FOBSYTH'S "CICERO." 



BY WILLIAM FORSYTH, M. A., Q.O. 



With Twenty Illustrations. 2 vols., crown 8vo. Printed on tinted ani laij 

 paper. Price $5. 



The object of this work is to exhibit Cicero not merely as a Statesman anfl 

 an Orator, hut as he was at home in the relations of private life, as a Husband 

 a Father, a Brother, and a Friend. His letters are full of interesting details, 

 which enable us to form a vivid idea of how the old Romans lived 2,000 years 

 ago ; and the Biography embraces not only a History of Events, as momentous 

 as any in the annals of the world, but a large amount of Anecdote and Gossip, 

 which amused the generation that witnessed the downfall of the Republic. 



The London Athenceum says : " Mr. Forsyth has rightly aimed to set before 

 us a portrait of Cicero in the modern style of biography, carefully gleaning 

 from his extensive correspondence all those little traits of character and habit 

 which marked his private and domestic life. These volumes form a very 

 acceptable addition to the classic library. The style is that of a scholar and a 

 man of taste." 



From the Saturday Review : " Mr. Forsyth has discreetly told his story, 

 evenly and pleasantly supplied it with apt illustrations from modern law, 

 eloquence, and history, and brought Cicero as near to the present time as the 

 differences of age and manners warrant. * * * These volumes we heartily 

 recommend as both a useful and agreeable guide to the writings and character 

 of one who was next in intellectual and political rank to the foremost man of all 

 the world, at a period when there were many to dispute with him the triple 

 crown of forensic, philosophic, and political composition." 



" A scholar without pedantry, and a Christian without cant, Mr. Forsyth 

 seems to have seized with praiseworthy tact the precise attitude which it behoves 

 a biographer to take when narrating the life, the personal life, of Cicero. Mr. 

 Forsyth produces what we venture to say will become one of the classics of 

 English biographical literature, and will be welcomed by readers of all ages and 

 both sexes, of all professions and of no profession at all." London Quarterly. 



" This hook is a valuable contribution to our Standard Literature. It is a 

 work which will aid our progress towards the truth ; it lifts a corner of the veil 

 which has hung over the scenes and actors of times so full of ferment, and 

 allows us to catch a glimpse of the stage upon which the great drama wa 

 played." North American Review. 



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