APPLEGATE & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS. 



PLUTARCH'S LIVES. 



Witli Historical and Critical Notes^ and a Life of Plutarch. Illustrated with 

 portrait. 1 vol., 8vo. Sheep, spring back, marbled edge. 



This edition has been carefully revised and corrected, and is printed upon entirely 

 new plates, stereotyped by ourselves, to correspond with our library edition of Dick' a 

 "Works, &c. 



From the Nashville and Louisville Christian Advocate. 

 Plutarch's Lives. — This great work, to which has long since been awarded the 

 first honors of literature, is now published complete in one volume by Messrs 

 Applegate & Co., of Cincinnati, and offered at so low a price as to place it within the 

 reach of all. This is a desideratum, especially in this age of " many books. '^ Next 

 in importance to a thorough knowledge of history, and in many respects fully equal 

 to it, is the study of well authenticated biography. For this valuable purpose, we 

 know of no work extant superior to the fifty lives of Plutarch. It is a rare mao-azine 

 of literary and biographical knowledge. The eminent men whose lives compose thi- 

 work, constitute almost the entire of that galaxy of greatness and brightness, whici: 

 stretches across the horizon of the distant past, and casts upon the present time a 

 mild and steady luster. Many of them are among the most illustrious of the earth. 



From the Ladies' Repository. 

 No words of criticism, or of eulogy, need be spent on Plutarch's Lives. Every 

 body knows it to be the most popular book of biographies now extant in anv known 

 language. ^ It has been more read, by the youth of all nations, for the last four or 

 five centuries in particular, than any ever written. It has done more good, in its 

 way, and has been the means of forming more sublime resolutions, and even more 

 sublime characters, than any other work with which we are acquainted, except the 

 Bible. It is a^ better piece of property for a young man to own, than an eighty acre 

 lot in the Mississippi Valley, or many hundred dollars in current money. We would 

 rather leave it as a legacy to a son, had we to make the choice, than any moderate 

 amount of property, if we were certain he would read it. There are probably but 

 few really great men now living, that have not been largely indebted to it for their 

 early aspirations, in consequence of which they have achieved their greatness. It is 

 a magnificent octavo, on solid and clear paper, well bound, and, in every way, neatly 

 and substantially executed. Most sincerely do we commend it, again and ao-ain to 

 the reading public. ^ ' 



From Cist's Advertiser. 

 A beautiful edition of Plutarch's Lives, published by Applegate & Co., has been 

 laid on our table. Who has not read Plutarch ? and what individual of any force 

 of character has not made the " Lives " his study ? It was one of Napoleon's 

 favorite books, and doubtless had its full share in forming his character, and fitting 

 him for that splendid career of his, which has had no precedent heretofore, as it will 

 hardly find a parallel hereafter. This volume is handsomely gotten up, and in every 

 respect creditable to the good taste and enterprise of this firm. 



From tJie Indiana State Sentinel. 

 Of the literary merit of this work, it is unnecessary to speak. Every school boy 

 knows " Plutarch's Lives " is essential in every well-informed man's library. In the 

 language of the translator of the present edition, " if the merits of a work may be 

 estimated from the universality of its reception, Plutarch's Lives have a claim to the 

 first honors of literature. No book has been more generally sought after, or read 

 with greater avidity." 



