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LITERATURE AND LITERARY PROGRESS IN 1870. 



Roman and Byzantine Periods," by E. A. 

 Sophocles, A. M., is a work that would do 

 honor to the learning of any nation. But that, 

 along with the culture of the ancient languages 

 and literature, increased attention is given to 

 those studies which are of value for the philo- 

 logical knowledge of our own language, suf- 

 ficiently appears by the publication of two 

 such works as " A Comparative Grammar of 

 the Anglo-Saxon Language," by Francis A. 

 March, Professor in Lafayette College, and "In- 

 troduction to Anglo-Saxon," an Anglo-Saxon 

 reader, with philological notes, a brief gram- 

 mar, and a vocabulary, by the same author. 

 Lafayette College has the honor of having 

 taken the lead in the teaching of our vernacu- 

 lar language in a scientific and critical spirit. 

 The great number of text-books issued for 

 school and college use makes adequate exam- 

 ination nearly impossible, and an exhaustive 

 catalogue would have little or no literary inter- 

 est. We subjoin some titles selected from the 

 mass, not meaning to raise any presumption 

 that some volumes as meritorious may not be 

 passed over : 



The American Botanist and Florist. By A. "Wood. 



The JSneid of Virgil, with Dictionary. By Nathan 

 Covington Brooka, LL. D. 



Guyot's Geographical Series. The Earth and its 

 Inhabitants. Intermediate Geography. 



A Manual of Composition and Khetoric. By John 

 S. Hart, LL. D. 



Latin Lessons, adapted to the Manual of Latin 

 Grammar. By W. F. Allen and J. H. Allen. 



Latin Composition. By W. F. Allen. 



A German Course for Schools and Colleges. By 

 George F. Comfort. And 



Teacher's Companion to the same. 



Latin Primer. A First Book of Latin for Boys and 

 Girls. Part I. By J. H. Allen. 



Latin Grammar for Schools. By J. N. Madvig. 

 Translated by the Kev. George Wood, revised by 

 Prof. T. A. Thatcher. New edition. 



A Latin Grammar. By B. L. Gildersleeve. 



Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War, with Ex- 

 planatory Notes, a Copious Dictionary, etc. By Al- 

 bert Harkness. 



Introduction to the Study of French. By Prof. 

 Schele de Vere. 



Manual for learning Spanish. (Mastery Series.) 

 By J. Prendergast. 



The French Echo ; or, Dialogues to teach French 

 Conversation. By J. H. Worman. 



A German Eeader in Prose and Verse, with Notes 

 and Vocabulary. By William D. Whitney. 



Practical Grammar of the German Language. By 

 Hermann D. Wrage. 



Aim's German Handwriting. With Notes by G. 

 Grauert. 



Plays of Shakespeare, Selected and Prepared for 

 Use in Schools, Clubs, Classes, and Families, with 

 ' Introduction and Notes. By Henry N. Hudson. 



Elocution : The Sources and Elements of its Power. 

 By J. H. Mcllvaine. 



Elocution and Oratory. By C. A. Wiley. 



The Natural Speaker. By J. Alden, D. D.. LL. D. 



The Young Composer ; a Guide to English Gram- 

 mar and Composition. By H. N. Day. 



Bullions's School Grammar. 



Choice Specimens of English Literature. By J. B. 

 Shaw and William Smith. Adapted to American 

 Students, by B. N. Martin. 



The Student's Mythology ; a Compendium of 

 Greek, Eoman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, 



Chinese, Thibctian, Scandinavian, Aztec, and Peru- 

 vian Mythologies. By C. A. White. 



Elements or the Hebrew Language. By Kev. A. 

 D. Jones, A. M. 



Manual of Topography, and Text-Book of Topo- 

 graphical Drawing. By J. Enthoffer, United States 

 Coast-Survey. 



General Atlas. By C. W. Colton. With Letter- 

 Press Descriptions, by E. S. Fisher. 



The American Drawing Book. By J. G. Chapman. 

 Eevised edition. 



The First Book of Botany. By Eliza B. Youmans. 



Elementary Treatise on Mechanics. By William 

 G. Peck, LL. D. 



A Condensed Etymology of the English Language, 

 for Comman Schools. By William W. Smith. 



Lessons for Children in English and French, after 

 Mrs. Barbauld's Method. Arranged by I. de Veitelle. 



Physical Geography ; accompanied with Nineteen 

 Pages of Maps, etc., etc. By S. S. Cornell. 



Introduction to the Latin Language. By Charles 

 D. Morris, M. A. 



The French Verb: containing the Theory and 

 Model Conjugations of all the French Verbs, with a 

 Dictionary of such Verbs as present any Peculiarities 

 in their Uses or Conjugations, etc. By Ch. Beynal. 



Greek Praxis, or Greek for Beginners. By J. A. 

 Spencer, S. T. D. 



Mental Arithmetic : combining a Complete System 

 of Kapid Computations, etc. By John H. French, 

 LL.D. 



The Story of the Bocks; a Fourteen Weeks' Course 

 in Popular Geology. By J. Dorman Steele, A.M., 

 Ph.D. 



Manual of Geography: a Complete Treatise on 

 Mathematical, Civil, and Physical Geography. By 

 M. F. Maury, LL. D. 



A Concise School History of the United States, 

 based on Seavey's Goodrich's History. By L. J. 

 Campbell. 



First Lessons in Greek. By James E. Boise. 



Crittenden's Inductive and Practical Treatise on 

 Book-keeping. 



A Text-book of Elementary Chemistry, Theoreti- 

 cal and Inorganic. By Geo. F. Barker, M. D. 



MEDICINE. Including works for popular in- 

 struction, and new editions, the number of 

 publications was considerable, among them 

 these : 



American Ophthalmological and Otological Socie- 

 ties' Transactions. 



A Manual of Clinical Medicine. By T. H. Tanner. 

 Eevised by G. T. Fox. 



Photographs of Skin Diseases, taken from Life. 

 By H. F. Damon, M. D. 



Obstetric Maxims, for the Use of Students. By 

 Joseph G. Swayne. 



On External Perineal Urethrotomy. By G. W. S. 

 Gouley, M. D. 



Diseases of Children. By J. F. Meigs, M. D., and 

 W. Pepper, M. D. 



Manual of the Chemical Examination of the Urine. 

 By Austin Flint, Jr., M. D. 



Modern Therapeutics. By G. H. Napheys, M. D. 



Obstetric Operations. By Kobert Barnes, M. D. 

 With Additions by B. F. Dawson, M. D. 



A Practical Treatise on the Diagnosis, Pathology, 

 and Treatment of Diseases of the Heart. By Austin 

 Flint, M. D. 



Handbook of Operative Surgery. By John H. 

 Packard. M. D. 



The Physiology and Pathology of the Sympathetic 

 or Ganglionic Nervous System. By E. T. Edes, M. D. 



Eenal Diseases, By W. E. Basham, M. D. 



A Guide to the Examination of the Urine. By J. 

 Wickham Legge, M. D. 



Golden Eules for the Treatment of Ovarian Dis- 

 eases. By H. E. Storer, M. D. 



