fREUnd's latin lexicon. 39 



This is a long extract, but it cannot weary him who reads it for the 

 first time. It is gratifying to see with what decision the author recog- 

 nizes the divine existence and attributes in the creatures which move 

 before him. His contributions to Natural Theology, in this and in other 

 works, have been important, and they are delightful. Paley, in his beau- 

 tiful work on Natural Theology, defines instinct thus : '"■It is a propen- 

 sity prior to experience, and independent of instruction." Lord Brough- 

 am distinguishes between instinct and animal intelligence, and theorizes 

 upon both, and furnishes illustrative facts. We suppose that all the 

 facts must be referred to the same general principle, and find their solu- 

 tion in the same agency. The modifications of instinct, the deviations 

 from the normal course, which are exhibited in animal operations, are 

 no doubt very remarkable, but, except for the purpose of comparison 

 and distinction, we cannot see that any thing is gained by a separation, 

 of them in classification. Those actions of animals that are uniform, 

 which descend from generation to generation unchanged and unmodified, 

 which are perfectly performed at once and with no means of instruc- 

 tion, are purely instinctive, according to our author. He adduces such 

 facts as the following as indicative of intelligence, additional to instinct: 

 "The Jackdaw, when he found his beak could not reach the water he 

 wanted to drink, threw into the pitcher pebble after pebble till he raised 

 the surface of the liquid to the level of his beak." 



Our space forbids enlargement. We recommend the work to our 

 readers as very instructive and attractive. The production of a man of 

 profound science, it is sufficiently popular. No one can read it without 

 profit. No one can master its contents without being a wiser and pos- 

 sessing the materials to make him a better man. 



A complete Lexicon of the Latin Language, for the use of 

 schools and private study. By Dr. Wm. Fieund. 



This work contains over seventeen hundred pages of closely printed 

 matter, two vols, in one, the first published in 1844, and the second in 

 1S45. It is therefore, in this form, just from the hands of the author, 

 and comes to us as the most recent dictionary of the Latin language. — 

 This must not be confounded with a much more extended work on the 

 same subject, a notice of which, with a translation of the author's pre- 

 face, appeared in the Bibliolheca Sacra for last February. The larger 

 lexicon, which is not yet completed, both in its arrangement and con- 

 tents, is represented as deserving the first place fyiiong works of this 

 kind, both in the Latin and Greek languages. 



