volumes on Zoology, in Lardner's 

 Cabinet Cyclopcedia, by Swainson, and will, we anticipate, prove useful 

 to all students of Natural History ; more particularly to those scien- 

 tific students who are unable to procure the Northern Zoology of Rich- 

 ardson and Swainson, the Linncean Transactions^ the ZoologicalJoiirnal, 

 and other expensive works of the kind. The geography of animals, 

 so ably treated in the volume before us, is a subject which has hitherto 

 been but little attended to. Our author divides the world into five 

 zoological provinces, viz. Europe, Asia, America, Africa, and Australia, 



