2"i S. VI. 153., Dec. 4. '58.] 



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The third volume of T7ie Hhtnnj of Herodotus, a New 

 English Version, tvith Copious Notes and Appendices, illus- 

 tratinri the History and Geography of Herodotus from the 

 most recent Sources of Information, and embodying the 

 Cldef Residts, Historical and Ethnographical, which have 

 leen obtained in the Progress of Cuneiform and Hierogly- 

 phical Discovery, by George Uawlinson, M.A., assistedby Sir 

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 now before us. It is so difficult, in the limited space to 

 ■which our notices of books is necessarily conQned, to give 

 an adequate idea of the value and importance of such a 

 work as the present, that we feel we shall best do justice 

 to the book and to our readers, by pointing out the con- 

 tents of the present volume; leaving them to judge from 

 the well-known reputation of those engaged in its pro- 

 duction, what are the real merits of the book. This third 

 volume contains then, first, the translation of Ilerodotus's 

 fourth boolr, entitled Melpomene, with an Appendix con- 

 sisting of three Essays : 1. On the Cimmerians of Hero- 

 dotus and the Migrations of the Cj'mric Race; 2. On the 

 Ethnograph}- of the European Scytlis; 3. On the Geo- 

 graphy of Scythia. These are followed by the transla- 

 tion of the Fifth Book, Terpsichore, with an Appendix of 

 two Essays: 1. On the Early Historj' of Sparta; 2. On 

 the Early Hiftory of the Athenians. The translation of 

 tlie Sixth Book, entitled Erato, with an Appendix like- 

 wise of two Essays : 1. On the Circumstances of the Bat- 

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 Pelasgians, completes the volume: which, however, we 

 ought to add, is, like its predecessors, admirably illus- 

 trated witli maps and woodcuts. It is impossible to over- 

 estimate the care which has been bestowed on the pro- 

 duction of this volume, or the amount of learning which 

 has been employed in illustrating the narrative of the 

 gi-eat Father of llistory. 



French men of letters seem gifted with a peculiar tact 

 for the compilation of Biographical Dictionaries. The 

 excellence of their Biographic Universelle may be taken 

 as one proof of this. Another is now before us in a Dic- 

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 goodly octavo volume of 1830 pages ; in which the editor, 

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 all the men who liave made for themselves a name in the 

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 some pains to test the care which has been bestowed upon 

 such portions of the Biography as relate to the natives of 

 these islands: the result is most satisfactory. As, there- 

 fore, there can be but little doubt that similar pains have 

 been taken to secure correctness with regard to the nota- 

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 ordinary newspapers may turn (or information as to the 

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We recently called attention to De La Rue's elegant 

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Books received. — The Forest of Dean ; an Historical 

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 and other Sources, Public, Private, Legendary, and Local, 

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 could have wished it richer in the Folk Lore of that very 

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 the book, to see this branch of Jlr. Kicholls's subject con- 

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