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were but to repeat, as real and splendid achievements, what are set forth as modest 

 claims in the editor's Preface." 



" Of all Greek lexicons which have hitherto appeared," says another competent 

 judge (through the Connecticut Weekly Review), " we think Pickering's will be 

 most useful to all classes of students. It will be the lexicon for the school-desk, 

 and for the collegian's study ; and it will be especially prized by the teacher who 

 wishes thoroughly to capacitate himself to communicate to others a critical knowl- 

 edge of this ancient language by the simplest method. It is sufficiently copious, 

 and has evidently been prepared with great care. We give it our unqualified 

 recommendation." 



A long list of similar testimonials might be given, but it is sufficient to add one 

 more, taken from a recent number of the Christian Examiner, and evidently pro- 

 ceeding from a high source. 



" The lexicon, in its present form, is in every respect an excellent one. It does 

 great honor to the ability, unwearied industry, and vast attainments of its author. 

 It is particularly adapted to the range of Greek works studied in the schools and 

 colleges of the United States ; and American editions of the classics have been 

 specially referred to. It is well suited to the younger scholars, inasmuch as it con- 

 tains, in alphabetical order, the oblique cases and the principal dialectical or unu- 

 sual forms of anomalous nouns, adjectives, and pronouns, and the principal tenses 

 of anomalous verbs. But Mr. Pickering did not limit his task to this special object. 

 He used all the aids which the recent works in philology and lexicography pub- 

 lished in Europe, particularly in Germany, furnished him. Besides the contribu- 

 tions of Dunbar, and Liddell and Scott, Mr. Pickering diligently consulted the work 

 of Passow, both in the original German edition, and in the new one edited by Rost 

 and Palm, the lexicon of Jacobitz and Seidler, the excellent one of Pape, those of 

 Schneider and Riemer, besides numerous lexicons and verbal indexes to particular 

 authors, and the new Paris edition, not yet completed, of Stephens's Thesaurus. 

 Besides these lexicographical works, Mr. Pickering availed himself of special trea- 

 tises on the various branches of Hellenic antiquities. It is sufficient to mention 

 Boeckh on the Public Economy of Athens, and Platner on the Attic Process, both 

 of which, while explaining the financial, political, judicial, and other problems 

 growing out of the history of the Athenian commonwealth, have at the same time 

 supplied important materials for the lexicographer. Mr. Pickering's professional 

 learning has been of great assistance to him in that portion of the lexicon which 



