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Note G. Page xlviii. 



As we wish to give a just view of the character and merits of Mr. Pickering's 

 great work, we adduce here some passages from several of the numerous other crit- 

 ical notices of it which have appeared in various parts of the country, and which extol 

 it in the same high tone of commendation as those before referred to. " Liddell and 

 Scott's," it is said, " is the only work now extant that can come in competition with 

 Pickering's." And it is added, — "We do not hesitate to give the preference to 

 Pickering's, because we regard it as better suited for use in colleges and schools." 

 Mr. Pickering himself, in the Preface to his Lexicon, speaks of Liddell and Scott's 

 as " a most valuable and important acquisition to all who wish to study Greek criti- 

 cally." He was, indeed, the last man to depreciate the literary works of another. 

 But his object was, to make the best lexicon for the students of Greek generally. 

 This, for our country, appeared to be the desirable object. Those comparatively 

 few scholars who pursue their Greek studies to great extent and exactness will of 

 course supply themselves with various lexicons. That Mr. Pickering succeeded in 

 his object is abundantly manifest. 



A learned professor (who speaks to us through the Hampshire and Franklin 

 Express) says of Mr. Pickering's Lexicon : — " The recent edition is a new work, 

 restudied and rewritten, with the aid of all the best works of the kind which Euro- 

 pean scholars have so multiplied during the interval of ten or fifteen years which 

 have elapsed since the appearance of the first. And irrespective of national pref- 

 erences and grateful recollections, all prejudices apart, it is a work of vast labor, 

 great learning, excellent judgment, and elegant taste ; it is, as we have said, in its 

 kind and for its use, a finished work. It is not, of course, as full and complete as 

 its larger rival ; though, on some points, — as, for instance, the prepositions and 

 particles, — it will bear a favorable comparison in regard to completeness. In the 

 discriminating and felicitous translation of many and difficult passages, it is without 

 a rival. The quantities of the doubtful vowels are marked with great care and ac- 

 curacy. The derived tenses of the verb are exhibited in distinct articles, much to 

 the convenience of the young student. It illustrates the words and idioms of the 

 NeiD Testament more fully than any other lexicon of the classic Greek now in use. 

 In short, it accomplishes what it professes to ; and to enumerate its excellencies 



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