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contains the technical terms of Athenian law and the administration of justice. 

 We have found his lexicon excellent for the Attic orators. Indeed, we have some- 

 times found words in it which are wanting in the larger work of Liddell and Scott. 

 Mr. Pickering's definitions are concise and exact ; and though his plan did not 

 admit of a full historical development of every word, upon the principles partially 

 carried into effect by Passow, yet the reader of Greek literature will rarely turn 

 away unsatisfied. 



" The work is very handsomely and accurately printed. It extends to 1456 

 pages, with three columns on a page, containing thus a vast amount of matter, 

 with a remarkable economy of space. It is in every respect a very convenient and 

 desirable book. F." 



Note H. Page xlix. 



The following passage from the learned article in the North American Review, 

 on Mr. Pickering's memoir of the Greek language (referred to in a preceding 

 note), contains an allusion to his Vocahulary, with its title given at length. We 

 therefore adopt it here. 



" The author of this memoir is not a mere scholar. Like others of his country- 

 men who have deserved well of letters, he has been obliged to prosecute his stud- 

 ies, ' not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic 

 bowers,' but amidst the inconveniences and distractions of public life, and the 

 fatigues of his honorable profession. He is already well known to our readers as 

 the author of a Vocabulary of Words and Phrases which have been supposed to be 

 Peculiar to the United States of America. To which is prefixed an Essay on the 

 Present State of the English Language in the United States. And having thus 

 done no little service to American literature, he is the first to call the attention of 

 scholars in this country to the proper pronunciation of the Greek." 



